The Definitive Collection is a double-disc
compilation album
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by the band
Foreigner, released in 2006 on Atlantic/Rhino Records.
Track listing
All songs are written by
Mick Jones and
Lou Gramm
Louis Andrew Grammatico (born May 2, 1950), known professionally as Lou Gramm, is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as co-founder and original frontman of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1990 and again from 1992 to 2003, ...
and performed by Foreigner, except where noted.
Disc 1
# "
Feels Like the First Time
"Feels Like the First Time" is the debut single by British-American rock band Foreigner. It was written by Mick Jones and released in 1977 from the band's eponymous debut album. It reached No. 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
Background
Jone ...
" (Jones)
# "
Long, Long Way from Home" (Jones, Gramm,
Ian McDonald)
# "
Cold as Ice"
# "Headknocker"
# "Starrider" (
Al Greenwood
Alan Greenwood (born October 20, 1951) is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums '' Foreigner'' (1977), '' Double Vision'' (1978) and '' He ...
, Jones)
# "At War with the World" (Jones)
# "
Double Vision
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"
# "
Blue Morning, Blue Day"
# "
Hot Blooded"
# "I Have Waited So Long" (Jones)
# "
Dirty White Boy"
# "
Head Games"
# "
Women
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl.
Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional u ...
" (Jones)
# "Rev on the Red Line" (Gramm, Greenwood)
# "
Break It Up" (Jones)
# "
Juke Box Hero"
Disc 2
# "
Urgent" (Jones)
# "
Waiting for a Girl Like You"
# "
I Want to Know What Love Is
"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner. It was released in November 1984 as the lead single from their fifth album, ''Agent Provocateur''. The song reached number one on both the United King ...
" (Jones)
# "
Down on Love"
# "
Reaction to Action"
# "
That Was Yesterday"
# "
Midnight Blue
Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon. Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sunlight
Sunlight is the portion of the electromag ...
" (by Lou Gramm) (Gramm,
Bruce Turgon
Bruce Turgon (born April 25, 1952) is an American bass guitarist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer. Bruce has played in several bands throughout his career including: Foreigner, The Lou Gramm Band, Shadow King, Steve Stevens, Warr ...
)
# "Heart Turns to Stone"
# "
I Don't Want to Live Without You" (Jones)
# "
Say You Will"
# "Just Wanna Hold" (by Mick Jones) (Jones,
Ian Hunter, M. Phillips)
# "Just Between You and Me" (by Lou Gramm) (Gramm,
Holly Knight
Holly Knight (born 1956) is an American songwriter, musician, and singer. She was a member of the 1980s pop rock groups Spider and Device, and wrote or co-wrote several hit singles for other artists, such as " Rag Doll", " Obsession", " Love Is ...
)
# "Lowdown and Dirty" (Jones,
Johnny Edwards,
Terry Thomas)
# "Soul Doctor"
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Definitive Collection, The
2006 compilation albums
Foreigner (band) albums