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Cold as Ice (Foreigner song)

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"Cold as Ice"
Single by Foreigner
from the album Foreigner
B-side"I Need You"
ReleasedJuly 1977 (1977-07)
Recorded1976
GenreSynth-rock[1]
Length3:18 (single)
3:19 (album)
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Lou Gramm, Mick Jones
Producer(s)Gary Lyons, John Sinclair
Foreigner singles chronology
"Feels Like the First Time"
(1977) 		"Cold as Ice"
(1977) 		"Long, Long Way from Home"
(1978)
Music video
"Cold as Ice" on YouTube

"Cold as Ice" is a 1977 song written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones that was first released by British-American rock band Foreigner from their eponymous debut album. It became one of the best-known songs of the band in the US, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] It was initially the B-side of some versions of the "Feels Like the First Time" 45 rpm single.[3]

The single version is a second shorter than the album version, but adds an orchestra track.

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Transcription

Background

"Cold as Ice" was a replacement for a song that was intended for Foreigner but which producer Gary Lyons didn't feel fit the album (Ian McDonald believes the replaced song may have been "Take Me to Your Leader"). According to Jones "I went home after Gary said this, sat down at my piano and out came the riff for Cold As Ice. And the rest of the song flowed from there.” Lyons said that “When I got back, they played me Cold As Ice and it worked for me. So we went into Atlantic Studios one night to cut it.” According to McDonald, “Gary and I were in there all night working on the vocals. And when we got out of the studio we discovered that a blizzard had been raging. Everywhere was covered in snow, and we heard on the radio that it had been coldest night in New York on record! Somehow that seemed to be a good omen for the song.”[4]

Jones has also said of the subject:

Lyrically, the subject was based on the idea of the stereotypical cold-hearted, bad girl – the sort of woman Joan Crawford would play in a film – but it wasn’t aimed at anyone specific. Well, there was one girl at school that dumped me, so maybe that trauma stayed with me over the years and subconsciously filtered in! The other contributing factor was that it was about minus 20 degrees in New York at the time we were writing it, which may have fed into the atmosphere.[5]

Salt Lake Tribune staff writer Terry Orme identified the message of "Cold as Ice" to be "a banal, sleazy claim of unrequited love".[6]

Reception

Billboard described "Cold as Ice" as having a "haunting feel" and a "surrealistic chilling effect" produced by its "richly textured instrumentals and gutsy vocals".[7] Billboard also praised how the song maintains its momentum and intensity.[7] Cash Box said that "listeners will recognize the controlled fury of Lou Gramm's lead vocal as well as the finely textured harmonies" and that "the orchestra lends an expansive effect".[8] In a contemporary review, music critic Dave Marsh said that Jones' songwriting on this song and its predecessor single "Feels Like the First Time" "places him among the better English hard-rock writers."[9] Henry McNulty's contemporary review of Foreigner in the Hartford Courant called "Cold as Ice" his favorite song on the album, saying it "is propelled by [Dennis] Elliott's drums – they carry the song in the best rock manner – but the interplay between [Lou] Gramm's lead vocal and [Al] Greenwood's electronic keyboard is what raises this from the rock pile."[10]

Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian ranked "Cold as Ice" as Foreigner's 4th greatest song, stating that the piano hook that opens the song "will always go down as one of the signature riffs in classic rock history."[11] Similarly, Ultimate Classic Rock critic Matt Wardlaw ranked it as Foreigner's 5th greatest song, wondering about how it could have been used as a b-side in some countries given its "famous piano beginning".[12] Billboard reviewer Gary Graff rated "Cold as Ice" to be Foreigner's 6th greatest song, praising the "insistent, pounding piano", the "full-bodied verses", and "faux operatic backing vocals", and calling the song "a rock-cum-pop classic and a diss track with enough lyrical bite to make most rappers proud."[13]

Jones has rated it as one of his eleven favorite Foreigner songs, saying that it was the first song he wrote and recorded on the piano.[14]

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] Silver 200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[25] Gold 500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Guest musicians

In popular culture

"Cold as Ice" was used as the soundtrack for a skit on the March 25, 1978 broadcast of Saturday Night Live that showed a man being attacked by a woman in a number of grisly ways. Host Christopher Lee introduced the segment as being "not for the squeamish".[26] Will Arnett plays the song on the piano in character as G.O.B. Bluth on the show Arrested Development. In 2002, an episode of the Adult Swim animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force referenced the song, as well as other songs by Foreigner. Rapper B.o.B interpolated the song on a track also named "Cold as Ice" from his 2010 mixtape, No Genre. [27] The song was also used in episode 2 of Stranger Things 3.

References

  1. ^ Bacon, Tony, ed. (March 28, 2008). "Cold as Ice - Foreigner". Classic Tracks Back to Back. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press. p. 174.
  2. ^ a b "Foreigner Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  3. ^ Wardlaw, Matt. "Top 10 Foreigner Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  4. ^ Dome, Malcolm (March 13, 2014). "The real story behind Foreigner's first album". Classic Rock. Louder Sound. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  5. ^ Brannigan, Paul (July 14, 2021). "How I wrote Cold As Ice, by Foreigner's Mick Jones". Classic Rock. Louder Sound. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  6. ^ Orme, Terry (January 9, 1980). "It's True, Salt Lake City Loves Rock 'n Roll". Salt Lake Tribune. p. B3. Retrieved 2022-06-18 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard Magazine. July 23, 1977. p. 58. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  8. ^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. July 23, 1977. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  9. ^ Marsh, Dave (May 28, 1977). "Reviewing Records". The Charlotte News. p. 4C. Retrieved 2022-06-20 – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ McNulty, Henry (April 3, 1977). "Fine Foreigner Arrives". Hartford Courant. p. 24F. Retrieved 2022-06-20 – via newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Kachejian, Brian (13 January 2018). "Top 10 Foreigner Songs". Classic Rock History. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  12. ^ Wardlaw, Matt (May 2, 2015). "Top 10 Foreigner Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  13. ^ Graff, Gary (October 11, 2017). "Foreigner's 10 Best Songs: Critic's Picks". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  14. ^ "Mick Jones' 11 Favourite Foreigner Songs". Classic Rock. Louder Sound. April 26, 2017. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  15. ^ Australian-charts.com Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "Foreigner - Cold as Ice". Ultratop.
  17. ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 42, 1977". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
  18. ^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles - Week ending OCTOBER 15, 1977". Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  19. ^ "Foreigner singles". The Official Chart Company. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  20. ^ "irishcharts.ie search results for Foreigner". Archived from the original on January 26, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
  21. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  22. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  23. ^ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1977". Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  24. ^ "British  single  certifications – Foreigner – Cold as Ice". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  25. ^ "American  single  certifications – Foreigner – Cold as Ice". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  26. ^ SNL transcripts Retrieved 28 Jan 2015.
  27. ^ "Cold as Ice by B.o.B". Genius. Retrieved 15 June 2023.

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