Frontiers (Journey album)

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Frontiers
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Studio album by
Journey
ReleasedFebruary 22, 1983 [1]
RecordedAutumn 1982
Studio Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, California)
Genre
Length44:09
Label Columbia
Producer Mike Stone, Kevin Elson
Journey chronology
Escape
(1981)		Frontiers
(1983)		 Raised on Radio
(1986)
Singles from Frontiers
  1. "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
    Released: January 1983 (US)
  2. "Faithfully"
    Released: April 1983 [2]
  3. "After the Fall"
    Released: July 1983 (US) [3]
  4. "Send Her My Love"
    Released: September 1983

Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released on February 1, 1983, by Columbia Records. This was the band's last album to feature bassist Ross Valory until 1996's Trial by Fire .

Contents

The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart [4] 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), [5] and a rock radio hit in "Chain Reaction". The album would later achieve the RIAA certification of six times platinum. [6]

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 . [7]

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. [8]

Album artwork

Jim Welch designed the album cover. This was the first album cover since Next that did not employ the talents of Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley.

Welch, who has been Journey's art designer for more than 30 years (as of 2022), commented: "Frontiers was a subtle shift. Mouse and Kelley were not involved with that cover. My vision for Frontiers was based on "tunnels" and the relativity of time and motion. Light stays the same, but time bends. It was Einstein theories for artist interpretation. The alien in Frontiers wasn't really an alien at all, he was a connection to a higher level of listening to Journey." [9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Village Voice D+ [12]

In 2005, Frontiers was ranked number 363 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. [13]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
5:23
2."Send Her My Love"
  • Perry
  • Cain
3:55
3."Chain Reaction"
4:21
4."After the Fall"
  • Perry
  • Cain
5:01
5."Faithfully"Cain4:27
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Edge of the Blade"
  • Perry
  • Schon
  • Cain
4:30
7."Troubled Child"
  • Perry
  • Schon
  • Cain
4:29
8."Back Talk"
3:17
9."Frontiers"
  • Perry
  • Schon
  • Cain
  • Smith
4:10
10."Rubicon"
  • Perry
  • Schon
  • Cain
4:19
2006 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Only the Young" (from the soundtrack of Vision Quest )
  • Perry
  • Schon
  • Cain
4:18
12."Ask the Lonely" (from the soundtrack of Two of a Kind )
  • Perry
  • Cain
3:55
13."Liberty"
  • Schon
  • Perry
  • Cain
2:54
14."Only Solutions" (from the soundtrack of Tron )
  • Cain
  • Schon
  • Perry
3:33

Personnel

Band members
Additional Musicians
Production

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [25] Platinum100,000^
United States (RIAA) [26] 6× Platinum6,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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