jimmy74747
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Post by jimmy74747 on Jan 25, 2004 12:43:05 GMT -5
Who else likes this one?
It had a great bass line and a killer sax solo. It has a different sound from most of their stuff, but it worked.
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Post by Pet Shop Boy on Jan 25, 2004 13:00:35 GMT -5
Foreigner are possibly the most horrible band ever. They were like Nickelback on an even greater earnestness overdose.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Jan 25, 2004 13:08:15 GMT -5
It was decent.
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ClassicCase
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Post by ClassicCase on Jan 25, 2004 14:06:44 GMT -5
It's alright for an early 80s classic. I kinda liked Hot Blooded and That Was Yesterday another forgotten classic from 1984.
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Post by mst3k on Jan 25, 2004 15:24:28 GMT -5
My favorite song by them! "Say You Will", "Double Vision" and "Hot Blooded" are close behind.
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Post by ExActLy99 on Jan 25, 2004 21:14:32 GMT -5
A great song! I just heard this a few weeks ago.
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Post by reception on Jan 27, 2004 6:49:13 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by prenatt1166 on Jan 27, 2004 23:03:51 GMT -5
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[red]For Week Ending August 8, 1981[/red] 01 04 Foreigner - Urgent 02 03 Manhattan Transfer - Boy From New York City 03 05 Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love 04 01 Marty Balin - Hearts 05 06 Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand 06 08 Pat Benatar - Fire And Ice 07 09 Stevie Nicks/Tom Petty - Stop Dragging My Heart Around 08 02 Joey Scarbury - Believe It Or Not 09 07 Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl 10 15 Franke & The Knockouts - You're My Girl "Urgent" spent 3 weeks at #1, the first of two chart toppers for Foreigner. "Urgent" was the #4 song of 1981. www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1981.html:)
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stevie nice
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Post by stevie nice on Jan 29, 2004 20:06:27 GMT -5
Foreigner was a band I really loved in my teen years, and IMHO they got unfairly lumped with crap bands like Asia, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, etc. None of those bands followed two 5 million selling albums with a lead track called "Dirty White Boy" and none of them had the musical vision to come up with this OMG WOW! awesome track! The Head Games album that "Dirty..." came from, was a relative flop, I think stopping at 3x platinum eventually, and it was imperative that lead single from 4 didn't follow that path. It sure didn't, and became the one song that critics gave the band major props for. They followed it up with mega smash "Waiting For A Girl Like You" which would have been a great song if the artist was named Styz or Journey.
Thomas Dolby, a fine keyboardist in early 80s (big hit was new wave track "She Blinded Me With Science) did most of the synth work on this fine album, and it was legendary saxist Junior Walker that added the scorching sax solo in this song. On a scale of 1-10, a definite 11.
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Post by stevie nice on Jan 29, 2004 20:09:44 GMT -5
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[red]For Week Ending August 8, 1981[/red] 04 01 Marty Balin - Hearts :) Speaking of forgotten songs, I still play this a couple times a year. |
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Post by 620 Soul Train on Jan 30, 2004 3:28:58 GMT -5
Shannon remade the song in 1985, eventhough I can barely remember it besides remembering her performance on Soul Train.
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 30, 2004 10:25:20 GMT -5
It's OK. I have their greatest hits cd. My favorite from them is "I Wanna Know What Love Is." It was popular when I went through puberty.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2004 18:57:45 GMT -5
It's okay.
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Post by BillboardBoy on Aug 2, 2004 19:04:26 GMT -5
Shannon remade the song in 1985, eventhough I can barely remember it besides remembering her performance on Soul Train.
And Cherie sampled the guitar riff in a song recently. I forget the title though.
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Post by mst3k on Aug 2, 2004 20:35:02 GMT -5
Shannon remade the song in 1985, eventhough I can barely remember it besides remembering her performance on Soul Train. And Cherie sampled the guitar riff in a song recently. I forget the title though. "I'm Ready" |
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Post by snoman on Aug 3, 2004 7:04:22 GMT -5
I loved Foreigner. This song is great.
My favorites are either "Head Games", which is so relevant to many situations or "I Want To Know What Love Is", which is great in so many ways.
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Post by stevie nice on Aug 3, 2004 7:19:50 GMT -5
I loved Foreigner.Β This song is great. My favorites are either "Head Games", which is so relevant to many situations or "I Want To Know What Love Is", which is great in so many ways.Β The HG album as a whole is pretty underated IMHO, maybe because of the drawing of the girl in the urinal for the album artwork, but there are actually a substantial number of good rockers on there, specifically "Dirty White Boy" which was prolly not an ideal first single release coming off back to back 5 million selling albums, and "Women" and "Modern Day." "Modern Day" and 'Rev On The Red Line" would have been great single choices, but Atlantic gave up on this album after only selling 3 million or so. |
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Post by cartman2002 on Dec 1, 2006 16:48:18 GMT -5
Urgent feautring the sax solo from JR. Walker reached #4 on the Hot 100 in 1981 and was leadoff track from their fourth album called "4"
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Post by mst3k on Dec 1, 2006 18:23:55 GMT -5
Urgent feautring the sax solo from JR. Walker reached #4 on the Hot 100 in 1981 and was leadoff track from their fourth album called "4" And to add to the numerological coincidences, it spent 4 weeks at its peak position. |
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Post by Hervard on Dec 2, 2006 22:54:52 GMT -5
Urgent feautring the sax solo from JR. Walker reached #4 on the Hot 100 in 1981 and was leadoff track from their fourth album called "4" And to add to the numerological coincidences, it spent 4 weeks at its peak position. It was also their 4th top five hit. |
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Post by unicorns on Feb 24, 2007 14:47:14 GMT -5
Great song, Wf*gLY is great too.
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Post by joker on Feb 26, 2007 3:55:07 GMT -5
My favorite by Foreigner. Walker on sax is the highlight.
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Post by tico on Feb 26, 2007 15:11:55 GMT -5
I like it, but not as much as I did in the past. I didn't realize, though, that Junior Walker performed the sax solo.
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Post by Libra on Feb 26, 2007 16:30:43 GMT -5
Great song, Wf*gLY is great too. Gotta love that censorship.  Foreigner have only a few songs that I really like, this being one of them. The other two are "Head Games" (which might be my favorite) and "Feels Like the First Time". "Juke Box Hero" is pretty good too, but I don't hear it very often. |
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Post by tico on Feb 26, 2007 16:41:30 GMT -5
Great song, Wf*gLY is great too. Gotta love that censorship. I guess I'm not the only one who noticed. |
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Post by Glove Slap on Nov 10, 2008 19:50:31 GMT -5
The is a great song. I prefer it to the follow up single from this album.
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Post by Mike Tuinstra on Nov 10, 2008 20:08:11 GMT -5
Foreigner's downright awesome with Urgent being killer but Waiting For A Girl Like You is the gem of Foreigner 4 hands down. For the record, the whole album's nothing short of a timeless masterpiece.
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Post by Glove Slap on Mar 22, 2014 10:25:35 GMT -5
Bumping this back up. Still terrific. This is one of Mutt Lange's many masterpieces.
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Post by halo19 on Mar 22, 2014 11:19:46 GMT -5
In general, I can't stand them and think they're worse than their AOR contemporaries. But I sort of like this one, as its catchy and not in such a bad way.
Lou Gramm's vocals, though...
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Post by H. on Apr 21, 2015 20:15:28 GMT -5
Great song.
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