Greatest Hits includes a selection of Foo Fightershit singles. Two singles from their 1995 debut, Foo Fighters album are included. Three singles are included from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album. The Colour and the Shape remains the band's biggest selling album in the US. Two singles are included from 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose album as are two singles from 2002's One by One album. One single is included from the band's biggest worldwide selling album In Your Honor, released in 2005. "Best of You" remains the band's highest charting hit on the U.S., UK and Australian singles charts. Two singles are included from 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album. Greatest Hits also contains two new songs "Wheels" and "Word Forward". "Wheels" is the first single taken from the album, which premiered on radio on September 23, 2009. The single was officially released on September 29, 2009. "Wheels" and "Word Forward", which was written for Dave Grohl's friend, Jimmy, who had recently died, were composed during the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace tour and recorded specifically for the compilation with producer Butch Vig. A deluxe edition of the compilation includes a book and a DVD featuring some of the band's music videos and live performances. It also includes a video for "Wheels" directed by Sam Brown, who also worked on "The Pretender".
Release controversy
has stated his displeasure with the release of a greatest hits album, stating he would have preferred to wait until after the band had retired. The band's label, however, had been wanting to release a compilation album for four years, and exercised a clause in the band's contract that allowed them to do so. Grohl has also mentioned that he felt that the album did not include some of the band's best work and that it was "like a CliffsNotes version of what we've been doing for the last 15 years". In the liner notes of the album, Grohl writes:
Reception
Reception was mostly positive for the compilation. Music criticStephen Thomas Erlewine noted in his positive review that the compilation was missing some of the band's successful singles, most notably "DOA" and "I'll Stick Around". Matthew Perpetua of Pitchfork also noted the lack of "I'll Stick Around" on the compilation and suggested that the release would have been stronger with the inclusion of rarities and fan favorites, such as their cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki" or their popular soundtrack contribution "The One". Perpetua also writes "Like nearly all songs recorded specifically for , 'Wheels' and 'Word Forward' are catchy but uninspired, and have no place among the heavy hitters in this collection." As of December 2015, it has sold 1,009,000 copies in the U.S.
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At the main menu, there is bullet hole that you can click, and it shows Dave Grohl performing "Home" on the piano.
