by Martin James
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE (Roswell Records / RCA) UK / US / Europe 1999
Stacked Actors / Breakout / Learn To Fly / Gimme Stitches / Generator / Aurora / Live-In Skin / Next Year / Headwires / Ain’t It The Life / M.I.A
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE (Roswell Records / RCA) Japan / Australia 1999
Stacked Actors / Breakout / Learn To Fly / Gimme Stitches / Generator/ Aurora / Live-In Skin / Next Year / Headwires / Ain’t It The Life / M.I.A / Fraternity
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE + VCD (Roswell Records / RCA) Australia 2000
CD: Stacked Actors / Breakout / Learn To Fly / Gimme Stitches / Generator / Aurora / Live-In Skin / Next Year / Headwires / Ain’t It The Life / M.I.A / Fraternity
VCD: Learn To Fly (Video) / Breakout (Video) / Next Year (Video) / Generator (Video)
ONE BY ONE (Roswell Records / RCA) US / UK / Europe CD 2002
All My Life / Low / Have it All / Time Like These / Disenchanted Lullaby / Tired Of You / Halo / Lonely As You / Overdrive / Burn Away / Come Back
ONE BY ONE (Roswell Records / RCA) Japan CD 2002
All My Life / Low / Have it All / Time Like These / Disenchanted Lullaby / Tired Of You / Halo / Lonely As You / Overdrive / Burn Away / Come Back / Danny Says
ONE BY ONE (Roswell Records / RCA) CD Norway 2003
CD#1: All My Life / Low/ Have it All / Time Like These / Disenchanted Lullaby / Tired Of You / Halo / Lonely As You / Overdrive / Burn Away / Come Back
CD#2 Live: Snoof (aka Grohl trying to speak Norwegian) / Times Like These / Low / Aurora / Monkey Wrench
ONE BY ONE (Roswell Records / RCA) UK Ltd. Edition 2x10" 2002
Label: Roswell / RCA Records
Side A: All My Life / Low/ Have It All
Side B: Times Like These / Disenchanted Lullaby / Tired Of You
Side C: Halo / Lonely As You / Overdrive
Side D: Burn Away / Comeback
IN YOUR HONOR (Roswell / RCA) CD 2005
CD1: In Your Honor / No Way Back / Best of You/ DOA / Hell / The Last Song / Free Me / Resolve / The Deepest Blues Are Black / End Over End
CD2: Still / What If I Do? / Miracle / Another Round / Friend of a Friend / Over and Out / On the Mend / Virginia Moon / Cold Day in the Sun/ Razor
IN YOUR HONOR (Roswell / RCA) UK Vinyl version 2005
CD1: In Your Honor / No Way Back / Best of You / DOA / Hell / The Last Song / Free Me/ Resolve / The Deepest Blues Are Black / End Over End / The Sign
CD2: Still / What If I Do? / Miracle / Another Round / Friend of a Friend / Over and Out / On the Mend / Virginia Moon / Cold Day in the Sun/ Razor
SKIN AND BONES (Roswell / RCA) 2006
Razor / Over and Out / Walking After You / Marigold / My Hero / Next Year / Another Round / Big Me / Cold Day in the Sun / Skin and Bones / February Stars / Times Like These / Friend of a Friend” – 4:01/ Best of You / Everlong
iTunes Bonus Tracks & Videos
Ain’t It the Life / Skin and Bones – video
LIVE IN HYDE PARK (audio download only) 2006
In Your Honor / All My Life / Best Of You / Times Like These / Learn To Fly / Breakout / Shake Your Blood / Stacked Actors / My Hero / Generator / DOA / Monkey Wrench / Everlong
ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE (Roswell / RCA) 2007
The Pretender / Let It Die / Erase / Replace / Long Road to Ruin / Come Alive / Stranger Things Have Happened/ Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) / Summer’s End / Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners / Statues / But, Honestly / Home
ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE (Roswell / RCA) UK 2007
The Pretender / Let It Die / Erase / Replace / Long Road to Ruin / Come Alive / Stranger Things Have Happened / Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) / Summer’s End / Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners / Statues / But, Honestly / Home / Once & for All (demo)
ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE (Roswell / RCA) Japan 2007
The Pretender / Let It Die/ Erase /Replace / Long Road to Ruin / Come Alive / Stranger Things Have Happened / Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) / Summer’s End / Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners / Statues / But, Honestly / Home / Once & for All (demo) / Seda
