So even though I agree with John that Nancy and Colin should write more, it’s actually been the longest since I wrote one of these. So I guess I’ll give it a shot.
Journey – Escape (1981)
Journey is one of those bands that has a series of pretty good songs spread out in a large library of pretty bad songs. So I thought for the first in what will probably be my on-going series of Journey reviews, I would start with the album that first attracted me to the band, “Escape.” I say album, but really what enticed me was the hit song, “Don’t Stop Believing,” which I’m sure everyone’s heard. I mean, it was on Family Guy.
Escape was the seventh studio album from the band, and at the time its most successful and best reviewed. It was noted for Steve Perry’s lively singing and the band’s more rock-oriented song. Escape is everything you would guess Journey in the 1980’s would sound like, extremely keyboard and guitar heavy.
Opening with the aforementioned “Don’t Stop Believing,” what follows never quite gets that good, but, surprisingly, is enjoyable enough. There’s a certain electricity that flows through the album that kind of makes it fun to listen to. The song “Open Arms” was used in Heavy Metal, which South Park recently made culturally relevant again.
So is “Escape” worth picking up? Probably not. I mean, if you like what you’ve heard of Journey, it’s worth a shot, I guess. It does not exceed expectations and is extremely Eighties, but it is enjoyable enough in its own right. And sometimes that’s enough.
Favorite Track: “Don’t Stop Believing”
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