Top 10 Best Foo Fighters Albums

The Top Ten
Wasting Light

Incredible. This is one of my favorite albums presented by any artist, in all honesty. Every song on that album has an entirely unique feel to it, and you can tell just by listening how they enjoy doing what they do.

The Foo Fighters should be the name of a wine. It should be the name of a wine that's incredibly good, and even though people think it can't get better, with age it does. That's what the Foo Fighters do. Thank you, guys, for incredible music, hopefully for years and years to come!

The Colour and the Shape is really good, but also insanely overrated. It's not so ridiculous that Wasting Light is higher. If Sonic Highways or One by One was voted number one, then we'd have a real issue. But Wasting Light has no bad songs and can hold its own against The Colour and the Shape.

The Colour and the Shape

As brilliant as Wasting Light is, I feel the greater dynamic variation on this album, having both heavy songs like Monkey Wrench and Enough Space along with softer songs like Walking After You and February Stars, really allowed the Foo Fighters to demonstrate the full capability of their talents.

Whilst Wasting Light feels like a collection of great songs, The Colour and the Shape feels like a true album, a musical journey that takes the listener on a ride, whilst simultaneously having some great singles along the way. Oh, and it also contains Everlong.

There Is Nothing Left to Lose

Although from a critical standpoint, I believe Wasting Light to be their best, this album will always be my personal favorite. You can tell during this period that they had just had three members come and go, and the entire playthrough sounds like three friends just relaxing in a house making music, the thing that they know will never leave them.

Favorite tracks are Generator, Aurora, and Ain't It the Life.

No... Just no. Maybe Wasting Light rivals it, but Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, The Colour and the Shape, and Greatest Hits don't come close. Stacked Actors is incredible, with a heavy metal style that's unusual for Foo Fighters. Breakout is very catchy with a great beat and great guitar riffs. Learn to Fly... Enough said. Just a great album.

Foo Fighters

Unique to their later albums. Essentially a Grohl solo, but it has a fantastic grunge feel to it. Nirvana-esque, you could say, but it's not as heavy and the lyrics aren't as engaging, but this doesn't do anything to detract from the album.

All great songs, and the most grunge FF album. Like I said, I think The Colour and the Shape is their best album, but this debut is way too low on this list.

It's the debut album. It flows like it took a year to record and put together, but it was recorded in five days. Come on. The songs are incredible. It's just a dark record that makes you feel good, especially "Exhausted." It's just a perfect record. They sounded just like the record live during that time too. It's just an album full of bangers.

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

This album's got everything the Foo Fighters have to offer!

Take some time to really listen to the masterpieces that didn't make it to the charts and you'll fall in love with the band again and again. From the ear-pounding rock songs like The Pretender to the acoustic Stranger Things. And Let It Die is an epic on its own that shows the depth and variety of this great band.

Shows the true variability the Foo Fighters have with their music. They go from the hard to the soft, all sounding just as good as the last.

One by One

I never realized how amazing this album is! I just heard it, and I was expecting it to be pretty good but not great. However, I was wrong - it's amazing! There are a lot of good songs.

Tracks like Low, Times Like These, Have It All, Tired of You, and Lonely as You stand out. I think All My Life is a little overrated, but other than that, it's a great album! It should be ranked higher.

I personally love this album. Many people feel it was one of the weakest albums, but think about the gems on this album! "All My Life" and "Times Like These," not to mention songs like "Have It All" and "Burn Away." This album "had it all."

From the slower and mellow "Tired of You," to the head bang-worthy "Come Back," this album is greatly overlooked compared to the rest.

In Your Honor

Easily their best album, with fantastic diversity and memorable melodies in both the heavy and acoustic stuff. Definitely should be higher than One by One and Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Aside from Best of You, this is a very underrated record.

This album is just awesome! It's so rich in variety, and I love every song on the harder disc (1) as well as every one on the softer, calmer disc (2). And of course, the lyrics are ingenious, as always.

Killer riffs on disc 1 and beautiful acoustic songs on disc 2. All the songs are great, but my favorite is Hell, even though it's less than 2 minutes long.

Sonic Highways

Literally every song is my favorite. It is hard to pick which song I like the most. Songs like Feast and the Famine and Congregation are some of their best yet.

After watching the documentary and listening to the music, they sound reinvigorated and fresh. The Foo's are back!

I'm a short-term fan, but this is the album I keep coming back to.

Concrete and Gold

This album is absolutely amazing! All of these songs are great, and it's a great listen from top to bottom. My favorite songs are definitely La Dee Da and Arrows, but when you've got tracks like Run, Make It Right, The Sky Is a Neighborhood, Dirty Water, Sunday Rain, and Concrete and Gold, it just makes this album an amazing experience.

This deserves to be near the top 5.

I genuinely feel as if this is their best work. For once, the Foo's are doing something fairly new, and working with Greg Kurstin was a fantastic choice. No song is weak on this album, whilst every album before (except maybe Wasting Light and There Is Nothing Left to Lose) had at least one dud (or many on One by One).

Kudos to Dave and the boys for making a record this great this late in their careers.

But Here We Are
The Contenders
Saint Cecilia EP
Medicine at Midnight
Five Songs and a Cover EP
Dream Widow
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