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In Your Honor

In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on June 14, 2005, through Roswell and RCA Records. It is a double album, with the first disc containing heavy rock songs and the second containing mellower acoustic songs. Frontman Dave Grohl decided to do a diverse blend of songs, as he felt that after ten years of existence, the band had to break new ground with their music. The album was recorded at a newly built studio in Northridge, Los Angeles, and features guests such as John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Norah Jones, and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). Its lyrics deal with both resonating and introspective themes, with a major influence from Grohl's involvement on the campaign trail with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. It was the first album to feature keyboardist Rami Jaffee, although he would not join the band as full-time member until 2017.

In Your Honor
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 14, 2005 (2005-06-14)
RecordedJanuary–March 2005
Studio606 West in Los Angeles
Genre
Length83:17
Label
Producer
Foo Fighters chronology
One by One
(2002)
In Your Honor
(2005)
Five Songs and a Cover
(2005)
Singles from In Your Honor
  1. "Best of You"
    Released: May 30, 2005
  2. "DOA"
    Released: September 5, 2005
  3. "Resolve"
    Released: November 21, 2005 (EU)
  4. "No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun"
    Released: March 13, 2006 (EU)

The promotional tour for the album included both rock shows in stadiums and acoustic gigs in smaller venues. Reviews for In Your Honor were mostly positive, praising the composition and sound, although some critics found the album overlong and inconsistent. The album was also nominated for five Grammy Awards, and topped the charts in five countries—including Australia—and reached the top five in five more, including number two in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In Your Honor also broke the band's consecutive streak of Grammy Award for Best Rock Album wins that began in 2001 with There Is Nothing Left to Lose.

Background edit

After touring in support of One by One, Dave Grohl was uncertain on what to do next with the Foo Fighters. He felt that rushing to do another record would not be creatively rewarding. Grohl considered a possible film score, and began writing acoustic songs, eventually amassing a full album's worth of songs.[3][4] Grohl, not wanting to make a solo album and accepting the drift from his usual style, brought the songs to the Foo Fighters – "who's to say what we should sound like?".[3] Bassist Nate Mendel replied that the songs' uncharacteristic sound was "why [they] should go on the record."[5] Grohl decided against an acoustic record, saying "I have to have loud rock music in my life somewhere",[6] and decided to make a double album, with "one CD that's all the really heavy rock shit" and another "that's really beautiful, acoustic-based, lower dynamic stuff",[7] which Grohl described as "the bottle and the hangover",[8] and also with the rock record being "my Jack and Coke record" with songs that "I realise I cannot live without that", and the acoustic being "my Sapphire-and-Martini-with-Kylie record".[5] Grohl also stated a decisive moment in making a double album was uploading demos to his computer and realizing he had five hours of music, adding that "we've been a band for 10 years now, this is our fifth record, and I thought it would be boring to just keep making album after album and making videos and playing festivals, so I wanted to do something special."[9]

The album was recorded in a new recording studio built in a warehouse in Northridge, California, named Studio 606 West in contrast to the original Studio 606 in Grohl's basement in Alexandria, Virginia.[3] Development for In Your Honor took nine months[6] with three and a half months installing equipment in the studio, and songs being written throughout 2004.[10] While waiting for 606 to get finished, the band rehearsed on North Hollywood's Mates Rehearsal Studios, where "we ended up with three or four different versions of about 30 songs", according to Raskulinecz who added that "it got to the point where I didn't want them to play the rock songs anymore. I was afraid they were going to get stale."[11]

Recording edit

The sessions ran from January to March 2005,[12] with only two and a half weeks spent on the acoustic record. Forty tracks were recorded – fifteen of them acoustic – with half of them ending on the final track list.[13][14] Studio 606 was not finished as the band moved in, and the band members even helped with the final stages of construction, "hammering, stuffing insulation — doing whatever to speed the process."[11] Eight of the rock songs were last-minute compositions done after the acoustic record was finished, as "Dave started feeling that it was better than the rock record."[11] The songs were recorded on analog tape—which was reused over and over due to a tape shortage and a desire to save money—before being transferred to Pro Tools for overdubs, editing and mixing. Raskulinecz mixed the rock songs, while Elliot Scheiner mixed the stereo and 5.1 versions of the acoustic sides.[11]

The band entered the studio with most of the songs finished and rehearsed;[12] producer Nick Raskulinecz, who also worked on One by One, stated that while "One By One was very loose, "In Your Honor was more planned out. Dave was more meticulous on that one".[15] The electric album was done in segments by instrument, starting with the drums and guitars, then vocals, and finally bass.[11] Mendel would write a bass line on Pro Tools at home before showing it to Grohl and Raskulinecz.[16] The bass was recorded after the vocals, which Raskulinecz said was done because "By doing bass last, you can really tailor it for tuning, parts and sound. If you do the drums and then the guitars, you can fill the hole that's left with bass. And sometimes that hole wants a certain frequency that isn't traditional for bass, but you have to go with it, which is even more fun."[11]

