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My sweet Virginia, I’m the same as I was in your heart

Foo Fighters, ‘Arlandria’, written by Foo Fighters, published by M.J.-Twelve Music and I Love the Punk Rock Music, both administered by Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI), Living Under a Rock Music, administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP), and Flying Earform Music and Ruthensmear Music, both administered by Bug Music (BMI), from the album
Wasting Light
(Roswell/RCA, 2011).

 


I never wanna die!

Foo Fighters, ‘Walk’, written by Foo Fighters, published by M.J.-Twelve Music and I Love the Punk Rock Music, both administered by Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI), Living Under a Rock Music, administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP), and Flying Earform Music and Ruthensmear Music, both administered by Bug Music (BMI), from the album
Wasting Light
(Roswell/RCA, 2011).

Picture credits

Plate-section photographs have been supplied courtesy of: Donald Butcher/ Jon Fitzgerald: p1 (bottom); Amanda MacKaye: p2 (top); Mark Smith: p2 (bottom); Naomi Peterson: p3 (top); Ian Tilton/Retna: p3 (bottom); Martyn Goodacre/Retna: p4 (top left); Michael Lissen/Redferns: p4 (top right); Steve Eichner/Retna: p4 (bottom); Steve Pyke/Getty: p5; Lisa Johnson: pp6 – 7, 9, 10, 16 (bottom); David Wilds: p8 (top); Robert Lang: p8 (bottom); Scarlet Page: p11 (top and bottom); LFI: p12; Paul Harries: p13 (top and bottom right); Retna: p13 (bottom left); FilmMagic: p14; Ross Halfin: p 15; Wire Image: p16 (top left); Getty: p16 (top right).

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The following magazines and fanzines have also been invaluable in researching
This is a Call: Alternative Press
,
Flipside
,
Kerrang!, maximumrocknroll, Melody Maker, Metal Hammer, MOJO, NME, Q, Rolling Stone, Select, Spin, Sounds,The Stranger, Suburban Voice, Uncut
.

Discography

Mission Impossible

Can It Be?
(compilation) (Metrozine, 1985): ‘New Ideas’

Alive and Kicking
(compilation), (WGNS/Metrozine, 1985): ‘I Can Only Try’
77KK
(compilation) (77KK, 1985): ‘Life Already Drawn’

Thanks
1
(split seven-inch EP with Lünchmeat) (Sammich/Dischord, 1985): ‘Helpless’ / ‘Into Your Shell’ / ‘Now I’m Alone’

Dain Bramage

I Scream Not Coming Down
(Fartblossom, 1987): ‘The Log’ / ‘I Scream Not Coming Down’ / ‘Eyes Open’ / ‘Swear’ / ‘Flannery’ / ‘Drag Queen’ / ‘Stubble’ / ‘Flicker’ / ‘Give It Up’ / ‘Home Sweet Nowhere’

Scream

No More Censorship
(RAS, 1988): ‘Hit Me’ / ‘No More Censorship’ / ‘Fucked Without a Kiss’ / ‘No Escape’ / ‘Building Dreams’/ ‘Take It from the Top’ / ‘Something in My Head’ / ‘It‘s About Time’ / ‘Binge’ / ‘Run to the Sun’ / ‘In the Beginning’

Live at Van Hall
(Konkurrel, 1989): ‘Who Knows, Who Cares?’ / ‘U. Suck A.’ – We’re Fed Up’ / ‘Laissez Faire’ / ‘This Side Up’ / ‘Human Behavior’ / ‘Iron Curtain’ / ‘Total Mash’ / ‘Still Screaming’ / ‘Chokeword’ / ‘Feel Like That’ / ‘Came Without Warning’ / ‘Walking by Myself ’

Your Choice Live Series Vol. 10
(Your Choice, 1990): ‘C.W.W. (Part II)’ / ‘I.C.Y.U.O.D.’ / ‘The Zoo Closes’ / ‘Hot Smoke and Sasafrass’ / ‘Fight’ / ‘American Justice’ / ‘Show and Tell’ / ‘Sunmaker’ / ‘No Escape’ / ‘Take It from the Top’ / ‘Dancing Madly Backwards’ / ‘Hit Me’

Fumble
(Dischord, 1993):‘Caffeine Dream’ / ‘Sunmaker’ / ‘Mardi Gras’ / ‘Land Torn Down’ / ‘Gods Look Down’ / ‘Crackman’ / ‘Gas’ / ‘Dying Days’ / ‘Poppa Says’ / ‘Rain’

