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A Colour & a Shape is the Foo Fighters' second album. It was freed May 20, 1997 through Roswell/Capitol Records.
This album wwhen a dehowever of a Foo Fighters as a band, as Dave Grohl got recorded everthing but all of a number one Foo Fighters album by himself, but since William Goldsmith left the band in the period of the recording of the album, Grohl ended higher swimming drums for virtually all of the tracks. Considered one of their finest albums, by using such popular songs when "Monkey Wrench" & "Everlong", it reached #3 UK & #10 The states. When of June 2005, A Colour & A Shape remains Foo Fighters' large United states vender, by using Single.9 million units sold.
Track listing
A lot songs by Goldsmith, Grohl, Mendel & Smear.
"Doll" - 1:23
"Monkey Wrench" - 3:51
"Hey, Johnny Park!" - 4:08
"My Poor Brain" - 3:33
"Wind Up" - 2:32
"Up in Arms" - 2:15
"My Hero" - 4:20
"See You" - 2:26
"Enough Space" - 2:37
"February Stars" - 4:49
"Everlong" - 4:10
"Walking After You" - 5:03
"New Way Home" - 5:40
"Dear Lover" (French release track)
Personnel
Foo Fighters
William Goldsmith - drums on "Doll", "Up In Arms" (slow version/intro to album version) & verses of "My Poor Brain", handclapping
Dave Grohl - guitar, drums, vocals
Nate Mendel - bass
Pat Smear - guitar
Extra personnel
Lance Bangs - handclapping
Chris Bilheimer - handclapping
Ryan Boesch - handclapping
Production
Producer: Gil Norton
Engineers: Bradley Cook, Jeff Turner
Assistant engineere: Ryan Boesch, Todd Burke, Don Farwell, Ryan Hadlock, Jason Mauza
Mixing: Chris Sheldon
Mastering: Bob Ludwig
Recording technicians: Bradley Cook, Jeff Turner
Art counsel: Jeffery Fey, Foo Fighters, Tommy Steele
Design: Jeffery Fey, George Mimnaugh
Logo project: Andy Engel
Photography: Josh Kessler
Charting singles
!Year
!Single
!Chart
!Position
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| 1997
| Monkey Wrench
| Official UK Singles Chart
| There are no. 12
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| 1997
| Monkey Wrench
| Official Australian Singles Chart
| There is no. 18
|-
| 1997
| Monkey Wrench
| Mainstream Rock Tracks (United states)
| There is no. 9
|-
| 1997
| Monkey Wrench
| Modern rock tracks
| There is no. 9
|-
| 1997
| Everlong
| Official UK Singles Chart
| There is no. 18
|-
| 1997
| Everlong
| Modern Rock Tracks (America)
| There is no. 3
|-
| 1997
| Everlong
| Mainstream Rock Tracks (Me)
| There are no. 4
|-
| 1998
| The Hero
| Official UK Singles Chart
| There are no. 21
|-
| 1998
| The Hero
| Modern Rock Tracks (United states)
| There are no. 6
|-
| 1998
| Our Hero
| Mainstream Rock Tracks (Me)
| There are no. 8
|-
| 1998
| Walking Fallowing You
| Official UK Singles Chart
| There is no. 20
|-
| 1998
| Walking Fallowing You
| Modern Rock Tracks
| There are no. 12
|-
| 1998
| Walking When You
| Adult Top 40
| There are no. 35
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Album charts
!Year
!Album
!Chart
!Position
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official UK Albums Chart
| There are no. 3
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Top American Albums
| There are no. 8
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| A Hoarding 200
| There are no. 10
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official Sweeden Albums Chart
| There is no. 10
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official Finland Albums Chart
| There is no. 12
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official Austrian Albums Chart
| There is no. 19
|-
| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official Norway Albums Chart
| There are no. 20
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| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official French Albums Chart
| There are no. 24
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| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official German Albums Chart
| There is no. 41
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| 1997
| A Colour & A Shape
| Official Switzerland Albums Chart
| There are no. 50
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Accolades
Kerrang! magazine "100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" - Readers Guide #10 (1998)
Kerrang! magazine "100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" - Editors Guide #95 (1998)
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