Product Description
High Quality Actual 1982 Japanese First Pressing ~ Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip & Still In Top Condition! Beautiful Embossed Die-Cut Cover Includes Inner Sleeve, Plus Insert With Lyrics In English. The Cover Is Presented Like A Juke Box & The Songs Printed On The Inner Sleeve Show Through The Windows On The Front. Features Foreigner Hits “Juke Box Hero”, “Dirty White Boy”, “Double Vision”, “Urgent”, “Cold As Ice” & More.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: NEAR MINT! Hard to believe this record is over 42 years old!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Cold As Ice
Double Vision
Head Games
Waiting For A Girl Like You
Feels Like The First Time
Side 2:
Urgent
Dirty White Boy
Juke Box Hero
Long, Long Way From Home
Hot Blooded
AMG –
A compact summation of Foreigner's hits -- one great driving album. Foreigner's most lucrative years came during their first four albums, with their guitar-driven arena rock flair settling in nicely with the rest of the late-'70s music scene. Twelve of Foreigner's 16 Top 40 singles are from a six year span, between 1977 and 1982, which is why Records makes for such an entertaining collection of the band's early work. With cuts stemming from Foreigner, Double Vision, Head Games, and 4, Records lines up ten of their first 11 hit singles, somehow leaving out 1979's "Blue Morning, Blue Day." But even with this minor deletion, the album is agreeably brief, and it's the most opportune route in exploring Foreigner's best material. Both "Cold As Ice" and "Double Vision" are stellar examples of Lou Gramm's vocal gusto and Mick Jones' bang-on guitar playing, while favorites like "Urgent" (with Junior Walker on sax ), "Head Games," and "Feels Like the First Time," with its shiny keyboard segments, are unblemished radio-rock standards. The live cut of "Hot Blooded" is a nice addition as well, as is the band's second-best ballad in "Waiting for a Girl Like You," outdone only by 1984's "I Want to Know What Love Is." While Records fits the bill as a compact summation of all of Foreigner's pre-Agent Provocateur hits, it also makes for one great driving album.