Journey-Evolution (1979)

 


Artist: Journey

Title: Evolution

Label: Columbia

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: FCA 35797

Year of Release: 1979

Country and Year of Edition: US 1979 

Sell Price: $3.55

Sell Date: 6/10/26

Condition: VG/VG

Discogs Last Sold: 3/18/26 VG+/no cover $4.99

Low: $1.75

Median: $3.27

Average: $3.38

High: $5.00

Current low price: $2.00 G/no cover

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 95/46

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: Ebay 8-track lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No 

For whatever reason this Journey album completely passed me by.   I had E-S-C-4-P-3 like every other 11 year old rock fan in 1981 and my buddy John had a used copy of Infinity, but somehow, despite knowing "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" from the radio, I never really linked it to Evolution even as 3 million people in the US did.

The other big hit I remember from radio was the Greg Rollie led "Just The Same Way."  Steve Perry pipes in with a counter vocal along the lines of "Feeling That Way."  The feel of this song is a little different since Greg has a different register.  Even though I think of Journey as a San Francisco band, they do a credidble job with their Los Angeles song "City of the Angels," with as passionately a catchy chorus as corporate rock will allow.  You'd think it was their hometown.

The 8-track rearranges a bunch of tracks to fit the quarter lengths.  The one song that fades out, "Lovin' You Is Easy," appears again to open the 4th track.  The strongest tracks are clustered on track 3 with "Lovin' Touchin' Sqeezin'" into "City Of The Angels" into "Just The Same Way."  It is just as well, the rest of the album is fairly unmemorable, save for maybe "Too Late."

State of the art Corporate Rock, 1979.


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