Don’t Stop Believing in Journey
June 13, 2007
I’m not quite sure I believe this:
But Journey has long been a guilty pleasure of mine. Frontiers, in particular, is unfairly maligned even if Quiet Riot’s Metal Health displaced it rather abruptly when I was 13. I will never forget my first serious girlfriend and our song: ”Send Her My Love.”
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June 13th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
“Don’t Stop Believing” is the only one of their songs I truly loved. My band plays “Loving, Touching, Squeezing” sometimes, but I don’t ever feel it all the way down deep. I do like Steve Perry’s voice a lot, though.
Not that different from punk? Stretching things, I’d say–but a gutsy thesis.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I read this piece yesterday in Salon. I took it as the music reviewer’s trying to defend their guilty pleasure of Journey in the face of the recent backlash because of the Sopranos finale. While I definitely think the thesis that Journey was not so different from punk is just plain stupid, and that for the most part their music gives me nausea, I will say that its use in the final scene of The Sopranos was just perfect! What an uproar that scene has caused, eh? Genius if you ask me.