Journey: Frontiers CD Track Listing

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Journey Frontiers (1983)
Frontiers (Reissued + Expanded Digipack)\n2006 Columbia/Legacy\n\nOriginally Released February 1983\nCD Edition Released 1987 ??\nRemastered CD Edition Released October 15, 1996\nReissued Digipack CD Edition Released October 3, 2006\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The ballads "Faithfully" and "Send Her My Love" reap the benefits of Steve Perry's crystal-clear vocals. -- Donna DiChario\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Frontiers managed to give Journey four Top 40 hits, with "After the Fall" and "Send Her My Love" both reaching number 23, "Faithfully" at number 12, and "Separate Ways" peaking at number eight -- the same amount that 1981's Escape brandished. While they tried to use the same musical recipe as Escape, Frontiers comes up a little short, mainly because the keyboards seem to overtake both Neal Schon's guitar playing and Steve Perry's strong singing. An overabundance of Jonathan Cain's synth work cloaks the quicker tunes and seeps into the ballads, slightly widening the strong partnership of Perry and Schon. "Faithfully" tried to match the powerful beauty of "Open Arms," and while it's a gorgeous ballad, it just comes inches away from conjuring up the same soft magic. "Separate Ways" grabs attention right off the bat with stinging synthesizer and a catchy guitar riff, and "Send Her My Love" emphasizes Perry's keen ability to pour his heart out. The rest of the songs on the album lack the warmth that Journey is famous for, especially in their mix of fervor and intimacy shown on this album's predecessor. [The 2006 reissue of Frontiers has four bonus tracks: "Only the Young" from the Vision Quest soundtrack, "Ask the Lonely" from the Two of a Kind soundtrack, "Only Solutions" from the soundtrack to Tron, and "Liberty," a rare song that first surfaced on the Time 3 box set.] -- Mike DeGagne\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nAnother reissue,but the definitive "Frontiers", April 6, 2007\nReviewer: B. J O'Connor "noonions" (Holmdel,NJ USA)\n"Frontiers" was Journey's follow-up monster 1981 smash "Escape" and proved to be just as commerically successful, peaking at #2 (held back only by Michael Jackson's Thriller) and spawning four Top 40 hits including "Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart)", "Faithfully", "After The Fall" and "Send Her My Love". The album is just as good, if not better, than its predeccesor -- containing other standouts (besides the hits) like "Chain Reaction", "Edge Of A Blade" and "Rubicon". The only poor song on this album is the grating "Back Talk". Luckly, this 2006 reissue contains four bonus tracks that strenghten this effort much more by including "Only The Young" (a top 10 hit from the "Vision Quest" soundtrack in 1985), "Ask The Lonely" (which was featured on the "Two Of A Kind" soundtrack in 1983) "Only Solutions" (featured on the 1982 "Tron" soundtrack) and the short but outstanding "Liberty". The remastered sound (by Dave Donnelly NOT Dave Collins as one reviewer said) is a vast improvement over the previous CD editions -- making Steve Perry's vocals, Neal Schon's guitar and Jonathan Cain's keyboard's sound more powerful and clearer than ever before. It also includes a cool booklet containing photos and tour dates from the "Frontiers" era. Essential for any Journey fan or 80's pop/rock lovers!\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nJourney's classic follow up to Escape gets remastered treatment, AGAIN, this time with bonuses, April 1, 2007\nReviewer: Terrence Reardon "The Pink Panther of classic rock" (Florida)\nJourney's ninth album entitle Frontiers was released in February of 1983. \nFrontiers was Journey's follow-up to their 1981 mammoth selling Escape and was another great album which rivals its predecessor as best Journey album of the Perry/Cain/Schon/Smith/Valory era. \n\nBefore Frontiers was recorded, the band worked on songs for the soundtrack for the film Tron. Also keyboard player Jonathan Cain produced a solo album for his then wife Tane Cain, guitarist Neal Schon did an album with jazz fusion keyboard player Jan Hammer called Here to Stay which had a minor hit with No More Lies (which Journey would play regularly on the Frontiers tour), drummer Steve Smith started a family with his wife as son Ian was born and also created Vital Information (a jazz-rock fusion band), bass player Ross Valory did his thing and lead singer Steve Perry was guest appearing with people like Kenny Loggins on Loggins' album High