Escape Music Cd

Journey - Escape

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Escape      Artist : Journey      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2006-08-01      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (17 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Escape      Killer Rock      Rating:      Journey could not have made a more perfect album when they launched Escape. Sonically superb and featuring the soaring Steve Perry - this release deserved more credit. Journey is often remembered as an 80s act in rock history, but this album broke new ground and set the band above its peers. The album succeeds remarkably - being able to veer instantly between adrenaline rockers and ballads - Perry being equally comfortable in either forte with Neil Schon and Jonathan Cain. Tight, tight, tight. Besides the obvious classics - Don't Stop Believing; Open Arms and Who's Crying Now - I really dig Stone in Love; Keep on Running; Lay It Down and Wanted Dead or Alive. Every song - except the title track ironically - works wonders for me. Great stuff. If Journey had only made one album and vanished - this would've been the one.     Customer Reviews for Escape Cd      Classic Pop Rock at it's finest!!!      Rating:      For many Journey's Escape album sums up the 1980's. The first album that featured Johnathan Cain on keyboards, and in my opinion Steve Perry's peak as a vocalist. The last of Journey's 1970's sound left with Gregg Rolie (Journey's original keyboardist, who is exceptional in his own right), and Escape is an album that for all intensive purposes should be considered a classic. From the rockers "Don't Stop Believin" and "Stone In Love" to the ballad "Open Arms;" this CD has enough power, emotion, and exceptional song writing that it could be considered a greatest hits on it's own merit. Perry's voice is authentic, rich and flawless. Neil's guitar work is right on the money as usual. Not to mention that Steve Smith, Johnathan Cain, and Ross Valory's contributions are without question perfect. This is a can't miss CD (and there arn't many of them out there). Pick it up, listen, and you will hear the best Pop Rock the 1980's had to offer... Bottom Line: Can't miss classic Pop Rock Album. Editorial Reviews for Escape Audio Cd      Amazon.com      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