365 project: "a singer in a smokey room...the smell of wine and cheap perfume"

day 21.

artist: journey
album:greatest hits

oh, this album. i don't even know where to begin.

my love affair with journey started when i was a little kid. my mom loved them, so i just got used to hearing them all the time and they were one of the bands that just stuck, but it wasn't until high school that i really started listening to them.

senior year is defined by this record. i remember listening to it in every car i was in. i remember playing it all of the time at drama rehearsals. i remember walking past the gym while the wrestling team was practicing and hearing it pumping out from the speakers in there. we used it in basically every video production project we did. it really did soundtrack that year for me.

my most vivid memory of this album, though, comes from freshman year of college. school was six hours away, and riding in the car with dad got old kind of fast, as we'd be forced to listen to the classical music that he listened to. its good for studying, not for a road trip.

i had my mom's Walkman and owned this album on cassette. id just play it over and over again and stare out the window at the mountains and trees that we were driving past. i still listen to this CD when i take a trip out there...it, along with Transatlanticism by death cab, are my quintessential road trip albums.

between college and now i worked for wawa. i made lots of friends while working there, and some i even took road trips with. in particular, there was Melissa, who i used to drive to Virgina with in order to eat at a sonic down there (at the time, it was the closest one to us...now theres one about 20 minutes from my house). on our first trip down and back, we were flipping through the radio and "don't stop believing" played nearly every half hour of the five hour trip. it was during this trip that i dubbed her car the "midnight train" because of that song. 

i haven't listened to journey in a while, mostly because glee ruined it for me. recently, though, I've been listening to the radio a lot more, and they kept playing, so i decided it was time to break out the CD and give it a whirl, and I'm glad that i did.