Foreigner

This is a totally awesome CD - if, for some reason you don't have any Foreigner CDs this one would be the one to purchase since it has almost all of their big hits on it (the exceptions being "Soul Doctor" and "Rev on the Red Line") which happen to be two big favorites of mine. I'm usually quite picky when it comes to a band reforming and going back on the road (especially when the orginal lead singer is missing) but Kelly Hansen seems to have slid right in and picked up where Lou Gramm left off and made Foreigner as good if not better. I recently saw the band in Jackpot, NV a few weeks ago and was so impressed by Foreigner that I purchased tickets to see them again in Tacoma, WA the first of January. Kelly can sing and dance and entertain plus he's really nice to look at - a great replacement and, of course, the fact that original member Mick Jones is still participating in the band is a real treat! Good value for the money - lots of music for a very reasonable price!

During the mid-1970s, groups like Bad Company and Humble Pie were slowly but surely dying down. The genre of music (more like blues/progressive hard rock) that fit their category was losing popularity, and it needed desperately some change of scenery. Enter Foreigner. Led by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, Foreigner released some of the best music from the late '70s to '80s. They are still around and continue to tour as of 2008.

So, earlier this year, Rhino Records and Atlantic Records decided to release 'No End In Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner.' It spans two discs and features several new recordings.

Here are my thoughts on this:

It's yet another Foreigner compilation. That means, something else us Foreigner fans need to buy. Sure, the hits are here, but it's getting really old. Foreigner keeps releasing compilations, and while this one may be necessary, it's just getting to be a bad idea.

We already have 'Complete Greatest Hits.' We have 'Records.' We have 'Jukebox Heroes - The Foreigner Anthology.' We have 'Hot Blooded And Other Hits.' I could go on all day, but I won't. It's not that this is a bad idea, and the music is five stars all the way, but it's just getting to be very annoying.

Also, I say this a lot, but WHY THE HECK DIDN'T THEY JUST RELEASE A STUDIO ALBUM? It's a ripoff to buy plenty of songs we already own just to get some new tracks. Pure greed by Foreigner and the record company.

So, unless you are desperate to get hold of these new tracks, just buy 'Complete Greatest Hits' or 'Records.' Or, if you want a cheap little sampler (for new fans), might I recommend 'Hot Blooded And Other Hits.' But, it's not worth your money, really.

Three stars because of the fact that Rhino is milking the Foreigner name, and the fact that Foreigner was greedy enough to put the new tracks on a compilation. Five stars for the music.

You ask yourself, another Foreigner compilation? Yes, indeed! No End in Sight is a double disc set covering 31 years of Foreigner, including a couple of live tracks from the current lineup. Yes, there are a couple of double disc sets out there, but this one has the best price, and sounds good. I wouldn't go out and buy it if you already had one of the previous double compilations, but if you were new to Foreigner or want to replace your old albums or tapes without buying each individual title I would go for "No End in Sight". Check a great classic rock band.

Foreigner are/were one of the best bands of the late 70's/early 80's and this 2 CD set has all the hits and best album sides.There are a number of best of collections available,but,this is the most in depth and has superior sound so if you want more than just the hits,this is the collection for you.If all you want is the hits,choose the single CD compilation they released a couple of years ago.

I am SO HAPPY with these CD's the price is wonderful!
Thank you Amazon!
Johanna K.

I was always a fan of the band, and this has all there great songs in one cd

This is the best that i have seen for Foreigner. First thing first. Very good remastering from Rhino. A lot of good songs. Almost all the hits are there. But i can tell their are a few fill-in. Still worth its weight. Price is good. For me this is would be my choice if you are looking for a greatest hits cd. Enjoy

great album (cd?) been a fan of foreigner since their first album came out in 77 i believe. still have the record somewhere.

This is a wonderful greatest hits album by Foreigner! My husband and I just recently went to see them in concert, and they still have it going on! I recommend this album to anyone who grew up in the 70's & 80's, and who love classic rock.

I love this CD. Takes me back to the days I was young and foolish!!! This is a great CD to pop in, throw your convertible top down and crank as loud as you can stand.

