The Colour And The Shape (studio album) by Foo Fighters

The Colour And The Shape by Foo Fighters
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 363rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 979 votes)
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Award Top 10 albums of 1997 (9th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1990s (68th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (363rd)
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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 979 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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75/100
From 05/29/2024 03:57
Well this album is all over the place for me. "Everlong" is one of the best songs of all time, and "Monkey Wrench" is great. I also like "My Poor Brain", "Up In Arms", and "Enough Space". However, some of the other tracks here I don't really care for. If this could be trimmed down to just 9 or 10 songs, it would be an excellent album, but as it is some of the extras bring the average down.
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85/100
From 07/20/2023 12:43
Um dos álbuns mais fortes do Foo Figthers!
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75/100
From 09/18/2022 17:39
Only getting to this in 2022 and really enjoyed the album - particularly the softer/acoustic tracks - but that said Monkey Wrench is a crazy, bright bast that I can totally buy into along with New Way Home.
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85/100
From 04/26/2022 00:23
This album opens brilliantly with the short but snappy Doll that then leads into two of the best songs the Foo Fighters have ever released. These are Monkey Wrench and the greatly under rated Hey, Johnny Park!. Both of these songs are energetic and have amazing instrumentation mixed in with some incredible vocals. They are both so much fun and are part of one of the best openings to an album ever. You then get this level of quality scattered amongst the rest of the tracks. There are quite a few gems you can find on this release as well which make for great listening outside of the record. However, it can be a little inconsistent with there being a fair few number of filler tracks. It is also quite bloated at a 50 minute run time which makes it get quite repetitive. Overall, this is an elite record and is possibly the Foo Fighters best ever release.
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85/100
From 04/07/2022 13:09
The best Foo album.
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95/100
From 03/18/2022 08:05
Album Rating: 85.31
(1,109/13)

1.Doll - 84
2.Monkey Wrench - 98
3.Hey, Johnny Park! - 99
4.My Poor Brain - 78
5.Wind Up - 87
6.Up In Arms - 96
7.My Hero - 87
8.See You - 72
9.Enough Space - 76
10.February Stars - 77
11.Everlong - 95
12.Walking After You - 74
13.New Way Home - 86
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100/100
From 11/03/2021 14:06
This album is terrific on its own, but more significant in that it opened up everything musically and production-wise for the Foo Fighters. It totally changed the landscape of rock for the next 10+ years.
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60/100
From 12/04/2020 16:50
Far from great, far from bad. Overall, 60/100.
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90/100
From 11/21/2020 12:52
A very safe, but good rock album. Some stand out tracks, accompanied by other decent and ok songs.
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From 02/13/2020 09:03
There was always a certain radio-friendliness to Nirvana's sound that Kurt could handle well enough not to make them look like wannabe punks, it actually defined their style in a way... Dave can't.
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