Watch ‘Waiting On A War’ And ‘No Son Of Mine’ From Foo Fighters On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

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Foo Fighters performed the songs “Waiting On A War” and “No Son Of Mine” on last night’s episode (Thursday, January 14) of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Check out the video of their appearance below.

“Waiting On A War” and “No Son Of Mine” are taken from Foo Fighters ‘upcoming album, “Medicine At Midnight,” which will be released on February 5 via Roswell Records / RCA Records. The nine-song, 37-minute effort was produced by Foo Fighters and Greg Kurstin.

If “Waiting On A War” seems to have a particularly emotional weight in its lyrics, well, it’s because it does. Dave Grohl recounts the personal anecdote that inspired the song: “Last fall while driving my daughter to school, she turned to me and asked, ‘Dad, is there going to be a war?’ My heart sank when I realized that she now lived under the same dark cloud that I had felt 40 years ago.

“I wrote ‘Waiting On A War’ that day.

“Every day waiting for the sky to fall. Is there more to this than that? Is there more to this than just waiting for a war? Because I need more. We all need it.

“This song was written for my daughter, Harper, who deserves a future, as do all children.”

If “Waiting On A War” seems to have an especially emotional heft to its lyrics, well, that’s because it does. Dave Grohl recounts the personal anecdote that inspired the song: “Last fall, as I was driving my daughter to school, she turned to me and asked, ‘Daddy, is there going to be a war?’ My heart sank as I realized that she was now living under the same dark cloud that I had felt 40 years ago.

“I wrote ‘Waiting On A War’ that day.

“Every day waiting for the sky to fall. Is there more to this than that? Is there more to this than just waiting on a war? Because I need more. We all do.

“This song was written for my daughter, Harper, who deserves a future, just as every child does.”

“Medicine At Midnight” track listing:

01. Making A Fire
02. Shame Shame
03. Cloudspotter
04. Waiting On A War

05. Medicine At Midnight
06. No Son Of Mine
07. Holding Poison
08. Chasing Birds
09. Love Dies Young

The first single from the album, “Shame Shame”, was released in November. Paola Kudacki and her co-stars Grohl and Sofia Boutella directed a music video to accompany the song. “Shame Shame” depicts in stunning black and white an interpretation of a recurring dream that has haunted Grohl since his childhood.

Grohl told SiriusXM’s Alt Nation about the musical focus of “Medicine At Midnight”: “It’s our 10th album and it’s our 25th anniversary. We are. Like, well, let’s take a look at all the things we’ve done before. We did that. fast and loud kind of loud punk rock material. We made the kind of sleepy acoustic music from a soft acoustic record. We made three or four-minute gum rock and roll, pop, just one thing before And it was like Well, what haven’t we done, and we’ve never made some kind of groove-oriented party record before.

“It’s hard to put the words ‘dance’ or ‘funk’ or ‘disco’ in the same sentence as the Foo Fighters ; it scares the shit out of me,” Dave admitted. “But all of us grew up loving rock and roll records that you could like bounce around to, like The Cars. Like, oh my God, we love The Cars. Or David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’. Or Power Station. Or The [Rolling] Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ — things like that. We’re, like, ‘All right. We’ve never really explored that territory before. Let’s do it.

“We’re lucky in that everybody in the band has diverse influences and everybody loves different kinds of music, but I honestly think we’re capable of doing almost anything,” he said. “So if we put our minds to it, we can kind of chameleon and turn into a death metal band, or we could be like The Carpenters. So we just have to come together and make the decision, like, ‘All right, which way do we wanna go? Which way are we gonna turn the wheel?’ And this time we did it to make this party record.”

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