Top 35 Videos by Journey, Together and Apart

Journey
managed
to
release
one
of
the
most
talked-about
clips
in
MTV
history
during
their
brief
time
making
videos.
As
you’ll
see
below
in
our
ranking
of
every
Journey
music
video,
however,
there
were
plenty
of
other
high
and
low
points
beyond
the
ubiquitous “Separate
Ways
(Worlds
Apart).”

Because
of
their
relatively
small
video
catalog,
we’ve
expanded
the
rankings
to
include
closely
related
clips
from

Steve
Perry,

Bad
English
(which
included
three
members
of
Journey’s

current
lineup),

Gregg
Rolie
and

Neal
Schon.
That
serves
to
provide
a
broader
overview
of
their
career
arc
from
the ’70s
through
the ’20s
without
drifting
too
far
afield
thematically.

Some
feature
composed
storylines
while
others
lean
on
lip-synced
performances.
Along
the
way,
you’ll
find
knights
and
motorcyclists,
big
hair
and
even
bigger
hooks,
backstage
shenanigans
and
long-gone
girlfriends,
cartoon
beetles
and
(yes)
air-keyboards.

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MORE:

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All
52
Journey
Songs
From
the ’80s

Taken
together
with
a
multi-platinum
discography,
the
Top
35
Videos
by
Journey
complete
a
winding
narrative
from
obscure
jam
band
to
the

Rock
&
Roll
Hall
of
Fame.
Additional
commentary
for
the
entries
is
excerpted
from
the

new
Amazon
best-selling
Journey
biography,


Journey:
Worlds
Apart.

No.
35.
Journey, “After
the
Fall”
From:


Frontiers
(1983)

By
the
time
Journey
returned
for
1986’s


Raised
on
Radio,
they
had

sworn
off
scripted
videos.
This
clip
makes
the
case
for
that
decision,
reeling
off
a
sort
of
greatest
hits
of
bad
choices.
A
set
resembling
an
empty
builder-grade
apartment
was
lit
through
the
blinds.
There’s
awkward
lip-syncing,
awkward
dancing,
even
awkward
standing
–
and,
sigh,
band
members
actually
falling.
Even
Journey
looks
bored,
at
one
point
reaching
for
a
caffeine
boost
of
coffee
while
singing
the
chorus.

No.
34.
Journey, “City
of
Hope”
From:


Eclipse
(2011)

Smart
use
of
video
from
Arnel
Pineda’s
homeland
for
one
of
this
album’s
better
songs,
but
it’s
all
undercut
by
a
series
of
remarkably
cheap-looking
band
shots.

No.
33.
Journey, “Chain
Reaction”
From:

Frontiers
(1983)

For
some
reason,
this
era
saw
a
lot
of
singing
into
women’s
ears.
(More
on
that
later.)
This
time,
they
sing
into
a
mannequin’s
ear!
Seriously,
though,
that
tussle
between

Steve
Perry
and
Neal
Schon
looked
a
little
too
real.
Their
next
project
together
wouldn’t
arrive
for
three
years.

No.
32.
Gregg
Rolie, “Young
Love”
From:

Gregg
Rolie
(1985)

Videos
like
this
were
so
common
as
to
be
anodyne
in
the ’80s.
That’s
not
the
problem.
It’s
that
Columbia
Records
somehow
picked “Young
Love”
over “I
Wanna
Go
Back,”
the

Gregg
Rolie
deep
cut
that
would
become
a

Top
15
hit
for

Eddie
Money
just
one
year
later.

No.
31.
Schon
and
Hammer, “No
More
Lies”
From:

Here
to
Stay
(1982)

Neal
Schon
sings
some
stuff
to
a
woman,
then
he
and
Jan
Hammer
get
trapped
in
a
twine
box?
Hey,
it
was
the ’80s.

No.
30.
Bad
English, “Love
is
a
4
Letter
Word”
From:


Bad
English
(1989)

A
rudimentary
lip-sync
video
is
enlivened
by
an
actual
crowd
at
an
actual
show
in
Atlanta.

No.
29.
Neal
Schon, “What
You
Want”
From:

So
U
(2014)

For
some
reason,
the
deeply
talented

Deen
Castronovo
shared
singing
duties
on

So
U
with
Marco
Mendoza
and
leader
Neal
Schon,
as
Schon
continued
an
occasional
flirtation
with
vocals
that
went
back
to
Journey’s


Next
in
1977.
History
tells
us,
however,
that
Columbia
Records
demanded
that
Journey
hire
a
new
singer
for
the
LP
which
followed.