Nirvana

Nevermind
(Geffen, 1991): ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘In Bloom’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Breed’ / ‘Lithium’/ ‘Polly’ / ‘Territorial Pissings’ / ‘Drain You’ / ‘Lounge Act’ / ‘Stay Away’ / ‘On a Plain’ / ‘Something in the Way’ / ‘Endless, Nameless’ (hidden track)

Incesticide
(Geffen, 1992): ‘Dive’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘Stain / ‘Been a Son’ / ‘Turnaround’ / ‘Molly’s Lips’ / ‘Son of a Gun’ / ‘(New Wave) Polly’ / ‘Beeswax’ / ‘Downer’ / ‘Mexican Seafood’ / ‘Hairspray Queen’ / ‘Aero Zeppelin’ / ‘Big Long Now’ / ‘Aneurysm’

In Utero
(Geffen, 1993): ‘Serve the Servants’ / ‘Scentless Apprentice’ / ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ / ‘Rape Me’ / ‘Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle’ / ‘Dumb’ / ‘Very Ape’ / ‘Milk It’/ ‘Pennyroyal Tea’ / ‘Radio Friendly Unit Shifter’ / ‘Tourette’s’ / ‘All Apologies’ / ‘Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip’ (hidden track)

MTV Unplugged in NewYork
(Geffen, 1994): ‘About a Girl’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam’ / ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ / ‘Pennyroyal Tea’ / ‘Dumb’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘On a Plain’ / ‘Something in the Way’ / ‘Plateau’ / ‘Oh, Me’ / ‘Lake of Fire’ / ‘All Apologies’ / ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night?’

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
(Geffen, 1996): ‘Intro’ / ‘School’ / ‘Drain You’ / ‘Aneurysm’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘Been a Son’ / ‘Lithium’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘Spank Thru’ / ‘Scentless Apprentice’ / ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ / ‘Milk It’ / ‘Negative Creep’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘Breed’ / ‘Tourette’s’ / ‘Blew’

Nirvana
(Geffen, 2002): ‘You Know You’re Right’ / ‘About a Girl’ / ‘Been a Son’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Lithium’ / ‘In Bloom’ / ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ / ‘Pennyroyal Tea’ / ’Rape Me’ / ‘Dumb / ‘All Apologies’ / ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ / ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night?’

With the Lights Out
(Geffen, 2004): ‘Heartbreaker’ / ‘Anorexorcist’ / ‘White Lace and Strange’ / ‘Help Me I’m Hungry’ / ‘Mrs Butterworth’ / ‘If You Must’ / ‘Pen Cap Chew’ / ‘Downer’ / ‘Floyd the Barber’ / ‘Raunchola/ Moby Dick’ / ‘Beans’ / ‘Don‘t Want It All’ / ‘Clean Up Before She Comes’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘Blandest’ / ‘Dive’ / ‘They Hung Him on a Cross’ / ‘Grey Goose’ / ‘Ain’t It a Shame’ / ‘Token Eastern Song’ / ‘Even in His Youth’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘Opinion’ / ‘Lithium’ / ‘Been a Son’ / ‘Sliver’ / Where Did You Sleep Last Night/’ / ‘Pay to Play’ / ‘Here She Comes Now’ / ‘Drain You’ / ‘Aneurysm’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘Breed’ / ‘Verse Chorus Verse’ / ‘Old Age’ / ‘Endless, Nameless’ / ‘Dumb’ / ‘D-7’ / ‘Oh, the Guilt’ / ‘Curmudgeon’ / ‘Return of the Rat’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘Rape Me’ / ‘Rape Me’ / ‘Scentless Apprentice’ / ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ / ‘I Hate Myself and I Want to Die’ / ‘Milk It’ / ‘M.V.’ / ‘Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip’ / ‘The Other Improv’ / ‘Serve the Servants’ / ‘Very Ape’ / ‘Pennyroyal Tea’ / ‘Marigold’ / ‘Sappy’ / ‘Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam’ / ‘Do Re Mi’ / ‘You Know You’re Right’ / ‘All Apologies’

