You MUST include one on your desert-island mix tape. Which?
Stone in Love
1 votes
Lights
1 votes
Wheel in the Sky
2 votes
Any Way You Want It
1 votes
Lovin Touchin Squeezin
2 votes
Don't Stop Believin'
5 votes
Separate Ways
0 votes
Faithfully
1 votes
Johnny Dickshot Jun 21 2007 07:56 AM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 21 2007 08:24 AM
So the other night after Delgado hit his HR they played "Don't Stop Believin" and with the Sopranos and everything, my brother & I were forced to sit there and admit Journey did a few things right after all these years. We agreed:
* Good guitarist * Good drummer * Perry: Acquired taste but powerful pipes * Cheese can be good, usually when added to meat or crackers or fruit or wine other more nutruitious ingredients.
I had to "Important Poll" him, but in order to sell it , I had to frame it the proper way.
So the question today and for all future Important Polls isn't "Which is the best" necessarily, but a switch on the old desert-island-disc question: "You're going to be stranded on a desert island. But rather than getting to choose your favorite albums to take with you, you get to choose songs on a mix tape. The catch is, we choose the artist!"
That artist today is Journey. Your choices are as follows:
"Separate Ways" (I beeleive the band has destroyed all copies of the original video)
"Faithfully"
sharpie Jun 21 2007 08:05 AM
I saw Journey's inaugural performance.
For years Santana was one of the only and the most successful of the bands managed by Bill Graham, the San Francisco concert promoter. Journey was partially formed by Santana cast-offs and they opened for Santana at a concert at the Graham-managed Winterland Arena in SF some time in the ' 70's which I attended. I thought they were really lame and nothing in their career made me change my mind. Santana, however, were great that night.
TransMonk Jun 21 2007 08:24 AM
Wow...what a crappy scenario: stranded on a desert island AND I have to listen to Journey.
Well, my first instinct would be to find the sharpest stick and poke out my eardrums. But if I chose one of the songs above I would choose "Wheel in the Sky". It would make a good Rocky-esque montage song of me lifting coconut trees and practicing treading water which would be the long training process I would go through in order to swim back to civilization and away from Journey.
Can I write in the Kenny Loggins/Steve Perry duet "Don't Fight It"?
Edgy DC Jun 21 2007 08:39 AM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 21 2007 08:59 AM
]* Good guitarist
If a dork.
]* Good drummer
And a rare rock drummer who uses the reverse grip on his left hand.
]* Perry: Acquired taste but powerful pipes
Inordinately and hilariously proud of his cock, to judge from the crotch shots of his pulsing jeans in the videos.
]* Cheese can be good, usually when added to meat or crackers or fruit or wine other more nutruitious ingredients.
Sometimes it's just a slow luxurious poison for the bourgeoisie.
metirish Jun 21 2007 08:52 AM
It's funny that you poll this,since the hoopla surrounding the Soprano's I been hearing a lot of "Don't Stop Beleivin'",and have had to admit that it's a quite brilliant tune.
My vote to "Don't Stop Beleivin'"
Johnny Dickshot Jun 21 2007 08:54 AM
Sharpie seems to have caught Journey when they were conceived as a jazz-rock fusion band. They used to do instrumentals, I'm told.
Shut up and take your poison!
Wow, the "Separate Ways" vid above is with their recently shitcanned singer amd it absolutely sucks.
Origonal recording of that song was my brother's choice, btw, based on Perry's vocal. That video though might have been as damaging to their career as damaging to their career as "Rock Me Tonite" to Billy Squier's.
Centerfield Jun 21 2007 10:46 AM
Oh crap. I inadvertently voted for Lovin Touchin Squeezin which is the worst song in the history of music.
Edgy DC Jun 21 2007 11:33 AM
I love the "Seperate Ways" video. A lot of screaming in the ingenue's ear. I went lookin' for it last week when it came up, but the best I found was an imitation done by middle-aged lesbians.
