iTunes 10 New Releases
MDNA (Deluxe Edition) - Madonna
MDNA (Deluxe Edition) by Madonna
Lively Up Yourself - Bob Marley
Lively Up Yourself by Bob Marley
Scars & Stories - The Fray
Scars & Stories by The Fray
NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 41 - Various Artists
NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 41 by Various Artists
The Fray - The Collection - The Fray
The Fray - The Collection by The Fray
Scars & Stories (Deluxe Version) - The Fray
Scars & Stories (Deluxe Version) by The Fray
A Different Kind of Truth (Deluxe Version) - Van Halen
A Different Kind of Truth (Deluxe Version) by Van Halen
A Different Kind of Truth - Van Halen
A Different Kind of Truth by Van Halen
Mr. P - Patrice O'Neal
Mr. P by Patrice O'Neal
Kisses On the Bottom - Paul McCartney
Kisses On the Bottom by Paul McCartney
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold as Ice | 3:24 | |
| 2 | Waiting for a Girl Like You | 4:45 | |
| 3 | I Want to Know What Love Is | 4:60 | |
| 4 | That Was Testerday | ||
| 5 | Urgent | 3:45 | |
| 6 | Say You Will | 4:15 | |
| 7 | Double Vision | 3:45 | |
| 8 | Blue Morning, Blue Day | 3:12 | |
| 9 | Heart Turns to Stone | 4:34 | |
| 10 | Feels Like the First Time | 3:13 | |
| 11 | Long, Long Way From Home | 2:52 | |
| 12 | I Don't Want to Live Without You | 3:58 | |
| 13 | Starrider | 4:03 | |
| 14 | White Lie | 4:16 | |
| 15 | Break It Up | 4:13 | |
| 16 | Hot Blooded | 4:26 | |
| 17 | Dirty White Boy | 3:14 | |
| 18 | Down on Love | 4:11 | |
| 19 | Juke Box Hero | 4:03 | |
I was a big Foreigner fan when I was growing up in the 80s, but I eventually turned into something of a metalhead. On a whim I picked up this CD recently, and it did not disappoint. I felt like a kid again hearing such awesome and emotive rock tracks like 'I Want to Know What Love Is', 'That Was Yesterday', 'Say you Will', 'Hot Blooded' etc etc etc. There is an embarassment of riches on this album, and there are no weak songs. Some may take a little longer to get into, but I am confident that if you like your soft rock and AOR you will get a lot of play out of this CD. Only die hard fanatics and nitpickers will not be satisfied. Casual fans should be thrilled with this one.
It was as if the band decided to take all of their hits and key album tracks together, randomly select twenty of those songs for this collection, and then put those twenty songs in a shuffle play mode. And with this order, one would think of Foreigner as a ballad group if they had not the slightest idea of the band before listening to this. (The first hard rock tune does not come until track seven, for crying out loud!) The fact that most of the band's hits are actually here, however, does not make this terrible compiling process any more forgivable. It also hurts that some little-known tunes ("A Love in Vain" and the MR. MOONLIGHT artifact "White Lie") actually creeped into this mess, thus putting even more botches into this concoction of songs. And who on God's green earth today would care about their BBC live recording of "Urgent" (which was probably a bonus we all would SO be interested in)?
I have an alternative for this if you somehow do not care about randomly ordered collections: buy THE VERY BEST...AND BEYOND or COMPLETE GREATEST HITS. When you are about to play either of those compilations, remember to turn the shuffle button on first.