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Grohl thinks Foo hits album “premature”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 5 November 2009
Dave Grohl has admitted that a Foo Fighters greatest hits album seems rather “premature”, and that the venture was very much a label driven thing. Of course, most labels these days are eager to cash in on a successful artist’s catalogue by releasing some sort of hits collection as soon as a third long player is in the can, sometimes sooner. And, therefore, hits compilations are usually bundled into a recording contract.
Speaking about the hits collection, which is released this week, Grohl told Chris Moyles on Radio 1: “It still seems premature because we’re still a functioning, active band. Those things can look like an obituary. We were asked to do this a long time ago. We wrote it into a deal a long time ago – that’s how it works. “They started asking about four years ago, and we said, ‘Don’t we need some hits?'”
Commenting on the hits album, and the choice of songs that appear, he continued: “It’s like a CliffsNotes [that’s a series of US study guides], a bit like the [beginners guide] version of what we’ve been doing for the last 15 years. I think there are better songs than some of those”.
