Show Your Personality - So much of your persona can be directly linked to your favourite musicians; this gold disc display will proudly reflect it. The music mostly followed a hard rock sound with the soft-loud dynamics seen in Nirvana tracks such as " Smells Like Teen Spirit" and " Heart-Shaped Box". Show Me How" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 28 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. Low" charted on the (Physical) Canadian Singles Chart in 2003 but this has been archived by Billboard as the Canadian Hot Digital Sales Chart which later replaced the physical chart . The Sky Is a Neighborhood" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number seven on the NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart.

Low" did not enter the Canadian Singles Chart which did not exist in 2003 but peaked at number 30 on Nielsen SoundScan's Canadian physical singles chart which has been archived by Billboard as the Canadian digital chart which later replaced the physical chart. Processors used in the mixes included an Eventide Omnipressor compressor for vocals and guitar solos, an Alan Smart stereo compressor for "squashing" the drums and mixing them back in as well as being used over the entire mix. Waiting on a War" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number 10 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. Although Grohl played all the instruments on the album, he intended to release it under a name that would make people believe it to be the work of a full band, similar to Stewart Copeland's 1980 EP Klark Kent.God as My Witness" did not enter the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, but peaked at number 11 on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart. The album debuted at number two in New Zealand's album chart, [54] three in the UK Albums Chart, [55] where it was the highest new entry of the week, [56] and fifth in Australia's ARIA Charts.

During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs, but was too intimidated to share them with the band, as he was "in awe" of the songs written by frontman Kurt Cobain.A deal was eventually signed to Capitol Records, as president Gary Gersh was a personal friend of Grohl ever since he worked on Nirvana's label Geffen Records. After extensive touring with a full-fledged band—along with Grohl were Mendel, Smear and drummer William Goldsmith—the band went into recording follow-up album The Colour and the Shape, released in 1997. Making a Fire" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked at number 23 on the Netherlands' Airplay Top 50 Chart.

According to Grohl, during the recording process he would run from room to room, "still sweating and shaking from playing drums and [then] pick up the guitar and put down a track, do the bass, maybe another guitar part, have a sip of coffee and then go in and do the next song". I Should Have Known (This Video Sucks Contest: Directed by Daniel Fickle) | The Official Foo Fighters Site".

This science fiction theme is further continued with the name of Grohl's Capitol Records imprint, Roswell Records, a reference to the city of Roswell, New Mexico, known for the Roswell UFO incident of 1947; and the album cover done by Grohl's then-wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood, featuring a Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol. Afterwards, the band played several of their largest shows up to that point, making their debut on the European festival circuit with performances at Pukkelpop, Reading and Lowlands. Shame Shame" did not enter the Canadian Hot 100 but peaked at number 23 on the Canadian Hot Digital Songs chart.

Rescued" did not enter the Australian ARIA Singles Chart but peaked at number 36 on the ARIA Digital Track Chart. Something from Nothing" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. Variants include the melancholic "Exhausted", which Grohl defined as a song that's "sad but makes you feel good". Some reviewers considered the gun on the cover as insensitive, [30] given Kurt Cobain died by shooting himself, but Grohl dutifully disregarded it as just a coincidence.named Foo Fighters the best album of the year, [49] and Rolling Stone put it second on their list, behind PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love. Three more songs of the album were issued as singles: "For All the Cows" in 1995, [34] and both "Big Me" and " Alone + Easy Target" in 1996. No Son of Mine" did not enter the Canadian Hot 100 but peaked at number 49 on the Canadian Hot Digital Songs chart. Low" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart.