''Records'' is a compilation album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on November 29, 1982, to span the band's first four albums through 1981. Along with their second album, '' Double Vision'', this release is the group's best-selling record. It has been certified 7× platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

All songs by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, except where noted.

Personnel

;Band members * Lou Gramm - lead vocals, percussion * Mick Jones - acoustic guitar,

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, keyboard, background vocals, Fender Rhodes, bass (on track 10) * Ian McDonald - guitar, horns, keyboards, background vocals (tracks 1–3, 5, 7, 9) * Al Greenwood - keyboards, synthesizer (tracks 1–3, 5, 7, 9) * Ed Gagliardi - bass and background vocals (on tracks 1-2, 5, 9) * Rick Wills - bass, background vocals (on tracks 3-4, 6–8) * Dennis Elliott -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

;Additional musicians * Thomas Dolby - synthesizer (tracks 4, 6, 8) * Larry Fast - synthesizer (track 8) * Michael Fonfara - keyboard (track 6) * Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Ian Lloyd - background vocals (tracks 4, 6, 8) * Bob Mayo - guitar, keyboard textures, and background vocals (track 4) * Mark Rivera - saxophone, background vocals (track 6, 9), clavinet (track 9) * Junior Walker - tenor saxophone (track 6) ;Production *Producer: Roy Thomas Baker, Mick Jones, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Gary Lyons, Ian McDonald, Keith Olsen, John Sinclair *Engineers: Jimmy Douglass, Dave Wittman, Geoff Workman *Mastering: George Marino at Sterling Sound *1995 Remastering: Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound *Art direction: Lynn Dreese Breslin, Bob Defrin *Design: Lynn Dreese Breslin, Bob Defrin *Photography: Allen Levine, Frank Moscati

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