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Ranking Foreigner Albums: Rock Legends, Timeless Tracks, and Unforgettable Hits
Curious about which Foreigner album reigns supreme? Get ready for a thrilling ride as we celebrate Foreigner's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by ranking their nine studio albums. Join me, a lifelong fan, as we explore the band's evolution and craftsmanship, beginning with their final studio effort, "Can't Slow Down" from 2009. Learn about the album's production details and the notable absence of original vocalist Lou Gramm, setting the stage for an in-depth analysis of each album in Foreigner's storied discography.
Travel back in time with us to the brooding vibes of "Blinded by Science" from "Head Games" and the heavier, tension-laden sound of "Inside Information." Relive standout tracks like "Say You Will" and "Heart Turns to Stone," and discover the raw emotions and internal struggles that shaped these albums. We shine a light on Foreigner's musical journey, from the synth-heavy but timeless "Agent Provocateur" to the harmonic brilliance of their self-titled debut album from 1977. Each album tells a unique story, and we'll guide you through the highs and lows, capturing the essence of what makes Foreigner an enduring force in rock music.
Finally, we celebrate the crowning achievement of "Foreigner 4," our top-ranked album, featuring unforgettable hits like "Urgent" and "Jukebox Hero." With insights into the influence of producer Mutt Lang and Thomas Dolby's contributions on synthesizers, this episode is a passionate homage to Foreigner's iconic sound. Join us as we countdown all nine albums, highlighting the tracks and moments that have defined one of rock's most legendary bands. Whether you're a die-hard fan or new to their music, this ranking promises to be an electrifying journey through Foreigner's greatest works. #tellyourstory #familymatters #thebenmaynardprogram #podcast #foreignermusic #foreigner #feelslikethefirsttime #classicrock #doublevision
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Speaker 1:I've been wanting to do this one for a while, but I've been holding out on it a little bit just because of the time of year and if you haven't read the title of this episode, this is the Foreigner Studio Albums Ranked. And the reason why I've been holding out on it is I wanted to get a little bit closer to October when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies, the induction ceremonies, are going to take place and, as we know, foreigner is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So I wanted to just kind of get it close to that. And, yeah, I'm really geeked about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and, as you know, foreigner is one of my all-time favorite bands, love this band to pieces. So I thought, well, we'll rank the studio albums. Well, I will. Anyway, you can later on, after you watch this episode, and I think later on, I think maybe even next month, when we get even closer, I may try to ink out a top 20 list. Closer, I may try to ink out a top 20 list. Yeah, top 20 songs, I should say for foreigner. Yeah, cause they just I love this band so much and they're such an iconic band as well.
Speaker 1:Um so um, this, this exercise, I guess I will say it it it was easy in the regard that there are only nine studio albums for Foreigner Okay, yes, there's about a million compilations, but as far as studio albums, there's only nine. Yes, there was a couple of compilation sets that had some new material on them, one or two new songs but for this exercise, I'm not counting those at all. I'm going strictly full-length studio albums. Okay, sorry if I'm a little bit hoarse, I think I'm okay, but it's been a long work week, long day, a little bit late tonight, right now as we get rolling. So, yeah, like I said, nine studio albums. The last album that the band recorded was in 2009. Yeah, so it's been a while since the band had done, has or has done anything, uh, in the studio. But, um, I will say, though, though, there were only, or there are only, nine albums.
Speaker 1:Um, it was really difficult for me, especially, I think, once I got into, maybe, the top five. The top five were so hard, but I really enjoyed doing this because, again, it's one of my favorite bands and this stuff is just so good. It's so good, all right. So, without further ado, let's get into my foreigner albums, ranked from my least favorite to my favorite. Okay, so that would mean from number nine to number one. Yeah, you ready? Okay, here we go, let's do this first. And boom, yeah, there we go. All right, I don't think I'm gonna need that for a little bit. So let's put it right over here and let's put on the spectacles, because I'm looking down at my notes and, yeah, I can't see a thing. All right.
Speaker 1:So, as you know if you're a fan of Foreigner at all, even some of the most casual fans would know this one that the band formed in 1976 in New York and they got the name because originally, original lineup was was six members Mick Jones, lou Graham, ed Gagliardi, al Greenwood, dennis Elliott and Ed Gagliardi. I can't remember all these. Um, ian McDonald, that's right, ian McDonald. I was going to be upset if I couldn't squeeze those out. So, six members there were three that are British, three that were American. Boom, there you go, foreigner.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's get right into number nine. How's that? How about if we do that? Yeah, number nine is an album that I can promise you. Well, just haven't spent a lot of time with it, but I don't think that's why I ranked it at number nine. And it's this one right here. Okay, it's Can't Slow Down, which is the band's last studio release of all new material. Okay, that was in 2009. Of all new material, okay, that was in 2009.
