Friday, May 26, 2023 11pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Infinity (1978)

Infinity is the fourth studio album by American rock band Journey, released on January 20, 1978 on Columbia Records. It was the band’s first album with vocalist Steve Perry and the last to feature drummer Aynsley Dunbar.

1. “Lights” 3:11
2. “Feeling That Way” 3:28
3. “Anytime” 3:28
4. “Lă Do Dā” 3:01
5. “Patiently” 3:21
6. “Wheel in the Sky” 4:12
7. “Somethin’ to Hide” 3:27
8. “Winds of March” 5:04
9. “Can Do” 2:39
10. “Opened the Door” 4:37

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Gregg Rolie – keyboards, backing and co-lead (2 & 3) vocals
Ross Valory – bass guitar, backing vocals
Aynsley Dunbar – drums, percussion

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 8pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Dream, After Dream (1980)

Dream, After Dream, performed by the American rock band Journey, is the soundtrack album to the Japanese fantasy film Yume, Yume No Ato directed by fashion designer Kenzo Takada. Released December 10, 1980 on Columbia Records, it was the seventh album-length recording by the group. The soundtrack firmly overshadowed the film itself, which enjoyed little fame. The album was a significant departure from the hard rock which characterized the band’s three preceding albums, harking back to their progressive rock beginnings and relying on complex musicianship and instrumentals.

Dream, After Dream features a full vocal on three of its nine tracks, “Destiny”, “Sand Castles” and “Little Girl”. “Little Girl” was later the B-side of the “Open Arms” single and was featured on Journey’s Time3 collection. It also appears as a bonus track on the 2006 reissue of Departure and the 2011 edition of Greatest Hits 2. “Destiny” is the band’s longest recorded song.

This was the last studio album to feature founding member Gregg Rolie.

1. “Destiny” 8:06
2. “Snow Theme” 4:12
3. “Sandcastles” 4:44
4. “A Few Coins” 0:40
5. “Moon Theme” 4:35
6. “When the Love Has Gone” 4:02
7. “Festival Dance” 0:57
8. “The Rape” 2:11
9. “Little Girl” 5:48

Steve Perry – lead vocals, producer
Neal Schon – guitars, vocals, producer
Gregg Rolie – keyboards, piano, harmonica, vocals, producer
Ross Valory – bass guitar, vocals, producer
Steve Smith – drums, percussion, producer
Eiji Arai, Yasuo Hirauchi, Tadataka Nakazawa, Sumio Okada – trombones
Toshio Araki, Yoshikazu Kishi, Kenji Yoshida, Takatoki Yoshioka – trumpets
Takashi Fukumori, Hachiro Ohmatsu, Kiyoshi Ohsawa, Masatsugu Shinozaki – violins
Hiroto Kawamura, Kazuo Okamoto – cellos
Masayuki Yamashiro – horn
Strings and horns arranged and conducted by Matthew A. Schon

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Monday, April 3, 2023 9pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Departure (1980)

Departure is the sixth studio album by American rock band Journey. It was released on February 29, 1980, by Columbia Records.

Departure was Journey’s highest-charting album to that point, giving them their first appearance in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album charts, peaking at No. 8. The album includes “Any Way You Want It”, the lead off track and top 25 single.

The album featured an edgier sound, thanks partly to the “live in studio” way the songs were recorded. The band went into The Automatt studio with 19 tracks, eventually trimming down to 12.

Departure would mark the last full-time studio album appearance of founding member Gregg Rolie, and his penultimate recording with the band: his final contributions would appear on Dream, After Dream, a soundtrack album to the Japanese film of the same name, which would also be released in 1980. Rolie had become tired of life on the road and decided to leave the band after assisting in the selection of his replacement, Jonathan Cain, then of The Babys. Rolie sang lead vocals on only one song on Departure, the ballad “Someday Soon”.