Adventure on the hit "Don't Fight It" and on the Hammer/Schon album and started work on his solo debut which would come out in the spring of 1984. Then, the band went in the studio with Mike Stone and Kevin Elson producing again and recorded another Journey classic. \n\n"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a great opening rocker which had a great keyboard riff from Cain and Perry's lyrics being superb. \n\nNext is the Top 20 ballad "Send Her My Love" which is a great song and a nice ballad. \n\nThe classic hard rocker "Chain Reaction" is next and was the only Schon/Perry/Cain collaboration on the first half as the rest of the tracks were Cain/Perry (except as noted). Neal's sure-fire riff and counter-vocal to Perry on this track are superb. "After The Fall" follows and is an amazing melodic anthem. The track was included in the Tom Cruise movie Risky Business and is a great song. The all-time classic life on the road ballad "Faithfully" ends the first half on a majestic note. Cain wrote this track himself and is a great song. \n\nSide two of the album kicks off with the rocker "Edge Of The Blade" (penned by Cain/Schon/Perry) and has a strong guitar riff and searing rock vocals from Perry. The melodic "Troubled Child" is next and is a great song. Then comes the punk laced "Back Talk" penned by Cain, Perry and drummer Steve Smith whom played a killer drum pattern to a classic Cain guitar riff. Perry on this track is actually screaming with rage. The off-beat but classic title track follows and is a great number. We end the album with the majestic rocker "Rubicon" which was a great way to finish the album. \n\nFrontiers succeeded artistically and commercially as it hit #2 in the spring of 1983 (no one except The Police could topple Michael Jackson's Thriller) and sold 7 or so million copies in the US alone to date. \n\nIn 2006, the album was re-released as a new remaster (this time remastered by Dave Collins whereas the 1996 remaster was by George Marino) and sounds amazing and contains FOUR bonus tracks all of which were held off of the original album. Two of the tracks held off the album which were the Top 10 hit "Only the Young" from Vision Quest and "Ask the Lonely" from the Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta flop Two Of a Kind were dropped from the original album in favor of "Troubled Child" and "Back Talk". Now, for those who don't want to buy a compilation to get these two tracks can get them finally on a proper Journey album. Then "Liberty" is next and we close with the track "Only Solutions" which came from the soundtrack to Tron. \n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nIt Could Have Been A 5 Star Album, August 7, 2006\nReviewer: Jim Kelsey\nJourney's "Frontiers" album, released in 1982, stands as one of the band's best. The album spawned four hits ("Separate Ways," "Send Her My Love," "After the Fall", and "Faithfully") and a video game. The synths definitely dominated on this album (who can forget the opening to "Separate Ways?"); yet, despite this, the guitars were more rhythmic and distorted, creating a much harder sound than their previous "Escape" album. Neil Schon's still gets to do his incredible solo work and drummer Steve Smith clearly shows off his talent in "Rubicon" and "Frontiers." \n\nWhere the album falls short were the two tracks pulled from it, only to be included on movie soundtracks. These two tracks were "Only the Young," which wound up on the "Vision Quest" soundtrack and peaked at #9 on the Billboard Charts. The other was "Ask the Lonely," a phenomenal tune that was used for the movie "Two of a Kind." It received a fair amount of airplay, but never charted. It is the reviewers opinion that these two should have superceded "Troubled Child" and "Back Talk," neither of which contributed much to the album. Where can you get these tunes? On their "Greatest Hits" album, which also includes 3/4 hits off of "Frontiers." \n\n"Frontiers" is a great album and one that should be included in any Journey fan's collection. Happy buying! \n\n****UPDATE**** \n\nThe 2006 remaster contains four bonus tracks: "Only the Young," "Ask the Lonely," "Only Solutions," and "Liberty." This is the one to buy!