Next Year

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"Next Year"

Single by Foo Fighters
from the album There is Nothing Left to Lose
Released	November 27, 2000
Format	CD
Recorded	?
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Roswell/RCA Records
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"Breakout" (2000)	"Next Year" (2000)	"The One" (2002)
Alternative cover

(CD2)

"Next Year" is a song released as the last single off the third Foo Fighters' album There Is Nothing Left to Lose. It was released on two main discs in 2000.

1 Ed Theme Song
2 Single version
3 Track listing
4 Music video
5 Chart positions

[edit] Ed Theme Song

The opening of "Next Year" was used as the theme song for the NBC television series Ed (2000-2004).

The show's creators, Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman (formerly of the Late Show with David Letterman) used the song despite knowledge of production company Viacom's insistence that they own the rights to the show's theme song. "Next Year" was thus ultimately replaced by Clem Snide's "Moment in the Sun" during the second season. As a result of outcries from Burnett and Beckerman, however, Viacom relented and "Next Year" returned as the theme song in the third and fourth seasons.

The show was also a production of Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated with Letterman serving as an executive producer. Burnett, Beckerman, and Letterman in particular are all known to be avid Foo Fighters fans. In one episode of the show, a character is seen hanging a poster of the band in her office.

The band performed the song on the Late Show in October of 2000, with regular guitarist Dave Grohl on drums/vocals and regular drummer Taylor Hawkins on mellotron. The two switch instruments for the end of the song.

[edit] Single version

A shorter version of the song (running at 3:21 instead of the original 4:37) was released as a single in 2000 and was used in the music video. It includes new backup vocals and does not include the outro present in the original album version.

This was the second part of a trend in which the Foo Fighters created new versions of songs to be used as singles. The first incidence came in 1998 from their second album, The Colour and the Shape, when the last single, "Walking After You", was re-recorded with the entire band (Grohl plays all the instruments on the original album version). This new version is also featured on the The X Files movie soundtrack album and is used in the song's music video.

The third came in 2003 from their fourth album, One By One, when Grohl re-recorded a solo acoustic version of the song "Times Like These". The album and acoustic versions were each released as radio singles and music videos.

[edit] Track listing

CD1:
(Also comes with the first 6 months of a 2001 calendar. Part two comes in the second single.)

"Next Year"
"Big Me (Acoustic Radio Performance, 2 Meter Sessions, Netherlands 22 November 1999)"
"Next Year (Acoustic Radio Performance, 2 Meter Sessions, Netherlands 22 November 1999)"

CD2:

"Next Year"
"Baker Street"
Enhanced CD-ROM, includes "Next Year" video

[edit] Music video

The video, directed by Phil Harder, shows the band in a remake of the Apollo 11 moon mission and incorporates heavy use of NASA stock footage. They experience zero-gravity in the space capsule (where they conduct experiments and perform the song with instruments), land on the moon, plant a Foo Fighters flag, and return to Earth where they are welcomed back as heroes during a ticker-tape parade. Many moments and images of the Apollo era are re-enacted, such as the band meeting President Richard Nixon, bassist Nate Mendel golfing on the moon (a nod to Alan Shepard during Apollo 14), and depictions of Vietnam war protests. The video ends with a portrait of the band in the style of a traditional astronaut crew photo.