Foo Fighters "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace" 2022-09-09 ‘Love Songs For The Retarded’

‘Love Songs For The Retarded’  is the first Queers‘ album with the Joe/Hugh/B-Face line-up

The album sessions yielded a clutch of material that would subsequently appear on B-sides

It was never released on vinyl though

It focuses heavily on rock and roll but there is a human interest parallel - songs about growing up poor

Foo Fighters "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace" 2022-09-09 ‘Love Songs For The Retarded’Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a year plus run commencing with in Your Honor (a double album the New York Times called an "unexpected magnum opus"), sold out rock arena shows and a toned down intimate theater trek, and a headlining gig at London's Hyde Park for a crowd of 85,000, the question looms larger than any in the Foo Fighters' career to date: What do they do for an encore?!? the answer comes in the form of "The Pretender,"