Fun fact - This is the song David Letterman asked to close his final show to. He also asked for this song to be played on his first show back from his open heart surgery
@@SillyGoose2024 Well I am from Greece so I did not know about this, so what do you mean by "all"? You know that youtube exists in other countries besides yours, right?
That SUS2 chord will always be powerful. If you love the sound, you would love Devin Townsend.. I'd argue that it's "His" chord, in the way he uses it.
Mid 90's here and it was a great tune, but Nirvana AiC Soundgarden and the like were the anthems for me, first Foo Fighters album I adored though, and this was also a good album and a great song, reminds me of chilling at my Cousins house circe 98/99/00
It's funny because I grew up in the 2000s as my high school years and I definitely paid homage to the classics as I journeyed thru my alt-rock experience
This is David Letterman's favorite band and they played this live his final show. When he had his heart issues he said this band helped him heal. This song is an all time favorite of mine.
@@rickmolmen178 he has performed the acoustic version a lot and many places….I know Howard and Dave say he did it for the first time on his show but you can find a few videos of him doing it acoustic before he did it on the stern show…so I don’t know why he always says that
Check out the 2 meter sessions one. Probably their best version period. So many great elements to it. Bump it up to 1.25x speed and if balances it out a bit. Or just leave it and take it all in. It's magic. ua-cam.com/video/gsRJXbITkVo/v-deo.html
A story that's out there about this song is that Dave Grohl still didn't know how he felt about himself as a songwriter, and about playing music in general, post Nirvana until Bob Dylan approached him one time and said, "What's that song you have?....'The only thing I ever ask of you'?....I should really learn that song sometime." And having a legend say that about one of his songs gave him the validation and confidence he felt he lacked with Foo Fighters.
This whole album is a classic: The Colour & The Shape. It has so many great songs like Monkey Wrench, Hey Johnny Park, My Hero, Up In Arms, February Stars, and many more. It's a must-listen.
These guys are just great people. Dave Grohl had a drum battle with a little girl Nandi Bushnell. She played this song at a concert and NAILED IT! She is 11. Video of that concert itself is worth a watch. That little girl is amazing.
I think Nandi may have more natural talent than Taylor or even Dave. She plays multiple instruments. She's just amazing! Sub to her YT channel if you haven't already.
I think they have to start at the beginning of that epic rock off! They need to hear Nandi say, "Mr. Grohl!" I'm sorry lol that little girl got me through the pandemic.
Dave Grohl is one of those musical geniuses that when they're asked how did you come up with that idea, they're like... "well, I didn't know you weren't allowed to do that." Srsly, when he was asked about how he came up with the guitar part for this, he said that, being a drummer, he just played it like the drums. (according to Rick Beato)
Their videos tend to be weird. They have great senses of humor. The song is great. When I saw them concert the audience pulsed with the beat. Incredible!
Perfect song to listen to if you are chilling alone, trying to unwind, maybe a drink in one hand, smoke in the other, lights turned out, single candle making shadows dance, and the stereo turned up nice and loud. All the day's stress just melts away!
I like when you do lyric videos. I always feel when reviewers watch the "official" video they are concentrating on the video instead of the nuances of the music, especially Everlong.
This is one of the best videos ever made. It’s genius. It’s silly, but very artistic. They’re both dreaming. He needs to save her in his dream. The bad guys, after he kills them, go to her dreams. So… he made his dreams better, but that made her dreams worse. So, now he needs to help her. If he would’ve just had a bad dream hers would’ve been nice. The brick wall signifying no way out, the big phone that can’t be answered, how she called him in his dreams (also in real life) from her dream. Then he had to dream himself into her dream. The only other video that was as accurate about dreams was Kid Cudi - The Pursuit of Happiness (Megaforce version). It’s artistically amazing. The lyrics are okay. The song is great.
One of my absolute favourite songs, ever since I heard it the first time on MTV in 1997, as an 11 year old. And it doesn't take long at all to find someone else who feels exactly the same about this song.
Dave Grohl is one of the most humble people, and so welcoming and appreciative of his fans. Dude goes above and beyond for them again and again. #legendstatus
Saw foo fighters live in Philly. They did half of the show as a total rock show, took like a 5 min break and a round stage dropped from the ceiling with all of their instruments for an acoustic set - 45 MINS!!! They do Everlong acoustic and halfway through they all run back to the main stage and finish the song full electric, then did another 30 mins and an encore. Honestly best thing I’ve ever seen live. Can’t explain how awesome in words.
