FOREIGNER Records LP (Best Of) 1982. Die-cut 12″ LP. 45 RPM single versions (edited and/or mixed differently from their respective album counterparts). Check videos + a review video

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This short-but-sweet collection supports the case for Foreigner as the ultimate arena rock band, with riff-heavy blockbusters like “Hot Blooded” and “Juke Box Hero.” But the album ventures beyond the stadium-sized rockers, with “Urgent” (complete with a Junior Walker sax solo) and the gentle, almost Hall & Oates–like romantic ballad “Waiting for a Girl Like You” showing there was more than one side to Foreigner’s sound.


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Best Of) Die-cut 12″” LP
Released November 29, 1982
Recorded 1976-1981
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 39:23
Label Atlantic
The cover is Die-cut. Tracks are as follows:

1. COLD AS ICE
2. DOUBLE VISION
3. HEAD GAMES
4. WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU
5. FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME
6. URGENT
7. DIRTY WHITE BOY
8. JUKE BOX HERO
9. LONG, LONG WAY FROM HOME
10. HOT BLOODED

Record Label: Atlantic
Catalogue No: 78.0999-1
Country of Origin: Germany  

FOREIGNER Records LP (Best Of) Die-cut packaged as a gate fold 12" LP

Never generally been overtly fond of Greatest Hits compilations, especially if you have all the standard studio albums or albums preceding the compilation, but there are sometimes reasons why you should get certain ones. On this particular compilation for a change the vinyl is actually quiet, plus, let’s face it, there really isn’t a weak track on this compilation. Yet, favourite tracks will always be present, and mine? A very boring choice, but Feels like the first time has to be it. Or Cold as ice. Perhaps Head games? Oh, what the hell – all of them.

Records is a compilation album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on November 29, 1982 to span the band’s first four albums through 1981. Along with their second album, Double Vision, this release is the group’s best-selling record. It has been certified 7x platinum by the RIAA. Some notable hits, such as “Blue Morning, Blue Day” and “Break It Up” are omitted.
Track listing:
All songs by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, except where noted.
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. “Cold as Ice” 3:19
2. “Double Vision” 3:29
3. “Head Games” 3:37
4. “Waiting for a Girl Like You” 4:35
5. “Feels Like the First Time” Jones 3:28
6. “Urgent” Jones 3:57
7. “Dirty White Boy” 3:13
8. “Juke Box Hero” 4:03
9. “Long, Long Way From Home” Gramm, Jones, Ian McDonald 2:47
10. “Hot Blooded (Live)” 6:55
Total length: 39:38

With the exceptions of “Head Games” and the live version of “Hot Blooded,” all tracks on this album are the 45 RPM single versions (edited and/or mixed differently from their respective album counterparts).

………Band members
Lou Gramm – lead vocals, percussion
Mick Jones – acoustic guitar, bass, guitar, piano, keyboard, background vocals, Fender Rhodes
Ian McDonald – guitar, horn, keyboard, background vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9)
Al Greenwood – synthesizer, keyboard (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9)
Ed Gagliardi – bass, background vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5, and 9)
Rick Wills – bass, background vocals (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8)
Dennis Elliott – drums
……..Additional musicians:
Thomas Dolby – main synthesizer (tracks 4, 6 and 8)
Larry Fast – synthesizer (track 8)
Michael Fonfara – keyboard (track 6)
Robert John “Mutt” Lange, Ian Lloyd – background vocals (tracks 4, 6, and 8)
Bob Mayo – guitar, keyboard textures, and background vocals (track 4)
Mark Rivera – saxophone, background vocals (track 6 & 9), clavinet (track 9)
Junior Walker – tenor saxophone (track 6)


The perfect summary from the best of the greatest Arena rock band of the late 70,s and early 80’s.. Truly magnificent and it just does not get better than this


“”JUKE ROCK HEROES”

The aptly titled RECORDS is a brief, but practically perfect roundup of contemporary rock act FOREIGNER’s glory years, culled from their first four slickly rendered albums. Beefy faves like HEAD GAMES and DIRTY WHITE BOY are front and center in all their swaggering, chauvinistic glory…this was the late seventies, after all…unfortunately HOT BLOODED, one of their best barnburners, unspools here in a fairly sloppy live version, this compilation’s lone downer. Motown maverick JUNIOR WALKER blows a mean-as-hell sax during URGENT’s steam-heat climax, while front man LOU GRAMM and ex-SPOOKY TOOTH guitarist MICK JONES effortlessly interlock on sultry vocals and arena rock axe spurts. The vastly underrated LONG LONG WAY FROM HOME stacks up quite nicely against better known smashes, from the slowly building FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME to crunch-rocker JUKE BOX HERO…suffice to say the band rarely released a bad single. RECORDS’ cover art of a tabletop diner jukebox exemplifies FOREIGNER’s eternal faceless status, but there’s no denying the hits, hooks, and gratuitous grooves waiting inside.


AllMusic Review by Mike DeGagne
Foreigner’s most lucrative years came during their first four albums, with their guitar-driven arena rock flair settling in nicely with the rest of the late-’70s music scene. Twelve of Foreigner’s 16 Top 40 singles are from a six year span, between 1977 and 1982, which is why Records makes for such an entertaining collection of the band’s early work. With cuts stemming from Foreigner, Double Vision, Head Games, and 4, Records lines up ten of their first 11 hit singles, somehow leaving out 1979’s “Blue Morning, Blue Day.” But even with this minor deletion, the album is agreeably brief, and it’s the most opportune route in exploring Foreigner’s best material. Both “Cold As Ice” and “Double Vision” are stellar examples of Lou Gramm’s vocal gusto and Mick Jones’ bang-on guitar playing, while favorites like “Urgent” (with Junior Walker on sax ), “Head Games,” and “Feels Like the First Time,” with its shiny keyboard segments, are unblemished radio-rock standards. The live cut of “Hot Blooded” is a nice addition as well, as is the band’s second-best ballad in “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” outdone only by 1984’s “I Want to Know What Love Is.” While Records fits the bill as a compact summation of all of Foreigner’s pre-Agent Provocateur hits, it also makes for one great driving album.

FOREIGNER Records LP (Best Of) Die-cut packaged as a gate fold 12" LP

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