Journey -《Departure》[MP3]

专辑英文名: Departure

歌手: Journey

音乐风格: 摇滚

资源格式: MP3

发行时间: 1980年

地区: 美国

语言: 英语

简介:

唱片公司：Columbia

专辑风格：Soft Rock；Album Rock；Contemporary Pop/ Rock；Arena Rock；Hard Rock

压缩比率：192kbps

专辑介绍：

（以下介绍均转自网络）

The third and final album of what could be called Journey's cocoon phase (Escape would give birth to a fully formed butterfly and put the band through the stratosphere), 1980's Departure would also be the quintet's last with keyboardist/vocalist Gregg Rolie. Produced by Geoff Workman and Kevin Elson (essentially both engineers turned producers), the album continued to build on the band's previous two recordings, but offered an added edge, arrangement-wise. This was likely due to the fact that the band had walked into Automatt Studios with 19 new tunes and proceeded to record most of them live, eventually trimming down to 11 songs. Catapulted all the way up to number eight on the Billboard Top 200, Departure was the band's highest charting album to date and got off to an explosive start with the driving riffs and chorused vocals of "Anyway You Want It" (another radio smash that would chart Top 25). Never sounding tighter, the quintet then launched into "Walks Like a Lady" (another future FM staple, climbing to number 32) and a string of outstanding rockers, including future concert opener "Where Were You" and the stop-go-stop-go energy of "Line of Fire." On the other hand, elegant power ballads like "Good Morning" and "Stay Awhile" would foreshadow the band's future commercial triumphs on Escape. And even though it packs the occasional filler like "Someday Soon" and "Homemade Love" (a weak attempt to boogie that falls absolutely flat and, tellingly, was the only Gregg Rolie-sung tune here), Departure is a solid record all around. Soon, Rolie would be replaced by the greater pop-savvy songwriting muscle of former Babys keyboard man Jonathan Caine, and Journey would go from huge cult act to monster superstars.

1973年成立于美国旧金山市的摇滚乐队Journey，1975年发行首张同名专辑，便以其偏向前卫摇滚的乐风在乐坛闯出名声，但由于他们的作品都以曲折复杂的爵士摇滚演奏曲为主轴，使得他们的头三张专辑虽都拥有稳定且不错的排行销售成绩，但却难免有些曲高和寡之憾。因此，Journey在不断地修正音乐方向，及历经成员的变动——尤其是主唱Steve Perry加入所产生的化学变化之后，终于在1978年以其第四张专辑、也是Steve Perry担任主唱的首张专辑《Infinity》打破了三年来的僵局，于一年内创下破百万张的销售纪录，自此Journey的名声与销售便双双地如扶摇直上。除了《Infinity》以及接下来的两张专辑《Captured》(1979)、《Departure》(1980)都创下发行一年内破全美百万及如今三白金的销售认证外，Journey更于1981年以专辑《Captured》拿下Billboard专辑排行冠军宝座，缔造了《Who's Crying Now》、《Don't Stop Believin'》、《Open Arms》连续3首排行Top 10畅销经典名曲，一举登上音乐巅峰，立足巨星行列。

1987年，在为专辑促销的巡回演出结束之后，乐队解散了。主音歌手Steve Perry终日酗酒，并开始了毛病迭出的独唱生涯。键盘手Jonathan Cain与John Waite组建了Bad English乐队。1996年，在哥伦比亚唱片公司总裁的竭力推动下，乐队成员重新走到一起。