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Journey, "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever"

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Posted on August 9, 2016 at 20:36:37
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30 years ago, on those clear, fog-free San Francisco nights, I'd put Journey's Raised On Radio on my cheap Yorx mini stereo. That album ended with the majestic power ballad, "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever." For the most part, I'd forget about academics, homework, and my lousy athletics. I'd daydream about girls, stare lovingly out my second-floor bedroom window, and just savor the moment.

Everybody loves Journey. But sometimes, people tire of "Faithfully," "Lights," and "Open Arms." So the shrewd audiophile or DJ [not necessarily exclusive] selects "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever." Every time, the crowd eats it up. When I DJ, I often end the set with this song, the perfect nightcap.

A few wisecrackin' audiophiles teased me, "If this song is so good, why didn't you play it at your wedding banquet?"

Well, we only had three hours, and we did include Journey's "When You Love A Woman." Though we had another CD of music, the banquet wrapped up with Paul Davis' "Cool Night."

You've heard me say repeatedly that the music of 1986, including "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever," pushed me over the threshold, made me take an interest in audio. Hard to believe that that was 30 years ago. Put on "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever," and it's like we never left '86. Keeps you young, yeah?

-Lummy The Loch Monster

 

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I've gotta admit, there is a lot of Journey's output that I (really) like, posted on August 10, 2016 at 04:37:12
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 Realizing how uncool that statement is, it's still true.

"Feeling That Way"/"Anytime" is (are) a guilty pleasure.

Having lived in the "South Bay" for a few years in the late 80s/early 90s, I'll readily confess to a deep affection for the song "Lights" as well.

I wouldn't admit any of this just anywhere :-)

all the best,
mrh

 

speaking of Journey (and of your ruminations on a certain time of life), posted on August 10, 2016 at 04:43:30
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I thought that the discography "album cover" image at Allmusic.com for Journey's "Infinity" was amusingly, ironically apt :-)


all the best,
mrh

 

RE: Journey, "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever", posted on August 10, 2016 at 08:33:33
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 As always, great pics, great album- Lummy.
I still really enjoy "Raised on Radio". We hardcore Journey fans never tire of "Lights" nor "Wheel in the Sky".

 

It's beyond uncool!..., posted on August 10, 2016 at 09:12:13
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 I don't think you can use that sequence of letters (c-o-o-l) with any prefix OR suffix in conjunction with Journey!

"Lights" is brilliant - they are one of those bands whose records I haven't owned in 35 years,
whose first records haven't stood the test of time (though I dug them upon release) and whose pop
success output I found annoying.

I dig hearing the occasional Journey hit playing somewhere, sometime.

Check out the documentary linked - it's wonderful!



Left me feeling that Journey is... cool.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

Those are good ones..., posted on August 10, 2016 at 10:54:51
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 ...that haven't been played to death on the radio.

My favorite is

 

Speaking of Journey..., posted on August 10, 2016 at 10:57:17
mkuller
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 ...one of my favorites is their first album in 1975 after they left Santana.

 

RE: Journey, "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever", posted on August 11, 2016 at 06:20:17
fantja
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 2nd note Lummy-

what were the how/why(s) about Randy Jackson playing on this album?
Very interesting...

 

The Making of ROR, posted on August 11, 2016 at 17:37:19
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 Monster Cable's Noel Lee supplied a few cables, for use in the studios used to record Raised On Radio. Maybe it was Lee, who said that Steve Perry would go back and forth between the Bay Area and the Central Valley, to check on and care for his ailing mother. With all that stress, the band splintered, and the rhythm section of Ross Valory and Steve Smith was fired.

I have no idea where they found Randy Jackson (yes, that Randy Jackson), who would also go on tour with Journey. Perry brought in Larrie London, who had played drums on Perry's solo album, Street Talk.

Perry was Raised On Radio's main Producer. Other than not enough treble, which could have been a function of those Monster Cables, Perry gave Raised On Radio a slick, clean, but enjoyable sound.

Maybe not so much in the rest of the country, but Raised On Radio was well-liked, here in the Bay Area. After ample rain in the 85-86 season, we experienced sunny, sparkling, clear, and warm spring weather. There was nothing like riding from San Rafael, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and rambling down 280 by Crystal Springs, blasting Raised On Radio.

It's all about the fantasy, pretending your beat-up car was a sporty convertible. In fact, many audiophiles now live here in the Bay Area. They need to get out to the sparkling coast, and play Raised On Radio. Hard to believe that that album is now 30 years old.

Anyway, here's Raised On Radio's penultimate song, "The Eyes Of A Woman." During my sophomore year, one of the few girls I liked was the Squeaky-Voiced Girl. SVG and I shared common friends. But she and I did not have any classes together. Nor did we have the same free periods. The few times SVG and I were together, we shared Walkmen. "The Eyes Of A Woman" was one song we shared and liked. If only she and I crossed paths more often...

The next two years, same thing: no classes or free periods with SVG. And I never saw her at dances, either.

 

"not enough treble", posted on August 12, 2016 at 05:35:41
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 Interesting -- most of the Journey recordings with which I am familar have "too much treble" (well, they're aggressively bright, at any rate).

May just be the pressings and/or specific (digital) releases that I have...?
all the best,
mrh

 

I always suspected that the two-track master was a cassette tape. , posted on August 13, 2016 at 07:38:52
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 One of the worst sounding albums around, but Columbia never seemed to be picky about sound. Badly engineered.

Ripple

 

RE: The Making of ROR, posted on August 15, 2016 at 05:57:24
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 excellent - Lummy.
I liked SP solo album as well.

 

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