This is my favorite song by far. Including the very rare studio acoustic. He does something with the guitar in the studio acoustic version that seems to replicate some of the electric sound, you don't hear it ever again in live performances of the acoustic. Hard to explain. I've listened to this song 100,000 times over the last 25+ years.
One of my favorite songs ever by one of my favorite bands ever. Y’all cannot go wrong with Foo Fighters. A lot of their videos are pretty silly, yes. These guys definitely can be serious, but they also have a great sense of humor. The video for Learn To Fly is a great example. And then there’s the really serious ones, like The Pretender.
Foo Fighters are like the best band to listen too when ur doing specific things like... i always listen to them when im doing work. literally spend hours singing along and vibing its not something i listen to while just sitting around ya know what i'm saying? amazing, gives me some kind of positive energy
you gotta remember, post-nirvana, dg had to be/become his own thing. the song is actually kinda sad and reflective, despite its energic, anthemic groove. the video becomes its own thing too, almost detached from the song. whether one likes it or not, that's a classic.
An 11 year old girl subbed in for their drummer at a concert for this song this year. She played it perfect. Before that she had been doing a drum battle challenge back and forth over youtube with the Dave Grohl who plays drums as well. Good videos of all of it. The girl was Nandi Bushell.
Interesting that you focussed on the drumming, kinda appropriate as the lead singer used to play drums for Nirvana, and is known to be an amazing drummer
One of the songs from my teenage years. Music is the only way you can capture a feeling and come back to it years later. You can't quite feel it again but you can come close.
Not sure if it's been said already, but the Foos also close out almost every show with a version of this song. They do it up big at the end and the energy with the crowd is so so incredible!
This is my song!! There’s something about it that gets me going. This is the song David Letterman requested for the band to play at the final show. It was the first song they played debuting on late night TV.
My girlfriend requested the acoustic version to be played at her funeral. She passed away from breast cancer. One of our favorite lines was "breathe out so I can breathe you in"
I just watched a live video of a FF Concert in which an 11 year old girl sat in playing the drums on this song.It has to be one of my favorite vids of all time!!
I love the leather jacket with the big “M” on it. I believe it’s a tribute to a venue in Chicago called Cabaret Metro, which is up the street from where Dave saw his first punk show (The Cubby Bear across the street from Wrigley Field in Chicago)
Foo Fighters are great musicians that have a great sense of humor. They take their music seriously, but they don't seem to take themselves seriously, and I really love that about this band.
You guys really need to dive into more Foo Fighters! They're an amazing band! They're what you'd call 100 % American rock n roll! "Learn to Fly" and "Times Like These " are also amazing songs of theirs!! They never miss, ever song is always amazing!!! Please do more Foo Fighters!! BTW, Dave Grohl said "When it comes to our music, we are serious as hell, but videos, nah, we think they're dumb so we just do whatever goofy stuff we can think up when making them"
I'm a drummer, bass-guitar player, and a guitarist. What Lex was asking about are the drum rolls and fill-ins. The Foo Fighters had an excellent drummer. I'm not a professional musician, but I've been playing since I was a kid. I don't have my own drum set, but I play on other people's drum sets. I have my own guitars and basses. Anyways, the guitars, bass-guitar, and drums are awesome in this song.
Great tune! Very emotional and insanely good lyrics. We used to cover this song and I LOVED playing it on drums. Weird video. I think the video distracts from what is a pretty subtly cool tune here.
2:20 I think it's called a "fill". He's "filling" a pre-existing gap in between notes, but still maintaining the beat. Disclaimer: I don't have any kinda music degree, so I could be a little off.
I dig the song and love the video. It's homage to the Evil Dead is spot on. You should check out their song Run. Great song and the video fits perfectly.
