"Everlong"
Single by Foo Fighters
from the album The Colour And The Shape
Released	1997
Format	CD
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:10
Label	Roswell/Capitol
Producer(s)	Gil Norton
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"Monkey Wrench" (1997)	"Everlong" (1997)	"My Hero" (1998)
Alternative cover
(CD2)

"Everlong" was the second single released from the Foo Fighters' second album The Colour and the Shape. It was released on 2 main discs in 1997. It is a mid-tempo love song regarded by many fans as one of the band's best. It has unofficially become the band's trademark song and is traditionally performed last during the band's concerts. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Foo Fighters are a alternative rock group formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. ... The Colour and the Shape is the Foo Fighters second album. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Gil Norton is a British record producer known for his work with such bands as Feeder, Counting Crows, Pixies, Terrorvision, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Triffids, Del Amitri, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, James, The Feelers, Dashboard Confessional and Span. ... Foo Fighters are a alternative rock group formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. ... Monkey Wrench is the first single off the second Foo Fighters album The Colour and the Shape. ... For the Paris Bennett recording, see My Hero (recording) My Hero is the third single off the Foo Fighters second album The Colour and the Shape. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article is about the band. ... The Colour and the Shape is the Foo Fighters second album. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Although the song is normally performed with electric guitars, vocalist/guitarist Dave Grohl's solo acoustic variation gained popularity after an impromptu rendition on Howard Stern's radio show in 1997. David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. ... For the former personal attorney and partner of Anna Nicole Smith, see Howard K. Stern. ...

The drumbeat (performed by Grohl on the album recording) was a result of experimenting with the new wave music style. David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

During the instrumental break, three indecipherable tracks whispered by Grohl can be heard. The exact wordings are unknown, but the source materials are believed to be a love letter, a technical manual, and a story about a studio technician's father. Grohl himself has only confirmed the use of the technical manual.

• Ranked #45 in Kerrang! magazine's "100 Greatest Rock Tracks Ever" (1999)
• Ranked #39 in Kerrang! magazine's "100 Greatest Singles of All Time" (2002) (Although it must be noted that the magazine's editor complained about the song's position, claiming it to be "The best track ever to be imprinted onto plastic")
• Ranked #22 in Stylus magazine's "100 Music Videos of All Time" (2006)

David Letterman has named "Everlong" to be his favorite song. It was performed by the Foo Fighters on the 21 February 2000 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, his first since returning from heart surgery. Letterman introduced them as "my favorite band, playing my favorite song." He had been impressed with their first performance of the song on his show in 1997, which coincided with its initial release as a single. The song was performed again for the comeback episode at the personal request of Letterman, who also promoted the band's current album at the time, There Is Nothing Left to Lose. "Everlong" itself is not featured on the album. Kerrang! is a weekly music magazine (mainly rock and metal) published by EMAP in the United Kingdom. ... Stylus Magazine is an online music and film magazine first launched in 2002. ... David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947 is an award-winning American television personality, late night talk show host, television producer, Indy Racing League car owner and philanthropist. ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City. ... There Is Nothing Left to Lose is the third album by Foo Fighters, released in 1999. ...

In the sitcom Friends, the acoustic version of "Everlong" is played as exit music for Chandler and Monica's wedding. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Friends. ... Chandler Muriel Bing (born April 8, 1968) is a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), played by Matthew Perry. ... Monica E. Geller (born April 22, 1969) is a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Courteney Cox Arquette. ... The following is a list of significant others (boyfriends, girlfriends, fiancés, spouses, etc. ...

The movie Little Nicky also features the acoustic version of "Everlong". Little Nicky (2000) is a comedy film written, produced and starring Adam Sandler. ...

The song is also featured on the T.V. show Daria in the episode "Lane Miserables" while Daria watches, from a window, as Trent and Monique walk away. Daria was an American animated television series, created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn, and was a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head. ...

Dave Grohl has stated in Kerrang! Magazine (May 2005) that one-time girlfriend and Veruca Salt vocalist Louise Post is mainly the inspiration for the song and wrote it about their "...crazy, retarded, passionate, freak-out relationship" at the time. Grohl also stated that he thought it was a Sonic Youth rip off. Veruca Salt is an alternative rock group of the 1990s and 2000s. ... Louise Post Louise Post (born Louise Lightner Post on December 7, 1966 in St. ...

