SPECTRUM

[JourneyHard]

Journey should do a new album and call it SPECTRUM. It would feature songs starting with softer ballads and then each track would get slightly harder until the end of the album is close to heavy metal.

The album would feature ALL NEW SONGS, but just for an example here are classics we all know so we can get a feel for it.

1. Open Arms
2. Faithfully
3. Lights
4. Who's Cryin' Now
5. Girl Can't Help It
6. Only The Young
7. Be Good To Yourself
8. Stone In Love
9. Chain Reaction
10. Escape
11. Edge Of The Blade
12. Lay It Down

[FamilyMan]

Keep yourself far away from a Journey set list pls...

[JourneyHard]

This is NOT a set list. This is an example of a Concept Album.

[FamilyMan]

This is NOT a set list. This is an example of a Concept Album.

Only kidding with you, JH. Though I don't think front-loading a record with ballads is wise. What's always great about a concept album is the ebb and flow. A journey, if you'll pardon the pun, to and from emotions stirred by certain songs. What I never understood about Eclipse is what the concept even was. That record too felt oddly paced and without a flow. Great songs on it, I agree. But I didn't think they held together well. On a side note, if anyone is seeing Bruce Springsteen on tour for "The River," there is a perfect example of a concept album well plotted and planned. As he plays it live - top to bottom - you clearly see what the album about. A man coming of age... fearful of his own mortality for the first time, and that of those he loves. He's hungry, yet disillusioned. Inspired at times, scarred at others. To realize he wrote it when he was only 29 is mind boggling.

[JourneyHard]

You're probably right. This won't ever happen.

But think of the idea like Stairway to Heaven, but expanded to a whole album.