Greatest Hits 2025

[JourneyHard]

Journey should release a new greatest hits album in 2025. It would feature a brand new song with Steve Perry on lead vocals. They must have a previously unreleased song with Perry on vocals or he can just sing something. He doesn't even have to meet with the band. Plus, the album will rock more than the previously released Greatest Hits.
JOURNEY Greatest Hits 2025
1. Don't Stop Believin
2. Only The Young
3. Faithfully
4. Wheel In The Sky
5. Any Way You Want It
6. Ask The Lonely
7. Who's Cryin' Now
8. Feeling That Way
9. Anytime
10. Let It Rock You (Or whatever new or unreleased song)
11. Chain Reaction
12. When You Love A Woman
13. Escape
14. Lovin Touchin Squeezin
15. Open Arms
16. Send Her My Love
17. Lights
18. Be Good To Yourself
19. Separate Ways
20. Stone In Love

[FamilyMan]

Journey should release a new greatest hits album in 2025. It would feature a brand new song with Steve Perry on lead vocals. They must have a previously unreleased song with Perry on vocals or he can just sing something. He doesn't even have to meet with the band. Plus, the album will rock more than the previously released Greatest Hits.
JOURNEY Greatest Hits 2025
1. Don't Stop Believin
2. Only The Young
3. Faithfully
4. Wheel In The Sky
5. Any Way You Want It
6. Ask The Lonely
7. Who's Cryin' Now
8. Feeling That Way
9. Anytime
10. Let It Rock You (Or whatever new or unreleased song)
11. Chain Reaction
12. When You Love A Woman
13. Escape
14. Lovin Touchin Squeezin
15. Open Arms
16. Send Her My Love
17. Lights
18. Be Good To Yourself
19. Separate Ways
20. Stone In Love

You must be new here.

[JourneyHard]

I know the last thing people here want is another Greatest Hits album, but the reason Journey cannot rock out during the concert because casual fans want to hear only what is on the Greatest Hits album. So, make a new Greatest Hits album that rocks out. And the hook is having a new song with Steve Perry. All the casual fans will go crazy for it.

[Monker]

They already did a GH2.

And, most people do NOT buy CD's any longer. Sure, if you are over 40, maybe you still do. But, Journey releasing another complication CD doesn't make any sense. Even if a song with Perry is included (Journey covering White Christmas with Perry?)...it can just be released as a single download.

If they want to do something for our generation, they should remaster the entire catalog (as Perry did for GH) and release an all inclusive box set...as Zeppelin and Pink Floyd did years ago. They could split it up into "eras", pre-Perry with the first three CDs maybe find an early concert that they could remaster and add it, release any outtakes or unreleased things. Group 2 would be early Perry/Rolie/Schon years with Infinity, Evolution, Departure, Dream After Dream, and Captured...they could add the Monitrose Studio concert where Perry sings some of the earlier songs (like Next, love this version), and the FULL Superjam. Group 3 would be the golden Perry/Cain/Schon years with Escape, Frontiers, ROR and TBF...I KNOW there are a couple "Monsters of Rock" concerts for ROR and Frontiers.,,and the MTV Houston Escape concert (the FULL thing, not the KBFH version). Group 4 the Augeri years with Arrival, Red 13, and Generations...add the 2001 live concert and any unreleased or outtakes. Group 5, Arnel years with Revelation, Eclipse, Freedom, and the rerecords, and the Manilla concert, the live stuff that was released last year, etc. And, include live blu-ray for all the above live shows, along with the Frontiers doc and ROR doc.

If they want NEW stuff, I would want one new song from Perry, Augeri, Arnel, JSS, and Rollie. In fact, I would not mind if they got together with Chalfant and record the songs the songs they wrote with him

Call it the Journey Celebration box set...I would pay at least $300 for th at. It would not sell well at all...but it would be worth doing for the fans. Time3 was NOT big enough. But, I know it can not happen...too many people to approve it and participate in it. Sony agreeing to release post Perry stuff where they were not the label would also be an issue. Everybody on film would have to agree to release the videos...so that would be an issue.

But, that is what I want...and it should have happened for the anniversary...even if Sony only did their years.

[JohnH]

What is the Houston 81 Escape Kilo Bravo Foxtrot Hotel Version?
I know what the concert is , theres two versions?

