Foreigner - Foreigner - Complete Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Another compilation from legendary FOREIGNER
Hit: 5 Stars
You can't make a complete hits collection of "Foreigner" in only 1 CD, just count all the hits of them and you can see that there are more than 20.
Only because this is a Foreigner's album, I rate it with 5 stars.
The best compilation that Foreigner did was Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology 5 years ago. That was really an anthology with more than 30 songs of Foreigner, 2 hits of Lou Gramm "Midnight Blue" and "Just between you and me", and some other songs of Mick Jones.
By the way, even if you get this compilation you'll see what Foreigner means.
Free Music Review: Now I know what love is...
Hit: 4 Stars
Reviewing greatest hits albums is generally a waste of time, but whatever. This certainly has every Foreigner song that I've ever heard on the radio that I can think of, plus quite a few more. If you like the Foreigner songs you've heard on the radio, check it out. They're here too.
Foreigner are the sorta band that punks love to trash-- They're very over the top, overproduced and so on and 'I Want to Know What Love Is' is unquestionably the least punk song ever written. The irony of this attack is that punks tend to be boring, pretentious twats whereas Foreigner is actually *fun* to listen to, and they strike me as far less self-important than your politically inclined punk bands. (Now don't get me wrong, there is quite a bit of good punk music out there, but it exists in spite of their moronic incompetence=authenticity philosophy, not because of it.) Certainly, aspects of this are dated, and I don't always always take it 100% seriously, but most of these are just fun, catchy songs, no matter how you look at it. I suppose Foreigner could be called the ultimate guilty pleasure as far as I'm concerned, though I hate that term.
I'm primarily a heavy metal fan, so my taste for Foreigner may seem a little strange, but it actually makes quite a bit of sense, when you think about. The parallels between AOR and power/classic metal are pretty obvious: They both generally center around the soaring, over the top chorus. Metal songs usually have some interesting riffs to back it up, but the root of the interest is in the chorus. Suffice to say, Foreigner knows how to write an overblown chorus, and Gramm has the perfect voice to work with this sorta thing. Take any song with Dio singing on it and put Gramm in his place and it'll mesh just perfectly
This compilation isn't 100% consistent, though it's better than I'd anticipated it would be. It is, actually, almost uniformly excellent up thru track 14, after which point they determined that guitars weren't cool anymore. I actually still kinda like most of this later stuff, but it actually proves to be too much, even for me. Anyway, maybe half of this compilation is totally classic: 'Feels Like the First Time', 'Cold As Ice', 'Hot Blooded', 'Double Vision', 'Blue Morning, Blue Day,' 'Head Games', 'Urgent', and finally 'Juke Box Hero' which is the greatest song of all time, last time I checked.
Yeah, I'm done. I like Foreigner...
Free Music Review: Awesome!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am almost 40 years old...and these songs were my favorite songs in Jr and Sr High School. I have many,many memories after listening to these songs. It was GREAT!!!!!!! I remember guys were jerks back then....and the man I married...well, he is benefiting from these songs as well. wink winkFree Music Review: this is the one
Hit: 5 Stars
I was disappointed in the original greastest hits due to the song selection, it was too short but this one has it all. Free Music Review: Chart Toppers and Show Stoppers, Foreigner
Hit: 5 Stars
Foreigner-Complete Greatest Hits is chart topping music at it's very best. There is no filler here; just straight away the best of Foreigner's chart topping run of singles in the late 70's and early 80's. Lou Gramm and Mick Jones will be among the best song writing duo's in pop/rock history. Pick this CD up and get familiar with Foreigner!