The album name, taken from a lyric in "Miss the Misery", was chosen by Grohl because "it seemed to resonate with me: 'OK, that's what we're here doing'", as the band always "recorded each album thinking it could be our last" and tried to take the most of their tenure together—"we're only here for a short time, we're lucky to be alive, lucky to be a band; I don't take any of this for granted; I don't want to spend my time looking backwards, I want to look forwards".

Wasting Light was the first Foo Fighters album to top the United States' Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 235,000 copies, [77] their second-highest sales week, following In Your Honor 's first-week sales of 311,000 copies in 2005. and keeping with the album's analog recording, the images did not use computer graphics, instead being created with "old tools of the trade" such as copy machines, transparent ink and X-Acto blades; the end result was not printed in CMYK. While Wasting Light features a host of worthy set-openers, few prove to be as sticky or memorable as any number of their previous singles.Rope' is the first single from the album and a particularly good example of how the three guitarists can combine so effectively without ever stepping on each other's feet or cluttering the sound.

Bridge Burning,” which opens the record with insect-chatter guitars and Hawkins’ avalanche rolls, is hellbent metal with a chrome-finish vocal hook. Un disco che mi sento di consigliare a qualsiasi fan dei Foo Fighters ma anche a qualisasi fan di musica rock.The vinyls themselves are in a good condition but sadly the outer casing is bowed and won't sit flat, almost like they weren't glued together correctly. You take all of the things that people consider your band's signature characteristics and just amplify them and make one simple album with that.

I was eagerly awaiting the new release from the Foo Fighters and when I heard it was recorded in Grohl's garage and it would have a rawer sound than we are used to, I was even more excited. In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 21,000 copies in its first week.You won't have heard another song like this on any previous Foos album and it will probably take you a couple of listens to get your head around, but this is Dave Grohl with his phaser set to heart-wrenching. And while Wasting Light could have ended, to perfect brute effect, at track 10 (“I Should Have Known”), the Foos go out with a kick in the ass: “Walk,” a Cheap Trick-style uproar about taking one step at a time for as long as you can. Five songs on the album were licensed for ESPN [49] and two others were featured in movies, [6] "Miss the Misery" in Real Steel [50] and "Walk" in Thor.

This is no small beer, especially when one considers that even the group’s staunchest of admirers would surely be pressed to nominate any of their previous albums as being classics in the manner of Absolution or American Idiot. Hawkins added that he liked Wasting Light for being "straightforward, and that’s a good thing for us right now. Wasting Light, the Foo Fighters’ seventh studio album, is not a release that is likely to alter this state of affairs. Given the album was recorded in a garage, the band held a contest for which some shows of the promotional tour would be performed in eight fans' garages. They rehearsed the songs with the intent of recording them live in Grohl's garage, unlike their previous approach of coming up with parts during the recording process.After the guitar and drum track, Mendel would play his basslines, [17] which were practiced enough for them to be recorded perfectly on the first take. There are references to death – and the responsibility to leave things better than when you came in – all over this album. According to Grohl, the analog strategy would make the record "sound rawer and somewhat imperfect; [7] Chris Shiflett agreed that "rock n'roll is about flaws and imperfections". The last two tracks `I Should've Known' and `Walk' ease us out in style and `I Should've Known' has a great intro which then builds throughout the song until it finishes with typical Foo Fighter grit and flair.