Times Like These (song)
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| Single by Foo Fighters | ||||||||||
| from the album One by One | ||||||||||
| B-side | "A Life of Illusion" "Planet Claire" "Normal" |
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| Released | January 14, 2003 | |||||||||
| Format | CD, CD-R, vinyl (7") | |||||||||
| Recorded | May 2002 November 29, 2002 (BBC sessions) December 4, 2002 (Live at the Spektrum) August 2006 (Acoustic version) |
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| Length | 4:26 (Album version) 3:55 (BBC sessions) 4:35 (live at the Spektrum) |
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| Label | Roswell, RCA | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Foo Fighters, Nick Raskulinecz | |||||||||
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"Times Like These" is the second single released from the Foo Fighters' fourth album One by One.
The lyrics discuss how Dave Grohl felt "like I wasn't entirely myself" during the three-month hiatus the Foo Fighters entered following the tense and unsatisfying first recording sessions for One by One, as well as his uncertaintity about the future of the band. The lyric "I'm a new day rising" is a reference to the album New Day Rising by Hüsker Dü, one of Grohl's favorite groups.
"Times Like These" is in D Mixolydian mode and the section that begins at 0:13 is in 7/4 time. The chorus of the song is also grouped in bars of 3 rather than the regular bars of 4.
After the album version ended its run on the charts, a solo acoustic version of the song performed by Grohl was released and had some success on pop and adult contemporary radio but generally it enjoyed great success on rock and alternative radio just like the original electric version.
All 3 versions were made available via the DVD release "Low/Times Like These"(2003):
Directed by Liam Lynch. The band is shown performing the song against changing backgrounds, consisting mainly of brightly colored kaleidoscopic forms similar to those found in music visualization, giving the video a psychedelic, hopeful, joyful mood. In the end, the backgrounds blink out to reveal that the band are performing against a greenscreen in a studio. This version is often referred to as the "UK version" and received little airplay in the US as the band ultimately opted to film another video shortly afterwards.
Directed by Marc Klasfeld. The video was shot on the Mojave River Bridge in Victorville, CA and shows the band performing the song on location, below and in front of a bridge. A girl wanders onto the bridge and eventually tosses her Game Boy Advance at them. Gradually, more and more people arrive at the bridge and start throwing other inanimate objects (including appliances, instruments, and furniture) behind and around the oblivious band members. The items never hit any of them, though they come close. The actions of the participants would suggest that their motivations and intentions are to cast off the material trappings of society which prohibit them from living freely.
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