During the last three weeks of work on the rock songs, the band was in the studio "from noon to eight in the morning, making the rock record the most devastating thing we've ever done".[17] After two months on the rock songs, approaching their established deadline, the band held a meeting and decided that, to finish, "Everyone has to be here all day. We need to do one song a day and no one's leaving until that song is done." Grohl would listen to a click track, "We'd find a tempo and I'd just roll an arrangement off the top of my head." As the members recorded their parts, Grohl would write the lyrics.[13] The rushed approach prevented Mendel writing bass lines, so he ended up "concentrating on just finding the notes and getting the rhythm right."[16]

"I look at this album as kind of the end of one chapter and the beginning of something new… With the rock record, we finally got the aggressive, anthemic thing down. With the acoustic album, it offers some kind of look into the future of things we're capable of doing and the direction we could move if we wanted to."

 —Dave Grohl on the double album's nature[4]

Grohl declared that "making this record revitalized this band", particularly the acoustic songs, as they "showed ourselves what we're capable of doing" and "[made] things scary again. You do something that you've never done, and it makes you feel like a bigger band."[18] The frontman also stated the mellower acoustic disc was an opportunity to use "the acoustic tracks we wrote in the past eight or nine years, but never put on albums because they never seemed to fit",[17] particularly because Grohl felt that "it's hard to put an acoustic song in the middle of a rock record, because sometimes it mucks up the sequence."[18] The tracks include Grohl's first composition "Friend of a Friend" – done in 1990, and previously recorded under the pseudonym 'Late!' on the cassette Pocketwatch; "Razor", which Grohl wrote for a benefit concert at the Wiltern Theatre; and drummer Taylor Hawkins' composition "Cold Day in the Sun", which after an attempt to do an electric version became an unplugged track, featuring Hawkins on vocals and tambourine and Grohl in the drums.[19][20]

 
John Paul Jones is featured in two tracks.

Preparing the acoustic album, Grohl decided he would improve it with guest appearances, and made a list of musicians he would like to work with, such as Warren Haynes and Grant Hart.[17] Guests that appeared on the record included Norah Jones, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age.

John Paul Jones agreed to appear as he was in Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards. Grohl described his appearance as the "second-greatest thing to happen to me in my life" behind his marriage.[21] "I love Dave," Jones said, "and I enjoyed playing on that Foo Fighters album."[22]

Norah Jones was brought for the bossa nova "Virginia Moon" after Grohl heard her record and considered that his song was "her vibe" and Jones' voice "was so smooth and warm that I figured it would work out great with mine."[9] The song features Grohl's guitar technician Joe Beebe on lead guitar, as he was the only one in the crew with jazz experience.[23]

The Wallflowers' keyboard player Rami Jaffee and That Dog.'s violinist Petra Haden also contributed to the album, and were later drafted for the Foo Fighters' touring band.[24] After the album was finished, Grohl stated that he hoped that the Foo Fighters were most remembered for this record. He described it as "just the most fucking kick-ass thing we've ever done"[17] and said, "If someone asked me which Led Zeppelin album to buy, I would tell them Physical Graffiti, because it has such a wide dynamic and it shows the range that band had. And that's what we wanted to do with this album."[9]

Composition edit

The double album has a disc of rock songs and another with acoustic ones, which Grohl said demonstrated his artistic freedom – "It's not one specific genre of music, it's not one specific style. I'm just a musician. I can play all these different instruments, I can write a bossa nova, I can write a thrash tune."[6] He also stated that he tried to fit the Foo Fighters sound even with stylistic differences: "It's still the same four guys playing it so it just is a Foo Fighters song, whether it sounds like Carcass or fucking Ry Cooder."[13]

The band tried to do the albums without a "middle ground" sound,[12] with "the acoustic record far more delicate and beautiful and atmospheric", and "the rock CD far more brutal and aggressive" than their previous work.[17] The arrangements were aiming for complexity: "This record is much more elaborate than just an acoustic guitar and a vocal. And the songs were written to hold more orchestration. We've never had accordions and pump organs and cellos and stand up bass."[24] The acoustic guitar sound has influences of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, with open notes in conjunction with fretted notes.[13]

The lyrics on the rock album tried to focus on "general themes that everyone can get their hands on", while the acoustic had introspective lyrics that are "vulnerable and revealing", with things Grohl "wouldn't say out loud, wouldn't even admit to myself."[4] Grohl declared that "when you're writing songs that have a sort of anthemic quality, you can't really go lighthearted and sing about bullshit. You have to dig into a deeper place to find the words",[25] and that "I don't know what it is about, this album, that makes it sound more heartfelt or deeper or more emotional, but when I listen to it, it really is."[18] These include "Friend of a Friend", a song which Grohl wrote in the 1990s about himself and his former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain during the time they shared an apartment together in 1990,[5] and "Still", talking about a suicide Grohl saw when he was ten in Virginia, by a boy who jumped on the train tracks.[21] Much of the album's theme and content, including the title, came after Grohl spent time on the campaign trail with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. "We'd pull in to small towns, and thousands of people would come to be rescued by this man", said Grohl. "It's not a political record, but what I saw inspired me."[21]

