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Who's got Journey stuck in their head today?

post #1 of 63
6/11/07 at 9:53am
Thread Starter 
I can't be the only one.

Goddamn Sopranos.
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post #2 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:00am
I've got Journey stuck in my head five days out of seven.
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post #3 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:01am
i always have Journey stuck in my head.

"Ehhhhhnyway you want it, thaat's the way you need it, Ehhhhhnyway you want it! Naahh-nuh-Nah-nuh Nah-nuh-nuh-nuh"
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post #4 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:06am
Thread Starter 
I just went in to type in a website and I typed journey.com.
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post #5 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:06am
I'm annoying people in the office by humming "Don't Stop Believing" every couple of minutes.
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post #6 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:08am
I'm in constant replay with the Sopranos intro song, I rather it be Journey though.
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post #7 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:21am
I've had "Don't Stop Believing" on the brain for a few years now. It goes hand in hand with my fantasy of roller skating with Aileen Wuornos.
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post #8 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:28am
All morning. I don't even like that song but after last night I feel as though it's the finest piece of music mankind has ever produced.
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post #9 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:36am
That song remains an 80's classic, regardless of the fact there is no such thing as being from "South Detroit" (Detroit is an East Side/West Side city). Way to fact check your lyrics Steve Perry.


And as someone who Tivo'd the Soprano's last night and hasn't watched it yet, it's been nigh impossible to avoid spoilers for it this morning.
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post #10 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:38am
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Originally Posted by Death Surge

And as someone who Tivo'd the Soprano's last night and hasn't watched it yet, it's been nigh impossible to avoid spoilers for it this morning.
You really should just feign illness and go home to watch it.
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post #11 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:40am
I have, of all things, Bonny M. stuck in my head.
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post #12 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:40am
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Originally Posted by BobClark
You really should just feign illness and go home to watch it.

Too late. Now I'll just watch it and feign shock that the cable went out.
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post #13 of 63
6/11/07 at 11:19am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
I'm annoying people in the office by humming "Don't Stop Believing" every couple of minutes.
Me too. I'm actually starting to annoy myself. I actually have work to do today.
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post #14 of 63
6/11/07 at 11:47am
No my friend, Journey isn't in my head.


They're forever in my heart...


...Faithfully.
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post #15 of 63
6/11/07 at 11:51am
I was humming the intro the moment I saw this thread title.
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post #16 of 63
6/11/07 at 12:02pm
She's just a small town girl.

Living in a LONELY world.
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post #17 of 63
6/11/07 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by 555
i always have Journey stuck in my head.

"Ehhhhhnyway you want it, thaat's the way you need it, Ehhhhhnyway you want it! Naahh-nuh-Nah-nuh Nah-nuh-nuh-nuh"
That would've worked if everyone in that resturant just got up out of nowhere and started dancing ala that ending of that Simpson's episode.

"Where did all this liqour come from?"

"Who cares Marge, it's a party."
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post #18 of 63
6/11/07 at 12:58pm
Actually, the midnight train goes to Schenectady, not "anywhere." Fucking dumbass Perry.
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post #19 of 63
6/11/07 at 4:22pm
I have family members that listen to Journey and Styx. They never rubbed off on me like other bands they listened to, like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and Pink Floyd, thank God.

But I'm with BobClark on this one.
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post #20 of 63
6/11/07 at 4:38pm
The Washington Post posted a recent blog about Chase's music selections, comparing him to Scorsese and others (which I think is pretty apt), and offering ten possible artists who'd sing THE SOPRANOS away in the last episode. Guess who's missing.

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David Chase has sleepy eyes, cool and heavy-lidded, as if he's seen most everything that life -- real or dramatized -- has to unspool. But ask him about music, particularly classic rock, and boy, do those peepers dance to a 4/4 beat.

Obscure songs by big-name artists. Big songs by otherwise-obscure groups. Everything from Rome-set opera to that lost John Cooper Clarke nugget, the expletive-laden "Evidently Chicken Town." Django to Wyclef Jean. Vivaldi to Van Morrison. From "Cake" to Cream to, well, Chicken, the show features one heckuva sonic smorgasbord.

With the finale at hand, we pause to acknowledge: The man is a walking Wikipedia of sound, complete with audio clips.

