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Foghat - Tight Shoes Audio CD

A fair review of the Foghat "Tight Shoes" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Foghat reviews here, or go back to the Foghat tabs.

Foghat Band: Foghat
Title: Tight Shoes
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Release Date: 2006-05-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Stranger in My Home Town 2: Loose Ends 3: Fulll Time Lover 4: Baby I Can Change Your Mind 5: Too Late the Hero 6: Dead End Street 7: Be My Woman 8: No Hard Feelings

One of their best!
Just recently I pulled this LP out to hear it again(it's been a few years) and I enjoyed it so much I played it twice. I bought this album when it came out in 1980 and loved it from the minute I listened to it. This album ROCKS, although Dave's voice gets a little bit lost in the mix because the music is so loud. Still, that is my only criticism and "Stranger in My Hometown" is a classic song and reason enough to buy this. The new wave feel is what's great about this music. Why would you want the same old Foghat year after year? You got that from them all through the 70's. They need a change in the 80's. Again, this album did not reach #40 on the Billboard charts. It also did not make the Billboard charts. Too bad. It should have. Buy this!.


The beginning of the end of Foghat


After issuing what I think are their two best albums -- "Live" and "Stone Blue" in the late 70's, Foghat was at its peak of popularity. Like so many other bands that really rocked in the late 70's but released wimpy music as the 80's began (and, thus, were never as popular as they had been), Foghat decided to change its music style and sound with "Tight Shoes", and it was a big mistake. Instead of building on it by continuing its brand of loud and kick-butt blues-style rock, they went "new wave" with this one. "Tight Shoes" contains very bland songs, nothing bluesy, and the production is very weak. . . guitars sound nothing like the way they used to on previous albums.

I bought this album when it first came out, expecting more of what they'd released before, but was thoroughly disappointed. Don't waste your money buying this, nor should you buy any of their other albums from the 80's.

(Update: With Charlie Huhn and Bryan Bassett taking the place of Lonesome Dave and Rod Price, the current version of Foghat [2008] would make Dave and Rod proud. . . these guys kick butt playing Foghat's classic tunes live. . . go see them if you have the chance!!).


Great band hitting a different stride
As each new album was met with declining sales this was a great departure for the band. This is a great CD. I love almost everything Foghat produced but particularly enjoyed Tight Shoes. Dave P took control of this project and kicked some serious butt, displaying the bands slow blues with a twist.


Little known album,kickin' band.
I used to have this release on both cassette and lp. . kicked majorly then,kicks even moreso now with the remastered audio. The only gripe is,and it's very minor,that there are no bonus tracks (demos,single edits,ect. )-but that's a real minor gripe.


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