Studio Album · No. 5
In Your Honor Songwriting Credits by Foo Fighters
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz, Foo Fighters · Engineered by Nick Raskulinecz (mixing, disc 1), Elliot Scheiner (mixing, disc 2), Bob Ludwig (mastering)
Holds writing credit on 20 of 20 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 20 / 20 documented
Scored across the 20 tracks with documented writers, by whether Foo Fighters carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 20 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 1
In Your Honor is a double album: disc one is a hard rock set produced by Nick Raskulinecz (who also mixed it) and disc two is an acoustic set produced by Foo Fighters and mixed by Elliot Scheiner; Bob Ludwig mastered both. Recorded January-March 2005 at Studio 606 West in Los Angeles, it features guest appearances from John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin (mellotron on the title track), Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age (vocals on "Over and Out"), and others. "Best of You" peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's highest US chart peak to that point. The album received five nominations at the 48th Grammy Awards (2006), including Best Rock Album, but won none.
In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by Foo Fighters, released in June 2005 on RCA Records. It is a double album with a hard rock electric disc and an acoustic folk-influenced disc, produced by Nick Raskulinecz with additional production from Adam Kasper, and the most formally ambitious project in the band's catalog in terms of structure and guest appearances. Grohl wrote all material; Disc one includes 'Best of You' (which became one of the most played rock radio songs of the decade and spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart), 'DOA,' and 'In Your Honor'; disc two includes the acoustic ballads 'Miracle,' 'The Last Song,' and 'Still,' with guest appearances from John Paul Jones, Norah Jones, and Josh Homme. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 173,000 first-week sales and has been certified double platinum in the United States; the electric disc received stronger critical attention while the acoustic disc was seen as demonstrating Grohl's melodic range beyond the power chord framework. In Your Honor represents the commercial and creative peak of the band's RCA period and confirmed their position as one of the defining acts of mainstream rock in the mid-2000s. The double album format allowed Grohl to demonstrate the full range of his songwriting, from the anthemic hard rock of 'Best of You' to the acoustic introspection of 'The Last Song,' and established that Foo Fighters could sustain a 24-track artistic statement without the creative dilution that the format typically generated.