December 1987 appears 6. Foreigner - album "Inside Information". After several disputes between Lou Gramm and Mick Jones of the continued existence of the band was put to the test ... How testified grams in subsequent interviews, is "Inside information" is not but a Foreigner Mick Jones album! He had just given his voice. In fact, he had, due to his solo - trip, do not affect the musical direction and composition. Only mimes Lou Gramm text Author! Result: Inside information does not sound quite as hard as the previous. After Mick Jones as producer on the album "5150" (Van Halen), "Fame And Fortune" (Bad Company) and Ben E. King's "Save The Last Dance For Me" made its appearance, he decided, in "Inside Information "also the production single-handedly carry through. "Heart Turn To Stone" opens the album and stomps slowly but with a beautiful melody to the next "Can not Wait". Here you are trying to remember through the quiet song structure with brute cumbersome outbreaks of "Juke Box Hero". An aggressive Lou Gramm in "self - Duet" has what! With "Say You Will" follows the well-known single - extraction. The chart success deceives a little here. The "cold" and "tormented" melodic know very clearly to the cooled strip partnership. The Jones - composition "I Dont Want To Live Without You" proposes again to calmer tones. Similar to "Foreigner 4" intoned you a very beautiful and heart-warming ballad, but unfortunately few years have passed and the audience has to feel cold plastic and electric - sworn Pop! In "Counting Every Minute" then leaves from grams and Co properly steam. The stomping rocker fleet with the brutal guitar - solo transports the 70s feel in modern times! The title could be the "Head Games" originate. The subsequent title song with the pop-up "Comic Relief" sounds in the opening bars very cold and messy, then compensated but the refrain by a gamut laxative accompaniment (Am, G, Dm) with very catchy melody. Here Mick Jones suggests a small Augenzwinker a bridge to "Urgent". The introduction to "The Beat Of My Heart" with the great played by Hugh McCracken Spanish guitar and the 6/4 clock played, reminiscent of a blues guitar - Reef's Mick Jones, is dissolved in a clean 4/4 clock! Here one could interpret something like experimentation into it! Full pressure with a screaming Lou Gramm cheers you on the audience before the next "Face To Face" comes. Stomping accompanied Bass and it is reminiscent of "Head Games". "Out Of The Blue" with the aid of its powerful ballad all the band members compositionally, does have a beautiful song - building, but seemed a bit "cold feeling". The "final word" has "A Night To Remember". Flotter has a Foreigner - album never ended. Pleasant rocking the catchy title in which Jones a little reference to his musical past can be included! The acoustic - guitar - solo is heralded by blowing the whistle, similar to the style Johnny Hallyday's in the 60s (in which yes Mick Jones was between 1965 to 1974 worked known) !!! Conclusion: The sound quite well captured on CD. Unfortunately, there is little momentum in production. Here is a remastered version would be very useful! Strong album with cross-references to earlier work phases, but the act never boring or uninspired!
