― dave q, Monday, 2 June 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 2 June 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 2 June 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 2 June 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 16 May 2004 07:45 (twenty years ago) link
Anyway, isn't blowing chunks over a Journey record's only going triple platinum a year and a half after release (i.e., late '84) kinda wasted motion, given that they continue to move units twenty years later?
"groundlevel fundamentalist backlash" = what? Duran Duran also going platinum in '83?
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link
1) "Separate Ways" owns almost everything else that was on radio that year, and was one of the darkest and most non-pop pop hits up until that point.
2) The power ballad, "Faithfully", was not quite good enough to be snapped up and butchered by Mariah Carey.
3) Dude! Those jumpsuits they were wearing on the album cover artwork! Best band uniform shy of Devo and Kraftwerk!
4) If you did a Mad-magazine-style fold-in on the cover you can make the name of the band JOEY and reveal the hidden design in the cover: a space-age dildo!!
http://ox.eicat.ca/~scarruthers/ilx/journey.jpg
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 16 May 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
This record is too overwrought and schmaltzy and triumphant. But it has some tunes.
The vocal harmonies in the chorus of this song is the secret weapon on the disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htxf3GOK4AA&feature=channel_page
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link