Speaker 1:Um it, you know it's produced by, uh, who's produced? By? Marty Fredrickson and Mick Jones, and I think Mick Jones was a co-producer on every single foreigner album. But, uh, but we'll get into that later, but it just I haven't spent a lot of time with it. As I said, maybe I'm a little bit, I don't know, maybe there's a bias against it. Just because it's not, it doesn't feature Lou Grimm on vocals. I don't know. Kelly Hansen does a great job. He has done a great job for the last 20 years in the band. So, I don't know, I don't think that's it. It just, for whatever reason, it just doesn't stick with me. As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time with it, but it just doesn't land with me, like a lot of the other stuff in the catalog. So I don't have a lot to say about it. That's just where it goes and that's it. It's at number nine. Okay, at number eight.
Speaker 1:Released in 1991, unusual Heat. This is the one and only album to feature Johnny Edwards on lead vocals. This was after Lou Gramm departed from the band and the singles on it were Low, down and Dirty and I'll Fight for you. That's what the other one was. With this one I haven't spent a ton of time with it, just like the previous album, but I am very familiar with the two singles that were released, especially a low down and dirty that got a lot of airplay on rock radio, uh at the time, and it's a good song. Um, it has a foreigner sound to it that you know. The sound doesn't depart from what we know as foreigner, um, but I think, then again, the sound doesn't depart from what we know as Foreigner. But I think, then again, it's just one of those things. It's not Lou Gram, and I love Lou Gram, love Lou Gram, and he's one of the greatest rock singers in history. So it might have a little bit to do with it. This was also the, the last album to feature both Dennis Elliott and Rick Wills, who are the, were the drummer and bass player at the time. So in 1992, when Lou came back, basically Foreigner was just Lou Graham and Mick Jones, especially from the original lineup. So, yeah, so that was the last album to feature both Dennis and Rick. All right, all right.
Speaker 1:Next one, number eight. Uh, I'm sorry, number seven, don't lose track, there's only nine. Okay, number seven right here, released in 1994. Mr Moonlight, this was produced by Mick Jones, lou Graham and Mike Stone. Let's see Mike Stone. I think Mike Stone's done work with Journey for sure I know that one, but I've seen his name around before.
Speaker 1:The one single on it was Under the Gun Good song. I saw them on this tour. I think I mentioned it before on this tour. Uh, this tour I took my son jake to his very first concert and it was a. It was a triple header. What was it? It Cheap Trick, loverboy and then Foreigner was the headliner and it was a great show, lou sounding in great voice. It was before he had started to have his problems with the tumors that he had in his head, the brain tumor, I guess I should say so. He was still sounding great.
Speaker 1:But the thing with that album again, it's released in 1994. What was happening during that time? We were still going through the grunge era. The music radio had changed. I guess I should say the music business did, but radio did. Radio changed. They weren't playing our classic artists from the 70s and 80s, and so this was, you know, this album basically just went unnoticed.
Speaker 1:It's a good album, though it is good. I've called it kind of foreigner light. I guess I should say it's a rock and roll album, but it's not as far as hard rock or heaviness. It's not up there with the stuff that had come before it. My opinion okay, but it's good stuff and it's foreigner. You know it right away. Okay, number six and um, yeah, I like this one a lot. I really do so. Why is it number six? Well, I don't know, because some somebody had to be number six, right, really do so. Why is it number six? I don't know, cause some somebody had to be number six, right? Um released in 1979, head games. Yeah, what a great album, though.
Speaker 1:Produced by um, roy Thomas Baker, mick Jones and Ian McDonald. This was the um. This was the first, the first album to feature Rick Wills on bass and vocals, taking over for Ed Gagliardi. Rick Wills was previously with Roxy Music and Small Faces.
Speaker 1:For me, well, the singles were. The singles were dirty white boy Everybody knows that one the, the uh title track, head games and um, uh, love on the telephone. But um, the highlights for me were uh, our, our women, love that. Our women, love that song, love that song. Such a good song. It's kind of a I don't know kind of a rockabilly, kind of a little shuffle or boogie song. It's a really, really cool song. I've always liked it. It's one of my favorite songs on the album.
