Grohl: 'Foo's Greatest Hits is premature'

Dave Grohl has admitted that it was his record label's decision to release a Foo Fighters Greatest Hits.

The frontman described the CD, which was released on Monday, as "premature" and revealed that he would have chosen a different tracklisting for the record.

"It still seems premature because we're still a functioning, active band. Those things can look like an obituary," he told Radio 1. "We were asked to do this a long time ago. We wrote it into a deal a long time ago - that's how it works.

"They started asking about four years ago, and we said, 'Don't we need some hits?'... It's like a CliffsNotes version of what we've been doing for the last 15 years. I think there are better songs than some of those."

Foo Fighters will play at the Berlin MTV EMA Awards tomorrow, where they are nominated in the best rock category.