Foreigner was one of the most successful bands of the late 70's and 80's.Their hard rock anthems,and classic power balads pushed them to the top of the charts.A lot of people have rated them poorly,saying their no "Led Zepplin".Fact of the matter is Foreigner never tried to be Led Zepplin,The Rolling Stones,Aerosmith,or Pink Floyd.However for people who like fun music,you can hum and sing along with,Foreigner is A classic.This album has all their great hits,"I Want To Know What Love Is","Urgent","Juke Box Hero","Cold As Ice","Feels Like The First Time",amoung others.If you want music,that'll make you happy,and bring back great memories of the 70's and 80's ,check this out.If you don't like "Foreigner",then go buy something else.Music is still enjoyable,whether it's corporate or underground.

I bought this album when it first came out, having been a casual Foreigner fan. Every now and again, it's good to bust out some mindless rock just to let off some steam and this album works well for that. All of Foreigner's hits are here in one place and I enjoyed the newer songs "soul Doctor" and "Prisoner of Love", while "With Heaven on Our Side" receives a "meh". One thing that struck me on recently listening is how dated a lot of the production sounds to me. It's got a very glossy sheen to it, unlike the more organic sounding recordings that I seem to enjoy these days. But that's really just a personal preference. The songs are good for what they are, which is AOR rock. Foreigner were about as deep as a teaspoon even in their heyday, as shown by their lyrics. Still, they were good at writing catchy, if simplistic tunes. I would file this one under guilty pleasures.

This is another "must have" album for any person who wants to travel in time and go back to the 80's. The choice of track seems perfect for me. As far as I am concern, if you are looking only for the "hits" from the band, I think this cd has them all.

some reviewer gave this disc 1 star! Gee, 1 whole star?! Obviously that person is no Foreigner fan. Foreigner put out some great music in their heyday and a lot of those cuts are found here. Lou Gramm is one of the great rock voices and he's well represented here. For those not familiar with the band this is a good CD to get your feet wet. The 1 star reviewer is entitled to his opinion but it isn't a very good one at that. This is a solid disc.

Foreigner is not one of my favorite musical artists, but I do like most of their hits. I bought this CD to get my 2 favorites, "Waiting For A Girl Like You" and "Urgent". "Waiting" is like something out of a beautiful, hazy dream, and "Urgent" is hot, hot, hot, especially with that sax. I also like "Juke Box Hero", "Double Vision", "That Was Yesterday" and, of course, "I Want To Know What Love Is". The CD kicks off with 3 newer cuts that were not hits (to my knowledge), and they are OK, but they sound a little forced, as if the idea was to make new songs that sound just like the old hits. They're not bad, just not very inspiring. On the other hand, some songs that I didn't love that much back in the 70's sound really good on this CD, such as "Cold As Ice" and "Head Games". So, all in all this is a fun way to revisit the mid-70's to mid-80's, and if you like guitar-based rock, I would recommend it. I can't think of one hit that was left out of this collection.

This first album by Foreigner started my passion for their music.It is the classic rock and roll album done to perfection.

ESSENTIAL ALBUM!!! Foreigner's debut album is their best &, like Bad Company, their following effort would fall off dramatically in quality. Foreigner peaked at #4 on the charts, an excellent performance for a debut album. But, unlike most groups releasing their first album, many of the group members already had a track record. Foreigner falls into the arena-rock sub-genre, along with Boston, their music was about as ready tio play on stage as anybody. But both Foreigner & Boston got tagged as being corporate rock also, i.e., they were catering to the whims of the powers of their contracted label. There were three singles released from the album, "Cold as Ice" which went to #6, "Feels Like the First Time" went to #6 & "Long, Long Way From Home" which went to #20.

This album was an excellent representation of how good arena-rock could be. Lou Grahm (lead vocalist) was an excellent singer who had already been around but with little widespread success. Mick Jones (lead guitars, vocals), founder of the group, had been a member of Spooky Tooth; he was no more than a journeyman lead guitarist. Ian McDonald (keyboards, guitar, horns) had done a stint with King Crimson. Dennis Elliott (drums) had been in a couple of recording bands in England but nothing of major proportions. Ed Gagliardi (bass) hadn't been in any bands of note. Al Greenwood (keyboards) hadn't been in any major bands either.

