| "Low" | ||||
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| Single by Foo Fighters | ||||
| from the album One by One | ||||
| B-side | "Never Talking to You Again" | |||
| Released | June 23, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | May 2002 | |||
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| Length | 4:28 4:35 (Live) | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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| "Low" on YouTube | ||||
"Low" was the third single to be released from the Foo Fighters' fourth album One by One, released in 2002. It was released as a single in 2003.[1] Dave Grohl described "Low" as "the kind of song that you pray would be a single. (...) It’s the one that everybody likes, but there’s just no way ’cause it’s too weird."[2] The song began as an instrumental demo written by Grohl and drummer Taylor Hawkins in Hawkins' home studio in Topanga, California, some time after the 2002 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.[3]
The official music video features Grohl and Jack Black entering a motel, where they proceed to get drunk, cross-dress and wreck the motel room.[4] Originally, Grohl wanted to just film Black dancing in drag for four minutes with no edits, but director Jesse Peretz convinced him otherwise, instead creating the storyline about rednecks in lingerie at a motel room.[2] The video was banned on MTV for its content.[5]
A live version recorded on December 4, 2002, at the Oslo Spektrum was released with the Special Norwegian Edition of the One by One album.[6]
The B-Side, "Never Talking to You Again", is a Hüsker Dü cover, originally from the album Zen Arcade.
- ^ Foo Fighters - Low. discogs.com. Retrieved on Jan 20, 2013.
- ^ a b Dave Grohl Sees A Fortune In Video Directing, Not Probot mtv.com. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ The (very nearly) unexpurgated Dave Grohl transcript from Spin's November 02 Foo Fighters cover story fooarchive.com. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ Dave Grohl, Jack Black Hit New ‘Low’ Dressing As Drag Queens For Video mtv.com. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ Banned Music Videos - Loudwire. loudwire.com. Retrieved on Jan 20, 2013.
- ^ Foo Fighters - One by One - Special Norwegian Edition. discogs.com. Retrieved on January 20, 2013.