scarab wrote:Was very lucky to hear songs live from this album in their first concert promoting it, in front row, a full 6 months before the release.
I loved World Gone Wild at that concert and thought it came right out of Frontiers, and the bluesy Good Time Tonight? as well and loved it. Both songs were touted as to be released on their next album.
And it may be a Mandella effect but I could swear there was a third would be Arrival song played. A Power ballad. But not on Arrival. I just remember something to do with A state of grace, which would appear on Red 13.
I know 2-3 of these songs were dropped quickly from the tour.
Still cant stand 2-3 of Cains ballads, All the Way especially. But the rocking songs and the best ballad they had post Perry, Kiss me Softly should have been released. Augeri OWNED this song.
YoungJRNYfan wrote:Arrival is my all-time favorite post-Perry Journey album by far. Revelation was powerful and was the sweet spot album for Journey at the time but I believe Arrival is still one of their best all around efforts. Augeri shines because he was allowed to be his soulful self instead of pushing the Perry envelope. I still think Steve A is a great singer and Arrival proved it. They should have let Steve A own what he did best in that era but instead he'll always be remembered as a shortcommer and that's not fair. He put in great work and as I said, was the lead in one of, if not, best Journey albums after Perry.
YoungJRNYfan wrote:Augeri shines because he was allowed to be his soulful self instead of pushing the Perry envelope.
The_Noble_Cause wrote:Arrival is so strong because band wrote with outside songwriting talent. Everything else has been written in-house by Cain/Schon mostly.
The_Noble_Cause wrote:YoungJRNYfan wrote:Augeri shines because he was allowed to be his soulful self instead of pushing the Perry envelope.
Wow. I don't think I agree with this. Augeri was singing much more like himself on Generations than Arrival. I think he would tell you that himself. On Generations, he was even allowed to sneak in his trademark ad-lib ("Mustang!") which he did on his pre-Journey work too (Tall Stories etc). Arrival stuff like "All the Way" was calibrated to be very Perry-ish. However, a few tunes like "Kiss Me Softly" "Nothin Comes Close" and "I'm Not That Way" definitely allowed SA to blaze his own path.
sniper16 wrote:higher place should be played live, period, show opener.
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