Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released in February 1983.
The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and would garner four top 40 singles: "After the Fall" (No. 23), "Send Her My Love…
Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released in February 1983.
The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart 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). The album would later achieve the RIAA certification of six times platinum.
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 two notably inferior songs: "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."
ORIGINAL TRACKLIST RESTORED
This video presents the entire album as it was ORIGINALLY sequenced, with the restoration of "Ask the Lonely" and "Only the Young" and the removal of "Back Talk" and "Troubled Child." It is quite possible that Journey's management realized they had TOO MANY hits on one album to capitalize on Radio Airplay, so by pulling two potential hits and releasing them later as parts of movie soundtracks, Journey could best capitalize for the future. Regardless of the reason, Journey's incredible Frontiers release ended up as perhaps "less than perfect." Until now...
TRACK LISTING
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) 0.00
Send Her My Love 5:27
Chain Reaction 9:25
After the Fall 13:46
Faithfully 18:51
Edge of the Blade 23:22
Only the Young 27:57
Ask the Lonely 32:17
Frontiers 36:15
Rubicon 40:28