Release and promotion edit

The price of the album was just one dollar above what is paid for a regular single-disc CD, as Grohl thought the albums "complemented each other in one package, and I don't need any more money". The first 25,000 US copies were in a special edition DualDisc set containing a "making of" documentary in the first disc, and the second disc in 5.1 surround sound. RCA also issued 5,000 copies of a quadruple vinyl LP record.[4] Distributor Sony BMG issued the album with the copy protection software MediaMax CD-3,[26] which later led to a scandal as its rootkit-like nature made computers vulnerable to malware.[27]

The promotional campaign included the MTV special 24 Hours of Foo.[4] Lead single "Best of You" was released on May 30, 2005, and became the band's highest-charting single at the main American,[28] British,[29] and Australian charts.[30] Follow-up "DOA" was released on August 22, after an early debut as a ringtone for Cingular cell phones.[31] Like "Best of You" it proceeded to top Billboard's Modern Rock Songs chart.[32] "Resolve"[33] and a double A-side of "No Way Back" and "Cold Day in the Sun" were also issued as singles.[34] "No Way Back" was included in the video games Madden NFL 06 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.[35] In addition, the song "Resolve" and "Miracle" in the TV series The West Wing where the band performed the latter two songs in "Election Day, Part 1" and "Election Day, Part 2" respectively. Nearly fifteen years after the album's release, "Razor" appeared on an episode of The Flash.

The release was promoted with the In Your Honor Tour. The tour began in the summer of 2005, and ran through to June 2006. It featured two shows per city, an electric one in arenas and an acoustic in smaller venues.[21] The late 2005 concerts were part of the Foozer Tour, co-headlined with Weezer.[36] Among the additional band for the acoustic shows was guitarist Pat Smear, who had been in the Foo Fighters from 1995 to 1997, and followed the In Your Honor Tour with another five years as a touring musician before rejoining as a full-time member for the recording of Wasting Light.[7] The acoustic shows from August 29, 30 and 31, 2006 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles were turned into the live album Skin and Bones.[37]

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic70/100[38]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [39]
Entertainment WeeklyA[40] / B+[40]
The Guardian     [41]
Los Angeles Times    [42]
NME7/10[43]
Pitchfork6.8/10[44]
Q     [45]
Rolling Stone     [46]
SpinB+[47]
USA Today    [48]

In Your Honor was generally met with positive reviews. At Metacritic, a website that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 26 reviews.[38]

Writing for The New York Times, Jon Pareles considered the album "an unexpected magnum opus", and while Pareles felt that "the rock CD overpowers the acoustic one", he considered that "among the quieter songs, there are enough supple melodies and hypnotic guitar patterns to suggest fine prospects for a follow-through album".[49] Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly described the discs of In Your Honor as "the outdoors and indoors sides", with the rockers "pack[ing] an intoxicating wallop: 90-proof rock for 90-degree weather, they'll sound terrific blasting from convertibles, open windows, boom boxes, and at barbecues and beach parties" and the acoustic songs "all very pretty—sometimes scarily so", ultimately concluding that "you'll probably revisit the rockin' half more often".[40] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine considered that the record "showcases a reinvigorated band that is eager to stretch out and experiment", with the rock record having a "fluid musicality and a new found sense of drama that gives it a nearly cinematic sense of scope", and the acoustic album being "quieter, but it also has a similar flow and easy grace that makes it a fitting complement to the harder first record."[39] Reviewer Joe Gross of Spin described the hard rock disc as "the most consistent rockers of Grohl's career" and considered that the album as a whole "chronicle[s] the physical and mental graffiti of figuring out how to emerge from some very large shadows, including his own, with nerve and power"[50] While Mike Schiller of PopMatters considered that "In Your Honor has some great tunes, but it is by no means perfect", he praised the rock songs for "indications of just how loud this band can get", and regarding the acoustic tracks, wrote that "despite the down-tempo feel, the songs are infectious".[1]

