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Foreigner: Double Vision

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Label: Atlantic Recordings
Released: 1978
Time:
 37:55
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.foreigneronline.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2010.03.01
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Hot Blooded (L.GrammM.Jones) - 4:29
[2] Blue Morning, Blue Day (L.Gramm/M.Jones) - 3:12
[3] You're All I Am (M.Jones) - 3:24
[4] Back Where You Belong (M.Jones) - 3:15
[5] Love Has Taken Its Toll (L.Gramm/I.McDonald) - 3:31
[6] Double Vision (L.Gramm/M.Jones) - 3:44
[7] Tramontane) - Greenwood/M.Jones, McDonald) - 3:55
[8] I Have Waited So Long (M.Jones) - 4:06
[9] Lonely Children (M.Jones) - 3:37
[10] Spellbinder (L.Gramm) - 4:49

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Dennis Elliott - Drums, Vocals
Ed Gagliardi - Bass, Vocals
Lou Gramm - Percussion, Vocals
Alan Greenwood - Synthesizer, Keyboards
Mick Jones - Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Ian Lloyd - Vocals
Ian McDonald - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Multiple Reeds

Keith Olsen - Producer

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1993 CD Atlantic 19999-2
1993 CD Atlantic 7567815972
1995 CD Atlantic 82797
1995 CS Atlantic 82797

While the U.S. was being swept up by disco mania in 1978, Foreigner issued another hard rock tour de force, DOUBLE VISION. It was unthinkable that the sextet could outdo its solid 1977 self-titled debut, but it somehow did. Lou Gramm and company issued another set of rock radio staples and rock-steady album tracks, the best-known being such perennial arena rockers as "Hot Blooded" and the title track. But the highpoints didn't just stop there--such oft-overlooked compositions as "Blue Morning, Blue Day," "Lonely Children," and "I Have Waited So Long" are just as strong. DOUBLE VISION solidified Foreigner's standing as a '70s rock sensation.

Expanded & remastered reissue of their 1978 release. Features two live bonus tracks, 'Hot Blooded' & 'Love Maker'. Includes new liner notes written by Jerry McCulley. 2002.



Foreigner promptly followed up its blockbuster debut with the equally successful Double Vision LP in 1978, which featured the FM mega-hits "Hot Blooded" and the driving title track. Opting not to mess with a good formula, the band wisely sticks to the polished hard rock sound that made its first record such a hit. Aside from the big singles, other highlights include the swaggering "Love Has Taken Its Toll" and the more restrained "Blue Morning, Blue Day." As always, Lou Gramm's impeccable rock vocals lead the way, supported by Mick Jones' tasteful, arena-sized guitar riffs.

Andy Hinds - All Music Guide



Double vision? One is hard pressed to discern even a single vision on the second Foreigner LP, which is one of the main reasons why this group's current ascendancy is so depressing. Whereas their debut album was wholly concerned with the all-too-familiar, hard-rock Pursuit of the Female ("You search through the years," sang Lou Gramm, "to find a woman, not a girl") Double Vision is incredibly self-absorbed and nearly paralyzed by redoubled caution. The same successful riffs are repeated again here, smoothed out but pulsing with that Gothic pseudopassion so popular now among fans of Kansas, Styx, Meat Loaf et al.

Foreigner combines this approach with another, one that apparently taps a dark, neurotic need in the American rock psyche: the unslakable thirst for a loud, simplistic, English boogie band. Here the group continues a lineage that can be traced from Ten Years After through early Led Zeppelin to Bad Company, bands whose drone and thump was or is interrupted only by purple phrases and absurd metaphor mongering. Lots of groups have provided serviceable rock & roll from such a formula, but none of them was silly or prideful enough [Cont. on 113] Foreigner [Cont. from 109] to allow the imagery and metaphors to dominate the music. Yet this is exactly what Foreigner has done on its new record.

