"Come Sail Away" vs. "More than a Feeling" vs. "Don't Stop Believing"

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late 70s-ish pomp rock classics. the slow intro -> RAWK moment is what makes all of these songs what they are.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
More than a Feeling 64
Don't Stop Believing 32
Come Sail Away 20


iatee, Monday, 21 September 2009 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

Not Journey.

Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

Gotta be Boston

The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

Tough one.

Mark, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:20 (sixteen years ago)

This is seriously impossible on the merits -- these three represent the absolute apex of the form. So with no rational basis for choice I'm going to go with the one that I heard first, and that blew my mind the most, and that I played twenty-three times in a row so that I'd be sure my red felt-tip transcription of the lyrics onto the paper record sleeve was exactly accurate, and also the one with aliens in it, and that is "Come Sail Away."

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

if this were a poll of boston, styx & journey there'd be no contest (boston). still prob gonna go with "more than a feeling"

feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, see, if I had to pick between the BANDS it would be Styx, easy. They could do more different things than Boston could, and they just weren't as dopey as Journey.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

My 6th grade yearbook was called "The Best of Times", and on the inside cover it said:

...Well take the best, forget the rest
And someday well find, these are the best of times...

"Come Sail Away" is much better though.

Mark, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

Also, 6th grade is most certainly NOT the best of times.

Mark, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

That's a killer Boston song but I'm gonna have to side with Styx as well.

Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)

I love "Don't Stop Believing," am lukewarm to "More Than A Feeling," and I don't really like "Come Sail Away"

yo gotti gotti! (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

O_O. This is tough.

I think Journey, frankly, both in a contest between these songs and in a contest between these bands. You can call them dopey, but their big, sweeping vocal harmonies were thrilling. Steve Perry knew the drama in the hearts of 80s kids.

But that may be reactionary, since just a few days ago, I felt like Come Sail Away was one of the only 15 perfect songs in the world. So I may be guilty of inconsistency.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

"Come Sail Away" has the best synths.

Mark, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

curtis otm. i actually just sang nailed 'more than a feeling' at a singstar party on saturday night lol but i could stand not hearing it for a very long time, which i'd never say about 'don't stop believing'. xp daniel otm re: journey, big fat feelings ftw

a snuff is enough (tremendoid), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:59 (sixteen years ago)

I'm always happy to vote for Styx. After all these years "More Than a Feeling" sometimes seems a little underwritten...I mean it's great, but it needs a long spacy proggy synth interlude.

dlp9001, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:01 (sixteen years ago)

After all these years "More Than a Feeling" sometimes seems a little underwritten

I like it better when they embellished and re-released it as Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:06 (sixteen years ago)

It's Come Sail Away because it's not the other two.

Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

The Journey tune is from '81, but that still counts as late 70s.

Mark, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:06 (sixteen years ago)

Boston.

If I'm posting, I'm drunk. (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:49 (sixteen years ago)

virtually impossible but my gut says "don't stop believing" even though i like boston way better than journey. i am still not worthy of embracing "come sail away." that is some celestial shit beyond my ken. maybe some day

kamerad, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:58 (sixteen years ago)

i love "Come Sail Away" with "More Than A Feeling" is a notch below with "Don't Stop Believing" not really belonging but like the song alright.

Bee OK, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

What "Don't Stop Believing" has going for it here is that you can imagine almost any living human in America, say under 75, digging this song, and I think that's not true for the proggier "Come Sail Away."

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

come sail away gonna get wrecked here. tough to decide between other two.

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

More than a Feeling.

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:06 (sixteen years ago)

come sail away gonna get wrecked here.

it's getting the most rep so far!

iatee, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 07:31 (sixteen years ago)

Another vote for Boston. Esp. by virtue of the song being essentially a Tom Scholz demo.

Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:17 (sixteen years ago)

journey. for me, no contest. one of the greatest songs of all time.

m the g, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

Styx in a heartbeat.

Come on! The bit where the angels gather around his head, and then turn into SPACE ALIENS and take him sailing to THE STARS is the most cosmic prog sentiment ever written.

girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:29 (sixteen years ago)

And it takes on new meaning when Cartman sings it.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

This is just the most beautifully pompous and overblown ridiculously beautiful thing evah. I am instantly, like, 9, every time I hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARLfUmyBJA

girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:37 (sixteen years ago)

More Than A Feeling is alright, but it's not nearly EPIC enough to go for the win. Journey is a freaking joke, Constipation Rock at its worst. Get out of town.

girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)

Voted "Come Sail Away"

Hate Don't Stop Believin' but luv this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5vrtZKvxWM

Turangalila, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:39 (sixteen years ago)

I hate Dont Stop Believing. The other 2 songs rule.

