Released: 1980
Tracks: Destiny; Snow Theme; Sandcastles; A Few Coins; Moon Theme; When the Love Has Gone; Festival Dance; The Rape; Little Girl
Best track: either Little Girl or Destiny
Track to skip: none
This album gets better every time I listen to it. It really annoys me how Journey gets dissed by a lot of people. Journey is either ‘Corporate Rock’ (whatever the hell that means) or they’re poor musicians or just cheesy. This album proves all that and every other excuse of why Journey isn’t ‘good’ WRONG. This is a film soundtrack, so don’t expect this to sound like Escape or Frontiers or especially Greatest Hits. Most of this album is instrumental (Destiny, Sandcastles & Little Girl the only vocals on here) and for possibly in their whole career every bit of their concentration is on the music. No hit singles here.
You know what makes this the best Journey album? Musicianship and songwriting. This album is the Real Deal as far as I’m concerned. It’s so wonderful to see how great of a band Journey can be when they don’t have the pressure of making hits placed upon them. Little Girl is the only thing on here that sounds like a familiar Journey song; the rest are eye openers if all you’ve heard is the greatest hits. I wish Journey had made more film soundtracks, as this is so excellent. A few of the tracks aren’t much of ‘songs’ at all, but they’re all music from the film, and the insignificant ones are really short so they don’t hurt the album any. Unfortunately this album is only available as a Japanese import, so it’s pretty hard to find in the US. Regardless, you should search it out and grab it, it’s worth the high price.
Rating: 96
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