Journey - Escape
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Artist: JourneyEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Dont Stop Believin'
- Stone In Love
- Who's Crying Now
- Keep On Runnin'
- Still They Ride
- Escape
- Lay It Down
- Dead Or Alive
- Mother, Father
- Open Arms
- La Raza Del Sol
- Dont Stop Believin
- Who's Crying Now
- Open Arms
Music reviews of Escape
Music Review: Journey's most successful album still rocks 30 years on
Rating: 5 Stars
Journey's seventh studio (and tenth overall) album Escape was released in July of 1981.
The album came at a time when Journey went through a transitional phase when original keyboard player/co-founder Gregg Rolie left the band and was replaced by ex-Babys keyboard player and 70s minor pop star Jonathan Cain who joins remaining Journey-men lead singer Steve Perry, guitarist Neal Schon, bass player Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith for the Escape album.
Also, the band went in the studio with sound man Kevin Elson and one time Queen engineer (the late) Mike Stone to record Journey's classic contribution to rock history as I found out when I was 5 back in 1981 (the year this album hit the streets).
All of the tracks except as noted were written by Perry/Schon/Cain.
We kick things off with the Top 10 rocker "Don't Stop Believin'" which is arguably their best known song and a rallying cry not to give up on your dreams. The 2005 Chicago White Sox team used this song as their rallying cry for the 2005 World Series (which they won). Next is another rocker "Stone in Love" which was a rock radio hit about finding a woman. The solo at song's end came into Neal's head whilst at a party. The band's first Top 10 hit (and the album's first single) "Who's Cryin' Now" is next and is a melodic mid-tempo ballad. What a great song and Neal Schon's bluesy soulful solo at the end was done out of anger as Perry and Cain (the song's writers) hated the initial solos he recorded for the track. Next we rock out again with "Keep on Runnin'" which is a great Journey rocker. The first half ends with the Top 20 ballad "Still They Ride" which is a great slow number which gives us a break from the rockers.
The album's second half kicks off with the title track to Escape which is another great rocker about breaking free from problems we face in daily life and a great song. We continue the rocking with the classic "Lay it Down" with Schon and Cain playing a great guitar riff (Cain also played rhythm guitar on Stone in Love and Keep on Runnin). Steve Perry shows his aggressive side on his tracks and can scream well. Next is another rocker "Dead or Alive" which is another great Journey track and rocks out once again. Next is my favorite Journey track of the 80s "Mother Father" which was written by Schon, his father Matthew, Perry and Cain. The track is a slow epic which sounds like a classical work but a killer track. We close the album with the #2 charting single "Open Arms" (written by Cain/Perry). This timeless, if not the best, power ballad was a Cain track which he wrote for The Babys but John Waite called rubbish and Schon called Mary Poppins-sounding but Perry loved it and wrote the track and the rest is history and a great song!
Escape is still a masterpiece nearly 30 years later and remains Journey's most successful non-compilation album ever as it hit #1 here in the US in September, 1981 and has sold close to 10 million copies in the US alone (good bulk of the sales were during 1981 and 1982 but still sells consistently today).
This remastered version from 1996 (done by Bob Ludwig) is the best sounding version of Escape!
In 2006 (in time for Escape's 25th anniversary), the 1996 remaster was re-released with digi-pak packaging and FOUR bonus tracks. First is the Escape outtake "La Rasa Del Sol" which was an excellent song. Then we have three tracks which also appear on the Live in Houston 1981 CD and DVD combo pack (Who's Cryin Now, Don't Stop Believin and Open Arms).
Recommended!
Description of Escape
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Living up to the moniker originally given them via a San Francisco radio contest, Journey traveled a restless, often less-than-promising arc as a prog-centric quartet during the early '70s. But the addition of Steve Perry's soaring tenor to the mix on 1978's Infinity instantly changed the band's fortunes, which arguably peaked on this 1981 release. While Neal Schon's lyrical guitar work remained a staple, it was Perry's unabashedly mainstream pop ballad sensibilities that carried the album to the top of the charts and multiplatinum sales via its trio of era-defining hit singles, "Who's Crying Now," "Don't Stop Believing," and "Open Arms." --Jerry McCulley
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