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Y'know, being a Journey fan entails encountering alot of hate.
Be it in the form of supercilious Rolling Stone reporters regularly snubbing their nose at the band, or in the more commonplace form of old Perry-obssessed maids going on yet another long winded anti-Schon tirade. Either way, there is alot of negative material out there. So much so in fact, that I have I decided to devote an entire thread towards it.
This is the thread to post the most laugh-eliciting frothing-at-the mouth rabidly negative reviews you've ever stumbled across, or ones that just plain miss the mark.
First up, the latter type..... (this one from Amazon.com).

Did this person hear the same "Generations" as the rest of us?

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Journey's New Vocalist Comes Into His Own On A Spiritually-Charged Album, December 14, 2005
Reviewer: The Footpath Cowboy "rockerusa2002" (Suffern, NY United States) - See all my reviews
On GENERATIONS, Journey's latest album, vocalist Steve Augeri, whose first album with the band was the largely uninteresting ARRIVAL (drummer Deen Castronovo was having drug and alcohol problems at the time), truly comes into his own. Whereas the earlier album seemed tentative and directionless, GENERATIONS is full of spiritually-charged rockers that inspire me to get in shape for a number of pretty actresses, including the youngwomen of TV's BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, which may have something to do with the fact that the songs were written in the wake of 9/11, as well as the band's belief that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia on drug-smuggling charges was wrongfully convicted, both of these factors giving the band a powerful sense of purpose. Indeed, the music owes as much to Bob Seger, Montrose, Grand Funk Railroad, and Ted Nugent as it does to progressive rockers like Queen. Augeri doesn't sound EXACTLY like Steve Perry, but has many of the same soulful influences while giving the music his own stamp. GENERATIONS is one Journey album you definitely won't want to pass up.

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OMFG that review is TOO FUNNY!!

Sounds like someone taking the piss. But at least it was positive. Funny how he thinks Deen's problems made Arrival uninteresting.

And how, exactly, did said invidual establish that Deen's addiction was at the worst in '00-'01? It's never been said until 2005 mainly in Drew's Gens. interviews that there even was a problem w/ deen. And reading between the lines the rest of the band had an intervention sometime after the DeTour and before Gens. sessions.

I was under the impression that Deen's problems were earlier on, that Never Too Late had come out of the sessions with Jack Blades that produced the Arrival tunes.

It is in Andrew's interview with them. Don't remember which one-ERIC

Was WAFTE about Deen?

Interesting. Say, where IS everybody

"...as well as the band's belief that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia on drug-smuggling charges was wrongfully convicted..."

UM...WHAT?