Journey : Frontiers (2006 CD Reissue Expanded Edition)

LOVIN' A MUSIC MAN

AIN'T ALWAYS

WHAT IT'S 

SUPPOSED TO BE

 Frontiers

 is the

 eighth studio album

 by the American

 Rock band

 Journey

 released in

 February 1, 1983, 

by Columbia Records. 

This was the band's

 last album

 to feature bassist

 Ross Valory

 until 1996's

 Trial by Fire.

The album 

reached No. 2 

on the 

Billboard 200 chart

and would garner 

four top 40 singles: 

"After the Fall" 

(No. 23), 

"Send Her My Love"

 (No. 23), 

"Faithfully" (No. 12),

 and 

"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (No. 8), 

and a rock radio hit in

 "Chain Reaction". 

The album would

 later achieve

 the RIAA certification 

of six times platinum. 

In 2008, 

Classic Rock critic

 Paul Elliott

 declared

 "Faithfully" 

to be

 "the greatest power ballad of all time".

The album had

 been sequenced 

and prepped

 for pressing when

 in a

 last-minute

 conference

 with

 Journey's

 A&R man

Michael Dillbeck,

 two songs

 were pulled from

 the original lineup, 

"Ask the Lonely" 

and

 "Only the Young". 

These two tracks 

were replaced with

 "Back Talk" 

and

 "Troubled Child". 

"Ask the Lonely" 

was utilized 

in the soundtrack

 for the film 

Two of a Kind. 

"Only the Young" 

would find its way

 into the

 Top Ten 

two years later, 

as part of the

 soundtrack 

of the movie

 Vision Quest.

Frontiers 

was the band's

 highest-charting album

 in the United Kingdom, 

reaching No. 6 

on the

 UK Albums Chart

 in 1983.

Album Artwork

Jim Welch designed

 the album cover.

 This was the first 

album cover since

 Next that did not 

employ

 the talents of

 Stanley Mouse 

and

 Alton Kelley.

Welch, 

who has been 

Journey's art designer

 for more than

 30 years

 (as of 2022), 

commented:

 "Frontiers was a subtle shift. 

Mouse and Kelley 

were not involved

 with that cover.

 My vision for

 Frontiers 

was based on

 "tunnels"

 and the 

relativity of

 time and motion.

 Light stays the same, 

but time bends.

 It was Einstein theories

 for artist interpretation. 

The alien in 

Frontiers wasn't

 really an alien at all,

 he was a connection

 to a higher level of

 listening to Journey

TRACKLIST

Separate Ways

 (Worlds Apart)

Send Her My Love

Chain Reaction

After The Fall

Faithfully

Edge Of The Blade

Troubled Child

Back Talk

Frontiers

Rubicon

Only The Young

Ask The Lonely

Liberty

Only Solutions

All That Really Matters

Faithfully 

(Remix)

Separate Ways

 (Remix)

BONUS

In the Studio 

with

 Redbeard 

(Interview)

Frontiers 

(2013) 

(Audio Rip)

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