Folks, help! I can't stop listening to Foreigner!

[cta]

I had Double Vision and Head Games on vinyl when I was a kid and listened to them like crazy.  Especially liked "Women", "Love On The Telephone", "Tromantaine" and "Do What You Like" quite a lot.  Although "Seventeen" is just downright nauseating.

Downloaded it off of Napster and can't stop listening to both albums.   What's wrong with me?

I've also noticed that their bassist/keyboardist is Ian McDonald.  Is that the same one from King Crimson?

[carlydenise2]

Head games was probably their best album, I had it too, and got it on cd a few years ago.  I may have to break it out, haven't listened to it for a while.  True, seventeen is the worst song on the whole cd.
Carly

[All-Seeing Eye]

I've also noticed that their bassist/keyboardist is Ian McDonald.  Is that the same one from King Crimson?

Yup, it's the same guy. Hard to believe!

[cta]

Oh well, look at Boz Burell and John Wetton.

I imagine a lot of people who play music like to get into groups full of well skilled musicians as a vehicle to hone their craft much better.   Then after those early 20's years where people like to be experimentive, the bills become more of an issue and it's just easier to get paid more plus not have to rack the brain with something like "The Devil's Triangle" and instead do something much simpler and lucrative like "Waiting For A Girl Like You". 

It happens, I suppose, even to the most once stubborn musicians.  There's elements of McDonald's creativity on the Foreigner albums, but it's mostly replaced by Lou Gramm's swinging c*ck lyrics and Mick Jones' "beer and party" riffs.

Sort of like how St. Pauli's is much better than Budweiser.  You love St. Paulis and for years you'd drink nothing else, but after many bars not knowing what St. Pauli's is, you just drink the Budweiser because it's there without a doubt.   

[donald]

Can't stop listening to Foreigner.  May God have mercy on you.  Have you considered electroconvulsive therapy?  This, of course, would be a last resort after trying all possible combinations of medication.

[cta]

Donald, it's over now.  I wrote that a week or two ago.  After a couple of spins of Double Vision and Head Games, I think I can go another 20 years without hearing them again.  It was probably for purposes of what I listened to when I was a kid; say around 3rd grade.   

Nah man, no electrodes or drugs.  Not my thing.