Frontiers - Journey

I remember being bored one cold winters day in March of '83 and, plucking up the courage to face the wind and snow, decided to 'journey' to the local library in the hope of some 'escape'. The library had just started hiring out music which was a bit of a misnomer as all they usually stocked were things that you'd either never heard of or stuff that you would never dare take out in case some friend of yours happened to be standing behind you. Imagine my surprise then when I saw a cassette (oh those days of yore) by the american pop/rock quintet Journey whose name I had seen written in the hallowed pages of Kerrang! on more than one occasion and had thereby been given a ...  Read the complete review

Hmmmmmm, 'Frontiers', the follow up to the perfection that was 'Escape'. This was the first album of Journey's that I bought on its release date way back in 1983. The only question was, could they do it? Could what was surely to be known as Journey's seminal work, 'Escape' be equalled? The answer is probably no. 'Frontiers' is not perfect. In my opinion there are a couple of fillers here. But that is not to say that this is not a fine piece of work by anybody's standards. The only trouble is that by this time Journey's standards were so damn high! 'Frontiers' kicks off with the first single ...  Read the complete review