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Journey - Essential Journey (CD)

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Release Date:10/16/2001
Label:Sony
UPC:696998608023

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    time3 is more "essential"

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 29, 2003 | 1 out of 1 found this Essential Journey review helpful

    love journey, love the new albums, but in reference to this album, time3 is more essential than this 2-disc set. someone else wrote that this album is missing the Rolie and Augeri years, and that's what I like about time3 is the early stuff. i ...think the third disc of the boxed set is the best--it has so many songs that are essential to journey ("happy to give," "once you love somebody," and "the eyes of a woman" come to mind). i also disagree with a previous reviewer...trial by fire was an excellent album, probably steve perry's most dominant and versatile vocal performance. still, the "escape" album is the greatest of all time. Read more Less

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    Essential Journey

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 29, 2005

    Pros: Includes all major hits

    Cons: None

    Always loved the Journey w/ Steve Perry. I never collected all their albums because I was a young teen at the time, sometimes I didn't have the money. Essential Journey was an answer to my yearning for Journey's hits on one CD/set without hav...ing to buy every album I missed during the 'magical years' with Steve Perry....what a voice! what a gift!! Thanks for the magic Steve!!! Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    The Essential Journey doesn't bear a title that's too hyperbolic for the collection it represents. Over the course of two discs and 32 songs, the retrospective winds through all of the group's biggest songs -- not just the hit singles, but the album radio favorites and concert staples that kept the group popular on the charts and in the arenas until last third of the '80s (and, for the record, everything on the previous Greatest Hits record is here). The key to the collection is that it doesn't abide strict chronological order. Instead, it's divided into two, with all the biggest hits on the first disc and the second acting like a "more of the best" collection, and within each of the discs, the tracks flow like a concert. The result is a first-class, definitive collection for the serious Journey listener (and, despite many skeptics, there are many out there -- which is not hard to understand, since arena rock never got any better than this).

    - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Journey

During its initial 14 years of existence (1973-1987), Journey altered its musical approach and its personnel extensively while becoming a top touring and recording band. The only constant factor was guitarist Neal Schon (b. Feb. 27, 1954), a music prodigy who had been a member of Santana in 1971-1972. The original unit, which was named in a contest on KSAN-FM in San Fra... Read more