Journey is back! Their new album Freedom will be out this summer (July 8) and one of the new tunes, “You Got the Best of Me”, is pure hot summer fun. Built for the car, so hit the highway with the windows down.
It’s unclear who played on everything as yet. Narada Michael Walden played some drums, as did Deen Castronovo. There are two keyboard players in Journey now (Jason Derlatka and Jonathan Cain), and though Randy Jackson played bass on the album, he’s no longer in the band. We know that Neal Schon sounds Halen-wailin’ on that stuttery main riff. Arnel Pineda is strong as ever, the longest-lasting Journey singer ever, now surpassing Steve Perry himself in tenure.
“You Got the Best of Me” isn’t overly heavy, but is the kind of hard rocker that the band is known for. The keyboard accents soften it up a bit, and you can clearly hear two keyboard parts simultaneously. The star of the song is really Arnel Pineda, who delivers the endless hooks.
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I thought for sure you were gonna do a Sunday Screening post for the new Kids in the Hall reboot series. Canada returns!
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I never watched the original to be honest. I did like the film.
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A Canadian that didn’t watch the Kids? That’s like an American that’s never eaten a hamburger.
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American who never ate a hamburger? You mean Scott?
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Veggie guys don’t count, if he is one.
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Oh then you mean Dwayne.
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Maybe?
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But seriously no, I didn’t really “get” Kids in the Hall back then. They were popular at school so as a rule, I was disinterested. I did like Brain Candy!
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I haven’t heard it yet. I’m waiting until the album comes out to take it all in at once.
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I usually do that. However I wanted to do something different today. I wanted to see if this would increase traffic. It did not!
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It is a little depressing how far it’s dropped.
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And I don’t think it’s all Russian traffic that we lost, because this started long before the current crisis.
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I thought about that. But you are right it started way before. It dropped a little more over the last couple weeks as well.
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There goes my box set money.
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Yep. I feel the pain.
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Not a bad track actually. Kinda surprised me actually.
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Not bad, it reminds me of Journey from 1980-1.
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To me it sounds like later Journey with Steve Augeri.
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I’m in the middle. I don’t love the song, but I don’t hate it. Arnel sounds great, though!
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Arnel is the man!
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I’m with Lana on this.
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Good company!
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