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:55 (sixteen years ago)

I always thought More Than A Feeling was Kansas - Boston, Kansas, only a short hop apart, right? But perhaps I'm thinking of Dust In The Wind?

girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:00 (sixteen years ago)

The guitar solo on More Than A Feeling is pretty classic, but still. That song hath no alien/angels, it hath not the Win.

girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

Never heard the Styx till now. It don't do much for me, but I can imagine if I'd heard it when I was 9 it would have much more of an impact. Journey is indeed a load of old toss.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

"Carry On Wayward Son"
But voted "More than a Feeling", out of the three in this poll

Paul in Santa Cruz, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

"Don't Stop Believin'" has that terrific piano intro and the guitar lick/scales coming in up to a big growl is one of my favorite things ever in music, so that one.

rentboy, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

Come on! The bit where the angels gather around his head, and then turn into SPACE ALIENS and take him sailing to THE STARS is the most cosmic prog sentiment ever written.

^^this is admittedly pretty fuckin awesome

feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

voted "More Than A Feeling" -- when I was a kid and that song would come on the radio, my friend's dad (a semi-pro musician) would always be like "Listen to those DRUMS! So crisp! So perfect! Listen to those GUITARS! LISTEN!!" We listened.

tylerw, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

also, i now have an unholy combo of these three songs running through my head this morning. Thanks, ILM! (Jerks.)

tylerw, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

Not going to say which songs specifically, but I feel like people who like one of these songs more than another one must be hearing music in a completely different way than I do! One song is good, another is really good, and I'm happy for you and all but the other is one of the greatest songs of all time!

Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

One song is good, another is really good, and I'm happy for you and all but the other is one of the greatest songs of all time!

Which is which?

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=adVB7tamdWI

tylerw, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adVB7tamdWI

tylerw, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

haha, oops, that is not actually what I meant to post there ... weird.

tylerw, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:53 (sixteen years ago)

What the hell?? I thought ILM loved "Don't Stop Believing"!

(It's my third choice and always was)

Random trolling, brutal snubs, darted zings & decisive bans (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:02 (sixteen years ago)

I thought everyone loved "Don't Stop Believing".

The Journey tune is from '81, but that still counts as late 70s.

Really? It screams "80s" to me.

I'm voting Boston just because it's the one I remember hearing most as a kid and the only one of these I've seen live. Just feels like suburban summer or something? (Journey does seem to get the most airplay now.)

Sundar, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, I like them all, obv.

I'm guessing that Spencer's ranking is
Journey
Boston
Styx

Sundar, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

Really? It screams "80s" to me

This is a highly subjective way to determine these things but in the Bay Area, at least, Journey was playing on the Classic Rock radio stations that preceded the New Wave stations that emerged in '81, '82 and '83. Part of it is personal history (I spent my adolescence in Marin County in the 80's) and part of it is just Perry's voice, but I still loathe Journey.

l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

MUSIC TIME!!! omg, I haven't heard that since 1984.

oh god, early 80s videos, hilarious.

ElectroSlash (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

I always thought "Don't Stop Believing" was underwritten, actually. And the Styx song is, um, overwritten. Which leaves the Boston song, which is not only just right, but features that awesome moment where Brad Delp's high note fades right into the high soaring guitar.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:52 (sixteen years ago)

"Don't Stop Believing" bugs me because because the song never really kicks in rhythmically, it's like the drums are slowly building to this release that never happens. Maybe the whole song is one big release, I don't know.

skeletor, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

The Sopranos' finale had me listening to Journey without wanting to cut my ears off with dull shears, so that.

Jazzbo, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

more than a feeling > > don't stop believing > > > > > > > > come sail away

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

more than a feeling >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> come sail away > dont stop believing

69, Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 26 September 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

we have a winnah

iatee, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

This is a sad moment for this board.

dlp9001, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

come sail away gonna get wrecked here. tough to decide between other two.

― call all destroyer, Monday, September 21, 2009 11:00 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

call all destroyer, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

what just happened here

Mark, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

64 people stopped believing

iatee, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

Actually 84 people, but only 20 of them took me up on my offer to sail away.

Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:04 (sixteen years ago)

REO's "Roll With the Changes" is better than all of these.

MCCCXI (u s steel), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:15 (sixteen years ago)

that song is about 1/500th as transcendent as any of these songs

iatee, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

More than a feeling is one of the greatest songs since the invention of recorded sound.

Jeff, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:23 (sixteen years ago)

REO's "Roll With the Changes" is better than all of these.

Yes. That is REO's Stairway To Heaven. I could play that song 100000 times and never get sick of it.

kornrulez6969, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

Heard It From A Friend Who Heard It From A Friend Who pwns other REO songs.

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 September 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

In REO circles, we call that Take It On The Run. And great as it is, it can't match Roll With The Changes.

kornrulez6969, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

Why do people hate Journey?????

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 28 September 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

Love love love Journey. Besides, Journey beat Styx by 12 votes.

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 September 2009 02:30 (sixteen years ago)

This is almost justice enough to cancel out all the shitty results on the Beatles polls.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 September 2009 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

I eagerly await the "Are there more bad songs or good songs on such-and-such Beatles album?" polls.

