It’s been 25 years since the Foo Fighters released their self-titled debut album. In a recent interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music’s Beats 1, Grohl reflects on what it was like creating the record and shares which song he loved the most at the time.
“I actually recorded the whole thing in sequence,” Grohl told Wilkinson. “I was really, really excited to do this. I mean, it was almost like a school project. I was preparing, I had charts.”
Grohl then went on to reveal that his favorite track on the debut album is “Exhausted.”
“I really loved the song ‘Exhausted’,” he said. “That one came later than a lot of the other ones. The guitar sound, which is so crazy and blown out, it was done with this amp that Barrett [Jones, co-producer] had bought in London that was a petrol can. It was this red plastic petrol can – the kind that you would use if your car ran out of gas – with this little speaker.
“It was maybe an eight-inch speaker in it and there’s battery power. You put batteries in it. And if the batteries were just dead enough, the thing just sounded like this apocalyptic distortion that was so cool, and that’s the sound on the song and the record.”
Yesterday (July 4) marks the 25th anniversary of Foo Fighters.