Sliver: The Best of the Box
(Geffen, 2005): ‘Spank Thru’ / ‘Heartbreaker’ / ‘Mrs Butterworth’ / ‘Floyd the Barber’ / ‘Clean Up Before She Comes’ / ‘About a Girl / ‘Blandest’ / ‘Ain’t It a Shame’ / ‘Sappy’ / ‘Opinion / ‘Lithium’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Old Age’ / ‘Oh, the Guilt’ / ‘Rape Me’ / ‘Rape Me’ / ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ / ‘Do Re Me’ / ‘You Know You’re Right’ / ‘All Apologies’

Live at Reading
(Geffen, 2009): ‘Breed’ / ‘Drain You’ / ‘Aneurysm’ / ‘School’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘In Bloom’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Lithium’ / ‘About a Girl’ / ‘Tourette’s’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘Lounge Act’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘On a Plain’ / ‘All Apologies’ / ‘Blew’ / ‘Dumb’ / ‘Stay Away’ / ‘Spank Thru’ / ‘The Money Will Roll Right In’ / ‘D-7 / ‘Territorial Pissings’

Late!

Pocketwatch
(Simple Machines, 1993): ‘Pokey the Little Puppy’ / ‘Petrol CB’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Throwing Needles’ / ‘Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson’ / ‘Color Pictures of a Marigold’ / ‘Hell’s Garden’ / ‘Winnebago’ / ‘Bruce’ / ‘Milk’

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters
(Roswell/Capitol, 1995): ‘This Is a Call’ / ‘I’ll Stick Around’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Alone + Easy Target’ / ‘Good Grief ’ / ‘Floaty’ / ‘Weenie Beenie’ / ‘Oh, George’ / ‘For All the Cows’ / ‘X-Static’ / ‘Wattershed’ / ‘Exhausted’

The Colour and the Shape
(Roswell/Capitol, 1997): ‘Doll’ / ‘Monkey Wrench’ / ‘Hey, Johnny Park’ / ‘My Poor Brain’ / ‘Wind Up’ / ‘Up in Arms’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘See You’ / ‘Enough Space’ / ‘February Stars’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘Walking After You’ / ‘New Way Home’

There Is Nothing Left to Lose
(Roswell/RCA, 1999): ‘Stacked Actors’ / ‘Breakout’ / ‘Learn to Fly’ / ‘Gimme Stitches’ / ‘Generator’ / ‘Aurora’ / ‘Live-In Skin’ / ‘Next Year’ / ‘Headwires’ / ‘Ain’t It the Life’ / ‘M.I.A.’

One by One
(Roswell/RCA, 2002): ‘All My Life’ / ‘Low’ / ‘Have It All’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Disenchanted Lullaby’ / ‘Tired of You’ / ‘Halo’ / ‘Lonely as You’ / ‘Overdrive’ / ‘Burn Away’ / ‘Come Back’

InYour Honor
(Roswell/RCA, 2005) : ‘In Your Honor’ / ‘No Way Back’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘DOA’ / ‘Hell’ / ‘The Last Song’ / ‘Free Me’ / ‘Resolve’ / ‘The Deepest Blues Are Black’ / ‘End Over End’ / ‘The Sign’ / ‘Still’ / ‘What If I Do?’ / ‘Miracle’ / ‘Another Round’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Over and Out’ / ‘On the Mend’ / ‘Virginia Moon’ / ‘Cold Day in the Sun’ / ‘Razor’

Skin and Bones
(Roswell/RCA, 2006): ‘Razor’ / ‘Over and Out’ / ‘Walking After You’ / ‘Marigold’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘Next Year’ / ‘Another Round’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Cold Day in the Sun’ / ‘Skin and Bones’ / ‘February Stars’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘Ain’t It the Life’

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
(Roswell/RCA, 2007): ‘The Pretender’ / ‘Let It Die’ / ‘Erase/Replace’ / ‘Long Road to Ruin’ / ‘Come Alive’ / ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’ / ‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)’ / ‘Summer’s End’ / ‘Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners’ / ‘Statues’ / ‘But, Honestly’ / ‘Home’

Greatest Hits
(Roswell/RCA, 2009) ‘All My Life’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘The Pretender’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘Learn to Fly’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Money Wrench’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Breakout’ / ‘Long Road to Ruin’ / ‘This Is a Call’ / ‘Skin and Bones’ / ‘Wheels’ / ‘Word Forward’ / ‘Everlong’ (acoustic)

Wasting Light
(Roswell/RCA, 2011): ‘Bridge Burning’ / ‘Rope’ / ‘Dear Rosemary’ / ‘White Limo’ / ‘Arlandria’ / ‘These Days’ / ‘Back and Forth’ / ‘A Matter of Time’ / ‘Miss the Misery’ / ‘I Should Have Known’ / ‘Walk’

Medium Rare
(Roswell/RCA, 2011): ‘Band on the Run’ / ‘I Feel Fine’ / ‘Life of Illusion’ / ‘Young Man Blues’ / ‘Bad Reputation’ / ‘Down in the Park’/ ‘Baker Street’ / ‘Danny Says’ / ‘Have a Cigar’ / ‘Never Talking to You Again’ / ‘Gas Chamber’ / ‘This Will Be Our Year’

Harlingtox A.D.

