Stacked Actors

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“Stacked Actors”
Single by Foo Fighters from the album There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Released	January 17, 2000
Format	CD
Recorded	1999
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:16
Label	Roswell/RCA Records
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"Learn to Fly" (1999) "Stacked Actors" (2000) "Generator" (2000)

"Stacked Actors" is a Foo Fighters song which was released as a commercial single in Australia exclusively in 2000. However radio promos were released in other countries for airplay. It is taken from the band's 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose. Unlike many of the songs from that album, the song is very abrasive, sharp and distorted.

Dave Grohl on the song: "Stacked Actors' is a response to living in Hollywood for about a year and a half, and my disdain and disgust of everything plastic and phony, which is the foundation of that city. And I just hated it. I had a lot of fun, but I had a lot of fun hating it."^[1]

On the Howard Stern show, December 9, 1999, Courtney Love said the song was written about her.

The B-sides came from the 2 Meter Sessions. They were performed live in the Netherlands on November 22, 1999.

On September 3, 1999, the Foo Fighters played a secret gig at the Troubador in Los Angeles playing using the pseudo band name Stacked Actors.^[2] The gig was intended as a warm up for the bands newly recruited guitarist Chris Shiflett.

Since the songs inception, it has joined 'Everlong' as one of the bands live staples. Almost every gig has featured 'Stacked Actors', usually lengthened to about 15 minutes by the addition of improvisation on the part of Grohl and Shiflett and some sort of heavier rendition of the basic song. On the band's 2008 tour promoting Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Taylor Hawkins plays a drum solo as a way of extending the live version of the song.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Stacked Actors" 4:18 mins
2. "Ain't It The Life (Acoustic Version)"
3. "Floaty (Acoustic Version)"

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] References

1. ^ "Foo Fighters: New Guitarist, New Album". SwayMag.com. 1999.
2. ^ "Dave Grohl: "Foo Fighters", "Nirvana" and Other Misadventures ". by Martin James, Independent Music Press (September 29, 2003).