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Foreigner: Favorite Song (All-Time Rank) (1 Viewer)

Favorite Song

  • Blue Morning Blue Day

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Feels Like The First Time

    Votes: 10 9.3%

  • Jukebox Hero

    Votes: 25 23.4%

  • Cold As Ice

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • Dirty White Boy

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Waiting For A Girl Like You

    Votes: 5 4.7%

  • Double Vision

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • I Want To Know What Love Is

    Votes: 10 9.3%

  • Hot Blooded

    Votes: 8 7.5%

  • Urgent

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • I Don't Want To Live Without You

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Head Games

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • Long Long Way From Home

    Votes: 12 11.2%

  • Say You Will

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Total voters
    107
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Blue Morning Blue Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzK5sX4HsWI

Feels Like The First Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDy_b33cCQ

Jukebox Hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_TOsFvnmeQ

Cold As Ice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAESnjvz3lQ\

Dirty White Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81-ph0YYLOE

Waiting For A Girl Like You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jhocSCSZzk

Double Vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxKCPjcvbys

I Want To Know What Love Is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM

Hot Blooded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c1m2BAg2Sc

Urgent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcb-Fsx_phM

I Don't Want To Live Without You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0b-2Jd7OVI

Head Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdnn4QZ8Kk

Long Long Way From Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedm15ZEaEg

Say You Will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6J_BJDjss

 
I voted "very good", but probably should've gone with "okay". They weren't transcendent or even very clever, but they knew how to create songs that sounded good on the radio and were full of hooks. Sorta like Eagles or Journey.

"Long Long Way From Home" was my song choice.

EB, did you choose "HOF"?

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I voted "very good", but probably should've gone with "okay". They weren't transcendent or even very clever, but they knew how to create songs that sounded good on the radio and were full of hooks. Sorta like Eagles or Journey.

"Long Long Way From Home" was my song choice.

EB, did you choose "HOF"?
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Yeah I almost went with “very good” and then thought relative to other bands/artists they are “okay” at best and went with that. I like a bunch of their songs but I could live with never hearing them again and not miss it.

 
Went with Long Long Way but have never liked Foreigner.   As the list shows, they put out a decent amount of rememberable songs but they all sound very similar to me.   I get bored with their songs quickly and its tough to make it though one song.   

 
I wouldn't turn the channel if they came on but I never went out and bought any of the albums/tapes/cd's.

Actually, if "Waiting for a girl like you" came on, I would turn the channel.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I voted "very good", but probably should've gone with "okay". They weren't transcendent or even very clever, but they knew how to create songs that sounded good on the radio and were full of hooks. Sorta like Eagles or Journey.
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Lesser version of the eagles or journey.

Opened the thread thinking I might not even know a song they did, then recognized most, liked a few. But as a whole they're entirely forgettable. 

 
Urgent and Double Vision are tied for me. I said excellent. For it's time, Mic was a good songwriter imo.

 
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They have good songs, but they are one of those bands that if I never heard a song of theirs again, I wouldn't care.  There were tons of rock bands who were around at the same time who were significantly better. 

Starrider is probably their best song, yet isn't an option here. 

 
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Went with Corporate Rock. Just seemed like a fitting category.

Not a huge fan. For the song, I picked Double Vision because of its weird synth that probably sounds good on gak. 

 
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Ghost Rider said:
Starrider is probably their best song, yet isn't an option here. 
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Good call - was going to say Starrider as well.

I also put them in the “ok” camp. Strong group of musicians and some good hooks,  but nothing special for their time.

Like other bands of their era (notably Styx, Journey, REO) they had several decent albums in the 70s, one career defining  album in the early ‘80s (4) and then fell off the cliff with a bunch of turkeys through the ‘80s (although Journey did have Frontiers)

 
CurlyNight said:
For it's time, [guitarist Mick Jones] was a good songwriter imo.
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I think the songs as lyrical compositions are OK. Better than average, but not particularly noteworthy among their contemporary peers. I like Mick Jones, but appreciate his musicianship more than his writing.

