All My Life (Foo Fighters song)
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| Single by Foo Fighters | ||||||||||||||
| from the album One by One | ||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Sister Europe" "Win or Lose" "Danny Says" "The One" |
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| Released | September 24, 2002 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD, CD-R, vinyl (7" & 12"), Cassette | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | May 2002 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock,post-grunge,hard rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:24 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Roswell, RCA | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Foo Fighters, Nick Raskulinecz | |||||||||||||
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"All My Life" is a song by the American band Foo Fighters, released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and spent ten straight weeks at number 1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and it peaked at number 3 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was also a top 5 hit on the UK Singles Chart.
According to Dave Grohl, the song "was originally an instrumental and it went through a few different versions. At first it was really dissonant and noisy. The middle section sounded like "Wipe Out" [by the Surfaris]. It was just nuts! We recorded the instrumental and I had no idea how I was gonna sing it. Again, that was another one that our manager said, "That's the song!" And we said, "Really? You think that's the one people will like?" Grohl has said that the song is about how he enjoys performing oral sex on women. "['All My Life'] is a little dirty. I'm very fond of giving oral sex to women. It's a pleasure-giving experience - giving someone something that they'll remember for the rest of their lives, and if you do it right, they will."
The song won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and spent ten straight weeks at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and it peaked at number 3 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was also a top 5 hit on the UK Singles Chart.
It also became 6th best performing alternative song on the Alternative Songs chart of the decade and the 10th best performing rock song on the Rock Songs chart of the decade. Dave Grohl notes that the band had wanted a heavier sounding song to appear as a single, stating that the band were "coming out with "Learn to Fly" and "Next Year" and other songs that had middle-of-the-road melodies."
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