Oktober - December 1996 vid Bear Creek Studios i Woodinville; December 1996 vid WGNS Studios i Washington DC; Januari – Februari 1997 vid Grandmaster Recorders i Hollywood
The Colour and the Shape är Foo Fighters andra studioalbum, utgivet den 20 maj1997. Det producerades av Gil Norton och innehåller singlarna "Monkey Wrench", "Everlong", "My Hero" och "Walking After You".
"Exhausted" • "This Is a Call" • "I'll Stick Around" • "For All the Cows" • "Big Me" • "Alone + Easy Target" • "Monkey Wrench" • "Everlong" • "My Hero" • "Walking After You" • "Learn to Fly" • "Stacked Actors" • "Generator" • "Breakout" • "Next Year" • "All My Life" • "Times Like These" • "Low" • "Have It All" • "Best of You" • "DOA" • "Resolve" • "No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun" • "Miracle" • "The Pretender" • "Long Road to Ruin" • "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" • "Let It Die" • "Wheels" • "Rope" • "Walk" • "Arlandria" • "These Days" • "Bridge Burning" • "Something from Nothing" • "The Feast and the Famine" • "Congregation" • "What Did I Do? / God as My Witness" • "Outside" • "Saint Cecilia" • "Run" • "The Sky Is a Neighborhood" • "The Line"