Fun fact: the first FF album was all Dave Grohl on all instruments. The second album from which this song came, had Will Goldsmith of legendary Seattle indie band Sunny Day Real Estate on drums until Dave decided the style wasn't what he wanted and rerecorded all but two songs with himself on drums. The drummer in the video is Taylor Hawkins who is the drummer for the band after Goldsmith left. Also, the bassist is Nate Mendel also of Sunny Day Real Estate, and the other guitarist in this video is Pat Smear who was in an OG punk band called Germs. Their singer killed himself to enshrine the band and there are unsubstantiated rumors that if it wasn't Courtney that killed Kurt Cobain, it may have been for band immortality or something. Nowadays the band also has a third guitarist, now their lead guitar, Chris Shiflett, who used to play in a punk rock band called No Use For A Name. And Taylor got his big break playing drums for Alanis Morissette. So Foo Fighters are technically a supergroup as well.
I love this song, but I always felt like the weirdness of the video doesn't do justice to the song on its own. It's a really heartfelt and meaningful song, and to me it's one of the most well-written alternative rock hits of its time.
Dave Grohl wrote 'Everlong' about his then-gf Louise Post of the band Veruca Salt... Grohl just got divorced, so it was a heartfelt song in 1997. They did break up... but Grohl did marry again after 2000 and has kids now...
Louise did the backing vocals (the dududududu). She sang them over a telephoneline for at that time she was in England with Veruca Salt. Also Louise wrote some great songs about their break-up.
Love this song. Definitely the song that put them on the map. Yes, this is what you would consider alternative rock. I think they are just more rock now, but this song was definitely in the alternative category when it was released. Other really good bands in this genre to check out : Three Days Grace Songs : I Hate Everything About You, Break, Chalk Outline, Never Too Late, The Good Life. Seether: Songs: Broken, Fine Again, Fake It, Breakdown
The Colour and The Shape might be the most memorable album of my high school years. And I was in HS in the 90s, so that is saying a lot. Dave is in HOF with both Nirvana and FF.
Oh man, this song is a freakin' time machine for me. Whoosh, right back into the old days lol. When I hear this song, I then have to pull up Eve 6 "Inside Out", don't ask me why lmao.
Dave Groel in an interview once explained some of the ideas behind this video. For example, he said he had a friend who had dreams that whenever he got into fights his hands would swell up really big.
Michel Gondry for the video win! I heard the song way before seeing the video and yeah it's weird but it captures that dreaminess of the song. Not literal but that yearning and feeling of being young or in love when life is a confusing beautiful mess. Grohl told Kerrang in 2006: “That song's about a girl that I'd fallen in love with and it was basically about being connected to someone so much, that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them you harmonise perfectly."
Love your channel! It makes me go back a revisit songs and albums I haven't listened to in a while The punk rock reactions were great. You should check out Sick of it All, Injustice System. Short tune, great groove , great message.
Fun fact - This is the song David Letterman asked to close his final show to. He also asked for this song to be played on his first show back from his open heart surgery
@@curmudgeonaf So you're saying they made it ever....long?
We all already knew this
@@SillyGoose2024 Well I am from Greece so I did not know about this, so what do you mean by "all"?
You know that youtube exists in other countries besides yours, right?
Fun fact: this song is about Dave Grohl's former girlfriend from Veruca Salt
@@car_tag Nice
Almost 25 years later... and the riff smashing in at the beginning still gives me almost everytime goosebumps :)
Me too, and my band covers the song.
I love that pause and then.... Everlong
Also I reckon its one of the best drum tracks
@@ktmjet I think Queens of the Stone Age no one knows might be one of the best songs ever
That SUS2 chord will always be powerful. If you love the sound, you would love Devin Townsend.. I'd argue that it's "His" chord, in the way he uses it.
This song was really an anthem for a lot of us that went to high school in the late 90's. Really captured the feel of that era for us.
and the earlies aughts like my c/o 2004 ass is
Early 00s here. This song was my soundtrack. I asked out SO MANY girls I would never have tried for because of this song.
Mid 90's here and it was a great tune, but Nirvana AiC Soundgarden and the like were the anthems for me, first Foo Fighters album I adored though, and this was also a good album and a great song, reminds me of chilling at my Cousins house circe 98/99/00
Bought this CD when I was on jr prom committee. Still have the original. Probably the album I have the most memories with.
It's funny because I grew up in the 2000s as my high school years and I definitely paid homage to the classics as I journeyed thru my alt-rock experience
“I feel like the song is serious but the video is goofy”... welcome to the Foo Fighters experience!
