"Skin and Bones" is an alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 song by the Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...

. It originally appeared as a B-side for the single "DOA

DOA (song)

-Video:The video for the single shows the band in a 360° revolving room and on a train where objects act as if the train is rotating. The band said that the video made them feel ill and they felt like wetting themselves. It was directed by Michael Palmieri....

" which was off of their 2005 album In Your Honor

In Your Honor

In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by Foo Fighters, released on June 14, 2005 on BMG. It consists of two discs. The first contains up beat rock songs and the second disc contains mellower acoustic songs.-Development:...

. It was released on September 5, 2005 through the mentioned single.

The song later appeared on the Foo Fighters first EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Five Songs and a Cover

Five Songs and a Cover

Five Songs and a Cover is an EP released by the Foo Fighters in 2005. Released on November 20, 2005, it was exclusively distributed to Best Buy retail stores....

which was released on November 20, 2005.

A live acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 version of the song was then performed live at the titlular "Skin and Bones" show in August 2006 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. The song later appeared on the album (based on recordings of the concert) which was released on November 6, 2006 as Skin and Bones

Skin and Bones

-Live in Los Angeles :-Live in Hyde Park :Note: The whole setlist is not included on the DVD. The song "The One" is excluded, as Taylor Hawkins made a mistake on the drums...

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The recorded live track

Recorded live track

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 also appeared on the band's Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits (Foo Fighters album)

-DVD:At the main menu, there is bullet hole that you can click, and shows Dave Grohl performing "Home" on the piano.-Personnel:...

which was released in November 2009. It is the only non-single song to appear on the album. It also appears on the Bonus DVD edition.

Both the musical composition and lyrics of the song were written solely by frontman Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

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