Alone + Easy Target

Alone + Easy Target

Foo Fighters

A US radio-only promo single, “Alone + Easy Target” is a good example of just how old much of the first Foo Fighters album really is. Dave wrote the song in 1991 and played an early demo for Kurt late that year, who much wanted it to be a Nirvana song to Dave’s dismay:

“Kurt was staying in a hotel in Seattle at the time, as by then he’d moved to LA,” Grohl remembers. “I’d told him I was recording and he said, ‘Oh, I wanna hear it, bring it by…’ He was sitting in the bath-tub with a Walkman on, listening to the song, and when the tape ended he took the headphones off and kissed me and said, ‘Oh, finally, now I don’t have to be the only songwriter in the band!’ I said, No, no, no, I think we’re doing just fine with your songs.

Nirvana nonetheless jammed on the song during soundchecks on their tour of Europe that year, according to an interview Dave gave to Australian radio station Triple J.

An early rendition, showing the song in fairly similar form to its final rendition two years later, would appear on the 2015 Foo Fighters EP Songs From the Laundry Room.