Speaker 1:And just today I had come home from work and I was singing the song. I wasn't playing it, I was just singing. I came in singing it acapella, you know, because I'm a singer of songs and I'm in the kitchen and here comes Catherine walking into the kitchen and I'm singing it to her and she just started dancing and she's not familiar with the song, but the dancing she was doing was fit right in, just like it was a rockabilly, you know, little shuffle boogie song. And I was like whoa, she's picking up on it right away. She didn't just throw any old dance out there. So it was really cool, but it's yeah, it's that that song there is one of my highlights Also.
Speaker 1:What was the song? Blinded by Science? Not she Blinded Me with Science, but Blinded by Science. I think that one is probably the best vocal performance on the album by Lou Graham. It kind of starts off a little how do I say it? Maybe a little brooding, and then it just by the end of the song just goes into soaring vocals. It's just great, great, great, great song and great vocals on that.
Speaker 1:And you see, on this album, here with Head Games, the band starts to go into. They're trying to get a little harder edged than the previous two albums, so they accomplish it. I don't know to me, though, though, when I hear the production on head games, um, I don't gosh, how do I describe it? It doesn't sound. The production sounds a little bit, um, I don't know, almost, I don't want to say, empty, but the production isn't the same on Head Games as it is on the debut album and on Double Vision. It just kind of changed a little bit, and maybe that had to do with, um, uh, changing producer, maybe I don't know. But uh, anyway, it is a great album, I love it, and that one is my number six head games. Okay, uh, let's see, all right.
Speaker 1:So top five, top five, and it really was difficult not not to, I guess, just where to slot them within the top five. I kind of mixed and matched, or kind of mixed these. You turn them around, whatever it was, change positions on these, except for me, well, no, no, even the number one. That was really really tough. So number five released in 1987, the back end of 1987, late, late 87. I think it was December. It was this one right here, inside Information. Yep, a lot of people are not I shouldn't say people are not aware of it, but I would say the casual foreigner fan probably doesn't even remember this album, but it was released in late 1987.
Speaker 1:The singles were say you will, great song, great song, I Don't Want to Live Without you. That one actually reached number five on the Hot 100. And that one went number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. Then Heart Turns to Stone and I love that song. I would say, in my opinion, this one might be the heaviest Foreigner album. Yeah, I do, I think it's the heaviest Foreigner album. I think I've said that in the past. Just when you listen to Basically, there's two ballads on here Out of the blue and then I Don't Want to Live Without you, and they're all great songs. They really really are. This one is like a lost treasure. It really is.
Speaker 1:If you are unfamiliar with Inside Information, go seek it out. I mean, of course, you know, stream it anywhere, but go seek it out and give it a listen because it is really really good. Um, hard turns to stone is the lead track and it I don't say it it's. It's harder, a little heavier, but the follow-up to the following track can't wait. Man, that one just punches you in the gut. I really really dig that when it starts off a little bit slow and then by the time it hits the chorus, man, you just get punched in the face and Lou Graham, he just like he sings his ass off. I think on this album I really really do ass off. I think on this album I really really do. Um, yeah, he just, there's some great, great vocal stuff on here really really is such a strong album.
Speaker 1:Um, even though really at this time in 87 the band was starting to show a little, I don't know, I guess they were showing signs of uneasiness within the band, especially between Mick and Lou, and I think we've discussed in the past what some of that stemmed from. I think Mick was leaning towards more ballady songs, lou wanted more rocking songs. There was probably still a little tension between the two of them over I want to know what love is the whole songwriting of that? Who gets the publishing on that? So anyway, there's probably still some of that going on, or that was in the beginning stages of that, and so yeah, but through all that, inside Information is such such a solid album.
Speaker 1:It is so, so good. So if you're not familiar with it, go familiarize yourself with it. It is so, so good. So if you're not familiar with it, go familiarize yourself with it. It is that good. All right, that brings us to number four on my Foreigner Albums Ranked Yep.
Speaker 1:And it's this one right here 1984's Agent Provocator, released in late 1984. And again, I think this one was December of 1984, produced by Alex I don't know how you pronounce Sadkin, I think Sadkin and Mick Jones. Again, mick Jones involved with production on all the albums. Again, mick Jones involved with production on all the albums. But the singles on this one were, of course, the big giant hit, the number one hit. I Want to Know what Love Is? Tremendous song, great song. That caused problems in the band. That was yesterday. That was the follow up and that was a big MTV video. And then what was the? What was the follow-up? And that was a big MTV video. Um, and then what was the? What was the third one? Um, oh, reaction to action. That's right, reaction to action, which is a pretty hard and heavy song. Uh, again, like inside information, I I think that agent provocateur is a.
