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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3417520" data-attributes="member: 8158">Hmm. Well, by what standard do you put Journey in the "corporate band" category? The members had been around since the early seventies. They transitioned into melodic, radio-friendly rock, but I dont' think pursuing mainstreem success through power ballads and arena rock makes one a corporate band automatically; there's gotta be a noticable compromise in quality (as there was with Creed). Heck, I almost get teary-eyed thinking of when you could turn on the radio and there'd be three or four mainstream rock stations to flip between. If that was still the case, I suppose I'd be quick to join Steel Wind, Vigilance, and Whizbang in tut-tutting other fogeys for their inappreciation and general ignorance of modern rock.Steve Perry and the gang certainly weren't what you'd call prettyboys. Good lord, remember the video for "Separate Ways"? Those guys weren't cut out for primping. Still, I'd say my favorites would be a couple of their most mainstream: "Only the Young", which was actually recorded for the soundtrack for Vision Quest (a truly awful movie that managed to yield two decent songs, the other being Madonna's "Crazy for You"). and "Girl Can't Help It".</blockquote>