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 September 2009 02:36 (sixteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure that if I had 116 votes in this poll, this is exactly how I would distribute them. Well done

een, Monday, 28 September 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

mandate

mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

I dare anybody to do polls for best song on/worst song all the journey albums & styx albums

a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Monday, 28 September 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

I'm new here, but I do know that ^^that^^ is what the "Suggest Ban" button is for

een, Monday, 28 September 2009 03:59 (sixteen years ago)

madness

sleeve, Monday, 28 September 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

come sail away so obviously the worst

deej, Monday, 28 September 2009 05:08 (sixteen years ago)

I endorse these results.

TS: this thread versus the youtube comments for "Come Sail Away":

thekingofbs (3 hours ago) 0 Reply
I hope he sets his course for virgincy.

oliver7552 (6 hours ago) 0 Reply
just pure awsome

swissndl (9 hours ago) 0 Reply
the resounding voice... love it

oompalord (9 hours ago) 0 Reply
They need more music like this in my generation, this rap shit is making me sick... PLAY MORE ROCK LESS COCK!

ReggaeLioness (17 hours ago) 0 Reply
Ohhhh....This song brings back so much memories, I luv it

gh4pwner (1 day ago) 0 Reply
he reminds me of freddy mercury, idk y

CameronWasmund (1 day ago) 0 Reply
...When your on death row? you planning on murdering someone?

iliketorake (1 day ago) 0 Reply
nope twice.

Dhghgoddbhtr (2 days ago) 0 Reply
when im on my death roe im going to sing this song!

gabi326jjk (2 days ago) 0 Reply
this is the song I'm gona listen to if the worlds about to end^^

Euler, Monday, 28 September 2009 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

That youtube "thread" brings it all: horrid spelling and grammar, rap haters, gnomic references to "virgincy".

I'm pretty amazed that that many people are thinking about Styx in 2009.

Euler, Monday, 28 September 2009 05:57 (sixteen years ago)

Styx is far and above the best band on this poll.

But I can live with that Boston song winning.

Journey beating Styx--that's just based on the power of second wave nostalgia; not the original power of the track.

Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:52 (sixteen years ago)

Not on my part. When I was little I was compelled to listen to that Journey song, when I got older and decided that I didn't really like stuff like Journey I would still listen to that song whenever it came on the radio, and now I think I like it more than I did when I was little. Boston has just left me colder and colder and colder. I would take "Come Sail Away" over "More Than A Feeling" in a heartbeat as well. Plus, Journey had their own fucking video game and Boston is named after Boston. Fuck that shit. Journey's spaceship was cooler as well.

grandavis, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

these poll results OTM

a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANQ9bFvGtjc

avatar brothers (Tape Store), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

why wasn't "you're the voice" in this poll

poster x (ledge), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

runaway winner imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJrXN0VPqnc

poster x (ledge), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

I only know "You're the Voice" from a memorably bad David Archuleta cover on American Idol!

Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

that was a great performance!

avatar brothers (Tape Store), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

I only know "You're the Voice" from a memorably bad David Archuleta cover on American Idol!

I thought David Archuleta was just a made-up character on an episode of iCarly! lol he's a real singer?

Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

This poll just proves how much people hate anything even perceived as prog.

Nate Carson, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:09 (sixteen years ago)

Fuck that shit. Journey's spaceship was cooler as well

Poll! Who had the better spaceship? Journey vs. Boston vs. E.L.O.

Answer: Funkadelic

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:14 (sixteen years ago)

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/jackphantom13/reviews/heavymetal13.jpg

Nate Carson, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:17 (sixteen years ago)

real answer: carl sagan, especially after that rap he did with stephen hawking

Karen Tregaskin, Friday, 18 December 2009 10:44 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know Come Sail Away, but I can confirm that the other two are awful songs.

The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 18 December 2009 15:02 (sixteen years ago)

man imo anybody who doesn't rep for that first boston album had better be a beach boys hater too because scholz is basically brian wilson with better taste in riffs

Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Friday, 18 December 2009 15:09 (sixteen years ago)

As a guy who voted for "Come Sail Away" in this poll, and as a guy who occasionally willingly listens to college a capella groups, let me say that the a capella "Come Sail Away" in the vid above is weak, weak, weak. Entrance of ten skinny dudes going "aaaaaaah" does not function in the same way as entrance of wall of guitar, thus 80% of the greatness of the song is lost. And: no attempt to do the keyboard solo!

It made me grumpy.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 18 December 2009 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

ayo John D. check out these live Boston shows from 1976/77:

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=354

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=353

I was listening to them the other day and it really hit me that, even though I already liked the band, their live shows really highlighted the power-pop over the arena-rock in their sound!

james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know Come Sail Away, but I can confirm that the other two are awful songs.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, December 18, 2009 10:02 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^ i can confirm that you are an idiot.

Bill Magill, Friday, 18 December 2009 16:18 (sixteen years ago)


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