Harlingtox Angel Divine
(Laundry Room, 1996): ‘Treason Daddy Brother in Crime Real Patriots Type Stuff ’ / ‘Orbiting Prisons in Space’ / ‘Recycled Children Never to Be Grown’ / ‘Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree’ / ‘Open Straightedge Arms’

David Grohl

Touch: Music from the Motion Picture
(Roswell/Capitol, 1997): ‘Bill Hill Theme’ / ‘August Murray Theme’ / ‘How Do You Do’ / ‘Richie Baker’s Miracle’ / ‘Making Popcorn’ / ‘Outrage’ / ‘Saints in Love’ / ‘Spinning Newspapers’ / ‘Remission My Ass’ / ‘Scene 6’ / ‘This Loving Thing (Lynn’s Song)’ / ‘Final Miracle’ / ‘Touch’

Probot

Probot
(Southern Lord/Roswell, 2004): ‘Centuries of Sin’ / ‘Red War’ / ‘Shake Your Blood’ / ‘Access Babylon’ / ‘Silent Spring’ / ‘Ice Cold Man’ / ‘The Emerald Law’ / ‘Big Sky’ / ‘Dictatosaurus’ / ‘My Tortured Soul’ / ‘Sweet Dreams’ / ‘I Am the Warlock’ (hidden track)

Them Crooked Vultures

Them Crooked Vultures
(Columbia, 2009): ‘No One Loves Me & Neither Do You’ / ‘Mind Eraser, No Chaser’ / ‘New Fang’ / ‘Dead End Friends’ / ‘Elephants’ / ‘Scumbag Blues’ / ‘Bandoliers’ / ‘Reptiles’ / ‘Interludes with Ludes’ / ‘Warsaw or the First Breath You Take’ / ‘Caligulove’ / ‘Gunman’ / ‘Spinning in Daffodils’

 

Dave Grohl also appears on the following albums and EPs:

Buzz Osbourne,
King Buzzo
(Boner/Tupelo, 1992)

Backbeat Band,
Backbeat: Songs from the Original Motion Picture
(Virgin, 1994)

Mike Watt,
Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
(Columbia, 1995)

The Stinky Puffs,
A Little Tiny Smelly Bit Of
… (Elemental, 1995)

Puff Daddy,
Been Around the World
(Arista, 1997)

Earthlings?,
Earthlings?
(Man’s Ruin, 1998)

Reeves Gabrels,
Ulysses (Della Notte)
(E-Magine, 2000)

Earthlings,
Human Beans
(Man’s Ruin, 2000)

Tenacious D,
Tenacious D
(Epic, 2001)

Tony Iommi,
Iommi
(Divine/Priority, 2001)

David Bowie,
Heathen
(ISO/Columbia, 2002)

Queens of the Stone Age,
Songs for the Deaf
(Interscope, 2002)

Cat Power,
You Are Free
(Matador, 2003)

Killing Joke,
Killing Joke
(Zuma, 2003)

The Bangles,
Doll Revolution
(E1 Music, 2003)

Garbage,
Bleed Like Me
(Geffen, 2005)

Nine Inch Nails,
With Teeth
(Nothing/Interscope, 2005)

Pete Yorn,
Nightcrawler
(Columbia, 2006)

Tenacious D,
The Pick of Destiny
(Epic, 2006)

Juliette and The Licks,
Four on the Floor
(The Militia Group, 2006)

Jackson United,
Harmony and Dissidence
(Deck Cheese, 2008)

Various Artists,
We WishYou a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging NewYear
(Armoury, 2008)

The Prodigy,
Invaders Must Die
(Take Me to the Hospital/Cooking Vinyl, 2009)

Slash,
Slash
(Roadrunner, 2010)

Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders,
Red Light Fever
(Shanabelle/RCA, 2010)

Mondo Generator,
Dog Food
(Impedance, 2010)

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