In Your Honor

ROSWELL/RCA, 2005

A decade into the band’s career, it was time, Grohl felt, for “something special”. Recorded at his own Studio

606 complex, and featuring cameos from John Paul Jones, Josh Homme and, more surprisingly, Norah Jones, IYH

was split between thunderous hard rock and intimate acoustic tracks. Inevitably this grand design sagged somewhat, but with Best Of You, The Last Song

and the title track as stadium slayers, and the tender Cold Day In The Sun and Friend Of A Friend

showing FF’s more vulnerable side, IYH is a triumph. It ended up being the second best-selling album of the year, trumped only by Coldplay’s X&Y.