Dirty White Boy
	Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Mick Jones and Ian McDonald
	Released on August 1979
	US CHART POSITION #12 (charted Sep. 8, 1979 for 14 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
3618 w. company sleeve [high resolution scan]

M aybe “Double Vision” wasn’t the most noble sentiment ever set to music, but it’s poetry next to this: “I’m a loner, but I’m never alone / Every night I get one step closer to the danger zone.” That would be the Danger Zone of Really Bad Rhyme, I’m guessing. As great a singer as Lou Gramm is, his subject matter is as self-inflated as a rolled-up tube sock. I’m not saying that “Dirty White Boy” isn’t pure posturing musically and lyrically, but Al Greenwood’s “Rev on the Red Line” deserved better than the stereotypical, testosterone-laden testimony to street racing. Head Games unfortunately reeks with this sort of ignobility, and nobility in music is a cornerstone of the prog movement. While they continued to be a great rock band, Foreigner ceased to lay claim to any progressive heritage from here on, and prog was the poorer for it.

TRACK LISTING

1. DIRTY WHITE BOY    (Mick Jones/Lou Gramm)    3:13
2. REV ON THE RED LINE    (Al Greenwood/Lou Gramm)    3:35

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