Top 5 Worst Perry-era Journey songs

[Rosebud]

Homemade Love
Baby I'm Leaving You
People And Places
La Do Da
Lady Luck

Dude! People and Places is a cool song.

[somethingtohide]

Colors of the Spirit
Positive Touch
Raised On Radio
It Could Have Been You

and yep....Be Good To Yourself....Love SP but this song grates on my last nerve for some reason.

[Pelata]

Homemade Love
Baby I'm Leaving You
People And Places
La Do Da
Lady Luck

Dude! People and Places is a cool song.

Meh...was never into it...

[Matthew]

Positive Touch

That song is a legend....

You're just too much of a cloth-eared philistine to appreciate the full majesty and spiritual depth of that mini-masterpiece, Dave.

Perry's vocals are good and so is Schon's solo but I don't like the poppy, bouncy feel of the song. Sounds like the music, other than the solo, was written more for a Britney Spears song.

Yes...I know what you mean...and I wonder if they were inspired to go for that 60s soul/Motown pastiche by Billy Joel and his Innocent Man album. Who knows though...but I reckon Positive Touch is really a song of two halves...the first is light and bouncy and pure cheese ...until it switches gear into something very melancholic and grand and Journeyesque in the second half...and that's why it's such a clever track.

Er...or maybe I'm just talking shit?

[conversationpc]

Er...or maybe I'm just talking shit?

Umm...Yeah.

[Deb]

Can Do
Homemade Love
Positive Touch
It Could Have Been You
Forever in Blue

Wow Dave, you have 3 of my faves on there. Love Perry's vocals on ICHBY and FIB and really like the bluesy feel of Homemade Love.

As for Can Do, I'd put that down 5 times for worst if I could.

1. Can Do
2. Back Talk
3. Color's of the Spirit
4. Lady Luck
5. One More

[xflajrnylvr]

Homemade Love
Baby I'm Leaving You
People And Places
La Do Da
Lady Luck

Dude! People and Places is a cool song.

Agreed Killer opening even though they didnt play it in full

[Matthew]

Baby I'm Leaving You

Worst Journey song...of any era.....

[bluejeangirl76]

and really like the bluesy feel of Homemade Love.

Homemade Love sounds sexy. Well, once I got past the goofy ass lyrics it did, anyway.
I went from hate it to love it on that song.

[Pstburp]

People and Places and walks like a lady are excellent songs...

[journeyrock]

i think of one that is good , but is just flat..

When I Think Of You...

cain/perry... i just figured it would much more powerful..

You ARE kidding, right?

[belar]

Baby I'm Leaving You

Worst Journey song...of any era.....

Of any era? I'd have to go with Butterfly for that one.

[conversationpc]

Baby I'm Leaving You

Worst Journey song...of any era.....

Of any era? I'd have to go with Butterfly for that one.

I'd nominate "On a Saturday Nite" for that one. Any time a song has night spelled as "Nite", it's a sure sign that the song sucks the big one.

[bluejeangirl76]

Baby I'm Leaving You

Worst Journey song...of any era.....

Of any era? I'd have to go with Butterfly for that one.

If we're talking ANY era... Gone Crazy.
Though that should probably be their anthem by now, because clearly, they've done exactly that.

[Red13JoePa]

Never been a big City Of The Angels or Daydream fan myself.

[belar]

1. Baby I'm Leavin' You
2. Homemade Love
3. Lady Luck
4. One More
5. Someday Soon

I used to hate Lady Luck. I like it now for some reason.

Are you kidding... One More and someday soon...? HUH?

Never cared for either one. I thought One More sounded like they started out trying to write this big, powerful anthem, then they got bored and phoned it in. Worst track on TBF other than Baby I'm Leavin' You. Someday Soon is OK, just not really my thing, I guess.

[mistiejourney]

Gawd, I love ATF, actually for a lot of the reason you put up there. Smitty's drumming was bombastic. Perry just "yelling" his heart out on that one.

Smith's drumming saves that whole song.

The video was hilarious.
But I can name a worse video (not SW either):

... wait for it ....

