This is probably the perceived 100. FOREIGNER Compilation. What sound and selection might regard the best ever. FOREIGNER, most known as mainstream - Poprocker you just know like "I Wanna Know What Love Is" on the radio due to Hitballaden, originally started as a band, the very adult, mature rock music has made. The basis were Blues, catchy melodies and crunchy hard rock - guitar riffs. For this, the open-mindedness of the band also saxophone, flute and almost too progressive use keyboard parts, in which case the multi - instrumentalist Ian McDonald (Ex - King Crimson) and Al Greenwood stood out. Moreover bandleader Mick Jones was a gifted songwriter, and singer Lou Gram unique voice made for a high recognition value. So the band spoke to a wide Puplikum, could win over "normal pop and rock fans, hard rockers and even Progger. The first three albums FOREIGNER (1977), Double Vision (1978) and Head Games (1979) are the discs which in the founding formation were recorded as a sextet, and exactly described above style distinguished. Great Rockpop compositions, comfortably far away from the usual clichés, like COLD AS ICE, FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME, LONG LONG WAY FROM HOME or HEAD GAMES, epic-progressive as STAR RIDER or very finest hard rock with Hot Blooded, Double Vision and DIRTY WHITE BOY (all heard here), FOREIGNER made quickly become superstars, all three albums have sold several million times and conceding platinum awards, and also in the singles charts, the band was extremely successful. Then a cut was. The more in the background acting, but huge for the typical sound of the band important McDonald and Greenwood left the band. The two have not been adequately replaced but now they took paid studio and tour musicians who are not the official line-up included, under contract. The next album, ambiguous "4" (Fourth album, only quartet) called, can already not keep up the musical class produces the first three LPs. That this disc is still commonly referred to as the best kept by Foreigner and also the most commercially successful of the band was, is because the Mick Jones with JUKE BOX HERO, URGENT, BREAK IT UP and the ballad WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU four times a knack glücklches proved as regards potential Chartbreaker. The whole sound Moderately powerful pimped by "Mr. Wall of Sound" Mutt Lange. "4" was a pure hit album, not a great album in a musical sense, only now it became clear how much Greenwood and McDonald had defined the sound Foreigners, their resignation shortly after the recording of "4" (both of which were strongly opposed to the intention of Jones Mainstream alignment) eventually led the FOREIGNER never vortan so sounded like before. The following albums AGENT PROVOCATEUR (1984), Inside Information (1987) UNUSUAL HEAT (1990, without Lou Gramm) and the most recent studio album MR. MOONLIGHT (1994, again with grams) did not contain a great deal more than boring 08/15 Mainstream Rock as played it countless combos. While listening to this Best Of this fact occurs very evident to day, while the first half really packs a listening, one is tempted at the latest from the songs of AGENT PROVOCATUER to continue skipping or completely identify the system.
