Foreigner – Foreigner Anthology: Jukebox Heroes (2000)
Foreigner – Foreigner Anthology: Jukebox Heroes (2000)
CD1: 01 – Cold As Ice 02 – Feels Like The First Time 03 – Hot Blooded 04 – Long Long Way From Home 05 – Double Vision 06 – Juke Box Hero play 07 – That Was Yesterday 08 – Out Of The Blue 09 – Say You Will 10 – I’ll Get Even With You 11 – Heart Turns To Stone 12 – Tooth And Nail 13 – I Don’t Want To Live Without You 14 – I’ll Fight For You 15 – Only Heaven Knows 16 – When The Night Comes Down 17 – Love Maker (Live) 18 – Fool For You Anyway (Live) 19 – Not Fade Away (Live) CD2: 01 – I Want To Know What Love Is 02 – Waiting For A Girl Like You 03 – Urgent 04 – Headknocker 05 – Love On The Telephone 06 – Blue Morning, Blue Day 07 – At War With The World 08 – Love Has Taken It’s Toll 09 – Tramontane 10 – Dirty White Boy 11 – Lowdown And Dirty 12 – Head Games 13 – Women play 14 – Break It Up 15 – Down On Love 16 – Two Different Worlds 17 – Can’t Wait 18 – Inside Information 19 – Sreet Thunder Lou Gramm – lead vocals Kelly Hansen – lead vocals Mick Jones – lead guitar, keyboards, bass, vocals Thom Gimbel – guitar, saxophone, flute, backing vocals Michael Bluestein – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals Jeff Pilson – bass, backing vocals Mark Schulman – drums, percussion, backing vocals
It's easy to say that Rhino's Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology is the definitive Foreigner retrospective, simply because there's so much music here: 39 tracks over the course of two discs, including all the hits, the bulk of notable album tracks, solo cuts from Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, plus two tracks from Jones-era Spooky Tooth. Clearly, that does amount to a clearly comprehensive collection, but the question is, is this a clear-cut choice for most fans? Well, it all depends on a listener's needs. This will be too much Foreigner if you're just looking for nothing but hits, especially since the classic era (roughly defined as pre-Agent Provocateur) stops at the end of the first disc. But, anyone that truly enjoys Foreigner's big, glossy arena rock will find that this doesn't test their patience, even if it runs out of steam toward the end of the collection. Anthology keeps interest because of canny selection and sequencing. The addition of Gramm and Jones songs on the second disc works wonders, since it not only strengthens its value for consumers -- it's terrific to be able to have all Foreigner and Foreigner-related songs in one place, especially since Gramm's peerless "Midnight Blue" is not just the best thing here, it's the last great single of the album-rock era -- it accelerates the pace and keeps things interesting just as the band's output gets a little patchy. So, Anthology winds up more consistently entertaining than skeptics could have imagined. It still may not convert those skeptics, but it will prove to the listener with the curiosity to delve deeper than the hits that it's worth doing so. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review
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