Escape (styled as E5C4P3 on album cover) is the seventh studio album by American rock band Journey, released on 1981. It topped the American Billboard 200 chart and featured four Hot Billboards hit - 100 "Do not Stop Believin '" (# 9), "Who's Crying Now" (# 4), "Still They Ride" (# 19) and "Open Arms" (# 2) Ã, - plus the rock radio staple "Stone in Love." It was certified 9x platinum by the RIAA and sold over twelve million copies around the world, making it the band's most successful studio album and the second most successful album overall behind Greatest Hits.
Video Escape (Journey album)
Backgrounds and writing
Escape was the band's first album with keyboardist Jonathan Cain who replaced keyboardist founder Gregg Rolie after he left the band in late 1980. The album was produced jointly by former voice technician Lynyrd Skynyrd Kevin Elson and one-time engineer Mike Stone , which also engineered the album.
Maps Escape (Journey album)
Reception and inheritance
Mike DeGagne of AllMusic retrospectively delivers four and a half stars out of five, writes, "The songs are immortal, and overall, they have a way to restore the purity of young love and growing uprising, built of songwriting sincere and powerful musicians. "Colin Larkin bestowed the album four out of five stars in the 2002 edition of Virgin The Popular Encyclopedia of Music . Contemporary Rolling Stone reviews are less favorable. 1981's first review by Deborah Frost marked Journey as a heavy metal poster and the music on the album can be easily played by any session musician. In the 2004 edition of their album guide, Rolling Stone awarded the two-and-a-half stars out of five, which was an improvement over the star rating of Dave Marsh in the 1983 edition of the album. publication.
In 1988, Kerrang! The reader chooses Escape the greatest AOR album of all time. The following year, the magazine ranked Escape # 32 in "100 Heavy Heavyest of All Time" Albums. The 2000 Virgin poll saw the album as the 24th greatest heavy metal/alternative rock album of all time. In 2001, Classic Rock ranked # 22 in "The 100 Greatest Rock Albums of All Time". In 2006, the same publication recognized the importance of the album's contribution to popular music in the 1980s by including it in "The 200 Greatest of the 80s" as one of the twenty biggest albums of 1981. Escape 15 in "Record it OK to Love" in 2006.
The Atari 2600 game based on the album, Journey Escape , was released in 1982.
Track list
Personnel
Journey
- Steve Perry - lead vocal, producer (track 12-14)
- Neal Schon - main guitar, backing vocals
- Jonathan Cain - keyboard, rhythm guitar, backing vocal
- Ross Valory - bass, supporting vocals
- Steve Smith - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Production
- Mike Stone, Kevin Elson - producer, engineer, mixing
- Wally Buck - an assistant engineer
- Bob Ludwig - original mastery, remastering
- Brian Lee - remastering
- Herbie Herbert - management
- Jim Welch - photography, art direction
- Stanley Mouse - illustrations
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Diagram
Escape had its fifth highest selling debut back in 1981, just behind Stevie Nicks's Bella Donna .
Certification
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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