Journey (Official Thread)

[METALPRIEST]

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Escape Live

 

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Good Morning Girl

 

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Livin' To Do

 

[That 70s Guy]

5 new Journey songs here!!!



Enjoy!!!

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JOURNEY - FIRST INSIGHT INTO ECLIPSE:
Journey have just completed their first live show for 2011 and first since ending their Revelation tour. The Las Vegas date is a warm up for the coming South American tour and the first date of two years of planned touring. The US summer leg will include Foreigner and Night Ranger as support.

The band previewed no less than 5 new Eclipse tunes in tonight's set. The complete set list was: Separate Ways, Edge of the Moment (new Eclipse track), Only the Young, Ask the Lonely, Never Walk Away, Send Her My Love, Resonate (new Eclipse track), Stone in Love, Keep on Running (Deen vocal), City of Hope (new Eclipse track), Lights, Open Arms, Chain of Love (new Eclipse track), Mother Father (Deen vocal), Escape, Guitar jam, Wheel in the Sky, Human Feel (Rise Up) (Eclipse track), Be Good to Yourself, Faithfully, Don't Stop Believin', Encore: Anyway You Want It, Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'.

Thanks to MR regular Rip, you can check out each new track via YouTube footage of tonight's show now:


As you can hear, this album is going to be a rocking affair and less commercial than possibly anything that has come before it. Guitar freaks are going to be all over this. I have been listening to the studio version of the lead album cut City Of Hope over and over again. This is an incredible track. It packs a punch from the opening riff, features duel guitars throughout and piano is used to fill the sound. There is a strong verse, a shifting bridge and an anthemic chorus in the vein of Faith In The Heartland and Never Walk Away. Deen Castronovo pounds away, but the song belongs to Neal Schon, who shreds from start to near finish. The last 90 seconds of the track is a double, then triple time drum/guitar shred-fest that turns the track heavier. Just tremendous stuff and glorious to hear in such a melodic setting!

Now, every band can come up with a classic song, but the intensity, power and guitar overdrive of this song, coupled with the usual anthemic flair of Journey's classic style leaves one with a very positive outlook towards the coming album. If the lead track can be filled with such power, then the rest of the album promises to be a real revelation (no pun intended!).

 

[Magic]

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OOoo! I like...Arnel sounds shockingly like Perry, he has got some pipes!

 

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[Fever]

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I was reading some of the comments on youtube and one person was saying that Journey was a keyboard oriented band and needed more keyboard on the song.
Actually for me they need to rock harder and get away from the sappy ballads.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

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I was reading some of the comments on youtube and one person was saying that Journey was a keyboard oriented band and needed more keyboard on the song.
Actually for me they need to rock harder and get away from the sappy ballads.

Agreed. Most of Journey's best known songs might be ballads and while they were the band's bread and butter for a while if songs like "Anyway You Want It", "Stoned In Love", "Separate Ways", "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'", "Be Good To Yourself", and others have proved anything it's that Journey can get hits with great rockers as well. I think two or three ballads would be the perfect number for the new Journey record and the others should be uptempo rockers that show off Neil's playing because he really is a fantastic guitarist, especially live.

 

[Kuaizi]

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I'm not too impressed with these songs. They didn't have anything really special standing out to really make me even want to care about their new album. The songwriting without Rollie or Perry just seems a bit dull.
I'll give the tracks a listen again once an album is actually out before I make my final conclusions though!

 

[Soot and Stars]

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First, I must say that Snakes and Ladders kind of it hit an element of what I was thinking but didn't quite vocalize about the Journey debut! I don't like to throw the word pompous around because it hits the wrong nerve with people plus everyone's definition of it is different. It's not one of those concrete words. To be honest I was coming off the shock of hearing this Journey and to be honest it made more sense to me after cranking up the Steve Perry version in it's entirety on my way home. Those songs are pop perfection right there. Sweet candy that has an almost mystical dreamy quality carried into the stratosphere by the perfect vocals of Steve Perry. The songs are perfectly crafted diamonds unlike the drifting, spaced out, atmospheric quality of the debut.

I was going to review the follow up album, "Look Into The Future" but decided it would be best to combine the listening in sequence with a do-over of the debut. Upon re-listening to the debut I found a deeper appreciation of it while still finding flaws based on my own personal taste. I must reiterate how cool Greg's vocals are! Did he move onto to another band? I've really grown to really appreciate his vocals! My favorite track of both albums is still "Of A Lifetime"! It's the perfect gelling of all the cool elements of early Journey (from what I've heard) and I love Greg's vocal in this as well as how it meshes with the whole vibe of the song! But moving on from what I already liked upon listening again I appreciated the instrumental melodies a lot better this time and let myself get lost in it. I think it could have been better in parts like the repetitive drums and guitar riff of "Kobotek" that break up the beautiful melodies at the beginning and end. Overall, honestly that album represents the name "Journey" more than Steve Perry's version though "To Play Some Music" was a hint of the future pop direction IMO.

Speaking of pop direction..........

I can't believe how much I've grown into this album! It's officially in my c.d. collection as of yesterday!