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Comment by girls on You Are What You Listen To?

Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:22:32 EST

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Comment by Mike Kole on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:26:25 EST

Had "London Calling" in the player today. After spending last week in Andalucia, I had to hear "Spanish Bombs" again.

Comment by Marty Thau on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:23:06 EST

Steve Earle. Good stuff. How about LONDON CALLING by the Clash? And DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, too.

Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:49:01 EST

I liked early Journey at the time, as well

Comment by SFC SKI on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:03:55 EST

Shame when good band go commercial schlock. HSAS was best known for an unnecessary cover version of Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of pale" A song I loathe, but I later heard a live album by PH, and found out they were actually a rockier, bluesier band in concert, shame to find it out 30 years too late. "Captured" is really the onnly Journey album one should own, if one must. It shows the band when they were a band, not Steve Perry's back-up musicians, it actually has some great songs, and some ripping guitar work, and shows Perry can really sing, but still reins him in a bit (well, a little). After Greg Rolie left there was no soul/blues counterbalance to the crap, and it showed. Don't get me wrong, Journey was such a hugely popular wussy girl band that no rocker would admit he had ever listened to them, but their first 3 albums were guilty pleasure in morethan a few milk crates, stashed behind the Van Halen and Yes. The excellent Randy Jackson is not a member of Michael Jackson's family, go back to your Linkin PArk albums, kiddie.

Comment by Tim Hall on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:03:08 EST

Talk about comment spammers resurrecting undead threads... (And I still think Duran Duran sucked far more than Journey)

Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:20:10 EST

that's when I saw them as well - at first the integration of an operatic-quality voice, hard rock and continents-of-sound production technique was startling and innovative, but it soon became just another cliche

Comment by Mark Saleski on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:00:48 EST

i got to see Journey when they were still a 'real' rock band (whatever the hell that means). they opened for Ted Nugent and were really good. neal schon had this freakish head of hair that he whipped back and forth during the guitar solos. this was in the era of "Wheel In The Sky".

Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:56:07 EST

I have mixed feelings about Journey, seeing them as neither nearly as good as their fans not nearly as bad as their many detractors do. But I agree they are the epitome of culturally irrelevant corporate rock, but they were really good at that.

Comment by wally bangs on You Are What You Listen To?

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:49:57 EST

Normally I don't go all out negative, but man Journey really sucks. It's just total flatulent, corporate, pandering, and so not rock (thanks Bob A Booey for inspiring the "so not" part).

Comment by Tim Hall on You Are What You Listen To?

Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:23:33 EST

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Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:14:43 EST

it's never the same IP, all automated horseshit

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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:09:39 EST

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Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:30:08 EST

Though I agree with your lyrical assessment entirely, Journey had some musical merit and some songs that have endured (I've heard "Open Arms" on American Idol more than once). They wre best when they rocked hardest, as I have mentioned more than once. I always find it fascinating what subsequent generations pick up on from the past.

Comment by Mark Brandt on You Are What You Listen To?

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:43:38 EST

As a HS student only last year I can say that most of the school had heard of Journey. Why? It was one of the louder teachers favorite bands. Some kids never really listened to them, some listened to them because the teacher did so they wanted to see what the fuss was about, there were the kids who liked the novelty of an '80's era band (those kids liked Rod Stewart too), or there were people like me who found Journey to be cheesy and completely irrelevant musically and lyrically.

Comment by TDavid on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:19:04 EST

While we are on this Journey stuff and Hagar was mentioned in another thread. Did any of you guys like/ever hear HSAS with Sammy (H)agar, Neal (S)chon, (A)aronson and (S)hrieve? I liked that one-off effort, but it didn't produce any offspring.

Comment by JR on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:35:56 EST

Duane: I think the guys in Journey would be much chagrined to find themselves being categorized with Duran Duran. Maybe. Though I once heard Neal Schon doing an interview on the radio and the DJ was talking to him between the songs on their regular playlist. So they play one of Duran Duran's hits and Schon says, "I like that chick at the end." The title escapes me right now, but from that comment you'll no doubt know which one I'm talking about. Wait, "Hungry Like a Wolf"?

Comment by duane on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:05:34 EST

Brand X was great. Collins claimed that he wanted this as a side project to get his musical ya yas out. I thought that was swell. Imagine, feeling musically inhibited in a band like Genesis. But years later I heard that he preferred R&B over prog rock and jazz. Maybe he changed, but it sounded curiously inconsistent with what I had thought about him. I would prefer to think that Tony Banks, the musical leader of the good ole days, was not that happy about the pop flavor that characterizes newer Genesis. Having Banks do that kind of stuff is like having a Maserati to drive in bumper to bumper traffic.

Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:55:17 EST

Collins always had a strong musical, prog, jazzy side, a la Brand X, but I think what happened was he did that first solo album of pop tunes purely on a lark, as basically a good-natured joke, and sonofabitch, it sold like Genesis never had - it was a whole new world! So Collins went back to the boys and said, "if we do this, this and this, I can bring us a whole new audience," and so they did.

Comment by duane on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:18:57 EST

Yeah, I like the Journey/Genesis comparison better. And the interesting thing, if I can believe the stories, is that most of the members of both bands did not like selling out, but did anyway, with Steve Perry and Phil Collins leading their respective bands into unbridled commercialism. I think with Journey, it was Steve Perry ascending, but with Genesis, it was Tony Banks descending.

Comment by Tim Hall on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:11:09 EST

There are no real musical comparisons between Duran Duran and Journey, it's just that they both ended up occupying the same ecological niche and sold records to a similar demographic. On the other hand, perhaps a closer comparison might be to say that Journey were the American Genesis, in that they were talented musicans who decided to sell out completely.

Comment by Dwaine AKA Scooter AKA D.J. on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:52:38 EST

I agree Duane, I listen to rap, the president listens to... Well, who gives a fuck what Bush listens to. He's an asshole. But I agree, I agree.

Comment by duane on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:22:55 EST

OK, that's fine. We like what we like. I think of Journey as being a group of talented musicians who sold out, and didn't live up to their potential, although they got ridiculously rich in the process. I look at Duran Duran as being a group of pretty boys who ended up with a few catchy tunes and massive airplay, including MTV, thereby far exceeding anyone's estimate of their potential, and getting ridiculously rich in the process.

Comment by Eric Olsen on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:16:26 EST

And vice versa. I get the part about becoming known for ballads, but no one ever accused Journey of being "New Romantics" or being funky. I love Duran Duran, however, and am less enthralled with Journey.

Comment by duane on You Are What You Listen To?

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:01:44 EST

Tim, you say, "In some ways, Duran Duran were the British Journey." Could you elaborate? I think the guys in Journey would be much chagrined to find themselves being categorized with Duran Duran.