"Feels Like the First Time" opens the album with one of their best songs. Foreigner's trademarks were here; synthesizers & major harmony vocals. "Cold as Ice" follows, with its pounding piano, it became a trademark song for Foreigner. "Starrider" is one of their very best album tracks, once again, it had all the trademarks of Foreigner, it has a very good keyboard solo. "Headknocker" has some humorous lyrics that allowed Graham to show off his stage presence. "The Damage Is Done" is a great ballad, Jones does some of his best lead playing on this selection. This is one of my favorite songs from them. "Long, Long Way From Home" features more keyboards & has horns, courtesy of McDonald. "Woman Oh Woman " is probably the weakest song on the album. "At War With the World" has its moments but it shows the one major weakness that Foreigner had, neither Jones or Graham were strong as lyricists. Foreigner would suffer from this for their entire career. "Fool For You Anyway" is a great soulful ballad, it reminds me of the R & B artists that used to record with the Stax & Volt labels. "I Need You" was the closing song of the original album & is good.

We get four bonus tracks with this version, one of which hasn't been released before. They're all demo versions & sound considerably different from the tracks that made the album. They are: "Feels Like the First Time", "Woman Oh Woman" & "At War With the World" which actually has the sounds of marching & weapons being fired. "Take Me To Your Leader" is the song that didn't make the album, it suffers from the terminal weakness that Foreigner had, lack of good lyrics.

Foreigner would never release another album anywhere near this consistent. There's not a single bad song here.

at least in my opinion. I like most every song on here, but the standouts are "Feels Like the First Time"(the song that made me a fan of Foreigner),"Cold As Ice", "Long Long Way From Home", "Starrider" and "Fool For You Anyway".After 32 years this disc still holds up well for me.

Okay, why did I decide to keep going with Foreigner even though I had expressed hatred for them with my review of 4? Well, I thought that I was being a bit harsh and judgmental by making this broad generalization of the group based on a single album. I mean, everyone puts out total crap, right? So I ignored that sarcastic little anti-Foreigner voice in my head that asked, Why are you listening to Foreigner again? Shouldn't you be doing much more productive things, like picking the dust out of your fan so you won't get dust all over you when you sleep? And I thought, Screw you, stupid voice, I'm giving them a second chance, because I'm nice! And hey, I actually found two Foreigner songs I kinda-sorta liked here! It's not either of the trite, nauseating huge hits on the album, either ("Feels Like the First Time", with an obnoxious organ; "Cold as Ice", dull pop-rock; "Headknocker", a stupid ode to a rocker). No, I actually kind of liked the exciting "Long, Long Way from Home". It's not great, but the horn section's a lot of fun, and I can rock out to it, and it actually does something for me other than bore me to death or leave me with a sick taste in my mouth. Even if the synthesizer noise is grating. Too bad right after it was a grating, bombastic ballad, "Woman Oh Woman". Actually, all the ballads on this album are grating and bombastic. I mean, "Starrider"? "The Damage is Done"? "Fool for You Anyway"? No. The other song I almost come near to recommending is "At War with the World". But only because of the verses, which have fun but totally inept power chords and funky drumming. The slowed-down bridge blows. And the keyboard solo blows worse. Wow! I like two Foreigner songs now! I mean, neither of them can touch the Beatles or John Coltrane, but they're... eh. They're not piles of puke. And for Foreigner, that makes them amazing. Now, the rest of the album is hideous, of course - come on, it's Foreigner! - but at least there's nothing as awful as "I Want to Know What Love Is" or "Waiting for a Girl Like You". Or "Jukebox Hero", while I'm at it. Wait, wait, "Feels Like the First Time" is that awful. So is "Cold as Ice". And "Starrider". So forget I said that. But come on, "Long, Long Way from Home" is as close to cool as this group ever got!

