A320

Foo Fighters, like many popular artists of the time, received many requests to submit songs for movie soundtracks in the late 90s and early 2000s, one of which was for the 1998 adaptation of the Godzilla character. The band agreed to the request and elected to submit an entirely new, original track titled 'A320'.

The movie was released as a summer blockbuster of 1998 and at a show in Sweden in 1999, one of only three occasions the band played the song live, Dave Grohl did not hold back his feelings on the movie - "This song was on the soundtrack to the worst movie you've ever seen in your life" he told the crowd. "Fucking sucked man. But the songs good!"

The song had been written specifically with the movie in mind and the band was aware it was quite different from their usual sound. "It seems like it's almost for a movie score" said Grohl. Like many Foo Fighters songs, this one was written whilst the band were on tour and honed during soundchecks - "We were writing the song at sound checks while we were on tour in Japan, ironically enough. And at every sound check, the song just got bigger and weirder. It's one of my favorite things we've ever recorded, just because it's so off-the-wall,"

'A320' has an unusual structure, with three distinct sections rather than a usual verse-chorus-verse format. The first third was described by Grohl as "really beautiful and kind of mellow." Three minutes in sees the song raise in tempo for the "big rock section" before exploding into the final section with a "crazy crescendo that you can almost see the credits rolling as you listen to."