Some reviewers found In Your Honor overlong and inconsistent. Writing for Rolling Stone, Barry Walters praised the acoustic songs, while considering that In Your Honor "could have been easily pruned down to one disc", claiming the rock songs besides "Resolve" "strain so hard that the melody gets lost" and went in a "cartoonish headbanging fashion" that "accentuates the band's self-inflicted one-dimensionality", and that the "sameness and vagueness of [Grohl's] love lyrics blunt their impact".[46] Noel Murray of The A.V. Club criticized the acoustic disc as "gooey, undercooked, and embarrassingly unpalatable" and "reveal[ing] Dave Grohl's songwriting shortcomings", but praised the rock songs which are "as loud and assaultive as just about anything Grohl has ever recorded", and considered that the "first 10-song set sounds especially tight and ferocious; it's not all that diminished by the unfortunate revelations of disc two".[2] BBC Music reviewer Tanya Byrne found the track list lacking, with "several songs on this double disk that stand head and shoulders above the rest and truly represent how the Foo Fighters have developed" while others "let the album down" and the record ultimately "doesn't live up to the hype."[51] Bram Teitelman of Billboard felt that "by isolating the electric and acoustic sides, the concept comes off as repetitious" and ultimately concluding that "by scaling back their ambitions, the Foos could have made one great album instead of two average ones."[52] Pitchfork's Amanda Petrusich described the record as "sterile and controlled", the double disc conceit as "heavy handed, the segregation too deliberate" and the rock songs as repetitive.[44] Edna Gundersen of USA Today gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of four and said, "Though its most smartly crafted tunes and liveliest performances don't measure up to the band's finest, Honor is an honorable effort, full of the brawn and vigor that keeps the Foos in fighting shape."[48]

Commercial performance edit

The album entered the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart at number two behind Coldplay's X&Y (the worldwide best selling album of 2005) with the strongest initial sales of their entire career this far–310,500 copies in the United States and 159,179 in the UK.[53][54]In Your Honor also topped the charts in Australia, Finland, New Zealand and Ireland, and reached the top five in Canada, Austria and Denmark.[55]

As of December 2011, In Your Honor has sold 1,442,000 units in North America, being their third most successful album behind Foo Fighters and The Colour and the Shape.[56] It was also certified Platinum by the RIAA.[57] The album reached multi-platinum status in Canada,[58] Australia[59] and the United Kingdom.[60]

Accolades edit

The album was up for five Grammy Awards at the 48th Grammy Awards: Best Rock Album, Best Surround Sound Album, both Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Best of You", and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Virginia Moon".[61] It ultimately lost all awards, the band's first album since The Colour and the Shape to not receive a Grammy. Kerrang! ranked In Your Honor as the 9th best album of 2005,[62] while Rolling Stone put it as 30th best.[63]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett except where noted

Disc one (electric)
No.TitleLength
1."In Your Honor"3:50
2."No Way Back"3:17
3."Best of You"4:16
4."DOA"4:12
5."Hell"1:57
6."The Last Song"3:19
7."Free Me"4:39
8."Resolve"4:49
9."The Deepest Blues Are Black"3:58
10."End Over End"5:52
Total length:40:02
Disc two (acoustic)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Still" 5:15
2."What If I Do?" 5:02
3."Miracle" 3:29
4."Another Round" 4:25
5."Friend of a Friend"Grohl3:13
6."Over and Out" 5:16
7."On the Mend" 4:31
8."Virginia Moon" 3:49
9."Cold Day in the Sun"Hawkins3:20
10."Razor"Grohl4:53
Total length:43:15 (83:17)
UK/Japan/Vinyl/iTunes bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."The Sign"4:02

Personnel edit

Foo Fighters

  • Dave Grohl – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, drums on "Cold Day in the Sun", production
  • Nate Mendel – bass, production
  • Taylor Hawkins – drums, percussion, lead vocals and rhythm guitar on "Cold Day in the Sun", production
  • Chris Shiflett – lead guitar, production

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Sales certifications for In Your Honor
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[59] 3× Platinum 210,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[105] Gold 15,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[106] Gold 50,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[58] 3× Platinum 300,000^
Germany (BVMI)[107] Gold 100,000
Ireland (IRMA)[108] 2× Platinum 30,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[109] Gold 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[110] 4× Platinum 60,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[111] Gold 20,000*
Sweden (GLF)[112] Gold 30,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[60] 2× Platinum 812,000[113]
United States (RIAA)[57] Platinum 1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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  • In Your Honor at Discogs (list of releases)