Upon first hearing this album these six guys just blew you away with their simple sound and great harmonies. Yeah, it's commercial rock or whatever you want to call it, but they did it well and there's not a bad song on this album. Throw in Mick Jones on lead vocals for one of the songs, which carried over to their follow-up albums and you just had a winning combination. Lou Gramm had a very distinct sound which made this great listening too. But, as is the case, sometimes a group's debut is their best because it's so difficult to top. It would be quite a few albums and line-up changes before Foreigner found this success again. If you don't own this album and love classic rock, you're sure to love the entire album and not just the radio staples that are present here.

i have two reasons to give this review.
1) forgeiner sucks, outside of jukebox hero, cold as ice and hot blooded, they arent worth listening to
2)to the scrote who feels the need to talk about this album in about 90% of all the negative reviews for great albums ive read on amazon, this is partly out of spite. I hate you, stop posting reviews under mutliple names to bring the average number of stars down.

Four was Foreigner's high water mark commercially. There were only four band members left, it was their fourth album and it was four (or five?) years since 1977, the year the first, self-titled album came out. It is a strong 80's styled pop album with masterful pop tracks like 'Waiting for a girl like you', the occasional straight-ahead rocker like 'Don't let our love go' and the material is generally spot on, catchy, slightly experimental at times, keeping it interesting.

Despite it's strength and popularity, I personally feel that the catchy, slick, synth rock pop sound featured here is typical of it's time, and a whole raft of bands from Air Suppy, Spandeau Ballet and Sueprtramp could have made this music. It's the stuff that other bands can't make that I like to hear from Foreigner.

Overall you get a pleasant listening experience that doesn't need 'getting used to' but grabs you instantly, but doesn't venture into the band's strongest terrirtory.

The below 1 star reviewer is a J.E.R.K. DON'T LISTEN TO THE JERKS WHO RATE OR SLAM THIS ALBUM ONLY 1 STAR. THIS DESERVES 4-5 STARS. I really think Waiting for a Girl Like You is a lovely lovely song and as I call that one of my favorite songs of all time.

Foreigner was intended for one audience: those who couldn't accept punk and new wave for what they were (a change that needed to happen), but were sick of what the "old guard" (Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, etc.) were pumping out at the time. Speaking as a fan of both the punk/new wave groups and the old guard, I can safely say this album is a terrible, pompous piece of arena-rock crap packed to the gills with overblown AOR ballad melodramas "Waiting for a Girl Like You", "Girl on the Moon", and "Break It Up", or else toothless, shallow arena-rockers such as "Night Life", "Luanne", "Urgent", "I'm Gonna Win", "Woman in Black", and the major hit "Juke Box Hero". Every riff is secondhand, every lyric is unoriginal, the synthesizers are used unimaginatively and often to annoying effect - contrast with how they were used by Stevie Wonder or The Who - they're especially insulting on "Girl on the Moon", "Don't Let Go", and "Woman in Black". Creativity? Experimentation? Forget it. Uh-uh. Zilch. Zero. Nada. Any redeeming factors at all? No way. Why the hell does this band exist? That's a question for the ages. I mean, come on, what's the purpose of stale arena-rock totally void of personality?
Oh, for the record, Rohit R./Six Sixteen/Master of Puppets/Free Bird/Sultans of Swing/Ride the Lightning/Led Zeppelin are Legends/achilles last stand/Trampled Underfoot (they're all the same person, if you're one of the six people who didn't know that) is a sad case. You know who else is a sad case? Heavy Fuel/Jukebox Hero/Won't Get Fooled Again/The Valdosta Kid/Rock n Roll Will Never Die/whirligig/the heavy rocking guitar solo kid/Sweet Child o' Mine/Mr. Baseball/The Bug/The God That Failed/Baseballhero/Let It Be/Four Fourteen/telegraph road/Fade to Black/For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Kid Who Loves Waiting for a Girl Like You/Zeppelin is Crap/Waiting for a Girl Like You/Tommy Moon/Waiting/Brothers in Arms/Love Over Gold/the various five-star "Music fans" who praise Foreigner, Metallica, Dire Straits and Guns n' Roses while mocking the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin (They're all the same person too of course, and I think I touched on all of this person's various screennames). Just two trolls who need to take their petty music-related feuds elsewhere. If you ask me, Amazon should take action against both of them.

there's a gleam in my eye when I'm listening to this.It made me feel safe as a child and the enchantress "Girl On the Moon" made me wonder about it:Who was she? Arianrhod? Juke Box Hero is of course the standard dreamer's song: Urgent is the catalyst that mAkes many want to play the saxOphone.Angie (Who's your childhood friend??)RoSkellEy was a good person.

