The Foo Fighters Song That Started as a Joke – Ultimate Classic Rock

Foo Fighters discussed how Love Dies Young, the closing track on their latest album,Medicine at Midnight, started out as a jokeamong the band members before they realized itwas a worthwhile song.

In a recent interview with Guitar World, frontman Dave Grohl said"Love Dies Young" started out as the kind of strummy sort of song weve done a million times and was unlikely to appear on an album that was all about doing things differently until drummer Taylor Hawkins asked a question.

Taylor was like, What drum beat should we do? How about a 16th-note thing? Grohl said. And I went, Fuck that! What about an Abbaside-high-hat-disco thing? Weve never messed with that before! And then the guitar riff turned into a [Queens] Keep Yourself Alive type of thing.

Guitarist Chris Shiflett said he added a Survivor element, too. The galloping rhythm part that I did in that song, its like Eye of the Tiger,' he explained. It was almost like a joke. But we listened back to it and we were like, Hmm that actually sounds pretty good!

Grohl continued: Each instrument we put on, we were just sitting on the couch laughing, because were doing the things were not supposed to do. Were not supposed to do the galloping flange guitar! Were not supposed to do the Abba beat! But were just like, Fuck, load it up, man! And then at the end of the day, we had something wed never done before.

Listen to Foo Fighters' Love Dies Young

He went on to say that, as a drummer, his songwriting process usually begins withthe rhythm section, but that the melody was the most important part of any composition.

That comes from growing up with Beatles records and sitting down with a chord book, trying to understand why those harmonies do what they do and why the melody moves the way it does, he said. Thats the Rubiks Cube, right? Screaming bloody murder and playing as many notes as you can, thats fun. But to me, the complicated puzzle of braiding those things together in a way that seems simple is the greatest challenge. Its like, Okay, great, Ive got a groove thats cool. Ive got riffs thats cool. But none of its going to work unless theres a fucking melody.

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