Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album)

Medium Rare
Compilation album by Foo Fighters
Released	April 16, 2011 (2011-04-16)
Genre	Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock
Length	45:33
Foo Fighters chronology
Wasting Light (2011) Medium Rare (2011)

Medium Rare is a covers album by Foo Fighters. The album was released on April 16, 2011 as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day, an event that celebrates independent record stores.^[1] Apart from the new recordings of "Bad Reputation" and "This Will Be Our Year" and the live version of "Young Man Blues", all tracks have been previously released as B-sides or in other compilation albums.^[2]

A CD edition of the album was also given free to new subscribers of Q magazine.

Tracklist

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Band on the Run" (Wings cover)	5:08
2.	"I Feel Free" (Cream cover)	2:56
3.	"Life of Illusion" (Joe Walsh cover)	3:40
4.	"Young Man Blues" (Mose Allison cover) (Live at Austin City Limits)	5:28
5.	"Bad Reputation" (Thin Lizzy cover)	2:33
6.	"Darling Nikki" (Prince and The Revolution cover)	3:24
7.	"Down in the Park" (Gary Numan and Tubeway Army cover)	4:07
8.	"Baker Street" (Gerry Rafferty cover Live @ BBC Radio 1 Evening Session April 30, 1997)	5:39
9.	"Danny Says" (Ramones cover Featuring Gregg Bissonette on Drums)	2:59
10.	"Have a Cigar" (Pink Floyd cover With Brian May)	4:15
11.	"Never Talking to You Again" (Hüsker Dü cover) (Live, Hamburg, Germany, 1st December 2002)	1:45
12.	"Gas Chamber" (Angry Samoans cover Live @ BBC Radio 1 Evening Session November 23, 1995)	0:57
13.	"This Will Be Our Year" (The Zombies cover)	2:44
Total length:		45:33

Note: "Darling Nikki" does not appear on the CD release.

Original appearance

1. Radio 1 Established 1967
2. "DOA" [Single]
3. Times Like These Japanese EP
4. VH1 Rock Honors 2008*
5. Not previously recorded
6. "Have It All" [Single]
7. Songs in the Key of X
8. "My Hero" [Single]
9. One by One (Bonus Disc/iTunes Bonus)
10. Mission: Impossible II Soundtrack
11. "Low" [Single]
12. "Big Me" [Single] & later on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2
13. Not previously recorded

Note: *Although the official description says only 2 are previously unreleased, "Young Man Blues" was previously recorded but doesn't appear on any releases.

References

1. ^ "Foo Fighters To Release Covers Album". ultimateguitar.com. 3/14/2011. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/foo_fighters_to_release_covers_album.html. Retrieved 15 March 2011. 
2. ^ Roffman, Michael (3/14/2011). "Foo Fighters dish out details on Medium Rare". Consequence of Sound. http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/03/foo-fighters-dish-out-details-on-medium-rare/. Retrieved 15 March 2011.