Foreigner's second album is definitely a step down from their first. To this day, 30 years later, I'm still debating if this is a 4 star album or a 3 star album. Double Vision went to #3 on the charts which was one spot higher than their debut album. It had three hit singles (just like the first album); "Double Vision" got to #2 on the charts, "Hot Blooded" went to #3 on the charts & "Blue Morning, Blue Day" made it to #15. So, in every way, by the numbers, they come up pretty much equal. The difference is that Double Vision isn't as consistent, where Foreigner didn't have a bad song, Double Vision has a couple that are below average.

The album opens with "Hot Blooded" which is one of their best songs. As far as hits go, Foreigner really hit their stride on this album. "Blue Morning, Blue Day" follows & is a song I never cared for very much. "You're All I Am" is another average song but better than the previous one. "Back Where You Belong" puts the album back on track. But we're back to average with "Love Has Taken It's Toll". "Double Vision" was an outstanding single, one of their very best songs, even the lyrics accurately speak of what many of us have done. "Tramontane" is an instrumental, synth laden, heavy beats, one of my all-time favorite Foreigner songs. "I Have Waited So Long" is disappointing, even the vocals by Lou Graham leave something to be desired. "Lonely Children" is a hard rocking song with a great vocal by Graham. Graham & Mick Jones, the main lyricists for the group, sometimes struggle writing good lyrics. "Lonely Children" is an exception, it's one set of lyrics that Jones should be very proud of. "Spellbinder" is another good song, one of their better album tracks.

Two bonus tracks have been added to the original album. The first is a live version of "Hot Blooded". I've never been overjoyed by live versions of songs, in most cases it sounds like they're in a hurry to get it over with. This is no exception. The last one is a live version of "Love Maker" which has an R & B flavor to it. This is the last album recorded with the original lineup of Graham, Jones, McDonald, Greenwood, Elliott & Gagliardi. With the next album, Head Games, some major personnel changes would occur; these changes probably hurt the group.

This album together with "4" represent the best work that Foreigner has ever done. After a competent but not too spectacular debut album, "Double Vision" followed and represented a high point of their early 6-member line up. For starters, 2 of Foreigner's and classic rock music in general's best ever tracks are on this album: "Hot Blooded" and especially "Double Vision". The other album tracks are slightly better than your average filler material but the strength of those two monster hits alone were enough to carry the rest of this album along.

This version of the album is a treat for fans as the sound quality is very good following some good remastering work done and there are two bonus live tracks included as well. Although the mini-lp replica sleeve design isn't the best that I've seen as the cardboard used is thin and not as good as other mlps designs that I've seen e.g. the Bob Dylan and Hall & Oates mlps designs, the plus point is the very well designed booklet that's included. This 20-page booklet has an excellent essay written by Jerry McCulley and all the lyrics in both English and Japanese all on good quality paper too. The inner sleeve which houses the cd is also very well designed. Imagine just how perfect this would be if they paid the same amount of attention to the quality of the outer cardboard sleeve too. Overall, this has to be the best version of the album that is out there right now. Recommended.

As with a lot of Foreigners works, they tend to overlook their strong-points and focus too much on "intellignet pop". This is definitely one of those albums.

it begins with a blistering rocker "Hot Blooded" which is one of their most popular tracks to this day. Although it's very Lennonesque, the spacey "I have waited to long", sung by Mick Jones, is another highlight, a really beautiful song. The closing track, "Spellbinder" is a bit of a token-rocker but at least it rocks. The instrumental "Tramontane" is interesting.

