I was always a big Foreigner fan back in the late 70's and early 80's, so when Lou Gramm came out with his solo effort Ready or Not in 1987, I was all over it. It was one of my most played albums of the 80's. Fifteen years later, I got the CD after not having listened to the album for at least a decade, and rediscovered why I played it so often. If you are (or ever were) into Foreigner, you'll like Ready or Not. Songs like "Ready or Not", "Time", and "Midnight Blue" are great Rock tunes that sound just as good today as they did in the late 80's. And with the ever recognizable vocals of Lou Gramm, you sometimes forget that you're not listening to Foreigner. The second song on the CD, "Heartache", has the same exact sound that is typical of the second songs on the first 3 Foreigner albums ("Cold As Ice" - FOREIGNER, "Blue Morning, Blue Day" - DOUBLE VISION, "Love On The Telephone - HEAD GAMES). The rocker "She's Got To Know" is a semi clone of the Foreigner song "Headnocker". I didn't listen to the second side of the album as much as the first side when it was new, but now I've found that my favorite song on the album is 8th track "Until I Make You Mind". It has a timeless sound that cannot be pegged as an 80's style song