Some Are BURNING His RECORDS Because of This...It's Out of Control! | Professor of Rock
5,677The Foo Fighters spent over a million dollars on their hyped new album, but they had to throw it away to write their opus: Times Like These. Coming up, they wrestled, creating an album that should have been the biggest of its time. But after a year of work, they trashed it because the band hated it. The songs were infamously called the Million Dollars Demo, but to make matters even worse, the band was about to kill each other. They were about to throw down. So here they were, 3 albums into their career, and it seemed like they were done. Dave Grohl was touring with Queens of the Stone Age, then somehow they found their magic and recorded 14 songs in a few days... including their magnum opus Times Like These, which wouldn’t have happened without all the adversity. But years later, the song means even more… Find out why next on Professor of Rock.
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, changing musical tastes, or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes we have covered Buddy Holly by Weezer, Zombie by The Cranberries, My Friends by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
So today’s track’s chart position I’m chalking up to sheer stupidity. Let’s just say it didn’t even come close to #1. But that’s not at all on the band. Rather, it was just the state of popular music was at the time. Even so, this song, is a no-brainer #1… Since it’s inception, it has inspired listeners to fight through adversity and has instilled hope in all who hear it. . From one of the biggest rock bands still out there, and still going strong… It’s Times Like These by Foo Fighters. So after coming home from touring their third album There Is Nothing Left To Lose in early 2001, Foo Fighters were already looking ahead to their next record. For reference, at this time Foo Fighters consisted of multi-instrumentalist frontman Dave Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, drummer Taylor Hawkins, and newcomer guitarist Chris Schiflett.
As the year progressed, the band made some headway on their fourth album, writing new music and recording demos… however, by late summer the Foos hit the skids when a catastrophic blow almost took out Hawkins. After playing the V Festival in the UK, the legendary drummer was hospitalized after an alleged heroin overdose. Taylor went comatose for two days. Said Hawkins, “I was partying in London one night, and I mistakenly did something and it changed everything… I just got out of control for a while and it almost got me.”
After coming to, Hawkins hit rehab. But with Taylor MIA, the Foo Fighters were forced to the sidelines. To keep busy, Dave Grohl accepted an invitation to play drums for Queens of the Stone Age… on their debut album ‘Songs for the Deaf.’ It was an experience he thoroughly enjoyed. By December, a renewed Hawkins returned to work with the band at Grohl’s Studio 606 in Virginia. The songs, Dave would confirm, were a heavier response to the lighter nature of There Is Nothing Left To Lose… which, according to Grohl, was “written lying on the bed in front of the television with an acoustic guitar.”
In January 2002 Grohl wrote in the band’s studio diary, “We've finished 6 songs, and are going out to LA to do the rest. Need a change of scenery… We have about 3 weeks left, and then we're done. DONE. Everything has turned out killer so far.” This new album was going to turn it up to 11. Grohl even joked, “We have guitar leads on our songs now!” However, when those three weeks stretched into 3 months, Dave altered his assessment. The band had 10 finished tracks that no one in the band liked. Taylor Hawkins called it like he saw it: “Nobody had their studio chops together…” The album sounded like it was phoned in. According to Dave, it felt like they were making an album just for the sake of making another