Between that, there are a lot of maudlin love-ballads about being such a lovely-romantic man whose mistreated by a nasty girl. It's an overdone theme in rock. I mean "Love has taken it's toll" and "Blue Morning" have some grit but"back where you belong" is realy maudlin and melancholy. The ballad "You're all I am" is pretty typical and overly-sugary.

With this album they seemed to reach for a more Beatlesque sound rather than a hard-rock - prog fusion. It doesn't have the grit of their better albums. Still, there are a few good tracks, I'd rate it at about 4 / 10, maybe slightly more.

With DOUBLE VISION, Foreigner avoids the sophmore jinx, by adding the influences of such pro-law-enforcement guitar bands as Ted Nugent and the Outlaws, resulting in a heavier album than the debut. A couple of the ballads drag a bit, but the album as a whole is totally consistent, to the point where, in my view, discussion of specific highlights is not protected by the Constitution. Of the two bonus cuts, the live version of "Hot Blooded" is totally smokin', but the version of the soul standard "Love Maker" adds nothing. Any band whose two leading lights (Lou Gramm and Mick Jones) advocate sanctions against Indonesia in retaliation for that country's trumped-up 2005 drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist, as well as increased funding for law enforcement, deserves nothing but the best that their reissue label (in this case Rhino) can give them.

This should ONLY be used as a reminder of how bad the 70's worst excesses were. Avoid. BTW, 'Hot Blooded' blows chunks.

Yes, thats right. "Inside Information" is Foreigner's BEST album out of their entire catalogue. Sure, there's no MONSTER hits; instead the album trades in epic songs for a SOLID, I repeat, SOLID outing from start to finish. Looking back at Foreigner's earlier efforts ( Self-title debut, Double-Vision, Head games, and 4), I cant help but notice that ALL those albums are ULTIMATELY hit or miss. You hear 3-4 "Instant Classics", followed by 6-7 songs that REALLY miss the mark. If you dont believe me, go listen. "Agent Provocateur" fairs better, and "Inside Information" succeeds on all levels as being an all around "pleasurable" listening experience. First Listen, I was hooked; GREAT songs "Hearts Turn to Stone", "Cant Wait", "Say You Will", "Inside Information",
"Face To Face" "Out of the Blue"
GOOD songs "A Night To Remember", "Counting Every Minute", "Beat of My Heart". Im not a huge fan of "I dont want to Live with out you" but 9/10 aint too shabby.
Stick with the numerous "Greatest Hits" packages for Foreigner, but give "Inside Information" a try; you'll be pleasantly surprised.

I had read some review about this album, it said that this album is not good. I didn't believe that and buy it. This album is GREAT, the same style of Foreigner, excelent songs and lyrics. I think that you will enjoy it. Note: "I don't want to live without you" is the original version (4:53 minutes). Great song too: "Say You wil, Say you won't", "Inside Information", "Out of The Blue".

I like very much all albums from foreigner,but for is the best.lou gram is an excellente singer.

I haven't owned this cd since about 1988 because it's just not the Foreigner that I came to know and love in the years 1977 to 1981. The only song that I like to listen to repeatedly is the song "Say You Will". That song is what Foreigner should sound like. Everything else is boring and mediocre. Unless you're a diehard Foreigner fanatic, you should just pass by INSIDE INFORMATION and just stick with their first four studio albums.

This Foreigner album is a pretty good effort, they can write god songs. I know I wont be popular saying this but I personally prefer a harder edged album like 'Agent Provocateur' or 'Head Games' but this album shows the band can write a diverse array of styles, but I just feel they should focus more on what they do best. Sure, there aren't any bad songs on this album, they're all pretty good, but I think it's real brash hard-rock which is their best asset. This album is just a little too MOR for Foreigner. I mean I'm not saying they should only do hard-rock; 'Out of the blue' is a terrific song, and some of the other ballad's are pretty good too, but I feel their just should be more full-on rockers. That is, of-course, just my opinion. We do have 'beat of my heart' which is another kick-ass number. It's good music, but perhaps not my favourite of Foreigner.

This has always been a fvorite album of mine and I've pretty much worn out the LP and the cassette so it was time to get the CD

do you want to know what love is, well this is the cd you need.
like the music from this group, this is one of the best that's why you don't find it no where, no even in the stores any more. must if you like this group and must have for your collection.

