Frontiers [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Journey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002BMX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,059 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

2. Send Her My Love

3. Chain Reaction

4. After the Fall

5. Faithfully

6. Edge of the Blade

7. Troubled Child

8. Back Talk

9. Frontiers

10. Rubicon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frontiers: AWESOME ALBUM!!!!!, September 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Frontiers (Audio CD)

I'm a die-hard Journey fan, and of all their albums, "Frontiers" is my favorite. This album contains beautiful heartfelt power ballads like "Send Her My Love," "After The Fall," and "Faithfully," and jamming rock anthems like "Seperate Ways," and "Chain Reaction." The band pours out their heart and soul to you in every song, making you feel every bit of the emotion they are expressing. Their harmonizing blends in beautifully across the pounding drums, energetic electric guitars, and melodic keyboards. Lead singer, Steve Perry's wonderful, distinctive voice brings the whole package home, with the strong, intense feeling he presents in each song. Journey is a true rock band, and "Frontiers" is the ultimate rock album. If you want heart-thumping rock, and ballads that make you want to throw your hands up and sway from side to side, this is the album for you. "Frontiers" has it all!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It Could Have Been A 5 Star Album, August 6, 2006

By 

Jim Kelsey - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Frontiers (Audio CD)

Journey's "Frontiers" album, released in 1982, stands as one of the band's best. The album spawned four hits ("Separate Ways," "Send Her My Love," "After the Fall", and "Faithfully") and a video game. The synths definitely dominated on this album (who can forget the opening to "Separate Ways?"); yet, despite this, the guitars were more rhythmic and distorted, creating a much harder sound than their previous "Escape" album. Neil Schon's still gets to do his incredible solo work and drummer Steve Smith clearly shows off his talent in "Rubicon" and "Frontiers."

Where the album falls short were the two tracks pulled from it, only to be included on movie soundtracks. These two tracks were "Only the Young," which wound up on the "Vision Quest" soundtrack and peaked at #9 on the Billboard Charts. The other was "Ask the Lonely," a phenomenal tune that was used for the movie "Two of a Kind." It received a fair amount of airplay, but never charted. It is the reviewers opinion that these two should have superceded "Troubled Child" and "Back Talk," neither of which contributed much to the album. Where can you get these tunes? On their "Greatest Hits" album, which also includes 3/4 hits off of "Frontiers."

"Frontiers" is a great album and one that should be included in any Journey fan's collection. Happy buying!

****UPDATE****

The 2006 remaster contains four bonus tracks: "Only the Young," "Ask the Lonely," "Only Solutions," and "Liberty." This is the one to buy!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Someday love will find you"... But it never did me, April 5, 2002

By 

andy previte (The Land Of The Thirtysomthing Broken Hearted Fools, Yes) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frontiers (Audio CD)

Having got hooked on Journey with Frontiers' predecessor, Escape, I was going crazy with excitement when this came out. I had cried several times when listening to Escape, to such an extent that my parents with whom I was living at the time asked me if everything was OK. I was 17. So, of course, the answer was "Yes. leave me alone, Mom" Then came Frontiers and that fantastic opening track, Separate Ways. The thrilling crunch of Neal Schon's guitars and that beautiful Steve Perry falsetto floating like a lovely bird over the top. "Someday love will find you... break those chains that bind you". At the time I was bound in the chains of unrequited love and that song cut me to the bone. Send Her My Love, Faithfully and After The Fall stung me in the same way. Exquisite soft rock with bite. Side two of the original vinyl - so the second half here - is heavier, but Edge Of The Blade has a heart-tugging streak beneath the riff that still reminds me of my platonic girlfriend, EJO (let's call her). I never got the girl, but Frontiers still takes me back. I cried while listening to this album and, once again, Mom asked if everything was OK. If only she knew I was a heartbroken, crazy Journey freak with no chick to share it all with.