Medicine at Midnight Tracklist
Medicine at Midnight are the Foo Fighters’s 10th studio album, and their last with drummer Taylor Hawkins. This album was recorded pre-pandemic from October 2019- February 2020, but not released until February 5th, 2021. This album was recorded in a house in Encino, Los Angeles, California, and the movie “Studio 666” was loosely based off of the recording expirence here.
“I knew the vibes were definitely off, but the sound was fucking on. We would come back to the studio the next day and all of the guitars would be detuned. Or the setting we’d put on the [mixing] board, all of them had gone back to zero. We would open up a Pro Tools session and tracks would be missing. There were some tracks that were put on there that we didn’t put on there. But just like weird open mic noises. Nobody playing an instrument or anything like that, just an open mic recording a room.” Dave stated in a interview about the album.
There is a total of 9 songs on the album including the hits, Waiting on a War, and Love Dies Young. Dave said that this is the Foo Fighters' best album so far. “I remember after we recorded Making A Fire, I was, like, Oh, fuck yes, we are on to some shit that we’ve never done before,” recalls Grohl.
“Medicine at Midnight” Q&A
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Translations
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What have the artists said about the album?
We wrote a lot of these songs to be played in stadiums — these big grooves, big choruses, big guitars. It was really sort of designed to be this big party album. We had looked back on all the stuff we’d done over the last 25 years like, ‘We’ve done this noisy, punk rock stuff. We’ve done gentle, acoustic stuff. We’ve done three-and-a-half, four-minute long radio-rock, singalong singles.
But we’ve never done like that groove-oriented, sort of — ‘Let’s Dance'[by] David Bowie, Power Station, the Cars, [Rolling Stones‘] Tattoo You — those rock albums that would make you get up and move and dance. We haven’t done that yet, so we went into the studio with that in mind… I don’t even wanna say it’s like our ‘dance record,’ but it’s got grooves that we’ve never had before, so they kind of make you bounce around.
— Dave Grohl via NME (November 2020)
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Has the album received any accolades?
The album was awarded with the Best Rock Album at the 2022 GRAMMYs:
