I like Eclipse

[Archetype]

But I like Revelation a lot better for the most part.

[YoungJRNY]

Very cool to go back and listen to Revelation. You get a sense of versatility Journey does portray with the last 2 albums. It's very close. Eclipse is a very good album for me but make no mistake, that takes nothing away from Revelation. They are close and awesome attempts.

[Jana]

They're just two completely different albums and enjoy them both for different reasons. I really like that retro Journey sound on Revelation, Neal's guitar tone, and TDTWT is still a song I adore and Like a Sunshower and WIN, Change for the Better

But I love the energy of Eclipse and really some great songs. I think this album still sounds like Journey, just a focus on their rockier side but updated and original, and applaud them for putting out a great album.

[koberry]

They're just two completely different albums and enjoy them both for different reasons. I really like that retro Journey sound on Revelation, Neal's guitar tone, and TDTWT is still a song I adore and Like a Sunshower and WIN, Change for the Better

But I love the energy of Eclipse and really some great songs. I think this album still sounds like Journey, just a focus on their rockier side but updated and original, and applaud them for putting out a great album.

Eclipse is what comes after the second side of Frontiers. My ears would love:

I can totally see:

Edge of the Blade
Troubled Child
Back Talk
Frontiers
Rubicon
Edge of the Moment
Chain of Love
Anything is Possible
Resonate
Human Feel
Ritual
To Whom it May Concern

Journey has always rocked. Sprinkle 2-3 radio-friendly songs among a bunch of deep cuts.

[Archetype]

What Escape and Frontiers is to most of you, Revelation is to me. It's not just the album; it's the time in my life when it came out. It was released right at the beginning of my summer between junior and senior year in high school. I had Revelation playing during some pretty awesome times that summer; it was my first summer that I had driver's license so Revelation was the sound track to so many incredible trips- day trips that I could never afford or have time to do now.

Now fast forward to Eclipse; I'm halfway through undergrad and I bought the album at 11 PM on a rainy night. None of that carefree joy that you have at the beginning of summer during high school years. Plus it's a much darker, moodier album. Eclipse has actually shown me what I like in Journey; the carefree banter of the songs, the uplifting choruses. (Which is why "Anything Is Possible" is definitely my favorite Eclipse track) I've always told people that it was the excellent musicianship, but it really is is what it is for many other people; fun, uplifting music. Eclipse really isn't that.

One's appreciation of an album is definitely related to the circumstances under which they obtained it and listened to it for the first time. Eclipse is groundbreaking, and musically excellent, but it isn't what many young people in 1981-1983 learned to love during the best years of their lives. Revelation was reminiscent of that for them, and was that for me.

That said, Eclipse has a permanent spot in my car. It's worth it for the "Holy shit this is Journey???" reactions I get from friends. And it is definitely a good album. It's just not something that someone is craving when they put in a Journey CD.

[Jana]

They're just two completely different albums and enjoy them both for different reasons. I really like that retro Journey sound on Revelation, Neal's guitar tone, and TDTWT is still a song I adore and Like a Sunshower and WIN, Change for the Better

But I love the energy of Eclipse and really some great songs. I think this album still sounds like Journey, just a focus on their rockier side but updated and original, and applaud them for putting out a great album.

Eclipse is what comes after the second side of Frontiers. My ears would love:

I can totally see:

Edge of the Blade
Troubled Child
Back Talk
Frontiers
Rubicon
Edge of the Moment
Chain of Love
Anything is Possible
Resonate
Human Feel
Ritual
To Whom it May Concern

Journey has always rocked. Sprinkle 2-3 radio-friendly songs among a bunch of deep cuts.

Seriously Back Talk? Frontiers is a fantastic album, one of their best, but Back Talk is a skipper for me.

[koberry]

They're just two completely different albums and enjoy them both for different reasons. I really like that retro Journey sound on Revelation, Neal's guitar tone, and TDTWT is still a song I adore and Like a Sunshower and WIN, Change for the Better

But I love the energy of Eclipse and really some great songs. I think this album still sounds like Journey, just a focus on their rockier side but updated and original, and applaud them for putting out a great album.

Eclipse is what comes after the second side of Frontiers. My ears would love:

I can totally see:

Edge of the Blade
Troubled Child
Back Talk
Frontiers
Rubicon
Edge of the Moment
Chain of Love
Anything is Possible
Resonate
Human Feel
Ritual
To Whom it May Concern

Journey has always rocked. Sprinkle 2-3 radio-friendly songs among a bunch of deep cuts.

Seriously Back Talk? Frontiers is a fantastic album, one of their best, but Back Talk is a skipper for me.

I hear you. Seems to me that lots of people here think of Journey as the 2-3 radio-accessible songs on each classic release. For me, they've always been just as much about the other 8 or 9 songs that didn't reach the radio. Eclipse has the depth of the other releases and just doesn't feel like that big of a departure (pun) to me as it does to some...