Frontiers (Journey album)

Frontiers
Studio album by Journey
Released February 22, 1983
Recorded Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, Autumn, 1982
Genre Hard rock, rock
Length 44:09 (original), 58:32 (reissue)
Label Columbia
Producer Kevin Elson, Mike Stone
Journey chronology
Escape
(1981)
Frontiers
(1983)
Raised on Radio
(1986)

Frontiers, Journey's eighth studio album (and ninth overall), was released in February 1983 on the Columbia Records label.

The album reached #2 on the Billboard chart and would garner four top 40 singles: "After the Fall" (#23), "Send Her My Love" (#23), "Faithfully" (#12), and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (#8), and a rock radio hit in "Chain Reaction."

Frontiers was the band's highest-charting album in the United Kingdom, reaching #6 on the UK Albums Chart in 1983.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (D+) [2]
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Chart Position and Debut

Frontiers had the seventh highest debut of 1983.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"   Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry 5:23
2. "Send Her My Love"   Cain, Perry 3:55
3. "Chain Reaction"   Cain, Perry, Neal Schon 4:21
4. "After the Fall"   Cain, Perry 5:01
5. "Faithfully"   Cain 4:27
6. "Edge of the Blade"   Cain, Perry, Schon 4:30
7. "Troubled Child"   Cain, Perry, Schon 4:29
8. "Back Talk"   Cain, Perry, Steve Smith 3:17
9. "Frontiers"   Cain, Perry, Schon, Smith 4:10
10. "Rubicon"   Cain, Perry, Schon 4:19
11. "Only the Young" (Bonus track on the 2006 CD reissue) Cain, Perry, Schon 4:18
12. "Ask the Lonely" (Bonus track on the 2006 CD reissue) Cain, Perry 3:55
13. "Liberty" (Bonus track on the 2006 CD reissue) Cain, Perry, Schon 2:54
14. "Only Solutions" (Bonus track on the 2006 CD reissue) Cain, Perry, Schon 3:33

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Frontiers, track listing and review allmusic.com (Retrieved June 4, 2008)
  2. ^ Robert Christgau: CG: Journey