\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe Journey To The Metal Kingdom(With Minor Casualties), December 1, 2001\nReviewer: susumu-5 (Japan)\nFrontiers released in 1982 shows the Journey's exploration into the harder edge of melodic rock. But the trouble was Journey became too big to venture into such risky business with the huge success of Escape which sold more than 9 million copies. To survive as a rock band, however, metallization was inevitable for them. The band curtly solved the dilennma by placing pop tracks on the first part and hard-edged tracks the second. \n\nSeperate Ways, keyboard heavy opening track is really excellent with dramatism and grace and it became their second largest hit. Send Her My Love is well-written fine ballad and together with another sweet ballad Faithfully they did the job as corporate rock band. Edge Of The Blade,though not as complete as previous five tracks, is a nice example of guitar driven rock. Troubled Child and Frontiers aptly showing Steve Perry's fine vocal makes metal edged part listenable for ordinary music fans. Back Talk has classic hard rock feel with a little blend of latin rock styled drums. Rubicon is my #1 favorite rocker from this album. \n\nJourney as a band, however, went into four-year long sleep with the exception of Only The Young from Vision Quest soundtrack with Ross Valory leaving the band. Ross Valory joined Kevin Chalfant(now the lead vocallist of Two Fires) and became the driving force for Kevin's band VU and The Storm.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe most romantic hard rock ever, February 9, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nListening to something like "Edge of the Blade" or "Back Talk", it's hard to imagine that it's the same band that made "Open Arms" from the previous album "Escape". I'm not knocking either song, just pointing out the ability of the band (that has always been accused of making "corporate rock") to actually put out such various styles of music. Compared to all their previous work, which were lighter in both sound and subject matter and featured more vocal harmonies, "Frontiers" is solid and heavy almost to the point of being brutal, and in that respect is rather unique... the bottom line being, it merits credit as one of the most melodic and romantic hard rock albums ever made. And after more than 15 years, "Faithfully" remains to be my all-time favorite song, ever.\n\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Kevin Elson, Mike Stone \n\nAlbum Notes\nJourney: Steve Perry (vocals); Jonathan Cain (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Neal Schon (guitar, background vocals); Ross Valory (bass guitar, background vocals); Steve Smith (drums).\n\nRecorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California.\n\nIt seemed like nothing could stop Journey when it kept its string of multi-million selling blockbuster albums intact with the release of 1983's FRONTIERS. The band also successfully made the transition to the MTV era with this release, benefiting from the new station's constant airing of its (inadvertently) hilarious video for "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)."\n\nAlso included here are two more hit ballads that showcase vocalist Steve Perry's immense talents: "Faithfully" and "Send Her My Love," as well as the often-overlooked rockers "Chain Reaction" and "Rubicon." This would prove to be the last Journey release with its classic Perry-Schon-Cain-Smith-Valory line-up for 13 years.\n\n\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nThis is a crucial time for Styx and Journey, and they know it. Although their combination of smooth pop melodicism and hard-rock muscle has earned these bands a large following over the past five years, the ever-widening audience for such polished post-New Wavers as Men at Work, the Police and A Flock of Seagulls seems to indicate that Styx and Journey are up against stiff competition. As a result, the two groups are in the unenviable position of having to choose between soldiering on as before and risk ending up as dinosaurs, or attempting a change of direction that could cost them a sizable chunk of their audience. And no matter what, the surest failure of all would be the appearance of complacency.\n\nBoth Kilroy Was Here and Frontiers do at least lend the impression that these two groups are taking giant steps of some sort. The problem is that neither group seems sure of where those steps are heading.\n\nStyx, for example, has decided to further the dramatic aspect of its work, a direction that first cropped up on their last album, Paradise Theatre. That record boasted a central concept but relatively little plot; Kilroy, on the other hand, has so much plot that Styx put together an eleven-minute video dramatization as a preface for its concert appearances. But despite the project's obvious ambition, it comes off as both simple-minded and trite.