iTunes Bonus Tracks
Once & for All (Demo) / Seda
Live @ Wal-Mart Soundcheck Bonus Tracks
The Pretender / My Hero
GREATEST HITS
All My Life / Best of You / Everlong / The Pretender / My Hero / Learn to Fly / Times Like These / Monkey Wrench / Big Me / Breakout / Long Road to Ruin / This is a Call / Skin and Bones / Wheels / Word Forward / Everlong (acoustic version)
Amazon bonus tracks
Have a Cigar
GREATEST HITS (Roswell / RCA) CD/DVD version 2009 CD
All My Life / Best of You / Everlong / The Pretender / My Hero / Learn to Fly / Times Like These / Monkey Wrench/ Big Me / Breakout/ Long Road to Ruin / This is a Call / Skin and Bones / Wheels / Word Forward / Everlong (acoustic version)
WASTING LIGHT
(RCA / Roswell Records) CD
Bridge Burning/ Rope / Dear Rosemary / White Limo / Arlandria / These Days / Back & Forth / A Matter of Time / Miss the Misery / I Should Have Known / Walk
WASTING LIGHT (RCA/ Roswell Records) i-Tunes deluxe version Bridge Burning / Rope/ Dear Rosemary / White Limo / Arlandria / These Days / Back & Forth / A Matter of Time / Miss the Misery/ I Should Have Known / Walk/ Rope (Deadmau5 Remix) / Better Off / White Limo / Live Performance
SONIC HIGHWAYS (Roswell / RCA) 2014
Something from Nothing / The Feast and the Famine / Congregation / What Did I get? + God as my Witness / In the Clear / Subterranean / I am a River
DVDs
EVERYWHERE BUT HOME (Roswell / RCA) 2003
Toronto section
All My Life / My Hero/Breakout / Have It All / Generator / Learn To Fly / For All The Cows / Stacked Actors / Low / Hey, Johnny Park! / Monkey Wrench / Times Like These (Acoustic) / Aurora / Tired of You / Everlong
Washington, D.C. section
Doll / See You (Acoustic) / For All The Cows (Acoustic) / Everlong (Acoustic)
Slane Castle section
All My Life / Everlong
Reykjavik (Audio Only section)
All My Life / The One/ Times Like These / My Hero / Learn To Fly / Have It All / For All The Cows / Breakout / Generator / Stacked Actors / Low / Hey, Johnny Park / Monkey Wrench / Aurora / Weenie Beenie / Tired Of You
Everlong
Dublin (Hidden Concert)
Introduction /All My Life / Breakout / The One / My Hero / Aurora / Low / Everlong
Dublin (Hidden Audio Content)
Can be accessed by following these steps: Go to the main menu / Select “Slane Castle” / Press 3, wait for the red arrow to reappear / Press 8, wait for the red arrow to reappear / Repeat the previous steps for 2, 5, 4, and 6.
SKIN AND BONES (Roswell / RCA) 2006
DVD 1: Live in Hollywood (USA)
Intro / Razor / Over and Out / On the Mend / Walking After You / Still / Marigold / My Hero / Next Year / Another Round / See You / Cold Day in the Sun / Big Me / What If I Do / Skin And Bones / Ain’t It the Life / February Stars / Times Like These / Friend of a Friend / Best of You / Everlong
DVD 2: Live in Hyde Park (UK)
In Your Honor / All My Life / Best Of You / Times Like These / Learn To Fly/ Breakout / Shake Your Blood / Stacked Actors / My Hero / Generator / DOA / Monkey Wrench / Everlong
I’ll Stick Around / Big Me / Monkey Wrench / Everlong / My Hero / Walking After You / Learn to Fly / All My Life / Times Like These (acoustic version) / Low / Best of You / DOA / Resolve (Non-glow version) / The Pretender / Long Road to Ruin / Wheels / Everlong (Live from “Everywhere but Home” DVD) / Breakout (Live from Hyde Park DVD / Skin and Bones (Live from Hollywood – “Skin and Bones” DVD) / All My Life (Live – “Live from Wembley Stadium” DVD) / No Way Back (Hidden bonus video)
BACK AND FORTH (RCA) 2013
SONIC HIGHWAYS (RCA) 2014
Something from Nothing
/ The Feast and the Famine / Congregation / What Did I get? + God as my Witness / In the Clear / Subterranean / I am a River
SIDE PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
BUZZ OSBORNE
KING BUZZO (Boner Records) 1992
Isabella / Porg / Annum / Skeeter
BACKBEAT BAND
BACKBEAT SOUNDTRACK (Virgin Records) 1994
Money / Long Tall Sally / Bad Boy / Twist And Shout / Please Mr. Postman / C’mon Everybody / Rock ‘N’ Roll Music / Slow Down / Road Runner / Carol / Good Golly Miss Molly / 20 Flight Rock
MIKE WATT
BALL HOG OR TUG BOAT? (Columbia Records) 1995
With Grohl: Big Train / Against The 70’s / Forever – One Reporters Opinion
HARLINGTOX A.D.