The most obvious result is that Double Vision consists largely of ponderous ballads. Lead singer Lou Gramm, who on the first LP scraped away at a passable Paul Rodgers impersonation, now whips out the fine sandpaper for a husky Paul McCartney echo on "You're All I Am" and "I Have Waited So Long," typical exercises in solipsism. When the melodies are more melodramatic, as on "Double Vision" and "Spell-binder," Gramm's histrionic head tones threaten to capsize his sinuses as he moans about the suffering he must bear at the hands of wretched women.

As befits a bunch who, among them, have labored in over sixteen professional bands, Foreigner's collective persona is that of the Great Trod Upon, the nice guy who takes shit from women in heroic amounts. That's what the first album's hit, "Cold as Ice," was about, and Double Vision inundates us with the same rather pathetic theme. Lead guitarist Mick Jones, long since extracted from Spooky Tooth, has written or cowritten every song but one here (the best one, by the way), and his self-pity knows no limit: he's bursting with romantic agony. At least that's what the title metaphor seems to be getting at--all the pent-up frustration and rage felt by the narrator has found its pernicious outlet in a sort of ocular apoplexy. The rest of Jones' complaint is just incomprehensible: "No disguise/For that double vision...My double vision is the best of me." Huh?

Jones is also capable of quite a nasty vindictiveness on "Back Where You Belong," in which the feebleness of the melody fails to imbue his railing with the redeeming force of a catharsis: "You treat me like a fool.../I'm gonna send you back where you belong." Where to, Mick? The dog pound?

Such undisguised bitterness pervades Double Vision, and the record's only good moments arise from spurts of tight ensemble playing. But that's the least we could expect from such grizzled veterans. And songs like "Blue Morning, Blue Day" and "You're All I Am" do gratify in pleasantly odd ways. The surprise influence in this respect is the Beatles: Gramm's McCartney-like coo on "Blue Morning, Blue Day" is charming, while "Love Has Taken Its Toll" surges with a Revolver-era chorus--all snap and cleverness--as the guitars of Jones and Ed Gagliardi toss off a kinetic George Harrison/Paul McCartney blend.

But ultimately the group's skill is as mechanical as Mick Jones' paranoid misogyny. An instrumental is normally intended to show off a band's chops and smarts, yet the one provided here, "Tramontane," is puffy, quasi-ominous fluff, relying too heavily on Ian McDonald's spook-house organ effects. The tune's tense chords build and build but never break, and the accumulated suspense simply fades away.

What is most dispiriting about Foreigner is its patent lack of creative ambition. Not for an instant do we sense that these musicians are pushing themselves or trying to use their expertise to concoct something they find exciting. The emotions and motives asserted in their music are, when not just plain unbelievable, turgid and tawdry. Right now, the group's rhythms and Lou Gramm's singing tickle the ears of a lot of record buyers, but it's difficult to believe that this band will be able to keep its vast audience with more junk like this. We are not as dumb as Foreigner thinks we are.

KEN TUCKER - Sep 7, 1978
RollingStone.com
 

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Hot Blooded

Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded

You don't have to read my mind
To know what I have in mind
Honey you oughta know
Now you move so fine
Let me lay it on the line
I wanna know what you're doin' after the show

Now it's up to you, we can make a secret rendezvous
Just me and you, I'll show you lovin' like you never knew

That's why I'm hot blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, hot blooded

If it feels alright
Maybe you can stay all night
Shall I leave you my key?
But you've got to give me a sign
Come on girl, some kind of sign
Tell me, are you hot mama? You sure look that way to me

Are you old enough? Will you be ready when I call you bluff?
Is my timing right? Did you save your love for me tonight?