In 1986, Columbia reissued Departure on compact disc in the U.S. and Europe. They subsequently remastered the album in 1996. BMG/Columbia remastered Departure again in 2006 for European, Japanese and American listeners, adding bonus tracks 13 “Natural Thing” and 14 “Little Girl”. Dave Donnelly at DNA Mastering in New York City led the 2006 project.

1. “Any Way You Want It” 3:22
2. “Walks Like a Lady” 3:17
3. “Someday Soon” 3:32
4. “People and Places” 5:05
5. “Precious Time” 4:49
6. “Where Were You” 3:01
7. “I’m Cryin'” 3:43
8. “Line of Fire” 3:06
9. “Departure” 0:38
10. “Good Morning Girl” 1:44
11. “Stay Awhile” 2:48
12. “Homemade Love” 2:54
13. “Natural Thing” 3:43
14. “Little Girl” 5:47

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – guitars, co-lead vocals on “People and Places”, backing vocals
Gregg Rolie – keyboards, harmonica, co-lead vocals on “Someday Soon”, backing vocals
Ross Valory – bass guitar, backing vocals
Steve Smith – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Monday 2/27/23 11am ET: Feature LP: Journey – Greatest Hits (1988)

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American rock band Journey, originally released November 11, 1988 by Columbia Records. It is the band’s best-selling career disc, spending 749 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart (more than any other compilation album, except for Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Legend, in history). Additionally, as of February 23, 2023, it has logged 1,386 weeks on Billboard’s Catalog Albums chart.

On April 22, 2008, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Greatest Hits 15× Platinum for sales of 15 million copies in the United States. As of December 2008, it was reported to have been the sixth highest certified ‘greatest hits’ package in the United States according to the RIAA, behind only similar collections by the Eagles, Billy Joel, Elton John, and the Beatles’ red and blue compilations.

It continues to be one of the most popular ‘best of’ packages, at times selling close to 500,000 copies globally per year. The album has been reissued several times and was digitally remastered for compact disc by Legacy Recordings, issued on August 1, 2006, with “When You Love a Woman” featured as a bonus track. In Japan, the album has been reissued as Open Arms: Greatest Hits with the song “Open Arms” appearing as the first song on the album. A second Journey compilation album, Greatest Hits 2, was released in 2011.

1. “Only the Young” 4:05
2. “Don’t Stop Believin'” 4:10
3. “Wheel in the Sky” 4:12
4. “Faithfully” 4:27
5. “I’ll Be Alright Without You” 4:35
6. “Any Way You Want It” 3:23
7. “Ask the Lonely” 3:54
8. “Who’s Crying Now?” 5:02
9. “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” 5:26
10. “Lights” 3:10
11. “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin'” 3:54
12. “Open Arms” 3:19
13. “Girl Can’t Help It” 3:50
14. “Send Her My Love” 3:55
15. “Be Good to Yourself” 3:51

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – guitar, vocals
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, vocals except on “Wheel in the Sky”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Lights” and “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin'”
Gregg Rolie – keyboards, vocals on “Wheel in the Sky”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Lights” and “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin'”
Ross Valory – bass, vocals except on “I’ll Be Alright Without You”, “Girl Can’t Help It” and “Be Good to Yourself”
Randy Jackson – bass on “I’ll Be Alright Without You”, “Girl Can’t Help It” and “Be Good to Yourself”
Steve Smith – drums, vocals except on “Wheel in the Sky”, “Lights”, “I’ll Be Alright Without You”, “Girl Can’t Help It” and “Be Good to Yourself”
Aynsley Dunbar – drums on “Wheel in the Sky” and “Lights”
Larrie Londin – drums on “I’ll Be Alright Without You”, “Girl Can’t Help It” and “Be Good to Yourself”

Saturday 1/28/23 6pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Frontiers (1983)

Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released on January 23, 1983 on Columbia Records. This was the band’s last album to feature bassist Ross Valory until 1996’s Trial by Fire.

The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and would garner four top 40 singles: “After the Fall” (No. 23), “Send Her My Love” (No. 23), “Faithfully” (No. 12), and “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” (No. 8), and a rock radio hit in “Chain Reaction”. The album would later achieve the RIAA certification of six times platinum.