Directors from Coppola to Scorsese and Tarantino are often celebrated for their musical choices, but Chase certainly belongs in that soundtrack-sensitive pantheon. He, with one producer, reportedly picks all the music that fills the "Sopranos" jukebox, which at times can feel like "I, Claudius" meets "iTunes." And picking up on his attention to musical detail, many die-hard fans of the show delight in guessing which tune DJ David will spin next.

So among the most-debated questions for the finale -- somewhere after "Will Tony live or die?" but long before "Will the Smithsonian get Silvio's hairpiece for posterity?" -- is: What songs will Chase choose to go out on?

Herewith, then, our top-10 picks for the show's last waltz -- the acts, and songs, we'd put on Tony's final mixtape:

10. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND -- An obvious pick, what with the band's Van Zandt still (barely) breathing as Tony's consigliere Sil -- and thus a sentimental pick, as well. The real challenge is what to pluck from the massive catalogue of THE Boss. We're mighty tempted to choose "Meeting Across the River," the track from 1975's "Born to Run" (dealing with the desperate criminal), but ultimately we go with "Jungleland," its companion tune that has helped end so many Springsteen concerts. (Lyrical needle-drops: "The rat's own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the Night"; and: "And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead.")

9. THE ROLLING STONES -- Another natural pick, given Chase's track record. And judging by blog postings, the go-to track would be "Sympathy for the Devil" (which another HBO show, "Entourage," has used as apparent jokey-homage to superagent Ari). But we're gonna go with "Moonlight Mile." From fading dreams to weather-as-psychological-state metaphor, it's chock full of the stuff of Chase loves. Plus it's got the lyric "coming home," which was rumored to be Chase's original title for the series pilot. (Lyrical needle-drop: I am just living to be lying by your side.")

8. THE BAND -- They're got everything to recommend them here: They were Dylan's backing band. They worked with Scorsese. Robbie Robertson appears on the "Raging Bull" soundtrack. And Marty's concert documentary about them was so fittingly called "The Last Waltz." So we'll pick a tune from that film's soundtrack. "Ophelia?" Shakespearean overtones, but really, notsomuch. "I Shall Be Released"? misses somehow. No, we'll go with "The Weight" -- if only for the lyric that echoes Chase's use of Yeats's slouching-toward-Bethlehem poem "Second Coming": "I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling about half-past dead / I just needed some place where I can lay my head... "

7. DJANGO REINHARDT -- Chase, a man who likes to spend some time nearer to Paris, surely must appreciate the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. And for the finale, we venture that he'll pick "Avalon." (Soundtrack footnote: In Scorsese's "The Aviator," Scorsese chose Benny Goodman's "Avalon.")

6. THE DOORS -- The penultimate episode kept up the drumbeat of references to terror and war, so we'll pine for the eerie, evocative "The End" because, well -- if it was good and great enough for Coppola amid the terror and war of "Apocalypse Now." But that pick's too on the nose for Chase. "Moonlight Drive"? "Strange Days"? Nah, we'll go with the novelty of Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song / Whiskey Bar." (Lyrical needle-drops: "We've lost our good old mama" (possible plot turn?) and "I tell you we must die.")

5. FRANK SINATRA -- How can an epic about Jersey -- and the Mob -- not include Ol' Blue Eyes? But talk about your king-sized catalogues. While Tony has often insisted on doing it "My Way," we lean toward something off of "In the Wee Small Hours": In a toss-up, we pick "Mood Indigo" over "Deep in a Dream."

4. BERNSTEIN, LAURENTS AND SONDHEIM / "WEST SIDE STORY" -- Again, judging by Chase's track record, the smart money might better be placed on Ella Fitzgerald or R.L. Burnside or Led Zeppelin ("Gallows Pole," anyone?). Or perhaps, as a side bet, another cut from Scorsese's "Raging Bull": Say, Guglielmo Ratcliff's Intermezzo. But with an episode title like "Made in America," we'd love to see Chase quick-dip into the soundtrack of "West Side Story", what with the New York gang fight AND Shakespearean contexts -- not to mention a lead named Tony.