your, honor, fifth, studio, album, american, rock, band, fighters, released, june, 2005, through, roswell, records, double, album, with, first, disc, containing, heavy, rock, songs, second, containing, mellower, acoustic, songs, frontman, dave, grohl, decided,. In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters released on June 14 2005 through Roswell and RCA Records It is a double album with the first disc containing heavy rock songs and the second containing mellower acoustic songs Frontman Dave Grohl decided to do a diverse blend of songs as he felt that after ten years of existence the band had to break new ground with their music The album was recorded at a newly built studio in Northridge Los Angeles and features guests such as John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin Norah Jones and Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age Its lyrics deal with both resonating and introspective themes with a major influence from Grohl s involvement on the campaign trail with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election It was the first album to feature keyboardist Rami Jaffee although he would not join the band as full time member until 2017 In Your HonorStudio album by Foo FightersReleasedJune 14 2005 2005 06 14 RecordedJanuary March 2005Studio606 West in Los AngelesGenreAlternative rock post grunge hard rock 1 2 acoustic rockLength83 17LabelRoswell RCAProducerFoo Fighters Nick RaskulineczFoo Fighters chronologyOne by One 2002 In Your Honor 2005 Five Songs and a Cover 2005 Singles from In Your Honor Best of You Released May 30 2005 DOA Released September 5 2005 Resolve Released November 21 2005 EU No Way Back Cold Day in the Sun Released March 13 2006 EU The promotional tour for the album included both rock shows in stadiums and acoustic gigs in smaller venues Reviews for In Your Honor were mostly positive praising the composition and sound although some critics found the album overlong and inconsistent The album was also nominated for five Grammy Awards and topped the charts in five countries including Australia and reached the top five in five more including number two in both the United States and the United Kingdom In Your Honor also broke the band s consecutive streak of Grammy Award for Best Rock Album wins that began in 2001 with There Is Nothing Left to Lose Contents 1 Background 2 Recording 3 Composition 4 Release and promotion 5 Critical reception 6 Commercial performance 6 1 Accolades 7 Track listing 8 Personnel 9 Charts 9 1 Weekly charts 9 2 Year end charts 9 3 Decade end chart 10 Certifications 11 References 12 External linksBackground editAfter touring in support of One by One Dave Grohl was uncertain on what to do next with the Foo Fighters He felt that rushing to do another record would not be creatively rewarding Grohl considered a possible film score and began writing acoustic songs eventually amassing a full album s worth of songs 3 4 Grohl not wanting to make a solo album and accepting the drift from his usual style brought the songs to the Foo Fighters who s to say what we should sound like 3 Bassist Nate Mendel replied that the songs uncharacteristic sound was why they should go on the record 5 Grohl decided against an acoustic record saying I have to have loud rock music in my life somewhere 6 and decided to make a double album with one CD that s all the really heavy rock shit and another that s really beautiful acoustic based lower dynamic stuff 7 which Grohl described as the bottle and the hangover 8 and also with the rock record being my Jack and Coke record with songs that I realise I cannot live without that and the acoustic being my Sapphire and Martini with Kylie record 5 Grohl also stated a decisive moment in making a double album was uploading demos to his computer and realizing he had five hours of music adding that we ve been a band for 10 years now this is our fifth record and I thought it would be boring to just keep making album after album and making videos and playing festivals so I wanted to do something special 9 The album was recorded in a new recording studio built in a warehouse in Northridge California named Studio 606 West in contrast to the original Studio 606 in Grohl s basement in Alexandria Virginia 3 Development for In Your Honor took nine months 6 with three and a half months installing equipment in the studio and songs being written throughout 2004 10 While waiting for 606 to get finished the band rehearsed on North Hollywood s Mates Rehearsal Studios where we ended up with three or four different versions of about 30 songs according to Raskulinecz who added that it got to the point where I didn t want them to play the rock songs anymore I was afraid they were going to get stale 11 Recording editThe sessions ran from January to March 2005 12 with only two and a half weeks spent on the acoustic record Forty tracks were recorded fifteen of them acoustic with half of them ending on the final track list 13 14 Studio 606 was not finished as the band moved in and the band members even helped with the final stages of construction hammering stuffing insulation doing whatever to speed the process 11 Eight of the rock songs were last minute compositions done after the acoustic record was finished as Dave started feeling that it was better than the rock record 11 The songs were recorded on analog tape which was reused over and over due to a tape shortage and a desire to save money before being transferred to Pro Tools for overdubs editing and mixing Raskulinecz mixed the rock songs while Elliot Scheiner mixed the stereo and 5 1 versions of the acoustic sides 11 The band entered the studio with most of the songs finished and rehearsed 12 producer Nick Raskulinecz who also worked on One by One stated that while One By One was very loose In Your Honor was more planned out Dave was more meticulous on that one 15 The electric album was done in segments by instrument starting with the drums and guitars then vocals and finally bass 11 Mendel would write a bass line on Pro Tools at home before showing it to Grohl and Raskulinecz 16 The bass was recorded after the vocals which Raskulinecz said was done because By doing bass last you can really tailor it for tuning parts and sound If you do the drums and then the guitars you can fill the hole that s left with bass And sometimes that hole wants a certain frequency that isn t traditional for bass but you have