Dave Grohl has revealed why a heavier, hardcore-style track was left off Foo Fighters' second album, The Colour And The Shape, despite lending its name to the record's title. The frontman said the song, also called "The Colour And The Shape," was ultimately cut because it felt too similar to earlier material and risked undermining the more considered direction the band was pursuing on their sophomore effort.

Foo Fighters formed after Grohl decided to keep making music following Nirvana's split, choosing not to play drums or go solo but to front a new band instead. Their self-titled debut came together almost by accident, but for the follow-up the band deliberately hired an established producer and took a more considered approach. Grohl compared the discarded track to their earlier song "Weenie Beenie," calling it "another screaming, fast, hardcore song" that would have been "a step backwards" — it later surfaced as a B-side rather than making the final album.