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Entertainment WeeklyArguably the year's first great hot-weather record. [24 Jun 2005, p.161]
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Los Angeles TimesLoud, anthemic, joyous and bitter, it's easily the best Foo Fighters album in a decade. [12 Jun 2005]
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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.
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SpinBoth 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]
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Alternative PressThe most accomplished work of Grohl's post-Nirvana career. [Aug 2005, p.174]
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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.
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FilterIf 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]
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The New York TimesThe 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]
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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.
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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.
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The rock was catchy, but it’s the slow stuff that flips you on your axis with its depth.
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UncutUnquestionably the work of a band with ambitions rekindled. [Jul 2005, p.92]
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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.
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Under The RadarThis is by far their most realized and balanced attack. [#10, p.111]
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In Your Honor, like most Foo Fighters records, is sterile and controlled; there is never any threat of dissolution.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 141 out of 170
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Mixed: 20 out of 170
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Negative: 9 out of 170
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Sep 28, 2011Half of the songs are great and the other half feels filler and a bit boring. A really ambitious project and I applaud them for that.
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Jan 28, 2011
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Jan 26, 2023