Built around the songwriting skills and fiery guitar riffing of Mick Jones and the arena-filling vocals of Lou Gramm, Foreigner's hooky style of AOR caught on in a big way in the late '70s. Their first two albums -- 1977's Foreigner and 1978's Double Vision -- were a double shot of exceedingly catchy songs and slick production that topped the charts and spawned a number of huge singles. As musical trends changed, so did the band: they added new wave elements to their sound, worked with Mutt Lange on 1981's 4, and moved into an adult style on ballads like "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and their biggest hit, 1984's "I Want to Know What Love Is." Though the band's recording career stalled when Gramm left the band in the late '80s, different incarnations of the band continued touring and their presence can still be heard daily on rock radio, while their blend of hard rock and soft ballads proved influential to bands ranging from Soul Asylum to One Direction. 
studio
1977. Foreigner - Foreigner
1978. Foreigner - Double Vision
1979. Foreigner - Head Games
1981. Foreigner - 4
1984. Foreigner - Agent Provocateur
1987. Foreigner - Inside Information
1991. Foreigner - Unusual Heat
1994. Foreigner - Mr. Moonlight
2009. Foreigner - Can't Slow Down
compilations
1982. Foreigner - Records
1992. Foreigner - The Very Best ... And Beyond
2011. Foreigner - Acoustique
2017. Foreigner - 40