3. PINK FLOYD -- "Comfortably Numb" (the version off Scorsese's "The Departed") figured prominently this season. So Chase could go back to this well, if not "The Wall." But we're convinced he'll tap "Hey, You" because of: (a) its creepy sound capturing a mind off-kilter; (b) the lyric "Well, we've only got an hour of daylight left / better get started " (to the on-click of TV); and (c) again with the lyric "I'm coming home" (for full Chasean relevance, see "Stones, Moonlight Mile" above).

2. VAN MORRISON -- Based on past episodes, Chase quite likes Van the Man, from "Mystic Eyes" (with Them) to his newer duet-work on "Comfortably Numb" (see FLOYD, PINK above). So while we're again dealing with one enormo discography, we'll single out "Rough God Goes Riding." So Apocalyptic. So End Times. So, well, Yeatsian (Chase again favoring those Irishmen). (Lyrical needle-drops: "And it's a matter of survival / When you're born with your back against the wall" and "There'll be nobody hiding / When that rough god goes riding on in.")

1. BOB DYLAN -- In the top spot, it's gotta be Zimmy. But where-oh-where to begin from a man who's written and wailed it all. There's always "Joey," the gangster tale with the shootout in the clam bar (shades of "The Godfather"). But we'll go with (drumroll, please)... "Desolation Row". It lulls us, droning stanza after stanza, into some sort of quixotic dream-state, punctured by the killer chorus -- much like the show itself. Need proof, check the song's references. It's got the Bible (brother-to-brother murder and Noah's great rainbow), it's got Shakespeare (Meadow as Ophelia? And her moaning Romeo, Parisi?). It's got religion (the priest and the monk). Plus, it name-checks "all the agents" and "the superhuman crew." And it's got Chase's beloved "moon" references (the satellite nearly hidden). David Chase, you're far, far more skilled at filling the cinematic jukebox than us, obviously, but we beseech you: Let Tony's final walk be along desolation row.
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post #21 of 63
6/11/07 at 5:08pm
Good thing I'm not in charge of the music on the show. I would have ended it with Bertie Higgins' "Key Largo." God what a great song.
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post #22 of 63
6/11/07 at 6:24pm
Anyone gonna go the whole nine yards and grow a mullet?
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post #23 of 63
6/11/07 at 6:32pm
A fitting thread to post this interview between Michael Imperioli and Patti Smith.
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post #24 of 63
6/11/07 at 6:34pm
Jesus, I need to get started on Season 4.
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post #25 of 63
6/11/07 at 7:26pm
Sure, why should today be any different?
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post #26 of 63
6/11/07 at 7:43pm
This song has had a hell of a trip these last few years. I almost said journey. Almost.

I've heard it more recently than when my mulleted dad was listening to it when he drove me to school in the mornings.
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post #27 of 63
6/11/07 at 7:46pm
This finale must be something if it can get people to wax nostalgic on a piece of shit song like "Don't Stop Believin'"
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post #28 of 63
6/11/07 at 7:57pm
Gasp.
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post #29 of 63
6/11/07 at 7:59pm
Hey, don't sleep on Journey.
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post #30 of 63
6/11/07 at 8:07pm
I got rid of it by watching this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yu0cSgjiU
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post #31 of 63
6/11/07 at 8:34pm
Or you could just watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlKMPFxDQL8
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post #32 of 63
6/11/07 at 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
Or you could just watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlKMPFxDQL8
That was awesome!
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post #33 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:30pm
Christ almighty. When that came on in the waning minutes I had already heard it at a 3 a.m. after party, at a tavern later that afternoon and then at the end of The Sopranos. 3 times in less than 24 hrs is too much.
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post #34 of 63
6/11/07 at 10:38pm
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Originally Posted by Michael Shaver
I have family members that listen to Journey and Styx.
I was walking into the stadium and saw some drunk young dudes rockin' it to Styx' "Renegade". Only, being Millenials, they made several key errors:

- no mullets

- they were shirted; truly rockin' out to Styx, REO, or the Nuge at a tailgate requires shirtlessness

- they did not even raise their beers and offer a "Whoooo!" or "Owww!" to passersby

They did, however, throw down some Oulo-level air-guitar during the solo.
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post #35 of 63
6/11/07 at 11:25pm
My family members were never like that. At least I don't think they were. My aunt might have been.