The album had been sequenced and prepped for pressing when, in a last-minute conference with Journey’s A&R man Michael Dillbeck, two songs were pulled from the original lineup, “Ask the Lonely” and “Only the Young”. These two tracks were replaced with “Back Talk” and “Troubled Child”. “Ask the Lonely” was utilized in the soundtrack for the film Two of a Kind. “Only the Young” would find its way into the Top Ten two years later, as part of the soundtrack of the movie Vision Quest.

The band recorded a song called “All That Really Matters,” with keyboardist Jonathan Cain singing lead, during the album sessions. It didn’t see release until the 1992 release of the Time3 box set.

Frontiers was the band’s highest-charting album in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart in 1983.

1. “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” 5:23
2. “Send Her My Love” 3:55
3. “Chain Reaction” 4:21
4. “After the Fall” 5:01
5. “Faithfully” 4:27
6. “Edge of the Blade” 4:30
7. “Troubled Child” 4:29
8. “Back Talk” 3:17
9. “Frontiers” 4:10
10. “Rubicon” 4:19
11. “Only the Young” 4:18
12. “Ask the Lonely” 3:55
13. “Liberty” 2:54
14. “Only Solutions” 3:33

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Ross Valory – bass guitar, backing vocals
Steve Smith – drums, percussion
Randy Jackson – bass guitar on “After the Fall”

Sunday 9/4/22 3pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Frontiers (1983)

Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released on January 23, 1983 on Columbia Records. This was the band’s last album to feature bassist Ross Valory until 1996’s Trial by Fire.

The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and would garner four top 40 singles: “After the Fall” (No. 23), “Send Her My Love” (No. 23), “Faithfully” (No. 12), and “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” (No. 8), and a rock radio hit in “Chain Reaction”. The album would later achieve the RIAA certification of six times platinum.

The album had been sequenced and prepped for pressing when, in a last-minute conference with Journey’s A&R man Michael Dillbeck, two songs were pulled from the original lineup, “Ask the Lonely” and “Only the Young”. These two tracks were replaced with “Back Talk” and “Troubled Child”. “Ask the Lonely” was utilized in the soundtrack for the film Two of a Kind. “Only the Young” would find its way into the Top Ten two years later, as part of the soundtrack of the movie Vision Quest.

The band recorded a song called “All That Really Matters,” with keyboardist Jonathan Cain singing lead, during the album sessions. It didn’t see release until the 1992 release of the Time3 box set.

Frontiers was the band’s highest-charting album in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart in 1983.

1. “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” 5:23
2. “Send Her My Love” 3:55
3. “Chain Reaction” 4:21
4. “After the Fall” 5:01
5. “Faithfully” 4:27
6. “Edge of the Blade” 4:30
7. “Troubled Child” 4:29
8. “Back Talk” 3:17
9. “Frontiers” 4:10
10. “Rubicon” 4:19
11. “Only the Young” 4:18
12. “Ask the Lonely” 3:55
13. “Liberty” 2:54
14. “Only Solutions” 3:33

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Ross Valory – bass guitar, backing vocals
Steve Smith – drums, percussion
Randy Jackson – bass guitar on “After the Fall”

Monday 8/15/22 10pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Arrival (2001)

Arrival is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Journey, released in the United States on April 3, 2001. A version with one substituted song was released in Japan in 2000. The album was the band’s first full-length studio album with new lead vocalist Steve Augeri, who replaced popular frontman Steve Perry, and with Deen Castronovo, who replaced Steve Smith as the band’s drummer.

“Arrival” exhibits arena rock influences akin to the band’s material from the 1970s and 1980s, while also featuring several ballads in the signature style the band achieved with Perry. Frontman Augeri’s vocal work also retains a style quite similar to Perry. While relatively successful commercially, reaching the #12 spot on Billboard’s Top Internet Albums chart, Arrival received mixed critical reviews, with some considering the album formulaic, while praising such elements as Neal Schon’s guitar playing.

