“I could never have made an album like this new one on my own,” said the frontman of its follow-up, The Colour And The Shape, which is still widely regarded as the band’s finest album to date.

The legacy: The Colour and the Shape isn’t even Foo Fighters’ best album; that would probably be reserved for the 2005 rock/acoustic double album, In Your Honor.

The Colour and the Shape was the Foo Fighters' second album, but it's the first to receive the commemorative 10th anniversary treatment. That's not to suggest the album is superior to Dave Grohl's ...