Article Response: Foreigner

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The article on Foreigner is here. Your responses will go here.

― Tom, Tuesday, 2 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

you know i'm in favour of any aor coverage. that said, this is the sort of thing that drew me to ft in the first place -- stylish writing, fresh angles, and some insight. i haven't heard the song in a long time but the joy division comparison is a little perplexing right now. it does make me want to listen again. joy division - metal/aor comparisons are familiar though (how else could you hear the opening to "new dawn fades?" and those reverberating drums still scream "def leppard" for a lot of people).

― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 3 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Excellent. Easily better than my musings on similar subjects that occasionally find their way here.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 6 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two months pass...

Is this a suitable place for me to ask what cultural battle is being fought out over the meaning of the 1980s?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pinefox

I have as ever been a bad correspondent. In this case I've been a bad correspondent because I couldnt remember what the cultural war was so I got stuck on that bit of your e-mail and it never got answered.

Mea culpa. I will have another bash.

― Tom, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I have just had another glance at that article. It was really suggestive and interesting, though rather oblique. It could produce a fascinating debate. I wish I knew what the reference points were, and especially what this 'Cultural War Over The Eighties' was. I wonder why hardly anyone has replied to this thread? Either a) they didn't see the article; b) they think the debate is about Foreigner, rather than about The Cultural War Over The Eighties; or c) they don't know what The Cultural War Over The Eighties is, any more than I do.

Does anyone know what The Cultural War Over The Eighties is, and who's fighting?

― the pinefox, Monday, 19 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three years pass...

tom's link above sends you to americansingles.com. i have to hang my head now, i guess.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

"waiting for a girl like" you has been haunting me in drug stores, restaurants, etc for years.. this song is spectacular and it makes sense that it was held off from #1 by hall and oates "i can't go for that"; they both have that airy muted spacey ultra-soft sound... and they seem to be part of an 80s-soft-rock-before-the-drums-got-really-loud thing

oh and the article is now over here http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/essays/2001/01/foreigner

― skeletor, Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link

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