Foo Fighters – One By One

The Foo Fighters new CD, One By One, combines multiple different styles of music. Fast pace, hard hitting, powerhouse trips like All My Life to slow and steady songs like Halo, both of which bring something new and incredible to the table.

Opening the album is the first single, and very popular song, All My Life. The song has a very steady guitar beat for most of it, which goes in perfect coordination to the vocals. If you have heard this song, you will know what I mean when I say they transfer their speed, volume and aspect of the sound multiple times from faster to slower, softer to harder, all with spectacular ease and effectiveness. It is an excellent choice for the first single, since it makes you want to hear so much more by them. It is my second favorite on the CD.

The Foo’s second single is the fourth track and is called Times Like These. It is a much softer and mellower song then the previous one. It starts off with a weird bass sound for a couple seconds then the guitar and drums join in to make a good introduction. The vocals are catchy and smooth. The chorus carries an important message along with the rest of the song.

Tired Of You is track 6, and it starts off with a steady guitar riff, with soft, sad vocals overtop of them. It stays like that for over a minute, and then the bass joins in as the vocals still stay soft and sad. The lyrics are catchy and are sung fluently. The song is slightly monotone, but still expertly done, and is my 3rd favorite track on the album. The next song, Halo is my number 1 song on this CD. It starts off with an energetic bass/guitar riff, which soon introduces the drums and a little while after, the vocals. The song is slightly faster then the previous with an immensely powerful chorus, although the chorus itself has very few lyrics. The words are pronounced long and hard “Halo, God Only Knows”. The first time I listened to the album, it was those 4 little words, which jumped up at me and knocked me down.

Lonely As You comes next; it starts off slow and steady with sad, soft vocals once again for the first 30 seconds. Then it picks up the pace and gets slightly louder, as the song progresses so does the magnitude of the volume. Every once in a while they pull back and go slightly slower for the chorus.

The final song, Come Back is the longest song, clocking in at over 7 and a half minutes. The song itself is a good one, steady tunes with good vocals. The chorus is great, easy lyrics (I will come back repeated over and over again). The best part of the song is after the first 3 minutes it all slows down and comes almost to a complete stop. Then there is an extraordinary guitar solo, which slows the album down and ends the CD perfectly. After around 2 minutes of that, it all picks up in intensity. With a minute 40 seconds to go, it all stops, 3 or 4 seconds later it comes back again with drum, bass and guitar, the whole works. The vocals come in with the chorus once again. The way this is done ends the song and the album in perfect style and harmony, a wonderful ending to One By One!

Overall, I was slightly disappointed with the songs on the album. I was hoping to hear faster paced songs like their single, All My Life. Not the steady slow songs that did appear. Although, do remember that all the songs are done well, but none will ever be great hits.