Not a ballad?? FOREIGNER - DIRTY WHITE BOY Reaction - First time hearing

[@Sp33gan]

This is the real Foreigner. Honestly, as lovely as that ballad is, the band normally played driving rockers. That said, it was also normal for bands to be able to play all sorts of different styles. It reflected the many different musical influences most musicians had. Honestly, why limit ourselves to be one dimensional?

[@melodymcdonald2140]

For another smokin’ rocker try “Soul Doctor “. Driving drums + singing guitars + Lou Gramm = greatness!

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

❤

[@greybeard2280]

Ahhh one of Foreigner's first bangers! Man I love Lou, one of best voices in rock!

[@anthonymunn8633]

For those of us who listened to Foreigner,it was a shock to hear them do ballads later in their career.

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

Yes, it was. Their hard driving hits is what introduced me to them.

[@hondaphan4172]

Without a doubt. Their first power ballad was Waiting For a Girl Like You which was on their 4th album and aptly named 4. I was stunned when I first heard it because that wasn't the Foreigner I fell in love with when their debut album was released during my senior year of high school. Even their drummer Dennis Elliott said IWTKWLI was a great tune but I don't know if we should've been the ones who released it since it changed the perception of the band. Foreigner wasn't Journey who were known for their slew of ballads.

[@toddstevens13]

@@hondaphan4172 They pulled a Journey, and $$$$ wise it proved successful, musicianship wise, that was when they started losing most of the original band members wasn't it. That is why I like the new configuration of Foreigner, they Rock the Hell out of it, with great Rock Musicians, but sadly have to throw in the Pablum, here and there.

[@toddstevens13]

@@hondaphan4172 Wasn't that about the time most of the original band left, when they became Pablum orientated. But like Journey there are millions of people with no Rock tastes that loved that stuff and made them $$$$'s.

[@hondaphan4172]

@@toddstevens13 I'm not a hater when it comes to the new lineup..at least when talking about when they first came together in '05. I had just become weary and frustrated at watching Lou struggle at almost every single one of the twenty Foreigner shows I attended during the '99, '00, and '02 tours and I was open for a change. I've always loved Lou but it became difficult to watch. I saw the new lineup a handful of times(and really enjoyed them!) between '05-'07 but I got tired of hearing pretty much the same setlist show after show...at least after their '05 shows. At my two shows in '05 they played Headknocker and they nailed it....but I never heard it again. When I stopped going after '07 they were still playing Starrider and they also played Break It Up at one of my shows in '06. Now that Tom has retired and Mick is onstage very little, if at all, the thing just rubs me the wrong way and that's not including the greatest hits setlist which is stale as hell, IMO. I just feel if Mick can't be onstage for the bulk of the show then it's time to retire the great Foreigner franchise and ride into the sunset. I still can't believe they have nobody who can play sax after Tom retired. That's almost criminal in my mind.

[@bobleek6975]

Foreigner was not a band that did many ballads. They were good old fashioned ROCK N ROLL. Lou Gramm has a great voice. Saw them in concert at MSG in the late 70s. I may be wrong but I don't believe Lou tours with them anymore, I know he was dealing with a serious health issue. I don't think people appreciate what a great vocalist he is. Hope he is doing well. Listen to Juke Box Hero.

[@jhamptonjr]

I even liked his solo stuff like Midnight Blue - yeah his voice was perfect! #Peace!

[@hondaphan4172]

Lou hasn't been in the band since their '02 tour. The only exceptions were several years ago when they did some Reunion shows as all of the original members except bassist Ed Gagliardi (RIP) performed together again for a handful of tunes. Their second bass player Rick Wills took Ed's spot.

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

These hard driving songs is what introduced us to Foreigner. I was shocked when in the 80s they began playing ballads.

[@70srocknroll]

Seen foreigner and journey 1978 one of the best concerts I have seen

[@pikengren1]

i just played this song at work the other day. some young kid said," wow, thats a great song. i never heard it before".

[@bbsal4031]

This was totally my favorite song of theirs. got a crank this up loud every time. “ dirty black boy” 😂😂😂

[@kimberleyphillips6671]

Ur reaction at the beginning was classic.

[@richardmyers1506]

This song was a big hit when I was in high school. One of the bad boys in my class wore the title of the song on his sleeve. I must say, he lived up to the reputation.

[@stevemariman8769]

One of many bangers, for sure! Cold as Ice Double Vision Feels Like the First Time Urgent Hot Blooded Jukebox Hero

[@debbiechang5781]

These guys still sound so great after all these years! Thanks for resurrecting more of my memories! 🌺✌️

[@TheMasonator777]

They have a lot of great rockers… Try Double Vision and Cold As Ice, then Jukebox Hero… the solo in that is worth a close listen. Badass.

[@melelenath]

Harri, this is true Foreigner, before Mick Jones pushed them to do more ballads. Lou was in Black Sheep before Foreigner (1974-78ish), did two solo albums and one album with Shadow King. All rocking!!

[@dagmar.6954]

"Dirty White Boy" is one of their very early hits. Foreigner started in 1976 & had a lot of great songs such as "Feels Like The First Time", "Cold As Ice", “Hot Blooded”, "Urgent", "Juke Box Hero", "Waiting For A Girl Like You", "Double Vision", "Blue Morning, Blue Day", "Head Games", "Break It Up", "That Was Yesterday", "Say You Will", "I Don't Want To Live Without You" etc.

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

This is one of my favorites from Foreigner. Love, love this. 🥰🎶🥰

[@beno7238]

my first introduction to Foreigner was with this song, always been a fav. Great choice!

[@pncombies]

Thank you!

[@dana_brooke_27]

Rest Peacefully Ian MacDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner fame. Played horns, flute keyboard and Mellotron. Started two bands that were greatly successful.

[@pncombies]

Harri - Couldn't hear what you were saying from 1:24 until 1:42. Foreigner rocks! Far more to them than "Waiting For A Girl Like You" and "I Want To Know What Love Is". I wanted you to hear the true Foreigner. More bangers coming in the months to come!

[@jackiesconiers4230]

Thanks for keeping great music alive!

[@jukeboxzero1]

First concert i ever saw - 1979 Foreigner with April Wine as the opening act. Priceless.

[@bob02891]

Love Foreigner now even more than in the 80's! We saw them last summer and they still sound fabulous!

[@hondaphan4172]

That's not Foreigner particularly when Mick doesn't perform. I'm not a hater as I saw the new lineup a handful of times from '05-'07 but after awhile the setlist became stale...the same songs in the exact same order show after show. Now it's even worse with the Greatest Hits setlist they"ve been doing for awhile...No Starrider which is criminal in my mind. Tom Gimbel retired and they no longer have a multi-instumentalist who can play sax so they now handle those parts with keyboards.

[@supernaught6733]

I'm a dirty white boy, and I'm glad you like this song, cause I love it, have since it came out!

[@ronniefromOR]

Jesus that guy can sing

[@tonyarenee531]

😘😘😘Love them so much Thanks Harri

[@hugolarsson3600]

The REAL Foreigner! Those of us who had no appreciation for disco (at the time) would go to this and say THIS is rock and roll!

[@jimtatro6550]

Check out Long, Long Way from Home, it’s a banger from the debut.

[@hondaphan4172]

It wasn't a hit but check out At War With the World from their debut album....kicks butt.

[@carollittle1059]

Man! This song was huge!! Saw them 5 years ago still fantastic!

[@bobdelp2023]

THIS IS THE OPENING TRACK FROM THEIR 3RD ALBUM ( HEAD GAMES ) HARRI :) THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS HOTTTTT! :)

[@ratdad48]

It's not a title it's a rock song! And I love it! Like the: bink bink >>bink bink.....with the guitar. Just a great rock song.

[@ktwebbdevil]

They were always ROCKERS! Nearly all their early songs rocked! I suggest Head Knocker!

[@gregrambo606]

You gotta do the title cut from the album Double Vision, also called Double Vision, and their most famous song from this album you just did, Cold as Ice.

[@normanrose2711]

When I think of foreigner I think of this song, at war with the world and double vision not I've been waiting for a girl like you !

