SEPERATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) IS ONE JOURNEY SONG THAT BLOWS ME AWAY DUDES

This is kind of an unscheduled sequel to the previous article on Steve Perry's STREET TALK album (laugh). Not often I can say something I write on this website or Badrick Unadulterated goes all out viral but it appears I opened a can of worms with the fan club of the band Journey over in the US by saying that STREET TALK is superior to any Journey album.


Haven't changed my mind, I wouldn't have said what I did if i didn't mean it, but to appease all the Journey fans in the world who right now probaly want to throw eggs or tomatoes at me, here is the one of the two songs from Journey in the 80`s (the other one being FAITHFULLY) which I think is fantastic - the melodramatic tour de force ballad SEPERATE WAYS (WORLDS APART).


Both songs come off the 1983 album FRONTIERS as I indicated on the previous post. For all my readers outside Australia who read this or the previous post on STREET TALK, consider that JOURNEY is not a popular band in Australia whatsoever, in fact I can never recall hearing a JOURNEY song on AM or FM radio in this country.


Not even SEPERATE WAYS, FAITHFULLY or the mega successful US hit DONT STOP BELIEVIN' off the ESCAPE album in 1981 have ever made it onto the radio here. Journey might have sold bucketloads of albums in the US and across Europe, but honestly, the band never caught on here.


The only reason i come to know about Journey was after I bought a rock and metal encyclopedia book years ago. The only song that ever gets played on australian radio featuring Steve Perry is OH SHERRIE off STREET TALK, that's it.


Anyhow, SEPERATE WAYS, despite being completely snubbed by australian radio for nearly 30 years, is 80`s Journey at its very best, and what's interesting about the music clip for the song, is the pisstakery of the band members. You cant say these guys didn't have a sense of humour or they were taking themselves too seriously, despite the melodrama of what they were performing.


The music clip appears to have been filmed near a disused wharf or hangar, in a very satirical way suggesting the band members ended up being destitute and living on the street after being dumped by the glammed up tart who makes an appearance on the clip. I will let you interpret the music clip anyway you want to, but more than anything savour the one Journey song of the 80`s which Tim Badrick thinks is shit hot.