Johnny Dickshot Jun 21 2007 11:57 AM
Centerfield wrote: Oh crap. I inadvertently voted for Lovin Touchin Squeezin which is the worst song in the history of music.
Nyah-nyah, nyah-nyaaaaah, nyah-nyah!
Actually, that vote is mine. I get all excited when Perry looks at his watch and goes:
It won't be LONG, yeah-eh till you're alooone When you're LOV-AH-O-O-VAHHH, oh he hasn't come HO-me Cuz he's LOVIN, ooh he's touchin', he's SQUEEZEE-EE-EH-EH-EN' anuh-utherrrr!
sounds just like Sam Cooke.
Gwreck Jun 21 2007 12:21 PM
Any Way You Want It is a pretty good song. Very good workout song too for the Ipod.
Johnny Dickshot Jun 21 2007 12:27 PM
Plus Rodney dances to it in Caddyshack. Anyone notice it was the flip side of the "Don't Stop Believin'" single at the Holsten's jukebox? That wasn't the case in real life: They came from different albums.
Edgy DC Jun 21 2007 12:37 PM
Could be on a re-issue, maybe.
seawolf17 Jun 21 2007 01:23 PM
The second "Lovin Touchin Squeezin" vote is mine. It's the only Journey song that routinely winds up in my head for no reason.
"You make me weeeeeeeep..."
Methead Jun 21 2007 01:24 PM
Stone In Love was on the radio the other evening as I drove home with the sunroof open and the windows down... I was enjoying it.
Frayed Knot Jun 21 2007 01:47 PM
Picking songs based on the video always strikes me as a dumb idea ... especially for a desert island.
Edgy DC Jun 21 2007 01:51 PM
I didn't, I went for "Don't Stop... ."
Johnny Dickshot Jun 21 2007 09:34 PM
Alright, which of you prom queens voted for "Faithfully."
Stand up and be counted.
Was Faithfully the first of the melancholy power ballads about a hard-workin band on the road? ("Beth" doesn't count -- no power!)
Edgy DC Jun 21 2007 09:58 PM
I think the sub-genre was pretty much established. Jackson Browne had done a whole album of melancholy power ballads about a hard-workin band on the road.
In the end, it was for the fans, and therefore worth it.
Centerfield Jun 22 2007 08:14 AM
The Load Out can hardly be called a power ballad. Like you said, it's melancholy, and on point, but no screaming electric guitar, no big drum solo. In fact, I used to use it as a lullaby for Ryan. In other words, it has power like Jason Tyner.
Edgy DC Jun 22 2007 08:29 AM
I'm sorry, sir. "The Load Out" is correctly named "The Load Out/Stay" and the "Stay" portion certainly has a guitar with screams. I don't know when a big drum solo became a definitive staple of the "power ballad," but a screaming guitar and a wailing falsetto provide power. Yes, sir, power to burn.
Just 'cause it's good don't preclude it from being a power ballad. And the rest of the album retains the theme while almost never jumping above mid-tempo.
Do you really want Ryan to be a miserable touring act? Passing the time in the hotel room, wandering around backstage?
cooby Jun 22 2007 03:50 PM
Johnny Dickshot wrote: Alright, which of you prom queens voted for "Faithfully."
Stand up and be counted.
Was Faithfully the first of the melancholy power ballads about a hard-workin band on the road? ("Beth" doesn't count -- no power!)
That was me, and I dislike Journey but figured it was the least horrible in my book. Liked Steve whathisnames "Oh Sherry" though
Lovin Touchin Squeezin reminds me of this weird guy I used to work with that played that song ad nauseum (we worked in a record store)
Willets Point Jun 27 2007 01:07 PM
I hate songs about how bad life is on The Road. It's your fucking job and no one wants to hear you whining about your job.
Edgy DC Jun 27 2007 01:16 PM
Well, nuts to my poll about heavy-hearted travelling-band songs.
Edgy DC Aug 31 2007 12:46 PM
Exploerers have unearthed a surviving copy of the "Seperate Ways" video.
