★★★★★
Volume 2's title is something of a misnomer, given that its predecessor was the real Journey best of packed with their choicest smashes, such as Don't Stop Believin' and Lights. But for those who don't have much of the band's catalogue - or even know that Steve Perry was their singer before Arnel Pineda took the helm - this is a decent enough one-stop...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-12-05
★★★★★
Filed under: News, Interview, Exclusive Travis Shinn "We could have easily written a bunch of songs that sounded just like some of our older songs, but we wanted to bring something fresh on this record," says Journey guitarist Neal Schon. The legendary musician is on the phone talking to Noisecreep about 'Eclipse,' Journey's superb new album...
- www.smnnews.com
2011-06-20
★★★★★
It takes 17 minutes and 39 seconds to hit the first satisfyingly Journey-sounding moment on Eclipse, the band's 14th album: a soaring six-minute-plus power ballad, "Tantra." For a legacy act whose biggest new audience is "Don't Stop Believin' "-loving Glee fans, that's about 17 minutes too long. Journey's second disc with Filipino YouTube discovery Arnel Pineda on vocals is both grand and distractingly proggy...
- www.rollingstone.com
2011-06-13
★★★★★
With Eclipse, Journey has become, once more, a whole band. It's not Journey with another new guy to replace the legendary other guy. Sure, Arnel Pineda had to be capable of sealing the 'Journey' sound which defined their music and success in the late Seventies through the grand Eighties. But here, on Eclipse, there's a certain cohesion that was lacking with Steve Augeri or the mismatch with Jeff Scott Soto. Yet, as with Revelation, this Journey is both the familiar past and evolving present...
- www.dangerdog.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
This is not Escape. This is not Frontiers. This is certainly not Raised on Radio, nor is it the new material in the Revelation package. If you're looking for carbon copies of those prior touchstones and do not wish to open your ears, head, and heart to something new, you'll be disappointed in the new Journey record. Just move on. Go see them live this summer--you'll get "Separate Ways" and "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Open Arms," no problem...
- popdose.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
When I set out to listen to Journey's latest, Eclipse, I put aside all the things I've thought about the band, their back story, their personnel decisions, and so forth, and gave myself a strict rule to work around -- focus strictly on the songs. If the songs are good, then how they arrived wouldn't matter and all the falderal over the band's inner workings would be rendered moot. It is a solid foundation on which to begin...
- popdose.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
This slipcased pairing of Journey's 1976 and '77 pre-radio rock sets saw the then-quartet, fronted by keyboardist/singer Gregg Rolie and fellow ex-Santana man, axe-god Neal Schon, moving from their prog-leaning roots to a more pomp-rock styling...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
What can you say about a band like Journey? Love 'em or hate 'em, youcan't get away from them. They are a quintessential representation of '80spop-rock. During that decade when their popularity peaked, Journey was spewing out hits like a geyser at Yellowstone Park, each putting its own stamp on the musical consciousness of a generation. Their Greatest Hits collection was a thorough assemblage of all their popular songs when it was originally released in 1988...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Escape was the name of Journey's hugely successful album from 1981, and the perfect verb for the type of mainstream rock offered up by a band running at peak performance. It spawned three of their biggest hits, and sold more than 9 million copies in the United States. This reissue includes live versions of those hits, lifted from the previously released Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour DVD and CD...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
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