Foo Fighters Revisit ‘This Is a Call’ on Kimmel — SkimNews
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- Foo Fighters performed “This Is a Call” on Tuesday night during their week-long Jimmy Kimmel Live residency; it was the first single from the group’s self-titled debut album, released in 1995.
- “This Is a Call” builds from its opening stretch into a raging, clap-along instrumental break.
- Dave Grohl wrote “This Is a Call” in 1994 to break away from his past and build something new, telling Kerrang in 2006 that he did not want to remain Nirvana’s drummer and found fronting a band “fucking horrifying.”
- Foo Fighters opened the residency Monday with “Window,” a selection from the band’s 12th and latest studio album, Your Favorite Toy, released earlier this year.
- “Window” was written as an invitation for Grohl’s 17-year-old daughter Harper, who was learning bass, to come upstairs, add a simple bass line and jam with him.
- Your Favorite Toy followed 2023’s But Here We Are, the band’s first album since drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death.
- Rolling Stone described Your Favorite Toy as a continuation of Foo Fighters’ story of fighting through grief and looking forward, contrasting its high-energy garage-rock catharsis with But Here We Are’s reflective tone.
Why it matters: Foo Fighters’ return to the 1995 debut single on night two of a week-long Kimmel residency gives listeners a direct line from Grohl’s 1994 reinvention to the band’s 12th album. The sequence foregrounds Rolling Stone’s contrast: the new record meets grief with high-energy garage-rock catharsis, while its predecessor stayed reflective.
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