INFINITY

You have one extremely gifted guitar player. You have a great keyboards player and a superb composer. But sales are not on par with the huge expectations from the record company although the music proposed by the band was quite good during their first three albums.

So. What needs to be changed? As far as I'm concerned, nothing of course. But the record company executives thought differently (and their wallet will thank them therefore). A new lead singer was brought on board, coming out of nowhere.

The change on "Journey" 's music is disastrous. Not that the band was very progressive so far, but the warm voice from Gregg, his heavy keys play and more than all the superb guitar play from Neal gave some great feel and class to their first three albums.

This one is just an AOR parody from start to finish. Detestable songs, poor melodies, in one word: ridiculous when compared to previous recordings. But it did sell quite better. And you know how economics rule the world.

There is really nothing to point out in this album. Boring ballads ("Something To Hide") to useless AOR tunes: this is all what is available on this weak album. There is virtually no reason at all to get involved with this one. Let's stick to their debut until "Next" to avoid a major disillusion.

It will be the start of a huge commercial success, but a rather weak creative career (but other bands did the same, right). Avoid this as the plague. Only "Winds Of March" shows some relation with good music during the middle instrumental section (thanks to the characteristics I mentioned about the two great men).

One little star.