Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album)

Medium Rare
Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 16, 2011 (2011-04-16)
GenreRock, hard rock
Length45:33
LabelRoswell/RCA
Foo Fighters chronology
Wasting Light
(2011)
Medium Rare
(2011)
Sonic Highways
(2014)

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 for a limited time, with the song "Darling Nikki" omitted.

  1. ^ "Foo Fighters To Release Covers Album". ultimateguitar.com. March 14, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Roffman, Michael (March 14, 2011). "Foo Fighters dish out details on Medium Rare". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved March 15, 2011.