Dave Grohl Despises Two Foo Fighters Songs

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During an interview with Kerrang in 2006, Dave Grohl looked back on the making of Foo Fighters’ 1999 album “There is Nothing Left to Lose.” “At that point it was me and Taylor [Hawkins] and Nate [Mendel] and we were best friends. It was one of the most relaxing times of my whole life. All we did was eat chili, drink beer and whiskey and record whenever we felt like it,” he said.

“Nothing Left to Lose” – their third studio album – spawned some massive hits, including setlist staple “Learn to Fly.” But, by Grohl’s own admission, he was not a fan of the track at first and even confessed at one point that it was his least favorite song on the record.

When asked by Kerrang in 2006 about his dismissiveness towards the hit, Grohl replied: “‘Learn To Fly’ is a funny phase in this band’s history because I think the third record might be my favorite album that we’ve ever done. I’d been living in Los Angeles for about a year and a half, just being a drunk, getting f*cked up every night and doing horrible shit, and I’d finally got sick of that. I was like, ‘I’ve gotta go back to Virginia or I’ll f*cking die in this place’. So I bought this great house in Virginia and told everyone I was building a studio in the basement. It was literally a basement with sleeping bags on the walls!”

He continued, describing how he feels about all of the songs on that album now: “When I listen to that record it totally brings me back to that basement. I remember how it smelled and how it was in the spring so the windows were open and we’d do vocals until you could hear the birds through the microphone. And more than any record I’ve ever done, that album does that to me.”

But that is not the only Foo Fighters song Grohl has not always been a fan of. He once revealed his intense dislike for “Oh, George” off of the band’s self-titled debut album. Grohl previously described the song – which was a tribute to Beatles guitarist George Harrison – as his “least favorite song” before adding that their first album “was made so quickly that it doesn’t really count.”