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Foreigner - Agent Provocateur Audio CD

A fair review of the Foreigner "Agent Provocateur" 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 Foreigner reviews here, or go back to the Foreigner tabs.

Foreigner Band: Foreigner
Title: Agent Provocateur
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Release Date: 1995-09-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Tooth and Nail 2: That Was Yesterday 3: I Want to Know What Love Is 4: Growing Up the Hard Way 5: Reaction to Action 6: Stranger in My Own House 7: Love in Vain 8: Down on Love 9: Two Different Worlds 10: She's Too Tough

Foreigner 5.
The band's descent into safe, middle-of the road lite rock can be traced back to this album. "Agent Provacateur", Foreigner's follow-up to their massive "4" album, contains two great rockers ('Tooth and Nail', 'Reaction to Action') and their spectacular gospel-flavored ballad 'I Want to Know What Love Is', along with several cheesy mid-tempo ballads featuring a very 80's synth backdrop. This was the last gasp (musically speaking) of one of the 1970's great arena rock bands.
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At their commercial peak but not exactly my kind of music
I love the ballads but I'm so not keen on the rocking songs, because Lou Gramm seems to be shouting rather than singing. I took a chance on this album based on the international hit single contained therein, I want to know what love is, which became a number one hit in Britain and elsewhere.

The set opens with one of the rocking songs (Tooth and nail) then continues with two superb love ballads (That was yesterday, I want to know what love is) that were both released as singles. Next comes another excellent ballad (Growing up the hard way), though as the title suggests, it is not a love song but describes life's struggles. Two rocking songs (Reaction to action, Stranger in my house) precede more great ballads (Love in vain, Down on love, Two different worlds). The album closes with another rocking song (She's too tough), but this one works much better for my ears than the other rockers here.

Foreigner liked to consider themselves as a hard-rock group, but while they could certainly rock with the best, I quickly realized why their biggest hits were all ballads. Lou Gramm is a fine ballad singer but he struggles with the up-tempo songs. Fans of hard-rock music tend to be more interested in the music rather than the singing, and some of them despise ballads.

On reflection, I wonder how many people will truly love every track here, but although I'm not one of them, I enjoyed enough of the album to make me glad I bought it.


Foreigner's "Agent Provocateur"
This has always been a fvorite album of mine and I've pretty much worn out the LP and the cassette so it was time to get the CD.


one of best from foreigner

like the music from this group, this is one of the best that's why you don't find it no where, no even in the stores any more. do you want to know what love is, well this is the cd you need. must if you like this group and must have for your collection.


Overrated Song.
It is one of the most boring songs Foreigner has ever put up and maybe one of the most saddest boring songs ever made in the 1980s. I easily could not understand why that song 'I Want To Know What Love Is' is Foreigner's top song as it is pretty boring. After the first lovely ballad 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' (which I loved that one very,very much) they did their next few ballads even more worse. They even did 'I Dont Want To Live Without You' even sadder. What is wrong with them in the 1980s? 4 was their last of their classics to have been the greatest. In the end of 'I Want To Know What Love Is' for about 2 minutes, it repeats the same verse such as 'I Wanna know what love is, i want you to show meeeee' which gets really annoying after 2 minutes. I kind of wish that 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' would be their number 1 song insted which that song is never boring, it is more of a ballad and love song too. I went to one of Foreigner's concerts several months ago and they did not play this boring song, they played my favorite song 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' which I was so happy when they played that as that is so loveely. Don't buy this, get 4 insted.


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