[Monker]

What is the Houston 81 Escape Kilo Bravo Foxtrot Hotel Version?
I know what the concert is , theres two versions?

KBFH (King Biscuit Flower Hour) was a syndicated radio show. They would send out reels, and then CDs, to radio stations to broadcast. The Journey KBFH for the Escape concert was the same one that was broadcast on MTV. The difference is they had to cut the concert down for time so they removed three or four songs compared to the full version. Back in the day, you could collect what was sent to radio.

I have both the Escape concert and the KBFH Superjam where "Good Times" came from. Not sure how good the Superjam reel is nowadays though....if it is degraded over time. I thought it was funny when they released Time3 and said they had to bake the tapes in an oven to get a usable copy of "Good Times"...when I had a great copy of the full concert on a reel.

[Loneman1]

I have both the Escape concert and the KBFH Superjam where "Good Times" came from. Not sure how good the Superjam reel is nowadays though....if it is degraded over time. I thought it was funny when they released Time3 and said they had to bake the tapes in an oven to get a usable copy of "Good Times"...when I had a great copy of the full concert on a reel.

Haha yeah I remember that as well!! I think it was also mentioned in the liner notes for "Greatest Hits Live" saying that the tapes for the concerts featured were done using that "one time baking process" bullshit. That made me laugh as well since by that time via tape/CD trading I also had really good versions of the Norman, Houston, and whatever the third show they used was....it escapes me at the moment. Funny stuff.

[Journey/Survivor]

I have both the Escape concert and the KBFH Superjam where "Good Times" came from. Not sure how good the Superjam reel is nowadays though....if it is degraded over time. I thought it was funny when they released Time3 and said they had to bake the tapes in an oven to get a usable copy of "Good Times"...when I had a great copy of the full concert on a reel.

Haha yeah I remember that as well!! I think it was also mentioned in the liner notes for "Greatest Hits Live" saying that the tapes for the concerts featured were done using that "one time baking process" bullshit. That made me laugh as well since by that time via tape/CD trading I also had really good versions of the Norman, Houston, and whatever the third show they used was....it escapes me at the moment. Funny stuff.

Yeah, I always remembered reading that years ago about the tapes being baked in an oven.

In that new Journey book "Worlds Apart" there is mention of a side project that was happening back around 1979 or 1980 that involved Ross Valory and George Ticker (I'm not talking about Frumious Bandersnach or VTR) that Neal Schon recorded a few solos for. The album was never released. But one of the people involved with that project would still like to see the album be released, and that they would have to bake the tapes in an oven.

[Art Vandelay]

According to Wikipedia...
"Baking is a common practice for temporarily repairing sticky-shed syndrome. There is no standard equipment or practice for baking, so each engineer is left to create their own methods and materials. Generally, tapes are baked at low temperatures for relatively long periods of time, such as 130 °F to 140 °F (54 to 60 °C) for 1 to 8 hours.[6] Wider than 1/4 inch tape formats may take longer. It is commonly thought that baking a tape will temporarily remove the moisture that has accumulated in the binder. A treated tape will reportedly function like new for a few weeks to a few months before it will reabsorb moisture and be unplayable again.[7]
Baking cannot be used with acetate tapes, nor is it needed.[3] Baking is also much less effective with U-matic tapes as the cases for those tapes prevent effective air circulation within the tape media, limiting its ability to remove moisture."

[Journey/Survivor]

I wonder how many, if any, tapes have been ruined beyond repair while being baked in an oven?

[JohnH]

What is the Houston 81 Escape Kilo Bravo Foxtrot Hotel Version?
I know what the concert is , theres two versions?

KBFH (King Biscuit Flower Hour) was a syndicated radio show. They would send out reels, and then CDs, to radio stations to broadcast. The Journey KBFH for the Escape concert was the same one that was broadcast on MTV. The difference is they had to cut the concert down for time so they removed three or four songs compared to the full version. Back in the day, you could collect what was sent to radio.

I have both the Escape concert and the KBFH Superjam where "Good Times" came from. Not sure how good the Superjam reel is nowadays though....if it is degraded over time. I thought it was funny when they released Time3 and said they had to bake the tapes in an oven to get a usable copy of "Good Times"...when I had a great copy of the full concert on a reel.

Thanks! Just didn't register. Big fan of the King Biscuit show , listened many times.