Foreigner

Records

1982 · Hard Rock · Atlantic

Iceland · 80037-1

Credits

Producer: Gary Lyons, Ian McDonald, John Sinclair, Mick Jones, Robert John Lange, Keith Olsen, Roy Thomas Baker
Written by: Mick Jones, Lou Gramm, Ian McDonald
Engineer: Dave Wittman, Geoff Workman, Jimmy Douglass
Mastered by: George Marino

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.