Lou Gramm's vocals, however, simply elevated those tunes THAT much. That guy is a hugely underrated rock singer.

Voted for "Juke Box Hero" where Gramm slides effortlesstly between haunting wistfulness and blood-pumping excitement. Jones is in solid form, and a young Thomas Dolby keys out a foreboding sonic backdrop.

 
Jobber said:
I did as well, in 1985. Their music does not hold up. At all.
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I can see what you're saying, but I think if you appreciate heavy/loud/glam/trash/lounge act sort of stuff, they still really work somehow. The synths in 1984 almost kill the album they're so in the foreground (think I'll Wait) but they are who they are.

I will say it's sad that I spent so much seventh and eighth grade energy on liking them. Just my two cents on that. 

 
DocHolliday said:
Went with Long Long Way but have never liked Foreigner.   As the list shows, they put out a decent amount of rememberable songs but they all sound very similar to me.   I get bored with their songs quickly and its tough to make it though one song.   
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Voted "Okay". I agree that a lot of their songs sound the same.

 
Ultimate okay band.  A lot of these songs are listenable and they definitely had multiple hits.

They don't really raise the heart rate too much though.

Voted Juke Box Hero but Feels like the First Time and Hot Blooded are equally good.

 
Corporate Rock/"Dirty White Boy"

... and if i wasn't bored out my ####in' skull i woulda never bothered to pop in here - they are the epitome of "meh" - disposable pablum for the less adventurous masses :shrug:

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I voted "very good", but probably should've gone with "okay". They weren't transcendent or even very clever, but they knew how to create songs that sounded good on the radio and were full of hooks. Sorta like Eagles or Journey.

"Long Long Way From Home" was my song choice.

EB, did you choose "HOF"?
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I'm in lock-step agreement with you on this.

 
HellToupee said:
I hated Van Halen growing up , was a punk/new wave guy but Ain’t Talkin’Bout Love is a great song. Still hat them 
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I'll join your Van Halen hater's club, and I agree Ain't Talkin' About Love kicks ###.  And file Ice Cream Man away under guilty pleasure songs.  <<< semi-colon didn't feel right.

 
Their songs range from OK to Very Good but as a band, they're the epitome of Corporate Rock.

Urgent is Very Good.

 
YACHT ROCK!

Upon first viewing of options I was certain my choice would be Urgent.  Then Hot Blooded.  Last night I was about to finalize with Cold As Ice.

Then I remembered a great dad moment from a couple months ago:  driving home from work headed to little girl’s school (she’s 4 and a half) and it comes on about 2 minutes out from pulling in.  Windows go down, volume maxed out, and I am slaying, the judges have all slammed the button and had their chair switch around to see this rock god.  The kids were all out on the school playground, they all know my car, as does my daughter who yells happily at my arrival.  I do a slow lap around the parking lot because I’m finishing this masterpiece.  Her face, lord I wish I had the camera ready for the very first and very real memory of dad-caused embarrassment. 

Their song for me is none other than I Wanna Know What Love Is

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I voted "very good", but probably should've gone with "okay". They weren't transcendent or even very clever, but they knew how to create songs that sounded good on the radio and were full of hooks. Sorta like Eagles or Journey.

"Long Long Way From Home" was my song choice.

EB, did you choose "HOF"?
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Pretty spot on, they had some good hooks but nothing exceptional. I was actually more into The Babys (very similar) in h.s. but Foreigner was more popular. Graduated in ‘80.

 
I think LWH was my favorite back in the day but went with FLTFT, pretty sure that was the first song I heard from them.

 
To me, their quintessential song is "Urgent." But in seventh grade (the year Foreigner 4 came out) my friend and I wrote an epic parody of "Juke Box Hero" on the school bus - "Nuke War Hero." So I voted for that.

 
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