I easily could not understand why that song 'I Want To Know What Love Is' is Foreigner's top song as it is pretty boring. It is one of the most boring songs Foreigner has ever put up and maybe one of the most saddest boring songs ever made in the 1980s. After the first lovely ballad 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' (which I loved that one very,very much) they did their next few ballads even more worse. They even did 'I Dont Want To Live Without You' even sadder. What is wrong with them in the 1980s? 4 was their last of their classics to have been the greatest. In the end of 'I Want To Know What Love Is' for about 2 minutes, it repeats the same verse such as 'I Wanna know what love is, i want you to show meeeee' which gets really annoying after 2 minutes. I kind of wish that 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' would be their number 1 song insted which that song is never boring, it is more of a ballad and love song too. I went to one of Foreigner's concerts several months ago and they did not play this boring song, they played my favorite song 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' which I was so happy when they played that as that is so loveely. Don't buy this, get 4 insted.

This CD is solid 80s. To some extent it is reminiscent of numerous other 80s hard rock groups. And yet, it also contains unique compositions that are among Foreigner's better contributions to rock music.

The most memorable and perhaps longest lasting songs on this CD are the ballads and quasi-ballads. Songs like "That Was Yesterday" and "I Want to Know What Love Is" continue to get airplay on 80s stations and now some classic rock stations. "I Want to Know What Love Is" is not only a ballad, but a POWER ballad.

However, in addition to these ballads are less memorable efforts that are okay, but distract from the better songs. "A Love in Vain" and "Two Different Worlds" are also ballads, but while not bad songs they are clearly filler songs stuck in to fill out a CD.

While the ballads are what will keep Foreigner in the minds of many people, Foreigner really was a hard rock group. "Tooth and Nail," "Growing Up the Hard Way," "Reaction to Action," "Stranger in My Own House" and "She's Too Tough" are the kind of hard rock songs that defined Foreigner. Most have a flavor of the 80s, though for some songs the flavor may be a taste, for many the songs are easily detectable as 80s. However, just because the songs are 80s, they remain decent songs, and even decent hard rock songs.

Because this album was a follow up to the monster album "Foreigner 4 and because of some of the weaker songs on the album, the album has been maligned by a number of reviewers and critics. Fortunately we live in the CD age, and you can program this CD to match your musical tastes. If you like Foreigner the hard rock group, just program the five or six rocking songs, and skip the ballads. If you like most of the music except for the weaker ballads, program them out. If you take off the weakest songs, what remains is a pretty good album. If we take off the weakest five songs of the ten, you end up with an album that, while short on songs, has the kind of strength that "Foreigner 4" had.

I've enjoyed Foreigner's music for many years, though I am not as big a Foreigner fan as many others that have reviewed this album. Comparing this album to other Foreigner albums, I think it's one of their better albums. Admittedly it doesn't reach the peak of "Foreigner 4," but every group has an album that just seems to be a definable peak that they either do not hit again, or that it takes a long time to reach again. If Foreigner had not released "4," it may well be that some fans would have regarded this album as their best, or one of their best. Because of the weaker songs I give this CD 4 stars. Conversely, some of the better songs on this CD pull it past 3 stars into a solid 4 star range. If you like 80s power rock then I think you will find this CD interesting.

I bought this not long after it came out in 1984 but got rid of it quick because it was so bad. Don't listen to the reviewer Darth Kommissar who said that this was severely underrated. It's not thought of very highly for a reason. The only thing that I like a lot from this album is the song "That Was Yesterday". I can kind of stomach the song "I Want to know what love is", but it's a little to syrupy and sweet for my taste. So basically those two tunes bring this review rating up to two stars. I hate the song "Tooth And Nail" and I think there's another song called "Reaction to Action" that's very bad too. Just stick with the albums from 1977 to 1981 because everything that came after was definitely substandard.

