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“Low” by Foo Fighters
From the album One by One (2002)
“Low” by Foo Fighters appears on 21 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2003 and 2014. It was first released in 2002 on the album One by One. Its best result is #48 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #94 alternative song of 2003 and #5,449 alternative song of all time.
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"Low" is the odd one out on One by One, the Foo Fighters' fourth album, and it went out as the record's third single in 2003. Dave Grohl reckoned it was the song everybody loved and nobody would dare release, just too weird. It started as an instrumental demo Grohl and Taylor Hawkins knocked together in Hawkins' home studio in Topanga, California, after the 2002 Coachella festival, and it still has that basement menace: Grohl and Chris Shiflett's guitars grind low and heavy, Nate Mendel and Hawkins lurch along underneath, and Grohl sings it like a threat. The band produced it with Nick Raskulinecz, who also engineered, and Jim Scott mixed.
Then came the video. Jesse Peretz directed Grohl and Jack Black as a pair of rednecks who check into a motel, get drunk, dress up in lingerie and trash the room, and MTV banned it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 100 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2003 | 107 |
| 2003 | 68 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003 | 106 |
| 2003 | 72 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 | 101 |
| 2003 | 86 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003 | 92 |
| 2003 | 69 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 48 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2003 | 89 |
| 2003 | 93 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 | 101 |
| 2003 | 61 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 86 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 | 99 |
| 2003 | 64 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003 | 106 |
| 2003 | 79 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of 2003 | 104 |
| 2003 | 83 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 | 196 |
| 2003 | 82 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1996 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2007 | 1807 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1856 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1890 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1795 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1871 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1938 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 2005 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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