Greatest Hits - Journey

Journey are a band I have grown to like more and more over the last 3 or 4 years. The only song I really knew by them was the ballad 'Open Arms' which has been covered by a few artists including Mariah Carey. I really liked this song and downloaded another ballad by them titled 'Faithfully' which I often listened to on my pc. I was browsing at a car boot sale a few years ago and saw a cassette of their album 'Raised On Radio' for 20p. I bought it and listened to it in my car while driving home. I liked it right away and from then on have grown to really like Journey. I decided to buy their greatest hits album after seeing it on Ebay at a bargain ...  Read the complete review

It would be quite hard for journey to make a compilation album because every song they have writen is pretty good. Journey take on the lighter end of melodic rock and this compilation includes classics such as Lights,Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' and Open Arms. Steve Perry's vocals are on top form with his angelic style of singing and the streamlined guitars paving there way for drums. This is the softer side of rock with fairy-lite keyboards. Still damn good ...  Read the complete review

As always, a greatest hits package is as good an introduction to a band as any other. As always there is not a lot here for a fan that has everything else committed to vinyl (or disc) by the artist in question. So lets start with what there is for the long term Journey fan; track 1, 'Only the young' from the soundtrack of Visionquest, a movie, if I recall correctly, about a wrestler who falls in love. The film was famously renamed as 'crazy for you' after the Madonna song of the same name from the soundtrack, which was a worldwide hit. 'Only the young' is a typical Journey song with a smooth as silk chorus. The other add on track (track ...  Read the complete review