Yeah I'm hot blooded, check it and see
Feel the fever burning inside of me
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded, I'm hot

Now it's up to you, can we make a secret rendezvous?
Woah, before we do, you'll have to get away from you know who

Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded

Hot blooded, every night
Hot blooded, you're looking so tight
Hot blooded, now you're driving me wild
Hot blooded, I'm so hot for you child
Hot blooded, I'm a little bit high
Hot blooded, you're a little bit shy
Hot blooded, you're making me sing
Hot blooded, for your (hot blooded) sweet sweet thing
Did you hear what I said?


Blue Morning, Blue Day

Out in the street, it's six am
Another sleepless night
Three cups of coffee but I can't clear my head
From what went down last night
I know we both have our own little ways
But somehow we keep it together
You hear me talk but you don't hear what I say
I guess it don't even matter

Blue morning, blue day, won't you see things my way?
Blue morning, can't you see what your love has done to me?

I've always listened to your point of view
My ways I've tried to mend
And I've always been a patient man
But my patience has reached its end
You tell me you're leaving, you tell me goodbye
You say you might send a letter
Well honey don't telephone, cause I won't be alone
I'll be with someone to make me feel better

Blue morning, blue day, won't you see things my way?
Blue morning, can't you see what your love has done to me?

Blue morning, blue day, won't you see things my way?
Blue morning, can't you see what your love has done to me?

Blue morning, blue morning
Blue morning, blue morning
Blue morning, blue morning
Blue, blue, blue day, yeah


You're All I Am

I never knew a man would be so lonely
The life of a treated man so wrong
But when the odds were all against me
You gave me the strength to carry on

You gave me a new start
So I will give you my heart

You, you are my life, you're all I am
Only you can understand the way I am

You never give me enough of your love
I need more and more each day
Honey can't you see? The only thing I can be sure of
Is that something real has come my way

Woah, so I believe my heart
Though sometimes it tears me apart

You, you are my life, you're all I am
Baby it's you, you are my life, you're all I am
Only you can understand the way I am

You know I live my life for you

You are my life, you're all I am
Ooh baby it's true, you are my life, you're all I am
Only you can understand the way I am


Back Where You Belong

I felt so sure of the love that we shared
There was no reason on earth to be scared
Then I heard the rumor, it started to grow
Slowly but surely, the truth began to show

Then I started wonderin'
As I picked up the phone
And a man started askin'
If you were at home

You treat me like a fool, but you're so wrong
I'm gonna send you back where you belong
I put my trust in you, but I was wrong
I'm gonna send you back where you belong

You treat me like a fool, but you're so wrong
I'm gonna send you back where you belong

I never had any doubt in my mind
Now you have shown me, love can make you blind

Back where you belong
Belong, belong, belong, belong, belong
Back where you belong
Back where you belong
Belong, belong, belong, belong, belong
Back where you belong
Back where you belong
Belong, belong, belong, belong, belong
Back where you belong
Back where you belong
Belong, belong, belong, belong, belong
Back where you belong
Back where you belong
Belong, belong, belong, belong, belong
Back where you belong
Back where you belong
Belong, belong, belong, belong, belong
Back where you belong


Love Has Taken Its Toll

Some girls you meet, seem so complete
Like they don't need nothin' from you
They're out to show you, they don't want to know you
When deep inside they do

Well, this girl didn't want me or anyone else
She was alone, thought I'd give it a try
I was a young bull stompin' in the field
I saw red when she walked by

Love has taken its toll, love has
Love has taken, (love has) taken its toll, oh yeah

I had to think fast, I watched her walk past
I knew I would have my way
So I swaggered up, I mean I staggered up
But I didn't have a damn thing to say

Now, two handed strategy always works well for me
So I slipped my hands around her waist
I swore it was the right move, feelin' so smooth
'Till she backhanded me 'cross my face

Love has taken its toll, love has
Love has taken, (love has) taken its toll, oh yeah

To make a long story short, she finally got caught
I had to tell her "enough is enough"
She said "you're just what I needed", and boy
She nearly pleaded with me not to be too rough

Love has taken its toll, love has
Love has taken, (love has) taken its toll, oh yeah

