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Foreigner - Double Vision Audio CD

A fair review of the Foreigner "Double Vision" 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: Double Vision
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-08-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hot Blooded 2: Blue Morning, Blue Day 3: You're All I Am 4: Back Where You Belong 5: Love Has Taken Its Toll 6: Double Vision 7: Tramontane (Instrumental) 8: I Have Waited So Long 9: Lonely Children 10: Spellbinder 11: Hot Blooded (Live) (Bonus Track) 12: Love Maker (Live) (Bonus Track)

Foreigner on A&E's PRIVATE SESSIONS this Sunday!
I think this album was great and the title track "Double Vision" is timeless!

Foreigner will be performing this Sunday, March 29th at 9 am on A&E's music show Private Sessions! Check it out! They perform 5 of their hits!.


Early, Pure, Original Foreigner Classic!

As a long-time Foreigner fan, and a witness to the Double Vision concert tour, I think this is one of their best albums!. With a couple of very well known hits and several lesser known songs, this CD provides a wide range of a young, fresh, creative Foreigner sound.


Double Vision
To this day, 30 years later, I'm still debating if this is a 4 star album or a 3 star album. Foreigner's second album is definitely a step down from their first. Double Vision went to #3 on the charts which was one spot higher than their debut album. It had three hit singles (just like the first album); "Double Vision" got to #2 on the charts, "Hot Blooded" went to #3 on the charts & "Blue Morning, Blue Day" made it to #15. So, in every way, by the numbers, they come up pretty much equal. The difference is that Double Vision isn't as consistent, where Foreigner didn't have a bad song, Double Vision has a couple that are below average.

The album opens with "Hot Blooded" which is one of their best songs. As far as hits go, Foreigner really hit their stride on this album. "Blue Morning, Blue Day" follows & is a song I never cared for very much. "You're All I Am" is another average song but better than the previous one. "Back Where You Belong" puts the album back on track. But we're back to average with "Love Has Taken It's Toll". "Double Vision" was an outstanding single, one of their very best songs, even the lyrics accurately speak of what many of us have done. "Tramontane" is an instrumental, synth laden, heavy beats, one of my all-time favorite Foreigner songs. "I Have Waited So Long" is disappointing, even the vocals by Lou Graham leave something to be desired. "Lonely Children" is a hard rocking song with a great vocal by Graham. Graham & Mick Jones, the main lyricists for the group, sometimes struggle writing good lyrics. "Lonely Children" is an exception, it's one set of lyrics that Jones should be very proud of. "Spellbinder" is another good song, one of their better album tracks.

Two bonus tracks have been added to the original album. The first is a live version of "Hot Blooded". I've never been overjoyed by live versions of songs, in most cases it sounds like they're in a hurry to get it over with. This is no exception. The last one is a live version of "Love Maker" which has an R & B flavor to it. This is the last album recorded with the original lineup of Graham, Jones, McDonald, Greenwood, Elliott & Gagliardi. With the next album, Head Games, some major personnel changes would occur; these changes probably hurt the group. .


Foreigner's Second Best Album Has Just Gotten a Whole Lot Better!
After a competent but not too spectacular debut album, "Double Vision" followed and represented a high point of their early 6-member line up. This album together with "4" represent the best work that Foreigner has ever done. For starters, 2 of Foreigner's and classic rock music in general's best ever tracks are on this album: "Hot Blooded" and especially "Double Vision". The other album tracks are slightly better than your average filler material but the strength of those two monster hits alone were enough to carry the rest of this album along.

This version of the album is a treat for fans as the sound quality is very good following some good remastering work done and there are two bonus live tracks included as well. Although the mini-lp replica sleeve design isn't the best that I've seen as the cardboard used is thin and not as good as other mlps designs that I've seen e. g. the Bob Dylan and Hall & Oates mlps designs, the plus point is the very well designed booklet that's included. This 20-page booklet has an excellent essay written by Jerry McCulley and all the lyrics in both English and Japanese all on good quality paper too. The inner sleeve which houses the cd is also very well designed. Imagine just how perfect this would be if they paid the same amount of attention to the quality of the outer cardboard sleeve too. Overall, this has to be the best version of the album that is out there right now. Recommended.


A bit middle of the road
This is definitely one of those albums. As with a lot of Foreigners works, they tend to overlook their strong-points and focus too much on "intellignet pop".

it begins with a blistering rocker "Hot Blooded" which is one of their most popular tracks to this day. Although it's very Lennonesque, the spacey "I have waited to long", sung by Mick Jones, is another highlight, a really beautiful song. The closing track, "Spellbinder" is a bit of a token-rocker but at least it rocks. The instrumental "Tramontane" is interesting.

Between that, there are a lot of maudlin love-ballads about being such a lovely-romantic man whose mistreated by a nasty girl. It's an overdone theme in rock. I mean "Love has taken it's toll" and "Blue Morning" have some grit but"back where you belong" is realy maudlin and melancholy. The ballad "You're all I am" is pretty typical and overly-sugary.

With this album they seemed to reach for a more Beatlesque sound rather than a hard-rock - prog fusion. It doesn't have the grit of their better albums. Still, there are a few good tracks, I'd rate it at about 4 / 10, maybe slightly more.


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