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“Walking After You” by Foo Fighters
From the album The Colour and the Shape (1997)
“Walking After You” by Foo Fighters appears on 12 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1998 and 2022. It was first released in 1997 on the album The Colour and the Shape. Its best result is #23 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #57 alternative song of 1998, #4,646 alternative song of all time and #461 of the '90s.
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"Walking After You" is the hush on Foo Fighters' 1997 album The Colour and the Shape, a slow, aching turn from a band otherwise going full throttle. Dave Grohl wrote it and cut the original in December 1996 at WGNS Studios in Washington, D.C., slipping it in between the album's main sessions, and he handles drums, guitar and lead vocal himself, with Pat Smear on guitar and Nate Mendel on bass. Gil Norton produced and Chris Sheldon mixed.
A year later the band re-recorded it for The X-Files: The Album, where it rolls over the movie's end credits right after Noel Gallagher's "Teotihuacan", and that version went out as a single with Ween's "Beacon Light" on the flip. It became a hit in the UK, good enough for a spot on Top of the Pops.
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
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 48 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 | 91 |
| 1998 | 68 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 60 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 83 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
| 1998 | 23 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 56 | DC101 Washington, D.C. | DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 56 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 | 103 |
| 1998 | 56 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 254 | 91X | 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 773 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2021 | 189 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 851 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
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