OT: Best albums of 1980

[Red13JoePa]

I turn and run screaming immidiately if I hear even so much as the opening riffs of YSMALN, BIB, or HB.

[Rockindeano]

I turn and run screaming immidiately if I hear even so much as the opening riffs of YSMALN, BIB, or HB.

Yet the opening piano strings on Butterfly get you erect.

I got you 13. I got you last night in the Survivor forum.

[Red13JoePa]

I turn and run screaming immidiately if I hear even so much as the opening riffs of YSMALN, BIB, or HB.

Yet the opening piano strings on Butterfly get you erect.

I got you 13. I got you last night in the Survivor forum.

What do you mean?

I've always been on record here as saying I prefer Augeri as Journey singer to Perry.

I'll say what I said there, that to me Augeri in Journey was perry with balls.

Need I start a thread on it?

[Lula]

Had to go with REO. Somewhere in Santa Monica I can hear Deano rolling over in bed still half asleep and half drunk , "Grrrr.....Did someone just vote for REO....Grrr...time to get on MR."

Yeah, Dean just saw the bat signal with Cronin's face in the sky.

Good one!

I love Departure. I can remember the day it was released, buying it, and going gaga over the pics on the sleeve while listening over and over again. I did vote for Bruce, probably because I think it is such a great album and the actual song is brilliant. Heaven and Hell- great album as well. Saw that tour at a summer festival... which one escapes me? Was it the Summer Blowout at the Coliseum? Same bill as Journey and the Babys?

[RedWingFan]

I've always been on record here as saying I prefer Augeri as Journey singer to Perry.

I can't believe your keyboard didn't burst into flames after typing this sentence.

[Red13JoePa]

I've always been on record here as saying I prefer Augeri as Journey singer to Perry.

I can't believe your keyboard didn't burst into flames after typing this sentence.

Been my stance from day 1 on these forums and remains so.

RockheadDeano, impart the whole board with my stance on the near ruination of the live recordings of that era.

[*Laura]

I'll say what I said there, that to me Augeri in Journey was perry with balls.

So sorry to hear about your tinnitus.

[Red13JoePa]

I'll say what I said there, that to me Augeri in Journey was perry with balls.

So sorry to hear about your tinnitus.

Hey, I'm good.

Anytime I want to hear someone try to sing Open Arms live with approximately twice as much histrionics as most Sicilian opera singers going "Owowowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwopen
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahammmmms" I have the Houston dvd.

[*Laura]

I have the Houston dvd.

Hey,even if your hearing is not too good,at least you have good tastes.

[Red13JoePa]

It is a damn good dvd, when I'm able to block out the singer's (edited, in deference to the spelling bad cop/worse cop St John and Deano) cartoonish mugging on some of the songs, usually the ballads and focus on the entire song and all the components.

[RedWingFan]

It is a damn good dvd, when I'm able to block out the signer's cartoonish mugging on some of the songs, usually the ballads and focus on the entire song and all the components.

C'mon Joepa, Perry is the reason this message board exists! Bagging on him is stupid.

[*Laura]

Perry is the reason this message board exists!

Ohmygosh,how dare you????

[RedWingFan]

I've always been on record here as saying I prefer Augeri as Journey singer to Perry.

I can't believe your keyboard didn't burst into flames after typing this sentence.

Been my stance from day 1 on these forums and remains so.

Yeah, Generations and VH3 were great cd's that you like to listen to while you drive around in your Edsel

[Red13JoePa]

It is a damn good dvd, when I'm able to block out the signer's cartoonish mugging on some of the songs, usually the ballads and focus on the entire song and all the components.

C'mon Joepa, Perry is the reason this message board exists! Bagging on him is stupid.

That's just it, my good man.

I'm not that bright, and as such EASILY distracted when he starts turning songs into parodies live.

[RedWingFan]

It is a damn good dvd, when I'm able to block out the signer's cartoonish mugging on some of the songs, usually the ballads and focus on the entire song and all the components.