Speaker 1:I don't want to say it's a heavy album. I guess you could say that it's got it, but it's heavy on synth. It's got some synth on here quite a bit and it's not a dated sound. But you can tell there's a lot of production on here and so it does have, I guess, a bit of an 80s tinge to it in the sound and maybe the production. But I love it so much.
Speaker 1:The highlights for me are Tooth and Nail, which is the lead track on there, really hard and heavy song. It's a great way to start the album, a great way to just kick it off. To me it kicks you in the teeth right out of the gate and then there's a great ballad on here, so to speak. But it really ramps up at the end and it's Two Different Worlds To me. Tremendous song and Stranger in my Own House. That's got not only great vocals from Lou Graham, which the entire album has great vocals from Lou Graham, the entire album has great vocals from Lou Graham but um, it's a tremendous guitar solo from Mick Jones on there. It's on this tour and Mick did an extended guitar solo on that song, and it was just man, I was losing my mind, but I think that throughout the entire album, lou is just really just singing his heart out. Um, so much, just songs like down on love. Again, like I said, two different worlds, especially when you get towards the end of it, that, that the, the lead track, tooth and nail, um, really just letting it go. Um, great, great, great stuff. Um, so, yeah, that's that's where that one sits. For me, though, at number four, it's just a great album. Uh, and I got a lot of I have a lot of good memories of listening to this album Good stuff, good, good, good, good, good stuff. All right, so we are up to the top three. Okay, oh, this, actually, this was really really, really really difficult, but I'm going to give it to you just like this.
Speaker 1:At number three right there, the debut album from Foreigner, released in March of 1977. And that's important, and I'll get to that in a minute. Why March 77 is important. Um, the singles on the album, or feels like the first time. That was the first, that was the first time we had heard foreigner period. Was that song right there, feels like the first time. Uh, the the next single was cold as ice and then, uh, long Way From Home. Excuse me, the highlights on this for me and I do. I love those three songs, those three singles, but the highlights for me are At War With the World, which, if you are unfamiliar with that song, I can understand if you are, because some people might have picked up Foreigner with the debut album, some might not have picked up Foreigner until later on, and so it depends on where you fall in in that timeline.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, a lot of people just skip around. Especially now if you're streaming your music, you skip around. You don't listen all the time, you just, you know, when you're looking at the song list, uh, on an album, when you, when you, uh, when you download it, you're seeing which one has the stars and those are the ones that are most downloaded or listened to and you go with it. You're not like me, people of my age, we listen to the entire album, front to back. We didn't skip around.
Speaker 1:So War With the World, great, great, great song, so good. And the one thing that gets lost within the band, amongst, I don't know, I guess, music goers or whatever great harmonies from the band, there's not a lot of gang vocals or anything like that, but when it comes to a chorus or a line in a song, great harmonies from these guys, just awesome stuff. And another highlight for me is Star Rider man, dynamite, dynamite song. It's the song that Mick Jones, lou graham are trading off lead vocals. Um, and it's just so good. If you're not familiar with it, way back in 2007 it was when, uh, led zeppelin did that one show in London at the O2 Arena. Yeah, it was back in 2007. Well, as you may or may not know, jason Bonham was playing drums in the band, obviously son of John Bonham At that time. Jason was also playing drums in Foreigner, so that I'm sure had a lot to do with why Foreigner had opened that show for Led Zeppelin.
Speaker 1:But my point to that is there's a live recording of Star Rider. It's on a compilation. I'm trying to remember the name of it out of sight. I think it is. I think it's what it's called. Hold on, let me look it up really quick. I'll look it up real fast here. Let me see when is it. Where is it here? You'd think I'd be better prepared, huh. Compilations of singles. Compilations oh wait, is that it? Oh wait, is that it, yeah, no end in sight. That's what it is. No, no end in sight, um, and it's a best of. But it's got, it's got a couple of uh, it's got, I think, one new track on it and then it's got a couple of live songs from that particular show.