Love has taken, taken its toll, love has
Love has taken, (love has) taken its toll, oh yeah

Love has taken, (love has) taken its toll, love has
Love has taken, (love has) taken its toll, oh yeah


Double Vision

Feeling down 'n' dirty, feeling kinda mean
I've been from one to another extreme
This time I had a good time, ain't got time to wait
I wanna stick around 'till I can't see straight

Fill my eyes with that double vision
No disguise for that double vision
Ooh, when it gets through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision gets the best of me

Never do more than I, I really need
My mind is racing, but my body's in the lead
Tonight's the night, I'm gonna push it to the limit
I live all of my years in a single minute

Fill my eyes with that double vision
No disguise for that double vision
Ooh, when it gets through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision always seems to get the best of me, the best of me, yeah-eah eah-eah-hey

Ooh-ooh (oooh) ooh-ooh, double vision
(Oooh) I need double vision
(Oooh, double vision) it takes me out of my head, takin' me out of my head
(Oooh, double vision) I get my double vision, woa-oah
(Oooh, double vision) seeing double double, double vision
(Oooh, double vision) oh-oh my my double vision
(Oooh, double vision) double vision, yeah-ah-ah eah-eah eah-eah ah
(Oooh, double vision) I get double vision, oooh
How, how?


Tramontane

Instrumental


I Have Waited So Long

I have waited oh so long
Please don't tell me baby I was wrong
Dreaming of you (oooooh) every night
(Oooooh) holding back until the time was right

I've counted the days, day after day, oooh-oooh
Since we've been apart, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh
Now I've found my way, I've found my way, oooh-oooh
Right back to your heart, oooh-oooh oooh

I've been searching for you every where
Calling you but you were never there
Seeking in the dark of night
Hoping one day you would shine a light

I've counted each day, day after day, oooh-oooh
Since we've been apart, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh
Now I've found my way, I've found my way, oooh-oooh
Right back to your heart, oooh-oooh oooh

I have waited oh so long
Please don't tell me baby I was wrong
Dreaming of you every night, every night, every night
Holding back until the time was right

Oooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh, I have waited so long
Aaah-aah-aah aah-aah, don't tell me I was wrong

I dream of you, I'm dreaming of you baby

Don't go away


Lonely Children

You go where the wind blows, leading the life you chose
Your destination remains unknown
No one to help you, nobody cares about you
You're looking for someplace you can call home

Lonely children on the run
Lonely children need soneone

Too many questions, you need to answer to them
Your information is so incomplete
You seek directions, you would be lost without them
Don't let them find you lying in the street

Lonely children on the run
Lonely children, lonely, need someone

Someone to talk to
Someone who cares
Someone who listens
Is anyone there?

They may destest you, someday they may arrest you
They stop at nothing to hold you down
You need to be free, but will they ever let you?
They won't be happy 'till you leave town

Lonely children on the run, run on the run
Lonely children need someone, need someone
Lonely children in the night, can't you see them fuming?
Lonely children need a guiding light, and don't forget
Lonely children are alone
Lonely children have no home
Lonely children on the run
Hope someday there'll be someone
Lonely, lonely children


Spellbinder

I found out the hard way, some things you just can't get
When I fell in love with a woman I wish I never met
I was in the wrong place, at the wrong time
I fell easy prey to an innocent way, I was so blind

I call out her name, I turn around to find her
She's a spellbinder

I've never been an easy man, so hard to please
But she made me feel life was unreal, oh Lord how she satisfied me
I tried to break away, but I didn't stand a chance
She planned it so well, I was under her spell, I was in a trance

I call out her name, I turn around to find her
She's a spellbinder

Now do you know what love can do?
Oh no, what she puts me through?
It took so long for me to find her
Now she won't set me free
She's a spellbinder

Now do you know what love can do?
Oh no, what she put me through?
You say you can't believe, believe that it's true
Let the spellbinder put a spell on you

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