\n\nSet in an imaginary future, the story centers on the struggle between repressive authority and rock rebellion. Representing the forces of evil is Dr. Everett Righteous, the head of the Majority for Musical Morality and the architect of a ban on rock & roll. The good guys are Jonathan Chance, "the rebel leader of an underground movement to bring back rock & roll," and Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (ROCK --get it?), a jailed rocker who escapes from prison by disguising himself as one of the robot guards. The synopsis inside the album package doesn't tell how this melodrama resolves, but it's not too hard to guess. Having rock & roll triumph over outrageous persecution is one of the oldest hack plots, and as always, there's no drama in this situation, just self-flattery.\n\nBeyond the obvious ego inflation, though, Kilroy Was Here is a useful tactic for Styx. Its us-against-them dramatic mechanism carries the underlying message that Styx is rock & roll, a bit of psychological reinforcement that couldn't hurt in shoring up the band's following at a difficult time.\n\nAlthough this dramatic overview may do wonders for the group's image, it poses some problems musically. Styx has always gone in for a somewhat showy sound, and Kilroy Was Here finds their writing at its Broadway best; unfortunately, while the melodies carry the all-purpose sparkle of a stage musical, the songs lack the sort of unity expected of a genuine theatrical production. Dennis De Young's "Mr. Roboto" is easily the catchiest tune on the album, but given the nature of its lyrics, it's hard to imagine anyone unfamiliar with the overriding concept making sense of it. His "Don't Let It End" seems unable to decide between sticking to the plot or filling the album's need for a good love song, and ends up an unsatisfying muddle. Tommy Shaw's "Just Get through This Night," clearly the album's best ballad, is plagued by a similar inability to make sense either as part of the drama or on its own. Only James Young's "Heavy Metal Poisoning" manages to work both ways, but between the band's uninspired playing and Young's cartoonish delivery, even that fizzles. By going after the best of two worlds--drama and music--Styx winds up with little of value from either.\n\nIt's hard to say what Journey is up to on Frontiers. With several of the group's members complaining to the press last year about how success had locked Journey into formula music, it seemed as if the band was signaling a shift to a less overtly commercial, more musically demanding sound. But as much as the sound on Frontiers has shifted, it's hard to believe that Journey thought there was any risk involved. Indeed, in some ways this is the band's most conservative effort yet.\n\nAnyone who heard Here to Stay -- the second album by Journey guitarist Neal Schon and former Mahavishnu Orchestra keyboardist Jan Hammer, which was released shortly before Frontiers -- could have anticipated the "new" Journey sound. Whereas the duo's first collaboration, Untold Passion, served as a busman's holiday for Schon, giving him a chance to stretch out in a freer, jazz-oriented format. Here to Stay is obviously sales conscious. Although "Turnaround" and "(You Think You're) So Hot" employ some admirably complex riffs (though all are in dependable 4/4 time), "No More Lies" and "Long Time" are typical FM rockers, and "Self Defense" is essentially Journey with Hammer sitting in.\n\nFrontiers takes care to maintain an equally high level of musicianship, but those interested in that aspect of the band's music will learn little beyond how smart guys play heavy metal. Despite the band's musical ingenuity and undeniable chops, the aesthetic at work here never goes any farther afield than basic stomp and crunch. There are some interesting touches, such as the clever modal harmony in "Chain Reaction" and the zippy power-guitar figure behind "Edge of the Blade." On the whole, though, Foreigner did a better job of stretching the limits of heavy-rock formalism with Head Games -- and with fewer debts to other acts. The most energetic workout here, "Back Talk," is strongly reminiscent of Van Halen's "Everybody Wants Some," while the album's best ballad, "Faithfully," sounds more like a Bob Seger tune than one belonging to Journey.\n\nIn the end, the best that any of these albums can do is buy some time for these groups, for neither Styx nor Journey can afford continuing as before. Whether or not they can manage a transition that will maintain their commercial vitality remains to be seen. Judging from these albums, I wouldn't hold my breath. (RS 393 -- Apr 14, 1983) -- J.D. CONSIDINE
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