Case in point with “Learn to Fly”😂😂long live the Foos
That about sums them up, yeah :D
@@19spearking93 Another (in my opinion, an even stronger) case? "Long Road to Ruin" lol
@@ariqsyafwan4987 yep, and “Love Dies Young” and “Big Me” among others. In the music video for “Low” Dave and Jack Black play cross dressing rednecks
@@ariqsyafwan4987 Don't forget about "Walk." That is another goofy music video of theirs.
This is David Letterman's favorite band and they played this live his final show. When he had his heart issues he said this band helped him heal. This song is an all time favorite of mine.
Oh damn, I remember that!
He introduced them once as “Keeping the world safe from foo, here are the Foo Fighters.”
Cause Dave is the best
Acoustic version of this song makes me cry every time. The lyrics hit so hard, I'd recommend checking it out.
I'm pretty sure the acoustic version is from a Howard Stern episode.
@@rickmolmen178 he has performed the acoustic version a lot and many places….I know Howard and Dave say he did it for the first time on his show but you can find a few videos of him doing it acoustic before he did it on the stern show…so I don’t know why he always says that
Check out the 2 meter sessions one. Probably their best version period. So many great elements to it. Bump it up to 1.25x speed and if balances it out a bit. Or just leave it and take it all in. It's magic.
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A story that's out there about this song is that Dave Grohl still didn't know how he felt about himself as a songwriter, and about playing music in general, post Nirvana until Bob Dylan approached him one time and said, "What's that song you have?....'The only thing I ever ask of you'?....I should really learn that song sometime." And having a legend say that about one of his songs gave him the validation and confidence he felt he lacked with Foo Fighters.
He’s actually supposed to be Sid vicious in the vid
@@Noahdaking2brilliantly disrelated comment there!
This whole album is a classic: The Colour & The Shape. It has so many great songs like Monkey Wrench, Hey Johnny Park, My Hero, Up In Arms, February Stars, and many more. It's a must-listen.
Love that album!
These guys are just great people. Dave Grohl had a drum battle with a little girl Nandi Bushnell. She played this song at a concert and NAILED IT! She is 11. Video of that concert itself is worth a watch. That little girl is amazing.
I think Nandi may have more natural talent than Taylor or even Dave. She plays multiple instruments. She's just amazing! Sub to her YT channel if you haven't already.
I think they have to start at the beginning of that epic rock off! They need to hear Nandi say, "Mr. Grohl!" I'm sorry lol that little girl got me through the pandemic.
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Dave Grohl is one of those musical geniuses that when they're asked how did you come up with that idea, they're like... "well, I didn't know you weren't allowed to do that." Srsly, when he was asked about how he came up with the guitar part for this, he said that, being a drummer, he just played it like the drums. (according to Rick Beato)
Rest in peace Taylor... most badass drummer in my life... I've been crying since Friday when you left for your final destination 😥💔🤘🤘
But he wasn’t on this song. Taylor joined the FF two years after this, but yeah I agree, he was a badass drummer
dave played the drums here iirc
Yes....great song!!! "Monkey Wrench" next please!!!!
I always follow this with Puddle of Mudd "Nobody Told me"
Love Monkey Wrench!
This is my favorite song, It's a complete masterpiece!
Mine too
"Breathe out, so I can breathe you in" gets me every time
Their videos tend to be weird. They have great senses of humor. The song is great. When I saw them concert the audience pulsed with the beat. Incredible!
At that time Foo Fighters was the moniker of Dave Grohl lonely. The session band with him will be Foo Fighters, so THEY weren’t... yet!
Perfect song to listen to if you are chilling alone, trying to unwind, maybe a drink in one hand, smoke in the other, lights turned out, single candle making shadows dance, and the stereo turned up nice and loud. All the day's stress just melts away!
I like when you do lyric videos. I always feel when reviewers watch the "official" video they are concentrating on the video instead of the nuances of the music, especially Everlong.
Yeah it's really annoying when they choose to react to music videos instead of the music itself
The constant confusion of these two is starting to get on my nerves lol. It isn't rocket science... but it seems like every song throws them off.
This and when they listen to live performances especially when the band either are not playing that well or you can barley hear them over the crowd
yeah, but even lyrics videos aren't great. They get too distracted and hung-up on reading the lyrics and over-analyze them too often.
