Call his talent a lack of inhibition restrained by gentility. And in Lou Gramm the band had the oddest of FM rock lead singers: unable or reluctant to yowl like Robert Plant, he enunciated as clearly as an actor. Gary Langan and legendary California sound craftsman Keith Olsen engineered those gazillion-selling early records Robert “Mutt” Lange produced 4. There was space in the arrangements they could thunk or shimmy on command. What distinguished Foreigner from the laryngeal hysterics of Styx, Journey, Bad Company, and REO Speedwagon were drummer Dennis Elliott, bassists Ed Gagliardi and Rick Wills (formerly of Roxy Music) and rhythm guitarist Ian McDonald. Almost forty years of AOR overplay has strengthened my appreciation for “Cold As Ice,” “Double Vision,” “Dirty White Boy,” and “Urgent.” I’ve made my peace with the ballads “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “I Want to Know What Love Is.” Many of their second-tier singles (“Long, Long Way to Go,” “Blue Morning, Blue Day,” “That Was Yesterday”) rip new ones into the big hits. Jukebox hero Records remains as ubiquitous as Steve Miller Band’s own compilation.
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when gold meant shipping a million units (in the digital era the RIAA has re-certified them). “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” and “I Want to Know What Love Is” went gold when it mattered, i.e.
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And I mean hits: eighty million records, according to Wiki, most of those in America. In a decade-long streak, Foreigner amassed an impressive number of hits in the United States, few of which troubled guitarist/producer/founder Mick Jones’ England. But the singer co-wrote “Hot Blooded” - a problem.
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Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup.īefore songwriters let the ink dry on the hotel stationary inscribed with the words “hot blooded,” they should ensure when possible that the singer can sound hot, let alone blooded. I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. The standard deviation for this track is 15.4.Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.9/100, a mean average of 80.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.8/100. This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on. (*In practice, some tracks can have several thousand ratings) The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution.