Thursday, May 15, 2014

Foreigner - Urgent

[link] These guys were at the center of the mainstream hard rock sound of the late 70s/early 80s.  The sound was characterized by high hard male vocals, driving guitars (but keyboards also contributed to the sound) and fairly simple song structures. I was in a record store (one of the two at Eastview Mall in Victor, NY - one was Record Theatre and I forgot what the other one was) when I first heard this and I immediately bought the 45 rpm single.  My friend Scott was into the whole album (Foreign 4), which got heavy airplay on the radio stations we listened to (96 WCMF and 92 WMJQ - which went to country a few years later). The keyboards in this song were what did it for me (much later found out they were played by Thomas Dolby on the studio track).

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