I dunno. At times, they really managed. Just saying.

"Faithfully," for what it is, can't be touched.

I bet that guy on the left was a hit with the ladies

Fantastic band.

Greg Rolie (left) and Neil Schon (center) were in Santana's band when he played Woodstock. You can see them in the film.

"managed'" or "thrived"?

Hell yeah

Whenever a gay guy comes onto me I make it a point to do a bunch of pushups immediately afterwards. You know, just to reassure myself.

cuz, you know, gay guys don't do pushups or anything.

I'm not totally convinced you understand how the paranoid homophobic mind works, elc.

Not that Louden did those pushups due to the awkward brush with gayness. In his case, it was strictly a part of his training regime.

Saw Journey a few years back with Def Leppard. It was as rad as one would assume.

Whatever happened to Steve Perry?

American Idol mix




so many wasted quarters spent

"Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" is Sam Cooke x1,000.

^ "Walks Like a Lady" also. Great to belt out while driving.



^ The only lullaby I sang my son to sleep to.

The Separate Ways video is still the biggest unintended laughmaker for me now as it was in 1983(?)

You should hear Journey pre-Steve Perry, that's some progressive, jazzy stuff.

I was so fucking drunk last night.

Journey really are incredible.

I don't get tired of "Don't Stop Believin'." Still waiting for that to happen.

Oh yeah, MTV was a huge factor in killing off the less handsome of the 70's guitar rock bands.

Air keyboard...still cracks me up 28 years later...and I LOVED Journey...they were my favorite band until I discovered U2 in 1981 or so.

One more thing...

Screw the Glee kids, they got nothing on Petra Haden

Everyone go listen to "Stone In Love" immediately and try to argue that this isn't the best Journey song of all time.

Then how do you explain Lionel Richie?

Accident of history. Came out of the post-disco era from the Commodores days basically unscathed, wrote songs for a TON of other people, and had a big hand in "We Are The World", which helped make MTV...then graduated to being the black Rick Astley.

That "Hello" video is one of the best unintentionally funny moments ever. "Dancing on the Ceiling" was just brutal.

Lionel Richie wasn't that bad looking. Personally, I'd place him in the slightly above average looking category of 70s guitar rockers.

Schon grew the better fro though.

Ritchie's first solo album came out in 1982, the year after MTV started so if anything it helped him get going. He was the sort of non-threatening black artist MTV could play a lot back then.

I don't think I have ever typed this before here but OTM...

what is scary is that somewhere there are Outtakes of this video that weren't good enough to make the cut...

A decade of doing everything in my power to avoid classic rock radio and I'm still waiting to not be tired of that song/this band.

Probably a good thing this board lacks a props system.

http://intensities.wordpress.com/2007/10/2...failed-to-kill/

This.

And Whitepony's comment about outtakes made me

The Good Dr, should have found some room on that list for the Scorpions.

Can't say I was hotly anticipating Duff's take on this recording artist, no.

still can't believe i have no memory of this game:
journey on atari
i mean, i was a true gamer. i should have been there.

but back to the music...this is a jam:

About once a month I think about seeing that game at Caeserland on Harlem oh so long ago.

One of the greatest moments in rock/pop is at about 1:55 in Faithfully. There's a vocoder-like pad (at least I think it may be a vocoder) that has this mellow, organic vibe. It's triggered by the lyrics "through space and time" and then kind of bumps down a note and creates an aural pillow for the line "wondering where I am, lost without you".

It's God-like. Just God-like. There's something so subtle about it. Sure, it's sort of familiar at first, but in the end feels more alien and you get the feeling that some guy slaved over that tone for like two weeks. The craftsmanship is spectacular. That's where indie went wrong. Somewhere along the way, people got lazy and confused spending lots of time on an album and perfecting it with soullessness. They couldn't have been more wrong. Great songs don't die from careful polishing. They only get better. Of course, indie's main problem is that no one is really writing great songs, so it's easy to ignore the polish part.

Infinity is just ridiculous. That segue from "Feeling That Way" into "Anytime." And the little cosmic push of the phase shifting ..."any-TAHHHm at all, ANY-TIME AT ALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!" (swirling space ear Cheetos).

...good ol Herbie Herbert "Lets Make a Ton of Money" production...lets put a pretty guitar sound with a pretty voice...some long hair...pump it into whats left of commercial radio...save this shit for your high school reunion

It's certainly up there. Top 5 for sure.

Journey actually makes it into the news as the wifely half of the couple who gate crashed the Obamas' first state dinner, and who later were thrown off "The Real Housewives of..." for not being relevant enough and kicked off of "Celebrity Rehab" for not actually being addicted to anything, admits running off on tour with Neal Schon after her husband reports her missing to the police and TMZ. This is more relevant than the band's been for the past 30 years!

I can only imagine what Neal Shon's ball fro looks like.

Journey will always be relevant. Shame on you for inferring they are propped up by trashy, flash in the pan reality shows.

This isn't really something to get mad about. Journey was there to make you happy.

Nothing wrong with pretty if there's talent behind the blush and cheekbones.



Listen to that, man. Just listen. It's like...it's like if Arcade Fire and Coldplay were actually good. Great singer, great guitarist, great bass player, great keyboard player, great drummer. It's an ass-whooping but with the restraint of a ninja who uses his least lethal chop because his attack is one of artful precision, and any heavier moves would dull the brilliance.

Are you a Boston fan, Montana?

Hearing their songs on the radio always inspires Montana type "this is so much better than all the shitty new music by shitty new musicians that people listen to for some reason" thoughts in me.