Foreigner - Agent Provocateur

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Album Details

Foreigner's "Agent Provocateur"

This has always been a fvorite album of mine and I've pretty much worn out the LP and the cassette so it was time to get the CD September 10, 2007

one of best from foreigner

do you want to know what love is, well this is the cd you need.
like the music from this group, this is one of the best that's why you don't find it no where, no even in the stores any more. must if you like this group and must have for your collection. January 10, 2007

Overrated Song.

I easily could not understand why that song 'I Want To Know What Love Is' is Foreigner's top song as it is pretty boring. It is one of the most boring songs Foreigner has ever put up and maybe one of the most saddest boring songs ever made in the 1980s. After the first lovely ballad 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' (which I loved that one very,very much) they did their next few ballads even more worse. They even did 'I Dont Want To Live Without You' even sadder. What is wrong with them in the 1980s? 4 was their last of their classics to have been the greatest. In the end of 'I Want To Know What Love Is' for about 2 minutes, it repeats the same verse such as 'I Wanna know what love is, i want you to show meeeee' which gets really annoying after 2 minutes. I kind of wish that 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' would be their number 1 song insted which that song is never boring, it is more of a ballad and love song too. I went to one of Foreigner's concerts several months ago and they did not play this boring song, they played my favorite song 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' which I was so happy when they played that as that is so loveely. Don't buy this, get 4 insted. December 22, 2006

80s Power Rock and a Couple of Good Ballads

This CD is solid 80s. To some extent it is reminiscent of numerous other 80s hard rock groups. And yet, it also contains unique compositions that are among Foreigner's better contributions to rock music.

The most memorable and perhaps longest lasting songs on this CD are the ballads and quasi-ballads. Songs like "That Was Yesterday" and "I Want to Know What Love Is" continue to get airplay on 80s stations and now some classic rock stations. "I Want to Know What Love Is" is not only a ballad, but a POWER ballad.

However, in addition to these ballads are less memorable efforts that are okay, but distract from the better songs. "A Love in Vain" and "Two Different Worlds" are also ballads, but while not bad songs they are clearly filler songs stuck in to fill out a CD.

While the ballads are what will keep Foreigner in the minds of many people, Foreigner really was a hard rock group. "Tooth and Nail," "Growing Up the Hard Way," "Reaction to Action," "Stranger in My Own House" and "She's Too Tough" are the kind of hard rock songs that defined Foreigner. Most have a flavor of the 80s, though for some songs the flavor may be a taste, for many the songs are easily detectable as 80s. However, just because the songs are 80s, they remain decent songs, and even decent hard rock songs.

Because this album was a follow up to the monster album "Foreigner 4 and because of some of the weaker songs on the album, the album has been maligned by a number of reviewers and critics. Fortunately we live in the CD age, and you can program this CD to match your musical tastes. If you like Foreigner the hard rock group, just program the five or six rocking songs, and skip the ballads. If you like most of the music except for the weaker ballads, program them out. If you take off the weakest songs, what remains is a pretty good album. If we take off the weakest five songs of the ten, you end up with an album that, while short on songs, has the kind of strength that "Foreigner 4" had.

I've enjoyed Foreigner's music for many years, though I am not as big a Foreigner fan as many others that have reviewed this album. Comparing this album to other Foreigner albums, I think it's one of their better albums. Admittedly it doesn't reach the peak of "Foreigner 4," but every group has an album that just seems to be a definable peak that they either do not hit again, or that it takes a long time to reach again. If Foreigner had not released "4," it may well be that some fans would have regarded this album as their best, or one of their best. Because of the weaker songs I give this CD 4 stars. Conversely, some of the better songs on this CD pull it past 3 stars into a solid 4 star range. If you like 80s power rock then I think you will find this CD interesting.
August 4, 2006

Except for the two hits, this is total swill to me

I bought this not long after it came out in 1984 but got rid of it quick because it was so bad. Don't listen to the reviewer Darth Kommissar who said that this was severely underrated. It's not thought of very highly for a reason. The only thing that I like a lot from this album is the song "That Was Yesterday". I can kind of stomach the song "I Want to know what love is", but it's a little to syrupy and sweet for my taste. So basically those two tunes bring this review rating up to two stars. I hate the song "Tooth And Nail" and I think there's another song called "Reaction to Action" that's very bad too. Just stick with the albums from 1977 to 1981 because everything that came after was definitely substandard. June 20, 2006

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