Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album)

Medium Rare
Medium Rare
Compilation album by Foo Fighters
Released	April 16, 2011
Genre	Rock, hard rock
Length	45:33
Label	Roswell/RCA
Foo Fighters chronology

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.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original appearance	Length
1.	" Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany, December 1, 2002)	Grant Hart	"Low" single, 2003	1:45
12.	"Gas Chamber" (Angry Samoans cover; Live at the BBC Radio 1 evening session, November 23, 1995)	"Metal Mike" Saunders, Gregg Turner	"Big Me" single & Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2, 1996/2004	0:57
13.	"This Will Be Our Year" (The Zombies cover)	Chris White	Not previously recorded	2:44
Total length:				45:33

Note: "Darling Nikki" does not appear on the Q magazine CD and Humo release.

– Although the official description says only two songs are previously unreleased, "Young Man Blues" was previously recorded but does not appear on any releases.

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[3]	51
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)^[4]	24
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)^[5]	17

Personnel

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

References

^ "Foo Fighters To Release Covers Album". ultimateguitar.com. March 14, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
^ Roffman, Michael (March 14, 2011). "Foo Fighters dish out details on Medium Rare". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Foo Fighters – Medium Rare" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
^ "Foo Fighters Chart History (Top Hard Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
^ "Foo Fighters Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2016.

External links

Medium Rare at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] "Foo Fighters To Release Covers Album". ultimateguitar.com. March 14, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2011.

[2] Roffman, Michael (March 14, 2011). "Foo Fighters dish out details on Medium Rare". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved March 15, 2011.

[ac_Netherlands_Foo_Fighters-3] "Dutchcharts.nl – Foo Fighters – Medium Rare" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2016.

[ac_BillboardHardRock_Foo_Fighters-4] "Foo Fighters Chart History (Top Hard Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2016.

[ac_BillboardTastemaker_Foo_Fighters-5] "Foo Fighters Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 29, 2016.

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Dave Grohl Nate Mendel Pat Smear Chris Shiflett Rami Jaffee Josh Freese William Goldsmith Franz Stahl Taylor Hawkins
Studio albums	Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape There Is Nothing Left to Lose One by One In Your Honor Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Wasting Light Sonic Highways Concrete and Gold Medicine at Midnight But Here We Are
EPs	Five Songs and a Cover Songs from the Laundry Room Saint Cecilia Foo Files
Live albums	Skin and Bones
Compilations	Greatest Hits Medium Rare The Essential Foo Fighters
Videos	Everywhere but Home Skin and Bones Live at Wembley Stadium
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