Posted on 02/05/2025 3:22:38 PM PST by DallasBiff
Journey‘s hit track ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ has been named the biggest song of all time by Forbes and has become 18x platinum.
According to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ is now an 18-times-platinum-certified single, meaning that the track has moved more than 18 million units between pure sales and other forms of consumption like streaming in the US alone.
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They were not bad until that Steve Perry guy showed up. Last good album was Look Into The Future. Can’t stand them now. Especially that “Wheel in the Sky” abomination. We used to make our own lyrics up for it, centered around beastiality.
“Yo! Wolf Face!”
No. And that’s why we get to rag on it without limits.
The biggest song in history; bigger than Happy Birthday? I don’t think so. I read somewhere that “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” (1925) is the most recorded song, followed by “The Girl From Ipanema” (1962).
Yep. Honestly, I never heard of them until Cain joined, but that’s neither here nor there.
Overrated.
The gregarious, nocturnal, wild swine.
There is but it’s underwater.
That song is OK and I can see how it became an anthem, but there are so many that are much better. This one by Boston, for instance:
https://youtu.be/TnwqUEelQjE?si=NROPzvW8kXgztbr1
Meh.
Stairway to Heaven FTW.
I went to a Journey, (Revelation’08) concert with some friends of mine.
We got lucky and ended up very close to the stage.
One of my friends has alopecia totalis, and the band members noticed the bald guy.
I assume they thought he has cancer and they were beyond nice and generous.
We got guitar picks, drum sticks, t-shirts, autographs.... 😁😁
Don’t look back - Boston
https://youtu.be/KvmNRXdb2ng?si=1srZzkfsf9pun6G4
And all this time I was sure it Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennile
Muskrat Suzy..Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug
Out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
Sam is so skinny
Ohh the memories
I grew up listening to early Journey on the radio (they were a Bay Area band after all). As soon as Steve Perry showed up that pretty much stopped cold.
So you have two camps when it come to Journey, pre-Perry and Perry eras. The early material was very different and not “bubble-gum” pop at all.
They even did instrumentals like this piece from the eponymous first album (”Journey”).
Topaz
https://youtu.be/4xGRVRS_bFI?si=JdZ7fm3vwCw1J_sn
Saw Journey a couple years ago. Toto was the opener. It was an incredible show. I am a big fan of that band and have seen them 5 or 6 times over the years including a couple with Steve Perry. Anyhoo, they opened with “Only the Young” which is one of my favorites. The setlist was incredible. I told my sister that if I could have went and written down the setlist it would have been exactly what I wanted with the exception of “Don’t Stop Believin”. I’ve had enough of that song. It wasn’t really a big hit when that album came out. It was the Sopranos that made that song.
heh heh!
i remember the little “musk rat giggles”. I mean, what the....
Here's a fine ear worm for you..."Precious and Few..." by Climax.
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