Essential for Every Journey Fan
Al B. | N/A | 05/06/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The Essential Journey is a great collection but the limited edition 3.0 reissue that came out a year ago completely blows it out of the water. This version of The Essential Journey contains a third bonus disk that has 3 selections from the Escape live album as well as the Popular Departure classic "Walks Like a Lady", The Infinity classic "Feeling That Way", which should have been on the first release, Trial By Fire's "When I Think of You, "Suzanne" from Raised on Radio, and a track I never heard of, "I Can See it in Your Eyes". The first disc of Essential is pretty much Greatest Hits minus "Be Good To Yourself" which is on Disc 2. Disc 2 has "Be Good To Yourself" as well as other great songs like "Anytime", "Escape", "Line of Fire", and, "Stone in Love". There's a few things missing from this compilation like "Stay Awhile" and "Only Solutions". Tracks from Escape and Back are all remastered beautifully but if you own the Frontiers, Raised on Radio, and Trial by Fire Reissues, you really won't hear much of a difference and trust me, I listened to them back to back. I really like the live versions of "Don't Stop Believin'", "Stone in Love", and "Mother, Father" from Live in Houston but I would've been more excited to see Stay Awhile, Rubicon, Only Solutions, and Once You Love Somebody. Other than that, Essential 3.0 is a pretty good Album, although I feel Time3 was a bit better and it had pre-Perry Journey tracks. However this has Trial by Fire material so either way its a preference thing. I recommend it to people who are getting into Journey and die-hard fans."
Essential indeed!
MommaMia | NY | 09/14/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If you are Journey fan, look no further for a collection that can't be beat. This collection has all of your favorites...hit after hit. You can't beat it! Great price, great value."
GREAT GREAT GREAT
cathy | 01/07/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Even though i already have most or all of these songs. This CD is awesome. Great music great, great songs just a really great cd all the way around."