Music Review

The Very Best...And Beyond (1992)

EW's GRADE
C+

Details Lead Performance: Foreigner; Genre: Reissues

The Very Best...And Beyond captures the organization in all its hot-blooded studio glory. But the three new songs, with vocalist Lou Gramm back in the band, are anemic rehashes of Foreigner's old anthems. On ''Soul Doctor,'' it feels as if the band's really begging for a case of Geritol — if not a mercy killing. C+

Originally posted Nov 27, 1992 Published in issue #146 Nov 27, 1992 Order article reprints

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