Artist: Foo Fighters
Title: Medium Rare
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Sony Music [88697 96727 2] /
Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Grunge
Quality: [24bit-96kHz]
Total Time: 42:19
Total Size: 981 mb
Medium Rare is a covers album by Foo Fighters. The album was released on April 16, 2011 as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day, an event that celebrates independent record stores.[1] Apart from the new recordings of "Bad Reputation" and "This Will Be Our Year" and the live version of "Young Man Blues", all tracks have been previously released as B-sides or in other compilation albums.[2]
A CD edition of the album was also given free to new subscribers of Q magazine for a limited time, with the song "Darling Nikki" omitted.
:: TRACKLIST ::
1. Band on the Run (Wings Cover)
2. I Feel Free (Cream Cover)
3. Life of Illusion (Joe Walsh Cover)
4. Young Man Blues (Mose Allison Cover) (Live)
5. Bad Reputation (Thin Lizzy Cover)
6. Darling Nikki (Prince Cover) - Vinyl
7. Down in the Park (Gary Numan Cover)
8. Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty Cover) (Live)
9. Danny Says (Feat. Greg Bissonette) (The Ramones Cover)
10. Have a Cigar (Feat. Brian May) (Pink Floyd Cover)
11. Never Talking to You Again (Hüsker Dü Cover) (Live)
12. Gas Chamber (Angry Samoans Cover) (Live)
13. This Will Be Our Year (The Zombies Cover)
Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar (except tracks 7-8 and 12), lead guitar (tracks 7-8 and 12)
Pat Smear – rhythm guitar (tracks 5, 7-8 & 12), lead guitar (track 5)
Nate Mendel – bass guitar
Taylor Hawkins – drums (except tracks 7, 9 and 12), backing vocals on tracks, lead vocals (tracks 2-3 & 10)
Chris Shiflett – lead guitar (except tracks 7-8 and 12), lead vocals on track 9
Rami Jaffee - keyboards on track 13
William Goldsmith - drums (tracks 7 and 12)
Additional personnel
Gregg Bissonette – drums on track 9
Brian May – lead guitar on track 10