I'm a momma's boy. I went everywhere with her when I was growing up in Cleveland. She would have Journey, Styx and Kansas on heavy rotation in her car. But when she wasn't playing those she would put on The Police, U2, or R.E.M.

Those last three had a bigger impact on me.
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post #36 of 63
6/12/07 at 8:02am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello
I can't be the only one.
Well, not until I saw this thread. Now, I can't stop believin'.

My wife TiVo'd the last three episodes of The Sopranos for me. I can't wait to get home and watch them.
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post #37 of 63
6/12/07 at 10:22am
From The Newark Star Ledger-
Chase also elaborated on how he decided to make the Journey classic the last music played on the series.

"It didn't take much time at all to pick it, but there was a lot of conversation after the fact. I did something I'd never done before: In the location van, with the crew, I was saying, 'What do you think?' When I said, 'Don't Stop Believin',' people went, 'What? Oh my God!'

"I said, 'I know, I know, just give a listen,' and little by little, people started coming around."
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post #38 of 63
6/12/07 at 10:27am
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Originally Posted by Chavez
Styx' "Renegade"
If they had ended on that song, that would have been hilarious. "The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me, the renegade who had it made, retrieved for a bounty..."

The ending wouldn't have been as ambiguous then.

I lurve that song, btw.
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post #39 of 63
6/12/07 at 10:45am
Renegade.
Many years ago, when I owned a '75 Chevy Impala, I was pulled over for speeding while rocking out to that song. You have to speed while listening to Renegade. If I had that moment to live over again I would still speed and take the ticket. That's how much I love Renegade.
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post #40 of 63
6/12/07 at 12:34pm
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny
If they had ended on that song, that would have been hilarious. "The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me, the renegade who had it made, retrieved for a bounty..."

The ending wouldn't have been as ambiguous then.

I lurve that song, btw.
Just wait, someone is going to recut that ending and put that song in there. It'll be a series like those Brokeback trailers and will quickly be run into the ground.

Of course I thought it would've been strange had they had "Jukebox Hero" by Foreigner playing.

And people would've gone crazy with Goodfellas homages had they played Sid Vicious' "My Way". Of course that song wouldn't be on a soda fountain jukebox anyway. Not at least in non-hipster areas.
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post #41 of 63
6/12/07 at 12:41pm
I'm gonna recut it with "Two Princes" by the SPin Doctors. I've never seen a jukebox that didn't have Pocket Full of Kryptonite on it.
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post #42 of 63
6/12/07 at 12:48pm
Something tells me someone will have a version with that "I'm a Scatman" song on it. They did it for the ending of Silence of the Lambs.
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post #43 of 63
6/12/07 at 1:37pm
My mother once informed me that Steve Perry makes her, and I'm quoting here, "wet."

Ever since, I've never been able to listen to a Journey song without weeping.
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post #44 of 63
6/12/07 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by Chris O.
My mother once informed me that Steve Perry makes her, and I'm quoting here, "wet."

Ever since, I've never been able to listen to a Journey song without weeping.
Is there an easy way to clean vomit from a keyboard?
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post #45 of 63
6/12/07 at 2:01pm
Just out of curiosity, what were the songs Tony flipped past before choosing this one?
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post #46 of 63
6/12/07 at 2:20pm
The interesting thing is he flipped PAST Journey and landed on Tony Bennett's "I Gotta Be Me". Then he reached into his pocket, put in the coins and played Journey. Subverted Expectation #07003.
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post #47 of 63
6/12/07 at 2:38pm
Thread Starter 
Yep, that one got me too. I figured Bennett was a lock.
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post #48 of 63
6/12/07 at 3:38pm
Maybe they couldn't get Bennett to play the guy at the counter so they went with Journey instead.
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post #49 of 63
6/12/07 at 4:00pm
I was just coming on to say something about precisely this. Weird.

The camera also stopped on Heart's "Magic Man," which would have been a bit of an eye-roller itself, before he flipped on to Journey.
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post #50 of 63
6/12/07 at 4:18pm
Dogs, you should bow down before the might of Steve Perry and thank God for every moment that Journey is lodged in your brain. For every such moment is a good one and you will never do better. And, should you question this wisdom, simply recall:

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Any way you want it
That's the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said, Any way you want it
That's the way you need it
Any way you want it.
Words to live by, friends, Words to live by.
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