1. “Higher Place” 5:10
2. “All the Way” 3:35
3. “Signs of Life” 4:54
4. “All the Things” 4:24
5. “Loved by You” 4:03
6. “Livin’ to Do” 6:25
7. “World Gone Wild” 6:00
8. “I Got a Reason” 4:20
9. “With Your Love” 4:25
10. “Lifetime of Dreams” 5:29
11. “Live and Breathe” 5:15
12. “Nothin’ Comes Close” 5:41
13. “To Be Alive Again” 4:22
14. “Kiss Me Softly” 4:48
15. “We Will Meet Again” 5:06

Steve Augeri – lead vocals
Neal Schon – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals, strings arrangements
Ross Valory – bass, backing vocals
Deen Castronovo – drums, backing vocals

Friday 7/22/22 9pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Raised on Radio (1986)

Raised on Radio is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released April 21, 1986 on the Columbia Records label. It is the only album to date not to feature founding bassist Ross Valory, who is replaced by session bassists Randy Jackson and Bob Glaub. Drummer Steve Smith contributed to a few tracks, but was subsequently replaced by Larrie Londin and Mike Baird.

The album spawned three top 20 singles in the US: “Girl Can’t Help It” (No. 17), “I’ll Be Alright Without You” (No. 14), and “Suzanne” (No. 17). It also spawned a top ten single “Be Good to Yourself” (No. 9) It went to No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, and it was certified double platinum in the USA.

1. “Girl Can’t Help It” 3:50
2. “Positive Touch” 4:16
3. “Suzanne” 3:38
4. “Be Good to Yourself” 3:51
5. “Once You Love Somebody” 4:40
6. “Happy to Give” 3:49
7. “Raised on Radio” 3:49
8. “I’ll Be Alright Without You” 4:49
9. “It Could Have Been You” 3:37
10. “The Eyes of a Woman” 4:32
11. “Why Can’t This Night Go on Forever” 3:43
12. “Girl Can’t Help It” (live) 4:17
13. “I’ll Be Alright Without You” (live) 4:57

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – guitars, backing vocals, keyboard on track 10, guitar synth
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, backing vocals, additional vocal co-production
Steve Smith – drums on tracks 2, 10 and 11
Randy Jackson – bass, backing vocals on tracks 1, 3-9, 12 and 13
Bob Glaub – bass on tracks 2, 10 and 11
Larrie Londin – drums on tracks 1, 3-9
Mike Baird – drums on tracks 12 and 13 (2006 CD reissue only)
Danny Hull – saxophone on tracks 2 and 7, harp on track 7
Steve Minkins – percussion on track 3

Friday 7/15/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Kenny Loggins, Supertramp, Dave Matthews Band, Elton John, Kelly Clarkson, Honeydrippers, Bon Jovi, Sha Na Na, Chuck Berry, Disturbed Featuring Myles Kennedy, UFO, Doors, Rolling Stones, Los Lonely boys with Ronnie Milsap, Bonnie Raitt, Metallica with the San Francisco Symphony, Van Morrison, Duran Duran, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, Grand Funk, Scorpions

Wednesday 7/13/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Paul McCartney & Wings, Jethro Tull, Bon Jovi, Al Stewart, John Fogerty, Foreigner, Doobie Brothers, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Neil Young, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, Rolling Stones, Mavis Staples, Journey, Robert Plant, Joe Cocker, Sly & The Family Stone, Nick Lowe, Nils Lofgren, Eagles, Def Leppard

Friday 7/8/22 9pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Freedom (2022)

Freedom is the fifteenth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released on July 8, 2022, through BMG Rights Management and Frontiers Records.

The album’s 11-year gap from Eclipse (2011) marks the longest between two Journey albums to date. It is the only Journey album to feature drummer and producer Narada Michael Walden, as well as the first and only album to feature bassist Randy Jackson since Raised on Radio (1986), with both having departed from the group before its release. It is also the first album since Raised on Radio to not feature original bassist Ross Valory, who was terminated from the band in 2020.

