Talk:Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace/GA1

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Reviewer: Burningclean (talk · contribs) 23:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

• In the second paragraph of the lead, you should probably say critical reception was MOSTLY positive. By just say it was positive, it feels a tad bit misleading.
• The first sentence of the Background and recording ("As the tour for the album In Your Honor had both acoustic and electric shows...") this sentence sounds funny to me somehow. Maybe reword it somehow. Something like "Foo Fighter's tour for In Your Honor had both..." Not too big of a deal, but it just sounds kinda funny to me.
• Recording begun on March 2007 at the band's own Studio 606 in Northridge, California.[11] During a ten day break in April, Grohl thought that the recorded needed another uptempo song, so he spent his time developing an unfinished song that became "The Pretender".[12] The sessions wrapped in mid-June.[13] It was the first Foo Fighters album where the band did not felt the need to rerecord any songs.[4] Grohl stated that while In Your Honor was a double album because he felt "schizophrenic" to alternate between loud and acoustic songs, Norton helped on creating a sequencing that lead to "an album that makes sense".[6]
  • I would re-read this paragraph. There are a number of small errors to be fixed.
• In the Composition section: "The songs of the album are noted for its changing dynamics -" That sentence sounds funny. By saying "The songs of the album" you're indicating plural, but by saying "its changing dynamics" you're idicating singular. It should probably be "their changing dynamics".
• You mention the start of the promotional tour, but never stated how long it lasted.
• "PopMatters' Josh Timmermann was much critical of the overtly serious tone of the record" Saying "much critical" sounds pretty weird, it should probably be "very critical".
• "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace won the 2008 Grammy for Best Rock Album and "The Pretender" won for Best Hard Rock Performance." Probably say ""The Pretender" won the award for Best Hard Rock Performance."

Overall this is a fantastic and informing article. I love the wealth of information. I'd love to see this become an FA. On a side note, "The Pretender" is my favorite Foo Fighter song. Burningclean _[speak] 23:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Done them all, though you can tell if what I did for the third bullet point still needs work. (nice to see a fellow fan; don't know if I'll bring to FA any sooner, but the FF albums FT is certainly on the way, if this passes 4/7 will be GAs) igordebraga ≠ 18:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Excellent work. After reviewing this I went through all there albums and I really enjoyed it. Passing as a GA. If you felt like reviewing anything, I have nominated Alive or Just Breathing Burningclean _[speak] 20:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)