{"id":6504,"date":"2026-03-15T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:03:19","slug":"journey-now-embraced-by-those-who-once-sneered-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6504","title":{"rendered":"Journey: Now Embraced By Those Who Once Sneered Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the \u201980s, Journey was high on the list of bands loved by fans and reviled by critics. But today, they\u2019re still heard and embraced \u2013 sometimes by the kind of people who sneered the first time around.<\/p>\n

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(Witness the in-concert cover of \u201cLights\u201d by fellow Bay Area stalwarts Green Day.)<\/p>\n

With frontman Steve Perry applying lessons learned from Sam Cooke, Journey\u2019s Greatest Hits often sounds like a primer in pop idealism. \u201cLights\u201d is a mellow smile about the joys of city life, \u201cAny Way You Want It\u201d a tip of the hat to Everygirl.<\/p>\n

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Stream-Journey Greatest Hits (2024 Remaster). Image Courtesy Of Apple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And though \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin\u2019\u201d places itself on a scale with the songs that open Olympic games, it\u2019s really all about that one small-town escapee on \u201cthe midnight train to anywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n

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In the \u201980s, Journey was high on the list of bands loved by fans and reviled by critics. But today, they\u2019re still heard and embraced \u2013 sometimes by the kind of people who sneered the first time around. (Witness the in-concert cover of \u201cLights\u201d by fellow Bay Area stalwarts Green Day.) With frontman Steve Perry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-four"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}