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“Let It Die” by Foo Fighters
From the album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)
“Let It Die” by Foo Fighters appears on 29 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2007 and 2023. It was first released in 2007 on the album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Its best result is #2 on the 102.1 The Edge's Top 102 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #4 alternative song of 2008, #3,369 alternative song of all time and #194 of the '00s.
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"Let It Die" was the fourth single from Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, the sixth Foo Fighters album, though it never got a physical release: radio got a promo and fans got a download. Gil Norton produced and Rich Costey mixed, and the song builds from Dave Grohl and Chris Shiflett's acoustic guitars to a full-throated electric blowout, Taylor Hawkins pounding, Pat Smear sitting in on guitar and Rami Jaffee on keys.
Its subject is people tearing each other apart over fights that don't matter in the end, and in a 2007 interview Grohl came close to admitting it was about Courtney Love. It became a fixture of the tour for that album, stayed in the Wasting Light shows until 2012, and resurfaced now and then from the Concrete and Gold tour in 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 394 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
| 2009 | 277 | Live 105 | Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) | 500 |
| 2010 | 106 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 New Rock Songs of the Millennium | 200 |
| 2011 | 1881 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1848 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1709 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2014 | 362 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 386 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 460 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2022 | 465 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2023 | 469 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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