In 2005, Bronson Arroyo included a cover of "Everlong" on his album, Covering the Bases. It featured Stephen King reading a passage (presumably written for the song itself) during the song's breakdown. Bronson Anthony Arroyo [ah-ROY-yoh] (born February 24, 1977 in Key West, Florida), is a popular Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and a rock musician. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. ... In popular music a break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a break from the main parts of the song or piece. ...

Another acoustic version of this song concludes both the 2006 live CD and DVD Skin and Bones. Skin and Bones is a live acoustic album by Foo Fighters released on November 7, 2006 (see 2006 in music). ...

In order to accommodate the music video's running time, the song's final chorus is repeated with a brief interlude in between, which apparently consists of the song running backwards.

Video

The video is directed by visionary director Michel Gondry and parodies the likes of great horror b-movies such as The Evil Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. ... The Evil Dead (also known as Evil Dead, The Book of The Dead , Sam Raimis The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead: The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is a 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell. ... Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is a 1994 sequel to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) horror film. ...

The first scene

It starts with a shot with two burglars (played by Pat Smear and Nate Mendel) heading for a house and with a view of the inside of the house with pictures of a happy couple all over the walls (respectively played by Dave Grohl as the husband and Taylor Hawkins, impersonating the wife) and ends up in the bedroom with the couple sleeping in bed. From then on, we enter the dreams of the husband and the wife. A publicity shot from the 1990s. ... Nathan Gregor Mendel (born December 2, 1968 in Richland, Washington) is an American rock bassist. ... David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. ... Taylor Hawkins (born Oliver Taylor Hawkins on February 17, 1972 at Harris Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters. ...

The first dream

This dream takes place in a party in which the husband saves his wife from two ill-intentioned characters, beating them up with his right hand which swells as he gets angry. The two "bad guys" disappear. The couple proceeds to a room with a giant phone with an obviously deafening ringing. The husband tries to pull up the giant receiver and then wakes up with a start, realizing that what he hears is in fact his phone (in the bedroom). He answers and we realize that his wife is on the phone as he turns to her with a worried look on his face.

The viewer understands, by the outdated outfits of both the husband and wife and the extras, that the husband is actually reenacting one if his recollections through this dream, probably the first time they met (thus playing with the cliché of the rescued woman falling in love with her saviour).

The second dream

The wife is sitting in an old house lost in a dark forest when she is threatened by the same two evil characters seen in the first dream, while her husband is gathering wood logs outside the house. The scared wife gives a phone call to someone who proves to be her husband in reality. It ends up with the previous scene of the husband answering the phone call.

The interlude dream

The husband then intentionally falls asleep again to rescue his wife once again. But he finds himself laying in bed with several women who have their legs spread over him. The legs prove to be the logs he was picking up in the second dream. He has managed to enter his wife's dream.

Continuation of the second dream

The husband runs to the house and saves his wife once again from the two evil characters whom they throw unconscious into a small pond.

The final scene

In this scene we see the two evil characters (who prove to be the two burglars of the first scene) standing by the side of the couple's bed in reality. Then the group members come out from their guises with their instruments and finally we see the whole band playing in the bedroom.

The narrative technique

The way the dreams are told is somewhat original because these dreams are seen one after the other while they are actually dreamt simultaneously (a technique which Jean Genet possibly used in his play The Balcony.) The scene with the husband answering the phone is used as a fulcrum between the two dreams. Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... The Balcony (Le Balcon, 1956) is a play by Jean Genet. ...

Single: Track listing

CD1:

1. "Everlong"
2. "Drive Me Wild"
3. "See You (Live Manchester Apollo 25th May 1997)"

CD2:

1. "Everlong"
2. "Requiem" (Killing Joke cover)
3. "I'll Stick Around (Live Manchester Apollo 25th May 1997)"

Lead singer Jaz Coleman dominates the cover of Killing Jokes 1986 release Brighter Than a Thousand Suns. ...

Chart positions

Lyrics

Hello I've waited here for you Everlong Tonight I throw myself into And out of the red, out of her head she sang

Come down And waste away with me Down with me Slow how You wanted it to be I'm over my head, out of her head she sang

And I wonder When I sing along with you If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You've got to promise not to stop when I say when She sang

Breathe out So I could breathe you in Hold you in And now I know you've always been Out of your head, out of my head I sang

And I wonder When I sing along with you If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You've got to promise not to stop when I say when She sang

And I wonder If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You've got to promise not to stop when I say when She sang