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While everyone here is burning Journey down to the ground the guys themselves are having a great time and they see their bankaccounts grow and grow.

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... songs.html
http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... lbums.html

Nr 1 in the rocksongs chart and nr 6 in the rockalbum charts.

Way to go Journey..

rdekker wrote:While everyone here is burning Journey down to the ground the guys themselves are having a great time and they see their bankaccounts grow and grow.

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... songs.html
http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... lbums.html

Nr 1 in the rocksongs chart and nr 6 in the rockalbum charts.

Way to go Journey..

That's brilliant news. A real achievement 26 years on....

rdekker wrote:While everyone here is burning Journey down to the ground the guys themselves are having a great time and they see their bankaccounts grow and grow.

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... songs.html
http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... lbums.html

Nr 1 in the rocksongs chart and nr 6 in the rockalbum charts.

Way to go Journey..

Get a life.

Neal is a lecherous midget who must have a small dick because he can't keep a woman around.

Friga is the liberace of rock.

That's just great. A band with no lead singer, that has not released an album in two years, and is not currently touring has an iTunes hit with a 25+ year old song. I am underwhelmed.

MJM1959 wrote:That's just great. A band with no lead singer, that has not released an album in two years, and is not currently touring has an iTunes hit with a 25+ year old song. I am underwhelmed.

Exactly, and it's all because of Steve Perry anyway. This thread is just from some Euro-kiss ass shit stirrers who like the taste of Neal's ass hairs.

Cool.

rdekker wrote:While everyone here is burning Journey down to the ground the guys themselves are having a great time and they see their bankaccounts grow and grow.

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... songs.html
http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... lbums.html

Nr 1 in the rocksongs chart and nr 6 in the rockalbum charts.

Way to go Journey..

Unfortunately they aren't in the UK

MJM1959 wrote:That's just great. A band with no lead singer, that has not released an album in two years, and is not currently touring has an iTunes hit with a 25+ year old song. I am underwhelmed.

Is the fact that it's 25 years old BAD? Look...in all this hand-wringing and flouncing around about JSS let's not forget that all he did in this band was sing 25 year old songs. Journey is ALL ABOUT those 25 year old songs and this has been the case for years and years now. Journey peaked in the 1980s. Get over it.

Matthew wrote:

MJM1959 wrote:That's just great. A band with no lead singer, that has not released an album in two years, and is not currently touring has an iTunes hit with a 25+ year old song. I am underwhelmed.

Is the fact that it's 25 years old BAD? Look...in all this hand-wringing and flouncing around about JSS let's not forget that all he did in this band was sing 25 year old songs. Journey is ALL ABOUT those 25 year old songs and this has been the case for years and years now. Journey peaked in the 1980s. Get over it.

Not for lack of JSS trying to get those 2 fossils to write with him. Also he got them to do a lot of songs not heard in years like Opened the Door and Rubicon among others.

Jeff also sang Higher Place, Faith in the Heartland, Remember Me and Winds of Freedom which by my count are not 25 years old.

He was pushing the band into BEING a band again - they couldn't hack it.

Little Lenny wrote:

rdekker wrote:While everyone here is burning Journey down to the ground the guys themselves are having a great time and they see their bankaccounts grow and grow.

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... songs.html
http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... lbums.html

Nr 1 in the rocksongs chart and nr 6 in the rockalbum charts.

Way to go Journey..

Unfortunately they aren't in the UK

The final episode of the Sopranos hasn't aired here yet. Maybe just maybe DSB will be a proper hit in this stupid country for the very first time....

AR wrote:Also he got them to do a lot of songs not heard in years like Opened the Door and Rubicon among others.

Didn't Augeri do "Rubicon" a few times? I think I have at least 2 or three boots with him doing that song.

AR wrote:Not for lack of JSS trying to get those 2 fossils to write with him.

That's very true AR. And I admire the guy for trying to inject some energy into this band. But even he has to accept that a creative and forward-looking Journey was nothing but a fantasy....

Also he got them to do a lot of songs not heard in years like Opened the Door and Rubicon among others.

Sure AR - but Journey were dusting off some neglected classics on the 30th Anniversary tour too, weren't they?

Jeff also sang Higher Place, Faith in the Heartland, and Winds of Freedom which by my count are not 25 years old.

Well, Winds of Freedom wasn't quite the creative renaissance we were all expecting - but yes it least I hadn't heard it a million times before.

He was pushing the band into BEING a band again - they couldn't hack it.

They just probably couldn't be bothered anymore. Let's face it...Journey's recording career has been in decline since 1983. From the moment the sales figures for Frontiers came in they knew it would be downhill all the way.

I can kind of understand why they feel it's too much hassle trying to reviltalize the recording career a quarter of a century later when sales figures have plummetted from 9 million to whatever miniscule quantities Generations sold.