to go with it which is even more fun 11 During the last three weeks of work on the rock songs the band was in the studio from noon to eight in the morning making the rock record the most devastating thing we ve ever done 17 After two months on the rock songs approaching their established deadline the band held a meeting and decided that to finish Everyone has to be here all day We need to do one song a day and no one s leaving until that song is done Grohl would listen to a click track We d find a tempo and I d just roll an arrangement off the top of my head As the members recorded their parts Grohl would write the lyrics 13 The rushed approach prevented Mendel writing bass lines so he ended up concentrating on just finding the notes and getting the rhythm right 16 I look at this album as kind of the end of one chapter and the beginning of something new With the rock record we finally got the aggressive anthemic thing down With the acoustic album it offers some kind of look into the future of things we re capable of doing and the direction we could move if we wanted to Dave Grohl on the double album s nature 4 Grohl declared that making this record revitalized this band particularly the acoustic songs as they showed ourselves what we re capable of doing and made things scary again You do something that you ve never done and it makes you feel like a bigger band 18 The frontman also stated the mellower acoustic disc was an opportunity to use the acoustic tracks we wrote in the past eight or nine years but never put on albums because they never seemed to fit 17 particularly because Grohl felt that it s hard to put an acoustic song in the middle of a rock record because sometimes it mucks up the sequence 18 The tracks include Grohl s first composition Friend of a Friend done in 1990 and previously recorded under the pseudonym Late on the cassette Pocketwatch Razor which Grohl wrote for a benefit concert at the Wiltern Theatre and drummer Taylor Hawkins composition Cold Day in the Sun which after an attempt to do an electric version became an unplugged track featuring Hawkins on vocals and tambourine and Grohl in the drums 19 20 nbsp John Paul Jones is featured in two tracks Preparing the acoustic album Grohl decided he would improve it with guest appearances and made a list of musicians he would like to work with such as Warren Haynes and Grant Hart 17 Guests that appeared on the record included Norah Jones John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age John Paul Jones agreed to appear as he was in Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards Grohl described his appearance as the second greatest thing to happen to me in my life behind his marriage 21 I love Dave Jones said and I enjoyed playing on that Foo Fighters album 22 Norah Jones was brought for the bossa nova Virginia Moon after Grohl heard her record and considered that his song was her vibe and Jones voice was so smooth and warm that I figured it would work out great with mine 9 The song features Grohl s guitar technician Joe Beebe on lead guitar as he was the only one in the crew with jazz experience 23 The Wallflowers keyboard player Rami Jaffee and That Dog s violinist Petra Haden also contributed to the album and were later drafted for the Foo Fighters touring band 24 After the album was finished Grohl stated that he hoped that the Foo Fighters were most remembered for this record He described it as just the most fucking kick ass thing we ve ever done 17 and said If someone asked me which Led Zeppelin album to buy I would tell them Physical Graffiti because it has such a wide dynamic and it shows the range that band had And that s what we wanted to do with this album 9 Composition edit nbsp Best of You source source A sample of Best of You the first single released from the album Miracle source source A sample of Miracle a song from the album s acoustic disc Problems playing these files See media help The double album has a disc of rock songs and another with acoustic ones which Grohl said demonstrated his artistic freedom It s not one specific genre of music it s not one specific style I m just a musician I can play all these different instruments I can write a bossa nova I can write a thrash tune 6 He also stated that he tried to fit the Foo Fighters sound even with stylistic differences It s still the same four guys playing it so it just is a Foo Fighters song whether it sounds like Carcass or fucking Ry Cooder 13 The band tried to do the albums without a middle ground sound 12 with the acoustic record far more delicate and beautiful and atmospheric and the rock CD far more brutal and aggressive than their previous work 17 The arrangements were aiming for complexity This record is much more elaborate than just an acoustic guitar and a vocal And the songs were written to hold more orchestration We ve never had accordions and pump organs and cellos and stand up bass 24 The acoustic guitar sound has influences of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson with open notes in conjunction with fretted notes 13 The lyrics on the rock album tried to focus on general themes that everyone can get their hands on while the acoustic had introspective lyrics that are vulnerable and revealing with things Grohl wouldn t say out loud wouldn t even admit to myself 4 Grohl declared that when you re writing songs that have a sort of anthemic quality you can t really go lighthearted and sing about bullshit You have to dig into a deeper place to find the words 25 and that I don t know what it is about this album that makes it sound more heartfelt or deeper or more emotional but when I listen to it it really is 18 These include Friend of a Friend a song which Grohl wrote in the 1990s about himself and his former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain during the time they shared an apartment together in 1990 5 and Still talking about a suicide Grohl saw when he was ten in Virginia by a boy who jumped on the train tracks 21 Much of the album s theme and content including the title came after Grohl spent time on the campaign trail with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election We d pull in to small towns and thousands of people would come to be rescued by this man said Grohl It s not a political record but what I saw inspired me 21 Release and promotion editThe price of the album was just one dollar above what is paid for a regular