HARLINGTOX A.D. (Laundry Room Records) 1996
Treason Daddy Brother in Crime Real Patriots Type Stuff / Orbitting Prisons in Space / Recycled Children Never to Be Grown / Obtaining a Bachelors Degree / Open Straigtedge Arms
PUFF DADDY
Been Around the World (Bad Boy Records) 1997
Been Around The World / It’s All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix #1) / It’s All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix #2)
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS (Arista / Bad Boy Records) 1997
It’s All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix #1) / It’s All About The Benjamins (Album Version) / It’s All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix #2) / It’s All About The Benjamins (DJ Ming & FS Drum ‘N’ Bass Mix)
JOHN DOE
FOR THE REST OF US EP (Kill Rock Stars) 1998
A Step Outside / Let’s Get Lost/ The Unhappy Song / Bad, Bad Feeling / This Loving Thing (from Touch Soundtrack)
THE EARTHLINGS?
THE EARTHLINGS? (Efa / Caroline) 1998
Nothing / Saving Up For My Spaceship / Illuminate / Reaper (Don’t Fear This Child) / Cavalry / Happiest Day Of My Life / Conversing Among Misfits / Mars On Fire / Stungun / The Dreaded Lovelies / Icy Halls Of Sobriety (I Dare Not Tread) / Triumphant March Of The Buffoons
TONY IOMMI
IOMMI (Priority / Divine Records) 2000
Written by and featuring Grohl: Goodbye Lament
DAVID BOWIE
HEATHEN (Iso / Columbia) 2002
With Grohl: I’ve Been Waiting For You
CAT POWER
YOU ARE FREE (Matador) 2002
With Grohl: Speak for Me / Shaking Paper / He War
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
SONGS FOR THE DEAF
You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire / No One Knows / First It Giveth / A Song For The Dead / The Sky Is Fallin’ / Six Shooter/ Hangin’ Tree / Go With The Flow / Gonna Leave You / Do It Again / God Is In The Radio / Another Love Song / A Song For The Deaf / Mosquito Song / Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy
LIKE CLOCKWORK… (Matador Records 2013)
If I Had a Tail / My God is the Sun / Fairweather Friends / Smooth Sailing / I Appear Missing (Grohl on drums and percussion)
KILLING JOKE
THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION SHOW (Zuma) 2003
The Death & Resurrection Show / Total Invasion / Asteroid / Implant / Blood On Your Hands / Loose Cannon / You’ll Never Get To Me / Seeing Red / Dark Forces / The House That Pain Built
PROBOT
PROBOT (Southern Lord Records) 2004
Centuries of Sin / Red War / Access Babylon / Silent Spring / Ice Cold Man / The Emerald Law / Big Sky/ Dictatosaurus / My Tortured Soul / Sweet Dreams / I Am the Warlock (Hidden Track)
NINE INCH NAILS
WHITE TEETH (Interscope / Nothing) 2005
With Grohl: All the Love in the World / You Know What You Are? / The Collector / Every Day Is Exactly the Same / Getting Smaller / Sunspots / The Line Begins to Blur
GARBAGE
BLEED LIKE ME (Warner Brothers) 2005
With Grohl: Bad Boyfriend
PETE YORN
THE NIGHTCRAWLER (Coumbia) 2006
With Grohl: For Us
JULIETTE AND THE LICKS
FOUR ON THE FLOOR (Hassle Records) 2007
Smash and Grab / Hot Kiss / Sticky Honey / Killer/ Death of a Whore / Purgatory Blues / Get Up / Mind Full of Daggers / Bullshit King / Inside The Cage / Are You Happy? (Bonus Track) / Lucky For You (Hidden Bonus Track)
THEM CROOKED VULTURES
Albums
THEM CROOKED VULTURES (Columbia UK, DGC / Interscope US) 2009
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I / Mind Eraser, No Chaser / New Fang / Dead End Friends / Elephants / Scumbag Blues/ Bandoliers / Reptiles / Interlude with Ludes / Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up / Caligulove / Gunman / Spinning in Daffodils
iTunes bonus track
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I (Live)