[@michaellynch5254]

LOL I love your reaction when you said the song title in the beginning. Love this song. Next from them should be long long way from home.

[@Dilley_G45]

Yes, the songs they never play in the radio juke box hero, hot blooded, dwb.....nit all foreigner songs are ballads

[@tims7077]

Would love for you to check out "At War With The World". It's such an underrated and underappreciated rocker from Foreigner that no one has reacted to.

[@maryellenazack4466]

Relevant TODAY

[@CB-gr1uk]

You did it! I was waiting, lol!

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Foreigners early stuff really rocked.

[@williamdingwell9191]

I used to see Lou Gram in his band back in Rochester NY back in the day at the Penny Arcade Great times back then...

[@Deborahtunes]

"Dirty White Boy" is another way of saying "bad boy"...

[@georgeditzel3504]

I’m surprised that they actually did the few ballads they had.

[@jeffreywillis4258]

As a 20 something musician I hung out with blacks more than whites. I was a wild man with little self-control. They always referred to me as a "dirty white boy" in a joking way; and this was before the song came out. Also, many blacks would refer to whites that acted black or hung out with blacks as "dirty white boys". Another hit song by Foreigner was "Urgent". It was famous for its sax solo. That sax solo was played by Jr. Walker. Jr. Walker had a band called "Jr. Walker and The All Stars" and, when in Houston on "rehearsal tour" in 1982, my black friends introduced me to him at a club called "Ronnie B's". I'll never forget hanging out, all of them drinking slo-gin fizzes and my friends telling the band I was the dirtiest white boy they had ever met. One thing led to another and they allowed me to go on stage and play (lead guitar) "Urgent" with Jr. Walker and his band one night. One of the best nights of my life. Every time I hear "Dirty White Boy" or "Urgent" I think of that night. RIP Jr. Walker.

[@rebeccarockchik6704]

That whole album is good 🔥 Head Games!!

[@vipergg9159]

They played a lot more rock than ballads . The first 3 or 4 albums are superb .

[@babaoriley1]

This track was off their 1979 album "Head Games". A rather controversial album cover for some retailers. They refused to stock it. And some radio stations deemed it in poor taste. I noticed you used the debut album cover. That's a great album as well.

[@daveferraro4009]

Total Rockers ... Double Vision, Blue Morning, Star Rider, Jukebox Hero.

[@thedocofrock1890]

hot blooded , urgent , blue morning blue day , cold as ice. these are all earlier FOREIGNER rockers you need to hear to really appreciate what a kickass rock band they were. the ballads came a bit later and were a surprise to us fans that weren't expecting them

[@gardinflame235]

This is the real Foreigner....

[@EvanWeber1234]

the video is great

[@gcarap]

You have it backwards Harri, the ballads Foreigner did were the anomalies, they were primarily a ROCK band.

[@williameller7002]

Luv this song

[@lynda3860]

Cold blooded is another good rocking track they are so much more than the 1980's ballads in fact we were shocked when the ballads came along lol

[@bobdelp2023]

LOUUUUUU GRAMM!!1 LOL :) POWERRRR HARRI LOVE ON THE TELEPHONE, WOMEN, AND OF COURSE THE TITLE TRACK ( HEAD GAMES ) :)

[@EarthWalker2023]

Yes!!!!!

[@ChrisKrolak]

After "Foreigner 4", this video's album "Head Games" is my favorite Foreigner album. My reasons for saying this? -- Songs 6-11, "Head Games" through "Zalia". Speaking of "Foreigner 4", you've got to listen to "Girl on the Moon".

[@ronjm945]

Foreigner’s first two or three albums were fantastic..

[@k_salter]

Love this one! Check out "Rev on the Red Line" or "Starrider" for some early diff Foreigner. Enjoyed your reaction.

[@Clnt874]

They had some good rockers! Checkout hot blooded

[@thorfinsky1427]

"Hot Blooded" is another rocker. 🤘

[@markdicesare7936]

Head Knocker and Rev on the Red Line are a couple of bangers

[@ghfantexas6848]

After thinking about it, I had to rewrite my post. This song wasn’t from the first album (still my favorite) but from their third album, Head Games. A really good album, but kind of a drop in quality. But Dirty White Boy is still a classic banger…. Great song.