single disc CD as Grohl thought the albums complemented each other in one package and I don t need any more money The first 25 000 US copies were in a special edition DualDisc set containing a making of documentary in the first disc and the second disc in 5 1 surround sound RCA also issued 5 000 copies of a quadruple vinyl LP record 4 Distributor Sony BMG issued the album with the copy protection software MediaMax CD 3 26 which later led to a scandal as its rootkit like nature made computers vulnerable to malware 27 The promotional campaign included the MTV special 24 Hours of Foo 4 Lead single Best of You was released on May 30 2005 and became the band s highest charting single at the main American 28 British 29 and Australian charts 30 Follow up DOA was released on August 22 after an early debut as a ringtone for Cingular cell phones 31 Like Best of You it proceeded to top Billboard s Modern Rock Songs chart 32 Resolve 33 and a double A side of No Way Back and Cold Day in the Sun were also issued as singles 34 No Way Back was included in the video games Madden NFL 06 and Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock 35 In addition the song Resolve and Miracle in the TV series The West Wing where the band performed the latter two songs in Election Day Part 1 and Election Day Part 2 respectively Nearly fifteen years after the album s release Razor appeared on an episode of The Flash The release was promoted with the In Your Honor Tour The tour began in the summer of 2005 and ran through to June 2006 It featured two shows per city an electric one in arenas and an acoustic in smaller venues 21 The late 2005 concerts were part of the Foozer Tour co headlined with Weezer 36 Among the additional band for the acoustic shows was guitarist Pat Smear who had been in the Foo Fighters from 1995 to 1997 and followed the In Your Honor Tour with another five years as a touring musician before rejoining as a full time member for the recording of Wasting Light 7 The acoustic shows from August 29 30 and 31 2006 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles were turned into the live album Skin and Bones 37 Critical reception editProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic70 100 38 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 39 Entertainment WeeklyA 40 B 40 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 41 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 42 NME7 10 43 Pitchfork6 8 10 44 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 45 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 46 SpinB 47 USA Today nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 48 In Your Honor was generally met with positive reviews At Metacritic a website that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics the album received an average score of 70 based on 26 reviews 38 Writing for The New York Times Jon Pareles considered the album an unexpected magnum opus and while Pareles felt that the rock CD overpowers the acoustic one he considered that among the quieter songs there are enough supple melodies and hypnotic guitar patterns to suggest fine prospects for a follow through album 49 Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly described the discs of In Your Honor as the outdoors and indoors sides with the rockers pack ing an intoxicating wallop 90 proof rock for 90 degree weather they ll sound terrific blasting from convertibles open windows boom boxes and at barbecues and beach parties and the acoustic songs all very pretty sometimes scarily so ultimately concluding that you ll probably revisit the rockin half more often 40 AllMusic s Stephen Thomas Erlewine considered that the record showcases a reinvigorated band that is eager to stretch out and experiment with the rock record having a fluid musicality and a new found sense of drama that gives it a nearly cinematic sense of scope and the acoustic album being quieter but it also has a similar flow and easy grace that makes it a fitting complement to the harder first record 39 Reviewer Joe Gross of Spin described the hard rock disc as the most consistent rockers of Grohl s career and considered that the album as a whole chronicle s the physical and mental graffiti of figuring out how to emerge from some very large shadows including his own with nerve and power 50 While Mike Schiller of PopMatters considered that In Your Honor has some great tunes but it is by no means perfect he praised the rock songs for indications of just how loud this band can get and regarding the acoustic tracks wrote that despite the down tempo feel the songs are infectious 1 Some reviewers found In Your Honor overlong and inconsistent Writing for Rolling Stone Barry Walters praised the acoustic songs while considering that In Your Honor could have been easily pruned down to one disc claiming the rock songs besides Resolve strain so hard that the melody gets lost and went in a cartoonish headbanging fashion that accentuates the band s self inflicted one dimensionality and that the sameness and vagueness of Grohl s love lyrics blunt their impact 46 Noel Murray of The A V Club criticized the acoustic disc as gooey undercooked and embarrassingly unpalatable and reveal ing Dave Grohl s songwriting shortcomings but praised the rock songs which are as loud and assaultive as just about anything Grohl has ever recorded and considered that the first 10 song set sounds especially tight and ferocious it s not all that diminished by the unfortunate revelations of disc two 2 BBC Music reviewer Tanya Byrne found the track list lacking with several songs on this double disk that stand head and shoulders above the rest and truly represent how the Foo Fighters have developed while others let the album down and the record ultimately doesn t live up to the hype 51 Bram Teitelman of Billboard felt that by isolating the electric and acoustic sides the concept comes off as repetitious and ultimately concluding that by scaling back their ambitions the Foos could have made one great album instead of two average ones 52 Pitchfork s Amanda Petrusich described the record as sterile and controlled the double disc conceit as heavy handed the segregation too deliberate and the rock songs as repetitive 44 Edna Gundersen of USA Today gave the album two and a half stars out of four and said Though its most smartly crafted tunes and liveliest performances don t measure up to the band s finest