@@krectus That's just Brad. Guy doesn't know how to listen to music.
"ALL MY LIFE" is one of my favorite Foo Fighters songs/videos. It's just them on stage playing balls out, rockin that alternative sound.
This is one of the best videos ever made. It’s genius. It’s silly, but very artistic. They’re both dreaming. He needs to save her in his dream. The bad guys, after he kills them, go to her dreams. So… he made his dreams better, but that made her dreams worse. So, now he needs to help her. If he would’ve just had a bad dream hers would’ve been nice. The brick wall signifying no way out, the big phone that can’t be answered, how she called him in his dreams (also in real life) from her dream. Then he had to dream himself into her dream. The only other video that was as accurate about dreams was Kid Cudi - The Pursuit of Happiness (Megaforce version). It’s artistically amazing. The lyrics are okay. The song is great.
Great interpretation man.
plus evil dead is awesome
@Brian Johnson It’s just my opinion. To me, yes, it really spoke to me.
One of my absolute favourite songs, ever since I heard it the first time on MTV in 1997, as an 11 year old.
And it doesn't take long at all to find someone else who feels exactly the same about this song.
Great tune! "Gotta promise not to stop when I say when" may be my favorite line in any song.
Dave Grohl is one of the most humble people, and so welcoming and appreciative of his fans. Dude goes above and beyond for them again and again. #legendstatus
@2:25 that's called off beat drumming. I love the variety of stuff you guys react to, new sub :-)
This song makes it easy to see they are huge Rush fans
The live version of Everlong from their concert at Wimbley in London....beautiful slow version that kills at the end!!
Try the acoustic version, gives a whole different vibe to the song… makes you really feel the lyrics if YKWIM
I cannot agree with this more!!!!!!
People will be listening to this song 100 years from now! Its an absolute modern classic!
Saw foo fighters live in Philly. They did half of the show as a total rock show, took like a 5 min break and a round stage dropped from the ceiling with all of their instruments for an acoustic set - 45 MINS!!! They do Everlong acoustic and halfway through they all run back to the main stage and finish the song full electric, then did another 30 mins and an encore. Honestly best thing I’ve ever seen live. Can’t explain how awesome in words.
Dave is just so ridiculously talented! Can play every instrument AND sing?! I'd hate him if I didn't love him so much 😂
Lex, you’re spot on with your comment on the truncated drum fills. I really like that as well! Great reaction guys! 😄
RIP Taylor, my first favorite drummer, all because of the bed/drumming scene lol
This is my favorite song by far. Including the very rare studio acoustic. He does something with the guitar in the studio acoustic version that seems to replicate some of the electric sound, you don't hear it ever again in live performances of the acoustic. Hard to explain. I've listened to this song 100,000 times over the last 25+ years.
One of my favorite songs ever by one of my favorite bands ever. Y’all cannot go wrong with Foo Fighters.
A lot of their videos are pretty silly, yes. These guys definitely can be serious, but they also have a great sense of humor. The video for Learn To Fly is a great example. And then there’s the really serious ones, like The Pretender.
I love how lex describes the drumming lol 😂
FOO FIGHTERS were inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame this year! Well deserved!
All my Life by them is pretty badass
Please keep the Foo Fighters going, I love this band. Dave is a genius for sure.
love this song “Everlong” was inspired by Dave Grohl’s relationship with Louise Post Veruca Salt vocalist at the time
the acoustic version back in 2000 on radio 1 in the UK was amazing
This song feels like full throttle 200mph 🔥🔥
Those drums are sick af.
Lex has a great feeling for music. She can definitely notice the details and subtleties of songs and artists she is introduced to.
Foo Fighters are like the best band to listen too when ur doing specific things like... i always listen to them when im doing work. literally spend hours singing along and vibing its not something i listen to while just sitting around ya know what i'm saying? amazing, gives me some kind of positive energy
Yeah the drumming in this song is special.
My favorite song by Foo Fighters!
you gotta remember, post-nirvana, dg had to be/become his own thing. the song is actually kinda sad and reflective, despite its energic, anthemic groove. the video becomes its own thing too, almost detached from the song. whether one likes it or not, that's a classic.