Shame they can't just do it for the love of it though....and bung out a few tracks for us saddo die-hards on the internet or something.

conversationpc wrote:

AR wrote:Also he got them to do a lot of songs not heard in years like Opened the Door and Rubicon among others.

Didn't Augeri do "Rubicon" a few times? I think I have at least 2 or three boots with him doing that song.

Yeah, but it is rare - just sighted that as one off the top of my head.

Im guessing all this ITunes hype is due to the Finalé of the Sopranos which is more than understandable.
However if you haven't got a credible band to go and tour on the back of new found interest, this firework will soon burn out.

At the end of the day i guess they will be hoping to tour with a Perry 'lookie-likey' and enough people to come to their gigs who either don't know the history of the Singer Saga's or don't care about it.

Sadly IF and i do mean IF they go down the route many people on here expect them to they may continue to rake in reasonable $$ with a strange nostalgia tour but i feel they will have lost all credibility with true fans and the rest of the music industry.

I may be stating the obvious but thats how i see it.

Nik

Fire99 wrote:Im guessing all this ITunes hype is due to the Finalé of the Sopranos which is more than understandable.
However if you haven't got a credible band to go and tour on the back of new found interest, this firework will soon burn out.

Except DSB has had a number of revivals already...the Laguna Beach revival...the Monster revival...the World Series revival. Plus Journey's back catalogue just keeps on selling. One of only a handful of 'evergreen' catalogues in the history of rock music. So I'm sure there'll be other fireworks...just not with 21st century line-ups of the band.

Matthew wrote:

MJM1959 wrote:That's just great. A band with no lead singer, that has not released an album in two years, and is not currently touring has an iTunes hit with a 25+ year old song. I am underwhelmed.

Is the fact that it's 25 years old BAD? Look...in all this hand-wringing and flouncing around about JSS let's not forget that all he did in this band was sing 25 year old songs. Journey is ALL ABOUT those 25 year old songs and this has been the case for years and years now. Journey peaked in the 1980s. Get over it.

Yes. As far as I am concerned, rehashing 25 year old songs is not anything to get excited over. I was looking forward to NEW music from Journey. I was looking forward to a NEW sound with a NEW singer who was not Perry or one of his many clones. I was hoping for something fresh. Instead of trying to be a real band, they are more interested in sounding exactly like they did 25 years ago. If I want that, I have the Cds to listen to. I do not need some watered down version of a once great band.

MJM1959 wrote:

Matthew wrote:

MJM1959 wrote:That's just great. A band with no lead singer, that has not released an album in two years, and is not currently touring has an iTunes hit with a 25+ year old song. I am underwhelmed.

Is the fact that it's 25 years old BAD? Look...in all this hand-wringing and flouncing around about JSS let's not forget that all he did in this band was sing 25 year old songs. Journey is ALL ABOUT those 25 year old songs and this has been the case for years and years now. Journey peaked in the 1980s. Get over it.

Yes. As far as I am concerned, rehashing 25 year old songs is not anything to get excited over. I was looking forward to NEW music from Journey. I was looking forward to a NEW sound with a NEW singer who was not Perry or one of his many clones. I was hoping for something fresh. Instead of trying to be a real band, they are more interested in sounding exactly like they did 25 years ago. If I want that, I have the Cds to listen to. I do not need some watered down version of a once great band.

Yes I was hoping for all that too - and the watered down version of Journey didn't excite me either. But...I'm always pleased to see that the original recordings are still finding a big audience.

AR wrote:

rdekker wrote:While everyone here is burning Journey down to the ground the guys themselves are having a great time and they see their bankaccounts grow and grow.

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... songs.html
http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts ... lbums.html

Nr 1 in the rocksongs chart and nr 6 in the rockalbum charts.

Way to go Journey..

Friga is the liberace of rock.

Very similar these 2.

Congrats to Steve Perry.

Barb wrote:Congrats to Steve Perry.

AR wrote:[ and it's all because of Steve Perry anyway.

I wish I could get excited, but I can't. Had JSS still been at the helm, I would've guessed that they were building-up their legacy (by licensing the use of the song in 'The Sopranos') while getting ready to record new music, tour, and tackle new frontiers with a new lead singer and a new attitude.

But by shit-canning JSS the day after 'The Sopranos', it became a total wash: a nice surprise and a lot of positive press cancelled-out by one particular piece of depressing (and still confusing) news.

It's therefore a zero ...... a big fat 0. I had always said that 'The Sopranos' would be a great venue for a Journey song being front-and-center (and, I know, Wheel in the Sky was used previously), but I still can't believe how fortuitous the use of this song was, and how unbelievably wasteful the band's response has been.

I'm happy for Steve Perry - congratulations!