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| album = [[Foreigner (Foreigner album)|Foreigner]]
| B-side = I Need You
| released = {{Start date|1977|07
| recorded = 1976
| studio =
| genre = [[Synth-rock]]<ref name="Classic Tracks">{{cite book|display-authors=etal|chapter=Cold as Ice - Foreigner|editor-last=Bacon|editor-first=Tony|date=March 28, 2008|title=Classic Tracks Back to Back|publisher=[[Thunder Bay Press]]|location=San Diego|pages=174}}</ref>
| length = 3:18 (single)<br/>3:19 (album)
| label = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
| writer = [[Lou Gramm]], [[Mick Jones (Foreigner guitarist)|Mick Jones]]
| producer = Gary Lyons, John Sinclair
| prev_title = [[Feels Like the First Time (Foreigner song)|Feels Like the First Time]]
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = [[Long, Long Way from Home]]
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| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|ySb1f9zWJkQ|"Cold as Ice"}}}}
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"'''Cold as Ice'''" is a 1977 song written by [[Lou Gramm]] and [[Mick Jones (Foreigner guitarist)|Mick Jones]] that was first released by British-American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]] from their [[Foreigner (Foreigner album)|eponymous debut album]]. It became one of the best
The single version is a second shorter than the album version, but adds an orchestra track.
==Background==
"Cold as Ice" was a replacement for a song that was intended for Foreigner but which [[producer (music)|producer]] Gary Lyons didn't feel fit the album ([[Ian McDonald (musician)|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 (music)|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.”<ref>{{cite web|title=The real story behind Foreigner's first album|author=Dome, Malcolm|accessdate=2022-06-17|publisher=Louder Sound|work=Classic Rock|date=March 13, 2014|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/foreigner-first-time-around}}</ref>
Jones has also said of the subject:
{{quote|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=How I wrote Cold As Ice, by Foreigner's Mick Jones|author=Brannigan, Paul|publisher=Louder Sound|work=Classic Rock|accessdate=2022-06-17|date=July 14, 2021|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-i-wrote-cold-as-ice-by-foreigners-mick-jones}}</ref>}}
''Salt Lake Tribune'' staff writer Terry Orme identified the message of "Cold as Ice" to be "a banal, sleazy claim of unrequited love".<ref>{{cite news|via=newspapers.com|accessdate=2022-06-18|newspaper=Salt Lake Tribune|author=Orme, Terry|title=It's True, Salt Lake City Loves Rock 'n Roll|date=January 9, 1980|page=B3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104010511/the-salt-lake-tribune/}}</ref>
==Reception==
''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described "Cold as Ice" as having a "haunting feel" and a "surrealistic chilling effect" produced by its "richly textured instrumentals and gutsy vocals
''Classic Rock History'' critic
Jones has rated it as one of his
==Charts==
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| Belgium (Ultratop)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/song/1991/Foreigner-Cold-As-Ice|title=Foreigner - Cold as Ice|website=[[Ultratop]] }}</ref>
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| [[Dutch Top 40]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=6827 |title=De Nederlandse Top 40, week 42, 1977 |access-date=December 4, 2008 |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517031332/http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=6827 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| US [[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cash Box'']] Top 100<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19771015.html |title=CASH BOX Top 100 Singles - Week ending OCTOBER 15, 1977 |access-date=2016-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020124305/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19771015.html |archive-date=2018-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| Irish Singles Chart<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irishcharts.ie |title=irishcharts.ie search results for Foreigner |access-date=December 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Foreigner|title=Cold as Ice|award=Silver|relyear=2004|certyear=2022|id=13566-1236-1|access-date=September 2, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Foreigner|title=Cold as Ice|award=Gold|relyear=2003|certyear=2014|access-date=September 2, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}
== Personnel ==
* [[Lou Gramm]] – [[Lead vocalist|lead vocals]]
* [[Mick Jones (Foreigner guitarist)|Mick Jones]] – [[lead guitar]], [[backing vocals]], [[piano]]
* [[Ian McDonald (musician)|Ian McDonald]] – [[rhythm guitar]], backing vocals, [[
* [[Al Greenwood]] – [[organ (music)|organ]], [[synthesizer]]
* [[Ed Gagliardi]] – [[bass guitar]], backing vocals
* [[Dennis Elliott]] – [[Drum kit|drums]]
=== Guest musicians ===
* [[Ian Lloyd (musician)|Ian Lloyd]] – backing vocals
==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".<ref> [http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77o.phtml SNL transcripts] Retrieved 28 Jan 2015. </ref> [[Will Arnett]] plays the song on the piano in character as [[List of Arrested Development characters|G.O.B. Bluth]] on the show ''[[Arrested Development]]''. In 2002, an [[Revenge of the Mooninites|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''. <ref>{{cite web |title=Cold as Ice by B.o.B |url=https://genius.com/Bob-cold-as-ice-lyrics |website=Genius |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref> The song was also used in episode 2 of Stranger Things 3.
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