- Frontiers (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = Frontiers
Type =Album
Artist = Journey
Released =February 22 ,1983
Recorded = Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California 1982
Genre = Rock
Length = 44:09
Label = Columbia
Producer =Kevin Elson , Mike Stone
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bna9kect7q7c link]
*Robert Christgau (D+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2043&name=Journey link]
*"Rolling Stone " rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/journey/albums/album/114517/review/5945141/frontiers link]
Last album = "Escape"
(1981)
This album = "Frontiers"
(1983)
Next album = "Raised on Radio "
(1986)"Frontiers", Journey's eighth album, was released in February 1983 on the
Columbia Records label.The album would garner four top 40 singles: "After the Fall" (#23), "Send Her My Love" (#23), "Faithfully" (#12), and "Separate Ways" (#8), and a rock radio hit in "Chain Reaction." All of the first five tracks (the album's first side) had videos created for them.
Arguably the album would have been an even bigger success had it not been for the last minute decision by Michael Dilbeck, the band’s longtime A & R man, to switch two tracks; he put "Back Talk" and "Troubled Child" in, and took out "Ask the Lonely" and "Only the Young." Jonathan Cain had more input on this album; not only did he once again help co-write all the tracks, he was the main pen behind "Faithfully", and there is more emphasis on keyboards.
*Highest chart position: the album reached #2 on the Billboard album charts.
The song "Edge of the Blade" was covered by Norwegian
hard rock vocalistJorn Lande on his 2000 album Starfire.Track listing
# "
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (Cain/Perry) – 5:24
# "Send Her My Love " (Cain/Perry) – 3:54
# "Chain Reaction" (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 4:21
# "After the Fall" (Cain/Perry) – 5:00
# "Faithfully" (Cain) – 4:26
# "Edge Of The Blade" (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 4:30
# "Troubled Child" (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 4:29
# "Back Talk" (Cain/Perry/Smith) – 3:16
# "Frontiers" (Cain/Perry/Schon/Smith) – 4:09
# "Rubicon" (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 4:18
# "Only the Young " (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 4:17
# "Ask the Lonely" (Cain/Perry) – 3:54
# "Liberty" (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 2:54
# "Only Solutions" (Cain/Perry/Schon) – 3:32*Tracks 11-14 are bonus tracks on the 2006 CD reissue.
Personnel
*Steve Perry - lead vocals
*Neal Schon - guitar (acoustic and electric), vocals
*Jonathan Cain - keyboards, vocals, rhythm guitar on "Back Talk"
*Steve Smith - drums and percussion
*Ross Valory - bass, vocals
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