Speaker 1:And getting back to star writer, the baseline on that, on the studio recording, the baseline is good, but on that live performance the bass is just in your face and it is so heavy. Love it, so, so good. Star writer is such a great song, um. And then another highlight on the album for me is I Need you, which is the last song on the album. It's, it is. How else can I describe it to you except to tell you that it's just fabulous, great song. Go listen to it. And speaking of bass lines again, in this one man, the bass is in your face. It is so good. Um, I don't know how I, I don't know, I don't know who sequences these albums, but what a great song to close out that debut album. It is absolutely tremendous, probably my favorite song on the album, so good.
Speaker 1:And again, getting back to vocal harmonies with Foreigner so good, so good on that song. Just simple, simple stuff, but it's so good. Yeah, if you haven't listened to the debut album in a while, go listen to it. Okay, let me take a sip of water. I feel like I'm getting dry throat here. Okay, a little bit, a little bit, all right. So we're up to the top two.
Speaker 1:Okay, top two on our foreigner albums ranked, all right, oh, oh, wait, wait, I forgot one thing. I said it was, I said it was important and there was a reason why I mentioned the debut album being released in March of 77. This is how tremendous that album is and how Foreigner. Just catapulted right, right away. By the end of 77, the, the, the band had already sold nearly four million copies of their debut album. You're talking over just nine months, almost four million, so that was. So that is significant. I mean, that is huge, huge for nine months. So I wanted to make a point of mentioning that because that was just awesome. All right, so number two, number two, number two, number two. All right, here we go, and number two on my Foreigner Studio albums ranked happens to be number two in the catalog the follow-up to their debut Double Vision.
Speaker 1:Double Vision, you know, released in 1978, produced by Keith Olsen, mick Jones and Ian McDonald. The singles on it were Hot-Blooded Double Vision and Blue Morning, blue Day. Now, what an absolutely awesome follow-up. I mean to me the highlights, and I love every song, just like the debut album. I love every song on it and really, to be honest, on almost all their albums I like just about every song. But the highlights for me on this one are the title track, double Vision, back when you Belong, and I like that because it's a Mick Jones song.
Speaker 1:He sings the lead vocal on it and that's a special song for me. Anyway, it reminds me of my buddy, john, uh, my childhood friend, who had, you know, he passed away um three years ago. And it just reminds me when we were kids, um, the double vision album was big at the time and we would play it over and over and that one song when John could not sing. John was a multi-instrumentalist, though I may or may not have mentioned that before, but we have new viewers all the time. So John played keyboards, John played drums, john played trumpet, but he couldn't sing, but he was proficient in those, those three instruments, um, but he would sing the chorus on that and and he would sing back where you belong, belong, belong, and so he didn't have a way of I don't know, he would over over pronounce the words a lot of times when he would sing anything, but especially on this song. And so it always just sticks in my head. It has for the last nearly 50 years, and so that's probably another reason why it's a highlight for me on this album, another reason why it's a highlight for me on this album.
Speaker 1:One of the other highlights is the one instrumental in the whole entire four catalog and that's Tramontaine. It's so good, it's a little proggy which, coming off of their debut album, there were like Star Rider we'll go back to Star Rider that's kind of a little proggy as well, and there was a little bit of prog influence in the band. So I'm sure that's where some of that comes from, and Tramontane is a little proggy. But what's really really cool is there's uh, at the beginning of the song, it um, it's kind of ramping up before it really starts to kick in in the first I don't know 30 to 45 seconds of the song. Now there's some synthesizers in it, there's everything in it. But there's some acoustic guitar and I'm not sure who's playing the acoustic guitar. I haven't dived into it to see. But as it's kicking in, you can actually hear the pick strumming and hitting the strings on the acoustic guitar and I just love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. I love that they left it in there. They didn't try to take it out, none of that stuff. Um, but it's a really, really cool instrumental and um, so that is it for me. That's. That is one of my um, one of my highlights of the album I mentioned Back when you Belong is a Mick Jones lead vocal.
Speaker 1:He also takes one on. I have Waited so Long. Yeah, usually when Mick's taking a lead vocal it's on kind of a ballad song. I just think his voice lends itself to that. We all know that. I mean, who's going to compare to Mick? I mean, who's going to compare to Lou Graham? Right, but Mick didn't sing very much in the band as far as lead vocals anyway, I think by the time they got to Head Games he had one lead vocal on Head Games and that was Modern Day. So that was the last time that he took a lead vocal on any of the studio albums.
