Jukebox Heroes: Anthology (2000)


  
 
Disc One
 1. Feels Like the First Time
 2. Long, Long Way From Home
 3. Cold as Ice
 4. Headknocker
 5. Starrider
 6. At War With the World
 7. Double Vision
 8. Blue Morning, Blue Day
 9. Hot Blooded
 10.I Have Waited So Long
 11.Dirty White Boy
 12.Head Games
 13.Women
 14.Rev on the Red Line
 15.Break It Up
 16.Jukebox Hero
 17.Luanne
 18.Urgent
 19.Waiting For a Girl Like You
 20.All Sewn Up
 21.The Hoofer
 
Disc Two
 1. I Want To Know What Love Is
 2. Down on Love
 3. Street Thunder
 4. Reaction to Action
 5. That Was Yesterday
 6. Ready or Not
 7. Midnight Blue
 8. Heart Turns to Stone
 9. I Don't Want To Live Without You
 10.Say You Will
 11.Can't Wait
 12.Just Wanna Hold
 13.Everything That Comes Around
 14.Just Between You and Me
 15.Lowdown and Dirty
 16.Soul Doctor
 17.Until the End of Time
 18.Under the Gun

 

At this stage in their career, Foreigner had only released two greatest hits packages. It wasn't really a big stretch, then, for them to try to expand on the concept and go for a release that featured a lot more, spread out over an extra disc. Such is the case here. In fact, this one might have been a boxed set had there been more Foreigner stuff out there. At this point, however, there were only eight studio albums to choose from when picking material, so a double disc with over 40 songs basically covers about half the material this band ever recorded.

Yes, all the best of the best is here, so there's nothing wrong in that department. What seems a bit unnecessary to me is that, to fill up a lot of space, they actually include recordings by Mick Jones and Lou Gramm other than when they were in Foreigner. We have two Spooky Tooth (Jones' old band) songs as well as a handful of tracks from Gramm and Jones' solo career from the late 1980s. Other than Lou Gramm's Midnight Blue, none of those extra songs really sound like they belong here.

Even though Foreigner would eventually put out many more hits packages, this is the only one that encompasses music outside the actual band, so if that's your thing, this would make a great package. If you just want the band, and the band's hits, you might be better off with another retrospective.

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