All My Life (Foo Fighters song)
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| Single by Foo Fighters | ||||||||||||||
| from the album One by One | ||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Sister Europe" "Win or Lose" "Danny Says" "The One" |
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| Released | September 7, 2002 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | May 2002 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:24 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Roswell, RCA | |||||||||||||
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"All My Life" is a song by the American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and spent ten straight weeks at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, Dave Grohl notes that the band had wanted a heavier sounding song to appear as a single, stating that the band were "coming out with "Learn to Fly" and "Next Year" and other songs that had middle-of-the-road melodies."[1]
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "All My Life" at number 94 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. British rock band Feeder, use the opening lines from this song as an interlude during live performances of "Lost and Found". It was also used in the promotional video for the Australian Tennis Open by Eurosport(Din)
The song was released, along with "I'll Stick Around" from the band's self-titled debut album and "Lonely as You", also from One by One, as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on August 18, 2009. This song is also playable on Rock Revolution.
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[edit] Background
According to Dave Grohl, the song "was originally an instrumental and it went through a few different versions. At first it was really dissonant and noisy. The middle section sounded like "Wipe Out" [by The Surfaris]. It was just nuts! We recorded the instrumental and I had no idea how I was gonna sing it. Again, that was another one that our manager said, "That's the song!" And we said, "Really? You think that's the one people will like?"[1]
[edit] Track listing
CD1:
- "All My Life"
- "Sister Europe" (Psychedelic Furs cover)
- "Win or Lose"
- "All My Life" (Director's Cut video) [enhanced section]
- "Win or Lose" is a reworked version of an older song, "Make a Bet".
CD2:
- "All My Life"
- "Danny Says" (Ramones cover)
- "The One"
7" Vinyl/Japanese CD Single:
- "All My Life"
- "Sister Europe" (Psychedelic Furs cover)
Promo
- "All My Life" (Radio Edit) 4:13
- "All My Life" 4:22
[edit] Music video
The video, directed by Grohl, is a performance video because he wanted to "sort of show everybody this is what it's like when we play live" as opposed to the comedic videos the band had done before such as "Big Me" and "Learn to Fly". In the video, the band performs the song on stage in front of a video screen at The Forum in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles (The video was actually shot inside Bakersfield's Rabobank Arena, which was called Centennial Garden at the time).[2] At the conclusion, it is revealed that they had been performing in an empty arena. The video was included on a DVD extra that was packaged with the CD version of the album.
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[3] | 20 |
| Dutch Singles Chart[3] | 95 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles | 15 |
| German Singles Chart[4] | 93 |
| Irish Singles Chart[5] | 14 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 30 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[3] | 46 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart[3] | 13 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[3] | 37 |
| UK Singles Chart[6] | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 43 |
| U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Kerrang! Legends: Foo Fighters pg.114
- ^ "Foo Fighters Out To Show They Can 'Really Do It Up'" MTV News
- ^ a b c d e australian-charts.com. "Australian Chart Archive". http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters&titel=All+My+Life&cat=s. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche". musicline.de. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/FOO+FIGHTERS/single. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ irishcharts.ie. "Irish Chart Archive". http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ http://www.everyhit.co.uk/
| Preceded by "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single November 23, 2002 |
Succeeded by "Always" by Saliva |
[edit] External links
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