The album’s title of Freedom was the original title of Raised on Radio, but was changed by former member Steve Perry.

1. “Together We Run” 4:49
2. “Don’t Give Up on Us” 5:23
3. “Still Believe in Love” 5:16
4. “You Got the Best of Me” 5:33
5. “Live to Love Again” 5:30
6. “The Way We Used to Be” 3:35
7. “Come Away with Me” 4:02
8. “After Glow” 5:22
9. “Let It Rain” 4:40
10. “Holdin’ On” 3:14
11. “All Day, All Night” 3:38
12. “Don’t Go” 4:58
13. “United We Stand” 5:05
14. “Life Rolls On” 4:57
15. “Beautiful as You Are” 7:10

Arnel Pineda – lead vocals
Neal Schon – guitars, backing vocals
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, backing vocals
Jason Derlatka – backing vocals
Randy Jackson – bass, backing vocals
Narada Michael Walden – drums, backing vocals
Deen Castronovo – lead vocals on “After Glow”

Wednesday 7/6/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Everything But The Girl, Specials, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Journey, Neil Young, Heart, Korn, Def Leppard, Metallica, Roy Orbison, Radiohead, Who, Harry Chapin, Carole King, Sara Bareilles, Nils Lofgren, Steve Winwood, Eagles, Rolling Stones with Ike and Tina Turner, Doobie Brothers, Queen

Tuesday 3/8/22 11pm ET: Feature LP: Journey – Escape (1981)

Escape (stylized as E5C4P3 on the album cover) is the seventh studio album by American rock band Journey, released July 31, 1981. It topped the American Billboard 200 chart and features four hit Billboard Hot 100 singles – “Don’t Stop Believin'” (no. 9), “Who’s Crying Now” (no. 4), “Still They Ride” (no. 19) and “Open Arms” (no. 2) – plus rock radio staple “Stone in Love.” In July 2021, it was certified diamond by the RIAA, making it the band’s most successful studio album and second most successful album overall behind Greatest Hits.

1. “Don’t Stop Believin'” 4:11
2. “Stone in Love” 4:26
3. “Who’s Crying Now” 5:01
4. “Keep On Runnin'” 3:40
5. “Still They Ride” 3:50
6. “Escape” 5:17
7. “Lay It Down” 4:13
8. “Dead or Alive” 3:21
9. “Mother, Father” 5:29
10. “Open Arms” 3:23
11. “La Raza del Sol” (B-side of “Still They Ride”) 3:26
12. “Don’t Stop Believin'” (Live) 4:19
13. “Who’s Crying Now” (Live) 5:44
14. “Open Arms” (Live) 3:23

Steve Perry – lead vocals, producer (tracks 12–14)
Neal Schon – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Ross Valory – bass, backing vocals
Steve Smith – drums, percussion

Thursday 12/30/21 6pm ET: RadioMaxMusic Special: The Music of 1980 A to Z – Part 25

This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1980 A2Z.

We complete our review of the RadioMaxMusic Library of 1980 music. This installment features music from Electric Light Orchestra, Pat Benatar, Dr. Hook, Billy Joel, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Tommy James, Eddy Raven, Lou Rawls, Diana Ross, Ambrosia, Bonnie Raitt and many more. We start our travel into the next segment 1981 next Tuesday.

6pm – 9:30pm ET

Wednesday 12/29/21 8pm ET: RadioMaxMusic Special: The Music of 1980 A to Z – Part 24

This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1980 A2Z.

We are moving into the final segments of 1980 music. This installment features music from Dickey Lee, Barbra Streisand, Rossington-Collins Band, Jerry Reed, Pat Benatar, Hoyt Axton, Red Rider, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Rockpile, Romantics, Devo, Poco, Journey and many more. Tomorrow we feature the completion of this segment and start our travel into 1981 next Tuesday.

8pm – 12am ET