Comments on: Dw. Dunphy On… An Open Letter to Mick Jones

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:51:03 +0000

I have to give them credit – they made the Foreigner logo like the Journey logo on that album cover.

I'm looking forward to this release. I get a new Foreigner album, which I'm intrigued to hear. Current vocalist Kelly Hansen has the goods, and Foreigner puts on a great show in 2009 that is worth seeing. As a bonus, you get the disc of hits, which I don't really need, but at least they aren't re-records – and I'm curious to see the track listing for the live DVD. It will be priced out the door for the price of a single disc, so even if both of the additional discs suck – what do I care? I didn't pay for them.

It's a shame that Lou Gramm's health issues damaged his voice, because he really did have one of the great voices of our time.

By: brokeastunes

brokeastunes — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:22:38 +0000

I almost spit my coffee out when I saw that cover-cripes it deserves some kind of award for graphic ineptitude. You can't make this stuff up! Thanks for the laughs.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:51:03 +0000

I have to give them credit – they made the Foreigner logo like the Journey logo on that album cover.

It's a shame that Lou Gramm's health issues damaged his voice, because he really did have one of the great voices of our time.

By: brokeastunes

brokeastunes — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:22:38 +0000

I almost spit my coffee out when I saw that cover-cripes it deserves some kind of award for graphic ineptitude. You can't make this stuff up! Thanks for the laughs.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:51:03 +0000

I have to give them credit – they made the Foreigner logo like the Journey logo on that album cover.

It's a shame that Lou Gramm's health issues damaged his voice, because he really did have one of the great voices of our time.

By: brokeastunes

brokeastunes — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:22:38 +0000

I almost spit my coffee out when I saw that cover-cripes it deserves some kind of award for graphic ineptitude. You can't make this stuff up! Thanks for the laughs.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:50:18 +0000

One thing I failed to mention in this was an interview Jones recently did where he said, everybody knows the music of Foreigner but doesn't know that it is Foreigner, that the majority of the people in the world haven't a clue that this was the band that recorded those songs... Hence, the hits disc in this package.

This is, of course, utter crap. But hey, any way assuage the awful feeling that you have to prop up your new thing with a greatest hits crutch can't be all bad, right?

The one thing I'll give Eagles and AC/DC credit for is, no matter how mediocre their new stuff may be (although I actually liked Black Ice) they sold it on its own merits. The rest of them that feel compelled to throw an extra burger on your bun to pad the fact the first was assmeat, well it's hard not to take arms against.

By: jefito

jefito — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:25:27 +0000

Skynyrd did a Wal-Mart/NASCAR thing a little over 10 years ago, and Eddie Money did the NASCAR thing, too. Remember those? No, I didn't think so. I predict similar greatness for this project.

By: kingofgrief

kingofgrief — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:07:51 +0000

As much as I hate to further displace Foreigner's thunder, but the guy who did the artwork for Sonic Boom also designed Rock and Roll Over. How much can you unlearn in three decades?

Someone somewhere along the chain of command doesn't have much faith in Can't Slow Down (not to be confused...) as it's being packaged with a live DVD and another CD containing (slightly) remixed hits. I've heard the new/old "Juke Box Hero" and "Feels Like the First Time" and they sound pretty damn crisp, but not that different from the versions now playing on some classic rock station somewhere in the known universe as I type this . Oh, and the title track was written in tribute to NASCAR, hence the WalMart solidarity.

As for the cover art, I'm glad to see their logo flourish, but reprising the lazy-F motif from the album that provided your biggest hit smacks as much of desperation as that "remix" CD. If I eventually find this used and cheap enough, I'll pick it up, as I did for the AC/DC and Eagles exclusives (which I haven't even listened to at 100% attention yet). But as it stands, that Neil Diamond DVD might be the thing that makes me spend money at WalMart again. Now THERE's a consumer dilemma...