Dave Grohl Looks Back On Foo Fighters' Career With Greatest Hits

'We never intended for [the band] to become as big as it did,' Grohl says. By Kyle Anderson, with reporting by Matt Elias Foo Fighters Photo: MTV News Back in the summer of 1995, a strange album appeared in stores. It had an odd brown cover with a comically futuristic pistol on it, and was simply labeled Foo Fighters . There was no indication that a member of one of the most important bands in history was behind it — but it's hard to imagine that anyone interested didn't know that it was the first album from ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, which, at the time, was just him. On Tuesday (November 3), more than 14 years later, the band releases Greatest Hits, a collection of 14 of their biggest singles plus two new songs, Wheels" and "Word Forward." But this isn't Grohl and his bandmates calling it a career — rather, they see it as a way to recharge the batteries and reevaluate their future as a band. "The last three records happened ... (link)