A lot of his songs are like that.
Best intro ever! like 2 seconds and into the video, +1 sub
That’s the epic drum fill in the chorus you’re talking about Lex. My fav song ever.
Brad & Lex - Foo totally different vibes than what you've heard so far & these videos are AMAZING!
🌟Learn To Fly 🌟My Hero
🌟Times Like These 🌟Walk
An 11 year old girl subbed in for their drummer at a concert for this song this year. She played it perfect.
Before that she had been doing a drum battle challenge back and forth over youtube with the Dave Grohl who plays drums as well. Good videos of all of it. The girl was Nandi Bushell.
I can’t stop watching them. Nadi shined brightly
Interesting that you focussed on the drumming, kinda appropriate as the lead singer used to play drums for Nirvana, and is known to be an amazing drummer
This song gives me chills hearing after not hearing it for at least a decade.
Brings back so many childhood memories.
I would straight come back to see ya do the lyric video, I hope I'll find support on this end of the Couch Gang!
One of the songs from my teenage years. Music is the only way you can capture a feeling and come back to it years later. You can't quite feel it again but you can come close.
Nandi Bushnell rocks this song. She's amazing! Check her out. Can't wait till the FF come back to Detroit. Saw them in 2019(?) I think lol.
Not sure if it's been said already, but the Foos also close out almost every show with a version of this song. They do it up big at the end and the energy with the crowd is so so incredible!
Just a guy who loved music! Spending his life finding his way from scream to nirvana to the fooo. Just a rocker who loves it all.
This is my song!! There’s something about it that gets me going. This is the song David Letterman requested for the band to play at the final show. It was the first song they played debuting on late night TV.
My girlfriend requested the acoustic version to be played at her funeral. She passed away from breast cancer. One of our favorite lines was "breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Sorry for your loss 😢
I just watched a live video of a FF Concert in which an 11 year old girl sat in playing the drums on this song.It has to be one of my favorite vids of all time!!
They were just inducted this year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This is a great song! I love 90’s alternative.
Heard Letterman say he listened to this in hospital after his heart surgery and it hugely impacted him. So emotional.
I love the leather jacket with the big “M” on it. I believe it’s a tribute to a venue in Chicago called Cabaret Metro, which is up the street from where Dave saw his first punk show (The Cubby Bear across the street from Wrigley Field in Chicago)
This is a banger… always was one of my psych up songs.
Foo Fighters are great musicians that have a great sense of humor. They take their music seriously, but they don't seem to take themselves seriously, and I really love that about this band.
You guys really need to dive into more Foo Fighters! They're an amazing band! They're what you'd call 100 % American rock n roll! "Learn to Fly" and "Times Like These " are also amazing songs of theirs!! They never miss, ever song is always amazing!!! Please do more Foo Fighters!!
BTW, Dave Grohl said "When it comes to our music, we are serious as hell, but videos, nah, we think they're dumb so we just do whatever goofy stuff we can think up when making them"
The drums Dave plays on this track are :chef-kiss:
I'm a drummer, bass-guitar player, and a guitarist. What Lex was asking about are the drum rolls and fill-ins. The Foo Fighters had an excellent drummer. I'm not a professional musician, but I've been playing since I was a kid. I don't have my own drum set, but I play on other people's drum sets. I have my own guitars and basses. Anyways, the guitars, bass-guitar, and drums are awesome in this song.
One last thing lol....my grandson will be 8 on Monday the 6th. His favorite Foo Fighter songs are : 'The Best of You' , 'My Hero'
and ' Breakout' ! 💙
Great tune! Very emotional and insanely good lyrics. We used to cover this song and I LOVED playing it on drums. Weird video. I think the video distracts from what is a pretty subtly cool tune here.
2:20 I think it's called a "fill". He's "filling" a pre-existing gap in between notes, but still maintaining the beat. Disclaimer: I don't have any kinda music degree, so I could be a little off.
I dig the song and love the video. It's homage to the Evil Dead is spot on. You should check out their song Run. Great song and the video fits perfectly.
Couldn't agree more, the video is awesome. One of the few that got better each time I watched it.