Head Games was Foreigner's third studio album & it went to #5 on the charts. Three singles from the album charted: "Dirty White Boy" (#12), "Head Games" (#14) & "Women" (#41); for the first time they didn't have any singles make it into the Top 10. These weren't the first hints that things were changing for Foreigner; Head Games was the weakest album they had released of their first three. Ed Gagliardi (bass) was now gone, replaced by Rick Wills. This personnel move, in my opinion, was a downgrade.

Head Games doesn't really have any outstanding songs, some of them are very good, but none of them are on the same par of the very best stuff from the first two albums. The album opens with the hit "Dirty White Boy" which is a good start. It's an arena-ready song that gets the fan to moving. "Love on the Telephone" follows which is just as good. The promise developed from the opening two songs falters with "Women", though it was a hit, it's only an average song. "I'll Get Even With You" gets us back on track. "Seventeen" is catchy but it's territory that's been covered lyrically hundreds of times. it's only average. The title song "Head Games" is another song that's not among Foreigner's best. "The Modern Day" has Mick Jones doing the lead vocal but once again the song is average. "Blinded By Science" seems to drag on forever & is below average. "Do What You Like" is a step above the previous one but nothing special though it has a good melody. The original album closes with "Rev on the Red Line" a song about fast cars but fails at being a good song.
The album is an average one; three good songs, six average songs & two sub par songs.

There is but one bonus track, "Zalia", which is an heretofore unreleased outtake. It doesn't rise above the ordinary either. The liner notes are pretty good & lyrics are included. It's unfortunate but Foreigner stumbled badly with this album. They would redeem themselves somewhat with their next release, Four. After that Foreigner, for all intents & purposes, disappeared.

With Rick Wills on bass, Roy Thomas Baker, the producer, and that GREAT album cover, "Headgames" had a heckuva lot going for it. Unfortunately, this is where Mick Jones' ego began to run rampant (indeed, "Headgames" is the final Foreigner album with keyboardists Al Greenwood and Ian McDonald.) Jones was - and is - a great guitarist, but on keyboards.............EH........

Hey hey babe!!

Foreigner are the best! Lou Gramm is the best singer who can sing like a real singer and he can sing a billion times better than Robert Plant who just sounds like a baby.

All their albums are wonderful.

My favorite song of all time is Waiting For A Girl Like You.


Head Games is their best along with 4 Double Vision and debut

Foreigner are the best

HEAD GAMES is Foreigner's heaviest album ever. Apparently, Lou Gramm and Mick Jones had decided that they shared the views that artist such as Ted Nugent and the Outlaws held on law enforcement, so they decided to incorporate those influences, along with that of the Steve Miller Band, a bit more on this album than they had on the first two. This album has come under fire for its extremely sexist cover and the alleged racism of the song "Dirty White Boy", and has been somewhat underrated because of its failure to sell as many copies as its two predecessors (one young woman I knew never got asked for a dance to it until she started using Proactiv Solution for just those reasons), but it is just as good as the first two and 4. The reissue has just one bonus cut, which may be due to it being the black sheep of the band's catalog, but it nevertheless proves that Rhino Records cares enough to do justice to a band whose two lead members, Gramm and Jones, currently advocate sanctions against Indonesia in retaliation for that country's trumped-up 2005 drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist, as well as increased funding for law enforcement.

I know this didn't get anywhere near the sales as Foreigner4 did, but in my opinion HEAD GAMES is light years better than 4. At least it didn't have songs like the extremely poppy "Juke Box Hero" and "Urgent". I believe it got just a little over a million sales and I can't really explain that but it should have sold 4 million in my opinion. "Head Games" is just about at the top of the heap as far as Foreigner songs go. That track just really gets my blood pumping, if you know what I mean? Mick Jones lambasted this album in a few interviews but the idiot just loves Foreigner 4. Even an individual who makes the music can't even judge his albums correctly. This album is just chaulked full of great tunes but I could do without the song "Women" because it's pretty derogatory towards women, but it still is decent musically. I love "Modern Day", "Blinded By Science", "I'll Get Even With You", "Seventeen", "Love On The Telephone", and "Rev On The Red Line". I think you're a little nuts if you think this is worse than Foreigner4. This would definitely be a fine disc for a first Foreigner purchase. Enjoy!!!