Waiting on a War" did not enter the Australian ARIA Singles Chart but peaked at number 33 on the ARIA Digital Track Chart. Congregation" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked at number 24 on the Netherlands' Single Tip Chart.

Shame Shame" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart but peaked at number nine on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The Foo Fighters performed nearly 100 concerts throughout 1995, and over 70 dates the following year. Other processors included UREI 1176 and LA3A compressors as well as an Echoplex for delays and a "crappy digital reverb". Big Me" was the band's first commercial single to be made available in the US; it was also the second song on the album to receive a music video.However the version that appeared on the X-Files soundtrack and was released as a single was a re-recorded version. Grohl also went to a cassette duplication lab in Seattle and created 100 cassette copies of the session and started handing them to friends for feedback and "I'd give tapes to everybody. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Let It Die" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, [97] on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 6, [96] and on the Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) at number 85.

Shame Shame" did not enter the Canadian Hot 100 but peaked at number 23 on the Canadian Hot Digital Songs chart.He chose the name "Foo Fighters" for the project to hide his identity and passed cassette copies of the sessions to personal friends. On September 27, 1995, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), [59] being later certified Platinum on January 26, 1996. During the sessions, Grohl was invited by Tom Petty to perform with The Heartbreakers on Saturday Night Live one month later.

During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs, but was too intimidated to share them with the band, as he was "in awe" of the songs written by frontman Kurt Cobain. I was just concentrating on everything being as together as possible, having everything be tight and in sync. Under You" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 18 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. When the tapes attracted record label interest, Grohl signed with Capitol and recruited a full band to perform the songs live.Billboard complimented the "inspired songwriting and passionate performances", adding the album could please grunge fans and "also remind fans of other rock and punk taste makers, from Green Day and the Offspring to Better than Ezra. Grohl and Jones produced the record across a period of one week in October 1994, with Grohl on vocals and all instruments. Arrows" did not enter the Sverigetopplistan Top 100 Singles chart, but peaked at number 16 on the Sverigetopplistan Heatseeker chart. The Line" did not enter the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, but peaked at number 50 on the Canadian All-format Airplay chart.

The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 1996 Grammy Awards ceremony, but lost to MTV Unplugged in New York, an album by Grohl's former band Nirvana. The Feast and the Famine" did not enter the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, but peaked at number four on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart. No Way Back" and "Cold Day in the Sun" were released together as a double A-side single and therefore the singles chart positions apply to both songs but the airplay charts only apply to "No Way Back".

This science fiction theme is further continued with the name of Grohl's Capitol Records imprint, Roswell Records, a reference to the city of Roswell, New Mexico, known for the Roswell UFO incident of 1947; and the album cover done by Grohl's then-wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood, featuring a Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol.