Journey

Highlighted by "Don't Stop Believin'" and the sweaty-palmed, dry-hump masterpiece "Open Arms," Escape was so popular that a Journey-themed arcade game was designed in its honor. The record may have spawned Pop Metal but it's also the sort of rock music that just doesn't exist anymore: orgiastically loud and utterly unselfconscious.

"Who's Crying Now," the hit single off Journey's hit LP, isn't super hip, super deep or even
real, real hooky. But it does sound good. What I'm talking about is the way the song's soft,
soapy bass redeems its soft, dopey sentiment by diving beneath tiny fillips of acoustic
guitar and bubbling up around a dream-sized dollop of fat harmonies. Every shimmery
cymbal tick pays tribute to the state of modern engineering. Same goes for the s... More >