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In Your Honor
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 108 votes
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Album Info
Label: RCA
Release Date: 14 June 2005
Discs: 2 discs
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock
Summary
This double-disc set from Dave Grohl & co. includes one full CD of acoustic tracks. Guests include John Paul Jones, Norah Jones, Josh Homme and Petra Haden.
Also By This Artist: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace One By One
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly
Arguably the year's first great hot-weather record. [24 Jun 2005, p.161]
Los Angeles Times
Loud, anthemic, joyous and bitter, it's easily the best Foo Fighters album in a decade. [12 Jun 2005]
E! Online
The first half is instantly familiar, throwing up the same flurry of guitars and post-grunge drudge the Foos have been hammering home for years. The more laid-back stuff is... charming and warm.
Read Full Review >Spin
Both these records chronicle the physical and mental graffiti of figuring out how to emerge from some very large shadows, including his own, with nerve and power. [Jul 2005, p.96]
Alternative Press
The most accomplished work of Grohl's post-Nirvana career. [Aug 2005, p.174]
All Music Guide
By stretching out, the Foo Fighters not only have expanded their sound, but they've found the core of why their music works, so they now have better songs and deliver them more effectively.
Read Full Review >Filter
If you buy In Your Honor and toss out the second half, you'll own the band's best record since The Colour and the Shape. [#16, p.88]
The New York Times
The rock CD overpowers the acoustic one. Yet among the quieter songs, there are enough supple melodies and hypnotic guitar patterns to suggest fine prospects for a follow-through album that would dare to mix plugged-in and unplugged. [12 Jun 2005]
Dot Music
It is not the Foo's finest moment, but for all its flaws and flab, this meandering record may just become one we all learn to love.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
This is by far their most realized and balanced attack. [#10, p.111]
Prefix Magazine
The rock was catchy, but it’s the slow stuff that flips you on your axis with its depth.
Read Full Review >Uncut
Unquestionably the work of a band with ambitions rekindled. [Jul 2005, p.92]
musicOMH.com
It is clean, polished rock with a vaguely punk edge that stays within a clear set of boundaries but in doing so manages to appeal to indie-kids and metal-lovers alike.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
Feels a bit like your bedroom partner trying on all kinds of flash costumes and gadgets to try and excite you, and the realisation that it wasn’t really necessary and they wouldn’t have had to bother had you just shown them a little more love in the first place.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
In Your Honor, like most Foo Fighters records, is sterile and controlled; there is never any threat of dissolution.
Read Full Review >Blender
Let's face it: Foo Fighters are dull. [Jul 2005, p.117]
Q Magazine
[Disc 1] is impressive stuff--the sound of a muse regained. Pity the acoustic disc is nowhere near as good. [Jul 2005, p.109]
Mojo
[Disc 1] is grunge-punk-metal boiled down to mere energy -- and calories don't rock. [Jul 2005, p.102]
The Guardian
Ten tracks of this kind of thing [on the acoustic disc] is pushing Grohl's ability as a Damien Rice, but it makes a neat complement to the first disc, and together they're pleasantly chewy.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
In Your Honor's acoustic half reveals Dave Grohl's songwriting shortcomings.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
Lurking somewhere in its spotty 80+ minutes lies an excellent 40 minute album, one of the best the Foos have ever done. As is, though, with its heaps of filler, dated production and needless segregation of rockers from ballads, it may actually be their weakest.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Some of Grohl's lyrical shortcomings become exposed: The sameness and vagueness of his love lyrics blunt their impact.
Read Full Review >Billboard
One can't help but think that by scaling back their ambitions, the Foos could have made one great album instead of two average ones.
Read Full Review >Playlouder
'In Your Honour' is as rancid and moribund and as redundant of ideas as it is possible to be.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Sure, the Foos are excellent at what they do. It’s just unfortunate that what they do is so unavoidably mediocre.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 108 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Lisa gave it a10:
I Love This Album. I Didn't Love the Foo's till This Album. It Showed they Were Willing To Do Things To There Music And Experiment! It Makes Them Better Than Half These Other Bands and Groups Who Are topping The Charts! There Music's the Smae all the Time. the Foos Deffinetly Produced One Of There Greatest CD's.
Vid M gave it an8:
Excellent album. Could have done without the 2nd disc. The first five tracks are a whirlwind tour de force that carry the weaker tracks.
Bern S gave it an8:
I'm one of the people who prefers the second CD (very good hangover music) to the first; parts of which are forgettable. If you could take the best songs from both sides and make one album out of them it would easily get a 9,5 out of 10 from me.
Andrew L. gave it a4:
I have to agree with Tom B. I like their older albums but I'm disappointed with "In your hornor".
Elle S gave it a9:
Honestly did you all not listen to this? It is a fantastic album in every aspect. The rock (CD1)and ballads (CD2) are a great balance to suit your mood. I guess you would need an IQ of more than 20 to understand CD2 but the guitar playing is great, musically it is far more interesting than CD1. The words are even pretty deep and certainly helped me find hope during a dark period when I thought my friend was all but lost.
Tim L gave it a3:
Honestly, this is one of the worst albums I have ever bought/heard. It's Dave Grohl trying to imitate the rest of the industry, and honestly it's just a waste of time. The first album tries to rock it out, and can only pull it off in the best of you, the rest is just simply horrible, and you are saying to yourself "how could this possibly get any worst" well pop in the acoustic cd and find out. I am a sucker for acoustic music, and I have never heard anything acoustic I hated... well until this cd. It's just absolutely boring, same rhythym through out the whole cd with very weak lyrics. I gave this cd a 3/10 simply because best of you is one of my favorite foo songs, but other then that single song, this album is to be completely avoided by self respecting music fans.
farvel f gave it a10:
This is what rock 'n roll is about. Simple, cathcy and loud. You can't invent the wheel in every song you write, because it has already been invented time and time again. And in my opinion Grohl is the best rock singer of the present. Excellent stuff. The ayatollah of rock 'n rollah.