C'mon Joepa, Perry is the reason this message board exists! Bagging on him is stupid.

That's just it, my good man.

I'm not that bright, and as such EASILY distracted when he starts turning songs into parodies live.

Parody is exactly what Journey has turned into since they decided to force people to buy Generations with a ticket. Pathetic!

[Red13JoePa]

Bah.
Augeri and JSS depussified them.

Remains to be seen what mini perry, the Phillipino nationalist brings.

[RedWingFan]

Bah.
Augeri and JSS depussified them.

Remains to be seen what mini perry, the Phillipino nationalist brings.

If by "depussified" you mean irrelevent. Then I agree. Relevence left the building with Perry.

[IngoK]

"Back in Black" and "The River"

[Gordon from Edinburgh]

I turn and run screaming immidiately if I hear even so much as the opening riffs of YSMALN, BIB, or HB.

Yet the opening piano strings on Butterfly get you erect.

I got you 13. I got you last night in the Survivor forum.

What do you mean?

I've always been on record here as saying I prefer Augeri as Journey singer to Perry.

I'll say what I said there, that to me Augeri in Journey was perry with balls.

Need I start a thread on it?

Augeri was Perry with balls? HA HA HA HA HA....2 rebuttals for that statement.

One - go listen to Edge of The Blade and tell me Augeri coulda got a tenth of that power in there.

Two - Find me a time when Perry used tapes.

[Red13JoePa]

I turn and run screaming immidiately if I hear even so much as the opening riffs of YSMALN, BIB, or HB.

Yet the opening piano strings on Butterfly get you erect.

I got you 13. I got you last night in the Survivor forum.

What do you mean?

I've always been on record here as saying I prefer Augeri as Journey singer to Perry.

I'll say what I said there, that to me Augeri in Journey was perry with balls.

Need I start a thread on it?

Augeri was Perry with balls? HA HA HA HA HA....2 rebuttals for that statement.

One - go listen to Edge of The Blade and tell me Augeri coulda got a tenth of that power in there.

Two - Find me a time when Perry used tapes.

Live, on Edge Of The Blade and most everything else Perry used too many "Whoopee, listen to me!!!" effeminate vocal histrionics that I (again) find distracting.
Augeri sang it straight, if a little more workmanlike live.
And I think the Augeri studio vox on a lot of stuff had just as much vocal "power" as the older stuff. He's blasting on WWMA, NCC, The Time, SOG, FITH, TPIYH, Believe, KTYLM (again, criticise the latter 2-4 songs as you surely will but those are powerful resonant strong vocals).

And the JSS version of Edge Of The Blade? More balls than both, it's just a deeper, powerful more masculine voice.

To be quite fair, the perry studio vocal on Edge Of The Blade is, as with all the Frontiers era, nothing short of stunning. WithOUT the live vocal gymnastic gimmeckery.

[infinityplusone]

And I'm the biggest (well, certainly tallest at almost 6'7") JOURNEY fan in the world.

But here's the thing, Back in Black is a perfect album. Every single song is a work of evil beauty. It rocks raw and your parents hated it. And yet, it pops up in the most surprising way in EVERY SINGLE CD COLLECTION you encounter. You could meet someone who's only into world music and French electronica and they's have this CD. That's what I mean.

Whiskey? Add some water...

[infinityplusone]

I'm not gonna slam you for preferring Augeri over Perry. But you've got to admit Steve A. should have just thrown in the towel on "Be Good to Yourself" (2001 DVD).

As much as you disdain Perrr's histronics (or "stiff preening" as Rolling Stone once put it), I vomit when Augeri's forced to tone it down (tune it down?) on the "woh woh wa whooah , woh woh wooah's" right before chorus 'cause he can't hit the Perry notes. And it's not just a vocal athletics issue - Perry wrote these songs with his and uniquely his abilities in mind.

"workmanlike" - I'll give Augeria that.