Fun fact: the first FF album was all Dave Grohl on all instruments. The second album from which this song came, had Will Goldsmith of legendary Seattle indie band Sunny Day Real Estate on drums until Dave decided the style wasn't what he wanted and rerecorded all but two songs with himself on drums. The drummer in the video is Taylor Hawkins who is the drummer for the band after Goldsmith left. Also, the bassist is Nate Mendel also of Sunny Day Real Estate, and the other guitarist in this video is Pat Smear who was in an OG punk band called Germs. Their singer killed himself to enshrine the band and there are unsubstantiated rumors that if it wasn't Courtney that killed Kurt Cobain, it may have been for band immortality or something. Nowadays the band also has a third guitarist, now their lead guitar, Chris Shiflett, who used to play in a punk rock band called No Use For A Name. And Taylor got his big break playing drums for Alanis Morissette. So Foo Fighters are technically a supergroup as well.
Possibly my favorite song lyric ever..."The only thing I'll ever ask of you is to promise not to stop when I say when."
One of my favorites :) Can't wait to get home to watch ❤️
love the foo fighters.. great band.,
I love this song, but I always felt like the weirdness of the video doesn't do justice to the song on its own. It's a really heartfelt and meaningful song, and to me it's one of the most well-written alternative rock hits of its time.
I came on to say something very similar, and you said it, as interesting as the video is it distracts from how good a song this is
IMO this whole album is one of the greatest of all time.
Dave Grohl wrote 'Everlong' about his then-gf Louise Post of the band Veruca Salt... Grohl just got divorced, so it was a heartfelt song in 1997. They did break up... but Grohl did marry again after 2000 and has kids now...
Louise did the backing vocals (the dududududu).
She sang them over a telephoneline for at that time she was in England with Veruca Salt.
Also Louise wrote some great songs about their break-up.
Probably my favorite Foo Fighters song. It's sneaky-good. The acoustic version is also worth checking out.
My absolute favorite Foo song
One of my favorite Foo Fighter songs for sure!
Love this song. Definitely the song that put them on the map. Yes, this is what you would consider alternative rock. I think they are just more rock now, but this song was definitely in the alternative category when it was released. Other really good bands in this genre to check out :
Three Days Grace
Songs : I Hate Everything About You, Break, Chalk Outline, Never Too Late, The Good Life.
Seether:
Songs: Broken, Fine Again, Fake It, Breakdown
The lead singer was the drummer for Nirvana
So many good memories from this song, one of the all time greats. The best performance will always be Letterman's final ever show
The Colour and The Shape might be the most memorable album of my high school years. And I was in HS in the 90s, so that is saying a lot. Dave is in HOF with both Nirvana and FF.
Oh man, this song is a freakin' time machine for me. Whoosh, right back into the old days lol. When I hear this song, I then have to pull up Eve 6 "Inside Out", don't ask me why lmao.
Lex when the drum track has that sudden quick change up, those are reffered to as drum fills.
Dave Groel in an interview once explained some of the ideas behind this video. For example, he said he had a friend who had dreams that whenever he got into fights his hands would swell up really big.
Michel Gondry for the video win! I heard the song way before seeing the video and yeah it's weird but it captures that dreaminess of the song. Not literal but that yearning and feeling of being young or in love when life is a confusing beautiful mess.
Grohl told Kerrang in 2006: “That song's about a girl that I'd fallen in love with and it was basically about being connected to someone so much, that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them you harmonise perfectly."
Yes ! Great song , legendary band
I love the “M” in his leather jacket- it is homage to the Cabaret Metro in Chicago where he first got exposed to punk rock
Their videos are extremely goofy. Their lyrics on the other hand are always worth listening to. Their live shows are pretty good as well.
This is the greatest song ever written and performed. Masterpiece
Top 5 bands in my opinion they encapsulate my vibe deep, thoughtfulness, and silly, funny all wrapped in one.
Their music reflects their heart and soul. Their videos reflect their personalities.
Love you two!! My favorite reactors! 🔥🔥I’m a lot Lex and a little Brad!!
The drumming is awesome in this and makes this song
Love your channel! It makes me go back a revisit songs and albums I haven't listened to in a while The punk rock reactions were great. You should check out Sick of it All, Injustice System. Short tune, great groove , great message.
This song represent a dream Nightmare probabily, nice choice Cool video, hugs from Brazil, My favortite song and video of Foo Fighters