Foreigner: 4 Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.5
Video		0.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.5

Foreigner: 4 Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman August 31, 2025

Lots of major acts have amassed sales in the tens of millions, but many of them have had to achieve that remarkable feat over careers that lasted decades. In that regard, Foreigner's membership in that particular club came courtesy largely due to a relatively few five albums released across the equally relatively brief period of seven years, give or take, which may subliminally indicate how seemingly inescapable they were on radio (and, later, MTV, especially salient in terms of this album's original release date) back in the day. 4 was perhaps unsurprisingly the fourth effort from the band which had also recently reformed as a quartet, giving the title another layer, and was the only album to get to Number 1 on the Billboard album charts on this side of the pond. The famously "international" band did get to Number 1 in the UK, with their follow up, the fifth of the albums alluded to above, Agent Provocateur, though kind of weirdly that album didn't totally catch fire in the United States. As "hook"-y as Foreigner's material typically is, and with consistent production gloss, I'd personally argue that it was the unmistakable plaintive tenor of Lou Gramm which really propelled the band's airplay in particular. It's kind of interesting to compare Gramm with other contemporary high belters like Steve Perry from Journey, and 4 certainly shows Gramm off to excellent advantage. This is another pretty overwhelming release from Rhino, with four CDs offering a glut of previously unreleased material (actually due to the new stereo remix, everything on this disc is "previously unreleased", at least in a way). See below for more information on what else is included.

The album's track list can be seen in the screenshots of the Blu-ray disc menu I've uploaded to accompany this review. This is an unusual audio Blu- ray in that the stereo version offers a bonus track that the Atmos version does not. See screenshot 2 for the menu for the DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 version.

Foreigner: 4 Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

This is another of Rhino's audio Blu-rays with a static menu, and unfortunately (though perhaps understandably given the aforementioned bonus stereo track), the disc has been authored once again to force listeners to navigate through the track list to get to the audio codec choices. Changing codecs starts the song over. Again, perhaps due to the "dual menus" and slightly different track lists, even the audio button on your remote will not allow toggling between codecs. Screenshots 9 and 10 show how the colors/fonts change when you scroll before choosing a track.

Foreigner: 4 Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Foreigner 4 features Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 options, and my hunch is the only complaint some fans may have with this release is that the original stereo mix is not included on either the audio Blu-ray or any of the CDs. That said, both of the options on the Blu-ray are beautifully rendered, and while going from a CD player to a Blu-ray player is not the most authoritative (let alone convenient) way to do a "side by side" comparison, I didn't hear anything so odd in the stereo remix that it caught my attention. The Atmos mix is really nicely spacious and has clear engagement of the side and rear channels throughout. Several nice moments, like those diaphanous synths that begin Waiting for a Girl Like You, also nicely waft overhead in the Atmos version. There's also really appealing discrete channelization at times, as in (more) synth punches emanating from the rear speakers in Night Life, while guitars blast out of the front speakers. Gramm's inimitable voice soars above everything, though backups are really well splayed (tending toward the rear) and to my ears a bit more evident in the Atmos version than the stereo.

Foreigner: 4 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

CD 1: "4" STEREO REMIX

1. Night Life
2. Juke Box Hero
3. Break It Up
4. Waiting For A Girl Like You
5. Luanne
6. Urgent
7. I'm Gonna Win
8. Woman In Black
9. Girl On The Moon
10. Don't Let Go

CD 2:

UNRELEASED SONGS / ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS


1. Fool If You Love Him
2. Love So Much Better
3. Knockout Power
4. Don't Say No (Don't Let Go early version)
5. Jealous Lover

EARLY VERSIONS & ALTERNATIVE MIXES


6. Night Life
7. Take One Guitar (Juke Box Hero early version)
8. Juke Box Hero
9. Waiting For A Girl Like You (vocal & piano)
10. Waiting For A Girl Like You (early version)
11. Luanne (early version)
12. Urgent (vocals on chorus only)
13. I'm Gonna Win
14. I'm Gonna Win (early version)
15. Woman In Black (early version 1)
16. Woman In Black (early version 2)
17. Alone Again (Girl On The Moon early version)
18. Girl On The Moon (early version)
19. Don't Let Go

CD 3: INSTRUMENTAL ROUGH MIXES

1. Night Life
2. Juke Box Hero
3. Break It Up
4. Waiting For A Girl Like You
5. Luanne
6. Urgent (bass version 1)
7. Urgent (bass version 2)
8. I'm Gonna Win (version 1)
9. I'm Gonna Win (version 2)
10. Woman In Black (with intro)
11. Woman In Black (version 2)
12. Girl On The Moon
13. Don't Let Go
14. Fool If You Love Him
15. Love So Much Better

CD 4: "4" LIVE TOUR 1981-82

1. Long, Long Way From Home (Live in Birmingham 1981)
2. Dirty White Boy (Live in Anaheim 1982)
3. Blue Morning, Blue Day (Live in Anaheim 1982)
4. Luanne (Live in Anaheim 1982)
5. Cold As Ice (Live in Germany 1981)
6. Waiting For A Girl Like You (Live in Germany 1981)
7. Head Games (Live in Germany 1981)
8. Starrider (with Prelude) (Live in Anaheim 1982)
9. Woman In Black (Live in Anaheim 1982)
10. Urgent (Live in Birmingham 1981)
11. Double Vision (Live in Anaheim 1982)
12. Juke Box Hero (Live in Anaheim 1982)
13. Feels Like The First Time (Live in Anaheim 1982)
14. Hot Blooded (Live in Anaheim 1982)
15. Night Life (Live in Anaheim 1982)

Rhino has packaged everything in a rather thick DigiBook that measures approximately 7 3/4" high by 5 3/4" wide by 1" thick. Three CDs are enclosed in the inside front cover and the remaining CD and Blu-ray disc are enclosed in the inside back cover. The actual "book" part of the release will be a treasure trove for fans, with some great interviews, a track by track analysis of the album, and some really interesting production information (including background on the unreleased material).

Foreigner: 4 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

I had a buddy back in the day who (I kid you not) used Waiting for a Girl Like You as an actual come on song (as opposed to a come on line) in public emporia, as in he would walk up to a female in a bar and start singing it to them. It helped that he had a really good tenor voice himself (his older brother is a pretty famous jazz guitarist, for mystery hunters), and it always struck me as slightly hilarious that at least some of the "targets" actually reacted positively to the approach. That may indicate just what an impact this album and that song in particular made in the early eighties. Rhino has done Foreigner's fans a solid with this release, offering a great sounding audio Blu-ray (albeit without the original stereo mix), and some amazing supplements on CD and in the accompanying text. Highly recommended.