[@mikecaetano]

Banger! I was 13 when this song came out. That guitar sound is the dirtiest part of the song! Foreigner started off a hard rock band in the mid-seventies, with songs like "Cold As Ice", "Long, Long Way from Home", and "Starrider" before cranking things up a notch with "Hot Blooded" - a song that flashes one bitchin' Camaro of a guitar solo! "Double Vision" is another seventies banger from them. They perfected the power ballad in the eighties, at which point I lost interest.

[@gpxo11]

Did you really expect with a title of Dirty White Boy that it would be a ballad? LOL!!!

[@MightyJonE]

Verse melody so reminiscent of Pulp’s hit Common People

[@shawnk7832]

To me, their best is Urgent!!! Horns!!! Amazing!!!

[@chercee]

Check out Foreigner's Blue Morning, Blue Day! kzbin.info/www/bejne/e17ZgXmEns2hfbM

[@brianmanuel1202]

Try Dirty White Boy!!!! A banger

[@pncombies]

Uhhh...that's what he's doing! 😂

[@allisonreed7682]

Great stuff, Harri! For more like this, check out my favorite Foreigner song “Long, Long Way From Home!” 💙🎷

[@stevetemple8826]

Head Knocker

[@montbob100]

do rev on the red line from same album head games.i saw them this tour in 79.i'm 60 on 22nd

[@DSanto-bk6oq]

Yep...Foreigner can rock pretty good. For another banger, check out "Headknocker".

[@andrewcolicchio766]

👍👍👍

[@josephhickman4759]

Like many Foreigner songs. Great studio band, tunes. Yet if dissect some of the lyrics are so profound and nonsensical contradiction i.e. such as ...I'm a loner but I'm never alone...probably got that from a Vick cough drop wrapper . Ha

[@bobshaw8319]

Spellbinder ...their best song

[@1stsharkb8]

This was Foreigner before Jones ruined everything with synthesizers and ballads

[@darrylvonrokk]

I am going to guess that you thought all foreigner songs were ballads because you loved I Want To Know What love Is......

[@carollittle1059]

Please play, Cold as Ice.

[@nolansteiner4771]

for those true fans of foreigner, they were more of a rock band (not balladeers). Some of their soft stuff isn't as good to me, their "hard stuff" is much better IMO. Great band, whatever the case.

[@wolandbegemotazazello]

Check out Juke box hero

[@toddstevens13]

They have several non ballads and unique stuff like Prog Rock Star Rider, and of course Juke Box Hero, for starters is maybe their biggest Banger.

[@hondaphan4172]

JBH was named Song of the Year at the time by WMMR 93.3 FM which is a longtime rock station in Philly. I don't know know how but JBH only peaked at #26 on the Billboard charts which is really hard to believe.

[@toddstevens13]

@@hondaphan4172 Have you heard the 11 minute Version of JBH, from their Nashville Concert on here. The newest version of Foreigner has highly skilled Rock Players, and they rip it up most of the night, only throwing in the odd Pablum, to help sell tickets. They do 2 nights back to back in my area for over a decade now, and with the depth of the Rockers in their Catalogue both nights are glorious.

[@judymeeker2925]

I suggest ypu hear Pactrick Waston.

[@johnb9507]

Great song, but you're showing the wrong album. You're picturing the first album. "Dirty White Boy" was the opening track on their 3rd album, "Head Games". You should check out that song too.

[@pncombies]

The video I shared had that album cover and not the one from Head Games. Harri had nothing to do with it.

[@johnb9507]

@@pncombies Oh. My apologies to Harri then. Thanks.

[@timothymurphy7127]

The song is about Elvis.

[@williampenbeth4035]

Try listening to The damage is done

[@Theaddman]

Haha

[@brianmanuel1202]

Sorry u did...my bad!!!

[@nononobutyeah]

Out of sink on purpose?

[@jchampboston]

You started reacting to the wrong foreigner songs not that they weren’t good but this is the real Foreigner