JUKEBOX HERO POLL

voted #2, word to billy danz

Juke Box Hero is a popular song from 4, the 1981 album by Foreigner.

The song details the events of a man unable to purchase a ticket to a sold-out rock concert. Listening in he hears "one guitar" and has an epiphany, leading him to buy his own guitar from a second-hand store and without any lessons begins to play. He realizes that with the guitar he can, and does, become famous. The song then goes on to describe the struggle he has to stay on top of the music charts, which makes him a "Juke Box Hero."

A cover version by Soul Asylum appeared on their 2006 compilation Closer to the Stars: Best of the Twin/Tone Years.

A cover version by punk band Jewdriver has been performed live, re-named as "Jukebox Hebrew.

Foreigner are my boys, but they have way better jams than this. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eDCACoHL7o

cute spinal tap video, though

wait a minute how have i not heard soul asylum version of this

I thought I'd be able to think of 4 or 5 Foreigner songs I like more than this one, but really it's just "Feels Like The First Time" right now. So #3.

heard whoever is still touring as foreigner do a totally kick-ass soundcheck of this at the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR a couple weeks ago

YOU'RE SO EXTREME
YOU CAN BE SO TEMPERAMENTAL

i love foreigner so goddamn much

voted #2.

URGENT

"urgent"'s also rather great, but i like "juke box hero" better i think.
there were a coupla good songs on hed games as well, weren't there notta?
sued to have first two of their lp's once 'ponzatime.

(o no it wasnnae all quite like it looks there in my last post,uh)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPA8vZuhIc

lil wayne over grafh - damage is done

i wanna know what love is

don't look at me, whiney mate. if i knew, i weren't divorced now. maybe.

i saw foreigner in about 1986 or so with the giant inflatable jukebox onstage. awesome.

(opening for them: the hooters, joe walsh, aerosmith. good show!)

A Foreigner poll that doesn't let me vote for "Cold As Ice" nor "Waiting (For a Girl Like You)"??

KILL!!!!!!!!

Geir, dumbass, I got you covered with option #2.

the thing that makes me lose it with this song is when he says "six string"

yeah the way each word is on a beat and he kind of aspirates them.

option #4 should be a photo of chuck eddy

ONE GUITAR!!!!!!!

See, when this song was written, he heard the roar of the crowd and had to picture the scene. Now he'd just wait for the show to pop up on YouTube three days later.

On the whole I'd prefer "Urgent" or "Long Long Way From Home" or "Dirty White Boy". But yeah, they really were a pretty fine singles band, weren't they? (The belated realization of which only struck me mere months ago, after 20 yrs of resistance due to overexposure.)

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put his ear to the wall
then like a distant scream