Honor is an honorable effort full of the brawn and vigor that keeps the Foos in fighting shape 48 Commercial performance editThe album entered the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart at number two behind Coldplay s X amp Y the worldwide best selling album of 2005 with the strongest initial sales of their entire career this far 310 500 copies in the United States and 159 179 in the UK 53 54 In Your Honor also topped the charts in Australia Finland New Zealand and Ireland and reached the top five in Canada Austria and Denmark 55 As of December 2011 In Your Honor has sold 1 442 000 units in North America being their third most successful album behind Foo Fighters and The Colour and the Shape 56 It was also certified Platinum by the RIAA 57 The album reached multi platinum status in Canada 58 Australia 59 and the United Kingdom 60 Accolades edit The album was up for five Grammy Awards at the 48th Grammy Awards Best Rock Album Best Surround Sound Album both Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Best of You and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for Virginia Moon 61 It ultimately lost all awards the band s first album since The Colour and the Shape to not receive a Grammy Kerrang ranked In Your Honor as the 9th best album of 2005 62 while Rolling Stone put it as 30th best 63 Track listing editAll tracks are written by Dave Grohl Taylor Hawkins Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett except where notedDisc one electric No TitleLength1 In Your Honor 3 502 No Way Back 3 173 Best of You 4 164 DOA 4 125 Hell 1 576 The Last Song 3 197 Free Me 4 398 Resolve 4 499 The Deepest Blues Are Black 3 5810 End Over End 5 52Total length 40 02 Disc two acoustic No TitleWriter s Length1 Still 5 152 What If I Do 5 023 Miracle 3 294 Another Round 4 255 Friend of a Friend Grohl3 136 Over and Out 5 167 On the Mend 4 318 Virginia Moon 3 499 Cold Day in the Sun Hawkins3 2010 Razor Grohl4 53Total length 43 15 83 17 UK Japan Vinyl iTunes bonus trackNo TitleLength11 The Sign 4 02Personnel editFoo Fighters Dave Grohl lead and backing vocals rhythm guitar percussion drums on Cold Day in the Sun production Nate Mendel bass production Taylor Hawkins drums percussion lead vocals and rhythm guitar on Cold Day in the Sun production Chris Shiflett lead guitar productionAdditional musicians Joe Beebe guitar on Virginia Moon Danny Clinch harmonica on Another Round Petra Haden violin on Miracle Josh Homme rhythm guitar on Razor John Paul Jones piano on Miracle and mandolin on Another Round Rami Jaffee keyboards on Still What If I Do Another Round Over and Out On the Mend and Cold Day in the Sun Norah Jones vocals and piano on Virginia Moon Nick Raskulinecz double bass on On the Mend and bass on Cold Day in the Sun production mixing disc one Production Nick Raskulinecz production mixing disc one Mike Terry engineering Elliot Scheiner mixing disc two Bob Ludwig mastering Design Dan Winters photography Danny Clinch photography Brett Kilroe additional art and Crest concept Robin C Hendrickson additional art and Crest concept Kevin Reagan art direction design Bret Healey design Managerial Silva Artist Management management Ashley Newton A amp R Jill Berliner legal representation for King Holmes paterson amp Berliners LLP Lee Johnson business management VWC Management Inc Charts editWeekly charts edit 2005 weekly chart performance Chart 2005 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 64 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 65 5Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 66 3Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 67 21Canadian Albums Billboard 68 3Danish Albums Hitlisten 69 5Dutch Albums Album Top 100 70 9European Albums Billboard 71 3Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 72 1French Albums SNEP 73 21German Albums Offizielle Top 100 74 4Irish Albums IRMA 75 2Italian Albums FIMI 76 20Japanese Albums Oricon 77 11New Zealand Albums RMNZ 78 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 79 2Portuguese Albums AFP 80 20Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 81 31Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 82 1Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 83 7UK Albums OCC 84 2UK Rock amp Metal Albums OCC 85 3US Billboard 200 86 2 Year end charts edit 2005 year end chart performance Chart 2005 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 87 10Austrian Albums O3 Austria 88 42Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 89 29Belgian Alternative Albums Ultratop Flanders 90 20Danish Albums Hitlisten 91 92Dutch Albums Album Top 100 92 90European Albums Billboard 93 43Finnish Albums Suomen viralinen lista 94 27German Albums Offizielle Top 100 95 62New Zealand Albums RMNZ 96 6Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 97 65Swedish Albums amp Compilations Sverigetopplistan 98 84Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 99 99UK Albums OCC 100 27US Billboard 200 101 54Worldwide Albums IFPI 102 232006 year end chart performance Chart 2006 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 103 96Decade end chart edit 2000s decade end chart performance Chart 2000 09 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 104 86Certifications editSales certifications for In Your Honor Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 59 3 Platinum 210 000 Austria IFPI Austria 105 Gold 15 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 106 Gold 50 000 Canada Music Canada 58 3 Platinum 300 000 Germany BVMI 107 Gold 100 000 Ireland IRMA 108 2 Platinum 30 000 Japan RIAJ 109 Gold 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 110 4 Platinum 60 000 Norway IFPI Norway 111 Gold 20 000 Sweden GLF 112 Gold 30 000 United Kingdom BPI 60 2 Platinum 812 000 113 United States RIAA 57 Platinum 1 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone References edit a b Petrusich Amanda June 15 2005 Foo Fighters In Your Honor Album Reviews Pitchfork Archived from the original on November 11 2011 Retrieved November 12 2011 a b Murray Noel June 14 2005 Foo Fighters In Your Honor Music Review The A V Club Archived from the original on December 7 2011 Retrieved November 12 2011 a b c Greenwald Andy August 2005 The Chosen Foo Spin 56 9 Archived from the original on January 3 2014 Retrieved October 3 2016 a b c d e Newman Melinda June 11 2005 Foo 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