Speaker 1:But getting back to Double Vision, it's an absolutely awesome album, a great follow-up to their debut, as I said, and yeah, you can't go wrong with it, it's. It's so, so, so, so good, um. So that's where it sits, right there. Number two, that probably takes out all of the um suspense, and I'm sure you can all guess what the number one album on my studio albums ranked is. Right, yeah, I'm waiting. Oh, I can't hear you shouting it out, sorry, I was listening for it, I couldn't hear it though. So number one on my list is this one right here, released in 1981 foreigner four. Um, I guess it's. Look, I'll bumble and stumble my way through it for no particular reason other than it. I mean it's just a great album, I would.
Speaker 1:I said back when I mentioned head games that the band started to kind of go in a harder rock edge, uh, I should say a harder rock direction, and it really ramped up. With foreigner four it really did, starting with the um, the lead track, nightlife. I mean, it just hits you right in the face. You drop the needle on the album and bam hitch. I know everybody said drop the needle on the album. What is that? Who is this old guy? But that's what it is.
Speaker 1:The album was produced by Mutt Lang and Mick Jones. Everybody knows Mutt Lang. Mutt Lang has produced a bazillion different artists. Mutt Lang Mutt Lang has produced a bazillion different artists Def Leppard, acdc, brian Adams, even Even Shania Twain, who he was married to at one point in the 90s. So and it usually and usually when Mutt is producing it generally ends up being the band's biggest album or one of their biggest albums. And in this case, with Foreigner 4, it is one of their biggest albums. It's been a while since the catalog has been certified by the RIAA, so it's hard to say exactly where the sales numbers are on Foreigner 4. It's probably going to as far as the highest selling album in their catalog, probably going to be between the debut and Foreigner 4.
Speaker 1:So, getting back to this number one album on my list, the singles were Urgent, which I think went to number four on the Hot 100, then Waiting for a Girl Like you, which went to number two and stayed at number two for 10 weeks. 10 weeks at number two. Nine of those weeks the song Physical by Olivia Newton-John kept it from the top spot and I believe one week it was Hall Oates. I can't go for that. I think that's what it was. But hey, I would take 10 weeks at number two, no problem at all. Then they released Jukebox Hero, and Break it Up was the fourth single.
Speaker 1:For me, the highlights are and I mentioned nightlife the, the lead track on the album I'm going to win, which, if you're talking about the album itself, you know. The, the 12 inch album vinyl I think I'm going to win, is the, would be the leads, the, the, the lead track on side two. I think it's like song number six, whatever it is, I don't know, but it's such a great song. Um, you see the band getting, like I said, getting a little harder on this again. Lou gra Graham is just singing his ass off on this album. Just go listen for yourself, especially songs like Nightlife, songs like Jukebox Hero, songs like I'm Gonna Win man, he's just. I mean leaving it all out there. I mean leaving it all out there.
Speaker 1:And then just a little side note in case you weren't aware, but Thomas Dolby yes, she blinded me with science Thomas Dolby plays synthesizers on pretty much the whole album. I don't know where the band came across him or not, or Mick came in contact with him, but Thomas Dolby's on synthesizers on pretty much the entire album. One more thing on one of my highlights, and that was the song Woman in Black. I would say best guitar solo on the album. I would say best guitar solo on the album. It's not a long one, but Mick plays like crazy on that song. It's so good. It's got a really, really cool opening to it and then it kicks in and the guitar solo in that song is dynamite. So go check it out.
Speaker 1:Go check this one out and then check out all the foreigner albums. Why not? There's nine of them. Come on, okay, it's not a ton. Some bands have 20 albums out there. Foreigners got nine. You At number nine, can't slow down.
Speaker 1:All right At number eight unusual yeah, I'm all over the place here. Unusual Heat. All right At number seven Mr Moonlight At number six Great Album, head Games. At number five Inside Information Underrated, very underrated, very, very underrated great album. So why is it number five? Well, it's just where it fell in line, okay.
Speaker 1:Number four Agent Provocator fabulous number three, the debut album. Number three, the debut album. Number two Double Vision, and then number one. Oops, there we go. Number one, foreigner 4. Yeah, so that's my list, from my least favorite to my favorite. Okay, that's just the best way to describe it. Do me a favor, though Leave your list, okay, rank the albums and leave it in the comments. All right, that would be awesome if you could do that, and if you agree with me, great. If you don't agree with me, that's even better. Not that we have to go back and forth, but yeah, let's just want to see what you think as well. Okay, so let's wrap it. Okay, that's my foreigner studio albums ranked. Okay, we're going to call it.
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