Frontiers (Journey album)

Frontiers
Studio album by
Journey
ReleasedFebruary 1983
RecordedAutumn 1982
StudioFantasy Studios (Berkeley, California)
Genre
Length44:24
LabelColumbia
ProducerMike Stone, Kevin Elson
Journey chronology
Escape
(1981) 		Frontiers
(1983) 		Raised on Radio
(1986)
Singles from Frontiers
  1. "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
    Released: January 1983
  2. "Faithfully"
    Released: April 1983[1]
  3. "After the Fall"
    Released: July 1983[2]
  4. "Send Her My Love"
    Released: September 1983

Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released in February 1983, by Columbia Records.[3] This was the band's last album to feature bassist Ross Valory until 1996's Trial by Fire.

The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart[4] 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),[5] and a rock radio hit in "Chain Reaction". The album would later achieve the RIAA certification of six times platinum.[6]

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 "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.[7]

The band recorded a song called "All That Really Matters," with keyboardist Jonathan Cain singing lead, during the album sessions. It didn't see release until the 1992 release of the Time3 box set.

Frontiers was the band's highest-charting album in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart in 1983.[8]

  1. ^ "Journey singles".
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 445. ISBN 9780862415419.
  3. ^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 445.
  4. ^ "Frontiers Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  5. ^ "Frontiers Billboard Singles". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  6. ^ RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Journey. Retrieved on June 30, 2013.
  7. ^ Journey "Time3" Box Set, page 41, 2005
  8. ^ "Journey Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 14, 2013.