Technically, I should have given this album a one-star rating, because the single CD version is copy-protected. This means that no one can copy the music files onto their computer.
However, I think this album alone was also part of a huge revolution in the music industry, where music nuts started to move to the Internet to download music.
This is also one of the best albums that the Foo Fighters ever made. It includes some of their greatest hits, including "Best of You" and "D.O.A." If people hadn't fallen in love with the Foo Fighters before, "In Your Honor" completely changed their minds with grandiose chord progressions, edgy staccato chords and catchy lyrics.
The album is divided into two halves, reflecting the two different sides of Dave Grohl's band. The first CD includes most of the band's loud power chord songs. The second CD focuses on their subtler acoustic sound.
Both halves make for an intriguing look at how grunge music has changed from the old days of Nirvana.
Although this album sparked a load of controversy over the problems of music piracy, it also provoked many people to switch to the Internet as their source of music. For once, this was one of the only albums that people could only find in mp3 form over the Internet.
It was an intentional move that shifted the tide of the music industry. In fact, the band released an album after this one, completely devoid of copy protection.
People hated the band, but this CD actually gave them a much edgier persona in a slowly developing indie music scene.
Certainly, "In Your Honor" is hard to recommend based on the firestorm it caused about Internet piracy. However, it's worth buying as an unusual icon of the late 2000s. It's one of the few copy protected albums that you are completely unable to listen to on the iTunes application.
Don't worry--the Dual Disc version doesn't have copy protection on it.
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Labels: Grunge album
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