iTunes preorder bonus track Gunman (Live)
Singles
New Fang (Columbia UK, DGC / Interscope US) 2009
Mind Eraser, No Chaser (DGC / Interscope) 2010 US download only
RDGLDGRN
Red Gold Green EP (Fairfax Recordings 2013)
I Love Lamp / Doing The Most/ Hey O (all featuring Grohl on drums)
GHOST
IF YOU HAVE GHOST (Loma Vista Recordings) 2014
If You Have Ghosts (Grohl on Rhythm guitar) / I’m a Marionette (Grohl on production) / Waiting for the Night (Grohl on production)
ZAC GROWN BAND
THEGROHL SESSIONS VOL. 1 (Southern Ground) 2013
Let it Rain / Day For The Dead (Grohl on drums / production) / All Alright / The Muse (Grohl on production)
Unless otherwise stated, all interviews by Martin James. Some chapters also feature unpublished interviews by Victoria Segal and Ian Winwood.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martin James has been a popular music journalist, author and historian for over twenty years. He is currently Professor of Music Industries at Southampton Solent University. He has held various editorial positions with leading UK music magazines and has also contributed to The Independent and has also written for The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, Mojo, Uncut, Dazed and Confused and many others. Martin also holds a PhD in popular music journalism. He is the author of biographies on Moby, The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, as well as studies of jungle and French music. He currently lives on the South Coast of England with his partner Lisa, and three children, Ruby Blue, Felix Drum and Bella Pearl.
Read Martin’s blog at https://stateofbass.blogspot.com/
Nirvana rehearsing in the winter of 1991 at Hilversham Studios in the Netherlands.
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Backstage in a dive club in Frankfurt, during the same tour.
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Rocking MTV Live and Loud 1993. Note the iconic In Utero avatar behind Kurt.
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The things you have to do to sell records… Grohl takes the punk ethic a little too far promoting There is Nothing Left to Lose at Tower Records. 1999.
A still fresh-faced Grohl with soon-to-be wife Jordyn Blum in 2003.
Grohl hams it up as the devil himself in Tenacious D’s musical comedy The Pick of Destiny. 2006.
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Foo Fighters rock Live Earth at Wembley, 2007. Less than a year later, they would play their most legendary gig at the same venue, complete with an encore with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.
‘Hey Taylor, how’s it feel being the second best drummer in your band?’ – Grohl’s relationship with Taylor is famously close, despite the latter having probably the hardest drummer’s job in rock.
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From presumably failing to scroop ‘Best Dressed’ at the Grammy Awards in 2001…
…to rocking centre stage there with Paul McCartney 11 years later!
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Foo Fighters reunited at last with old friend and guitarist Pat Smear at a photocall for Wasted Light in Toronto, 2011.
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Diesel-powered: Grohl had
to amp up to eleven to be heard at the annual ‘Love Ride’ charity motorcycle event – the largest in the world.
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When Harry Met Dave: Rock royalty and actual royalty collide as Prince Harry mingles at the Invictus Games. 2014.
Sharing an emotional moment onstage with Courtney Love amid the madness of 2014’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductions.
A fired-up Grohl gets back on the drums as Nirvana are inducted into the Hall of Fame.