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# LIFE SOUNDTRACK: Foreigner - 4
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/life-soundtrack-foreigner-4/
- Published: 2016-02-25T12:21:56.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-25T12:21:56.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, #oliver-2, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

Winter 1982\. I was with my class on a skiing trip in Austria. After a long day in the mountains, I would relax on my bed and listen to a mix tape that I taped from the weekly charts show on the [public Bavarian radio station](https://www.bayern3.de/?ref=glamglare.com). One song I remember in particular, my favorite on that cassette: “Juke Box Hero” that starts with an ominous synth line before Lou Gramm belts “Then he heard one guitar and it blew him away”. A little cheesy, but I was indeed blown away.

[**Foreigner’s**](http://www.foreigneronline.com/?ref=glamglare.com) fourth album “4” was a giant hit in the U.S. and sold over six million times. In Germany, while not chart-topping, it was still an album that very everybody knew. The other singles ”Urgent” and “I’ve Been Waiting For A Girl Like You” received constant radio play and among my friends, “4” was a popular record to be traded for taping on cassettes.

Listening to the album today, it evokes a good deal of nostalgia. A lot of it is personal, but it also stands for a long gone era in music, when rock bands playing guitars were big and filled the charts. But I’m also glad that music moved on from there and to be honest, a like it more today.