Best of You
by Foo Fighters
- 130
- BPM
- C# minor
- Key
- 12A
- Camelot
- 37
- Danceability
- 0
- Acousticness
After Foo Fighters played Live Earth, "Best of You" returned to the UK charts at number 38. The song had first come out in 2005 as the lead single from In Your Honor, and it remains the band's highest chart peak in the United States (number 18), the United Kingdom (number four) and Australia (number five). It spent four weeks at number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and seven on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and it was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Song.
Dave Grohl wrote it in his garage after campaigning for John Kerry in 2004. The band cut a demo and shelved it, thinking they could do better. Manager John Silva brought it back after listening to what had been recorded and noticing something missing. The lyrics came fast. Grohl called it a song of resistance, and said he wanted a performance he could scream the whole way through. During the first rehearsals he nearly injured his throat.
Mark Pellington directed the video, inspired by the death of his wife a few months before the shoot. The band plays on top of the abandoned Linda Vista Community Hospital, between clips showing pain, anger and affection.
Best of You runs at 130 BPM, the tempo of techno, trance and big-room dance. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.85 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 462 ms. It is in C# minor, Camelot 12A, which shares its notes with E major and mixes cleanly with F# minor and Ab minor.
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