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and in the crappy UK.....
[taken from British book of hit singles & albums printed in 2004]

SINGLES
27 Feb 82 - Dont Stop Believin - highest chart position = 62 [on the charts for 4 wks]
11 Sep 82 - Who's Cryin Now - highest chart position = 46 [on the charts for 5 wks]


ALBUMS
20 Mar 82 - Escape - highest chart position = 32 [on the charts for 16 wks]
19 Feb 83 - Frontiers - highest chart position = 6 [on the charts for 8 wks]
6 Aug 83 - Evolution - highest chart position = 100 [on the charts for 1 wk]
24 May 86 - Raised On Radio - highest chart position 22 [on the charts for 5 wks]



Proves how your mind plays tricks, I could have sworn Open Arms charted here. But....I'm wrong again.

So "The Party's Over/Hopelessly In Love" did make the chart.

and Separate Ways with that dreadfully silly video got to number one!!!!

SusieP wrote:and Separate Ways with that dreadfully silly video got to number one!!!!

The song more than makes up for that retarded video though.

19 songs on the Mainstream Rock charts, very impressive.

I didn't know Dixie Highway had charted, cool.

From 1981 to 1986, total domination.

I'm sure "78 will be very happy to see that they had 9 songs in the Hot 100 during Rolie's tenure.

Gunbot wrote:I'm sure "78 will be very happy to see that they had 9 songs in the Hot 100 during Rolie's tenure.

With that kind of chart dominance, I still couldn't understand why this band was.....(to quote an article written by J.L. Puckett)

Mocked mercilessly.

Even when the band was at its peak during the early 1980s, there were haters. Classic rockers dismissed them as lightweight. The nascent alt-rock scene saw them as dinosaurs. Punk rockers were repulsed at best, homicidal at worst.

What's up with that?

Chubby321 wrote:With that kind of chart dominance, I still couldn't understand why this band was.....(to quote an article written by J.L. Puckett)

Mocked mercilessly.

Even when the band was at its peak during the early 1980s, there were haters. Classic rockers dismissed them as lightweight. The nascent alt-rock scene saw them as dinosaurs. Punk rockers were repulsed at best, homicidal at worst.

What's up with that?

They weren't singing about drugs or sex and the vocalist actually had a trained voice. Unless you were screaming every other line and singing about getting laid or messing somebody up, you weren't cool. Journey was (and even more so, now) a G-Rated band back when every one else wanted to be R-Rated and wore the explicit lyric stickers on their CDs like a badge of honor.

In the end game, Journey made money and that is what it's all about. Perry, Schon and Cain have been in a position where they could have retired years ago while other more mainstream groups have had to soldier on and even pimp their songs to be used in commercials to try and make a few dollars more.
Journey has been able to control the use of their catalog, for the most part. Due to the financial windfall from their success during the Escape/Frontiers era, the main songwriters are in a position to pick and choose how their product is used.

Not many rock groups from the '70s and '80s are in that enviable position.

Seeing this list makes me wonder why they don't dust off "Who's Crying Now" and play it once in a while. Not a favorite of mine, but evidently the populous liked it. Maybe freshen it up a little. It's got one of Neal's best solos in it.

Rick wrote:Seeing this list makes me wonder why they don't dust off "Who's Crying Now" and play it once in a while. Not a favorite of mine, but evidently the populous liked it. Maybe freshen it up a little. It's got one of Neal's best solos in it.

Probably too sappy for concert settings and not a standard like OA and FF.

Lots of folks mention not liking it much (you just did too). I like it, especially the farty bass.

I see it more as a late night driving tune.

WCN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUr8Bnsnt6k

Rick wrote:Seeing this list makes me wonder why they don't dust off "Who's Crying Now" and play it once in a while. Not a favorite of mine, but evidently the populous liked it. Maybe freshen it up a little. It's got one of Neal's best solos in it.

I haven't seen Journey in like 2 years but they pretty much always played it when I did go.

Rick wrote:Seeing this list makes me wonder why they don't dust off "Who's Crying Now" and play it once in a while. Not a favorite of mine, but evidently the populous liked it. Maybe freshen it up a little. It's got one of Neal's best solos in it.

Neal went off the hook on this solo of WCN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjN3OY94Oqc

I like it, although at times it almost seems like his guitar is possessed and he can't control it.

Rick wrote:Seeing this list makes me wonder why they don't dust off "Who's Crying Now" and play it once in a while. Not a favorite of mine, but evidently the populous liked it. Maybe freshen it up a little. It's got one of Neal's best solos in it.

I always liked that song, Augeri did it pretty good

Rick wrote:Seeing this list makes me wonder why they don't dust off "Who's Crying Now" and play it once in a while. Not a favorite of mine, but evidently the populous liked it. Maybe freshen it up a little. It's got one of Neal's best solos in it.

same here.probably my favorite of all the slower songs they did.damn good song that kind of fell through the cracks.i'd rather seem them drop open arms and play who's crying now.


i also saw where natural thing was released in 1993 probably had to do with the box set being released.it was originally the b-side to don't stop back in 1981.


one song i think that would be cool to end with sometimes would be the party's over.they should try that sometime.