Review by Craig:

Is this to be the last Foo's album ever? Dave Grohl said in a recent interview “I always thought a double album would be a good way to send it off, to say goodbye”. Let’s hope not as this double CD, one half hard rocking, the other mostly acoustic, is by far the best offering from the Foo Fighters. If these 2 CDs were played side by side you would think they were totally different bands altogether. OK, lets break this album down into its two parts, Disc 1 starts off with a track called “In Your Honour” and really leads the way forward with Dave Grohl roaring loudly, guitars screaming and drums thundering from the word go. This has got to be the best deep rocking album from the Foos and it’s very difficult to pick favourites at this early stage, but I have to go with “In Your Honour” and the first single off the album “Best Of You”. Disc 2 is totally different from the first disc, its more laid back, more acoustic and has some amazing guest performers, with the likes of Norah Jones, John Paul Jones, and Josh Homme. Again it’s very difficult to pick any favourites or tracks that stand out, possibly the song to look out for is “Friend of a Friend” which Dave wrote some 14 years ago about himself and his friends Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain from Nirvana. The best thing I can do is recommend you buy this album now as it’s possibly the best album of 2005.