Chain Reaction.

Ugh, the giant chess board and the mannequin that looks suspiciously like Sherrie.
I still the ATF is worse but they could tie for #1.

Now that I think of it, Journey wasn't exactly known for their, uh, video style....although SP in a tux still gets me "loon-y"

My five baaaad Journey songs:

Back Talk
Homemade Love
Castles Burning
Sweet and Simple - blech
Good Morning Girl - blech blech (probably because it is followed by that masterpiece "Stay Awhile" - I'd always wait for GMG to finish on the album to get to "my" song!)

[Deb]

Never been a big City Of The Angels or Daydream fan myself.

Never was with Daydream either, until I heard it LIVE on a boot! Love it now, that one comes across so much better live.

[Red13JoePa]

Never been a big City Of The Angels or Daydream fan myself.

Never was with Daydream either, until I heard it LIVE on a boot!

Castronovo covering it in Irvine 2005 is an interesting rendition to have.

[mistiejourney]

I think "Lights" is one of the worst songs of all-time in any genre. Absolutely horrible.

Neal's tone and solo in that song save it from utter crapness and/or mediocrity.

Gasp! Blasphemy! I guess being near the cit-ay by the bay-ee-ayha gives it a special meaning!

[Deb]

Good Morning Girl - blech blech (probably because it is followed by that masterpiece "Stay Awhile" - I'd always wait for GMG to finish on the album to get to "my" song!)

Now that's funny Kim, I will usually skip over GMG to get to Stay Awhile too.

[Jeremey]

Perry era would have to be Castles Burning, Backtalk, and Can Do...

[Red13JoePa]

Can Do...

**CRINGE*** Can Do is BRUTAL!

For goddsake don't let ANYbody named "Valory" who doesn't have the first name "Diane" write Journey songs.

[X factor]

1) Raised on Radio
2-5 Various combinations of the REST of the multitude of shit on Raised on Radio


BTW- Anyone who says THE PARTY'S OVER is one of Perry's worst needs to have their head examined!

[Deb]

Never been a big City Of The Angels or Daydream fan myself.

Never was with Daydream either, until I heard it LIVE on a boot!

Castronovo covering it in Irvine 2005 is an interesting rendition to have.

Haven't heard that one. But Perry's ('79 I think) live version is what sold me. Actually I'm finding more times than not, I will like a Perry/Journey song live more so than the studio. LTS in my opinion is another one that comes across better live 10 fold. That song has much more of a bluesy/sexy swagger when played live.

Hmmm........this might be a good thread topic to start, I'm curious what other people's opinions of live vs. studio are.

[bluejeangirl76]

Can Do...

**CRINGE*** Can Do is BRUTAL!

There are relatively few Journey songs I will actually SKIP when they come up on random, but that's one of them.
Those lyrics just suck. Baby I'm Leaving You and Back Talk are the other ones I intentionally skip. Baby I'm Leaving You makes me want to hurt cute furry animals for no reason. Maybe instead of worrying about adding bonus tracks, they should have reissued that album minus that song along with an enclosed note that said... "Sorry about that. Our bad."

[SF-Dano]

Colors of the Spirit
Its Just the Rain
Can Do
Baby I'm Leaving You
Eyes of a Woman

This thread seems like deja vu. Didn't we just do this a few months back.

[chickpea]

Colors of the Spirit
Its Just the Rain
Can Do
Baby I'm Leaving You
Eyes of a Woman

I'll agree with this!

[xflajrnylvr]

Never been a big City Of The Angels or Daydream fan myself.

Never was with Daydream either, until I heard it LIVE on a boot!

Castronovo covering it in Irvine 2005 is an interesting rendition to have.

Agreed Have to pull that one out again

[Liam]

Guess I'll do mine now...

Baby I'm A Leavin' You
Castles Burning
Can Do
Eyes Of A Woman
Open Arms (I have my reasons to hate this song)

Now...for the song I'm most sick of....DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'. Used to love it...but with it being overplayed on radio and stupid drunk college kids thinking they can sing it at karaoke...I don't need to hear the song ever again.