No.
28.
Journey, “Wheel
in
the
Sky”
From:


Infinity
(1978)

An
otherwise
nondescript
performance
video
is
paired
with
the
single.
Best
part:
Neal
Schon’s
seriously
kick-ass
kimono.

No.
27.
Bad
English, “Straight
to
Your
Heart”
From:

Backlash
(1991)

Arguably
Bad
English’s
best
single
arrived
on
their
well-named
second
album:
The
whole
AOR
sound
that
its
members
from
Journey
and
the

Babys
had
created
was

about
to
be
subsumed
by
the
tidal
wave
of
grunge.

No.
26.
Journey, “Send
Her
My
Love”
From:

Frontiers
(1983)

As
with “Wheel
in
the
Sky,”
a
performance
video
is
paired
with
the
single
–
only
this
time
with
some
utterly
enraptured
gazes
from
the
audience.

No.
25.
Journey, “Why
Can’t
This
Night
Go
On
Forever”
From:

Raised
on
Radio
(1986)

“Why
Can’t
This
Night
Go
On
Forever”
featured
an
appropriately
wistful
clip-file
video
from
a
band
that
was
grinding
to

another
sudden
halt.

No.
24.
Journey, “Lights”
From:

Infinity
(1978)

Unlikely
controversy
surrounded
this
clip,
and
not
because
of
the
dizzying
visual
effects
during
the
choruses. “I
went
to
some

Billboard
conference,
and
[founding
manager]
Herbie
Herbert
was
there,”
Journey
video
producer
Paul
Flattery
told
me. “He
came
up
to
me
and
he
was
blasting
me
for
the
Journey
video.
His
big
complaint
involved
Aynsley
Dunbar,
the
drummer.
His
stomach
stuck
out
in
one
of
the
shots.
They
were
lined
up,
in
kind
of
a
profile
thing.
It
was
like, ‘He
complains
to
me
about
this
every
day.'”

No.
23.
Neal
Schon, “The
Calling”
From:

The
Calling
(2012)

You
get
a
sense
that
Schon
maybe
loves
motorcycles?
What
actually
made
this
session
so
great:
Steve
Smith.
Initial
work
on
a
few
tracks
eventually
became
an
album-length
collaboration,
then

The
Calling
–
Schon’s
best
solo
album
to
date
–
precipitated
a
completely
unexpected
return
to
Journey.

No.
22.
Journey, “Any
Way
You
Want
It”
From:


Departure
(1980)

An
otherwise
nondescript
performance
video
is
bookended
with
jukebox
scenes
that
neatly
presuppose
the
placement
of “Don’t
Stop
Believin'”
in
the

finale
of

The
Sopranos.

No.
21.
Steve
Perry, “Missing
You”
From:


For
the
Love
of
Strange
Medicine
(1994)

Typical
of
its
time,
this
clip
from
Perry’s
long-awaited
sophomore
solo
LP
is
more
texture
than
actual
context.

No.
20.
Bad
English, “Forget
Me
Not”
From:

Bad
English
(1989)

This
band
included
three
former
members
of
the
Babys,
the
doomed
opening
act
that
provided
a
tour-long
audition
for
future
cornerstone

Jonathan
Cain.
Bad
English
would
suffer
a
similar
fate,
hinted
at
(once
again)
by
the
way

John
Waite
and
Neal
Schon
push
each
other
around
in
this
clip
for
their
failed
debut
single.

No.
19.
Journey, “Just
the
Same
Way”
From:


Evolution
(1979)

OK,
not
much
happens.
But
there
was
a
cool
juxtaposition
of
light
and
darkness
when
Rolie
shared
vocals
early
in
Perry’s
tenure.
Unfortunately,
it
was
an
all-too-brief
moment
in
time.
Media
attention
was
soon
focused
squarely
on
the
newcomer,
and
Rolie
exited
in
1980. “I
don’t
think
Perry
really
liked
me
singing. ‘I’m
the
singer,'”
Rolie
told
me. “Well,
OK.
But
my
answer
to
that
is,
you
know,
the

Beatles
did
great
with
four
singers.
Four,
right?
Not
one.”
In
the
end,
Rolie
felt “there
was
a
design
to
all
of
that: ‘You’ve
got
to
have
a
frontman
now,’
and
it
was
so
they’ve
got
something
to
write
about,
and
focus
on.
Now
hopefully
the
frontman
in
any
band
is
going
to
rally
behind
the
guys
behind
them
that
helped
them
be
the
frontman.
Bands
are
bands
and
they’ve
got
to
live
like
that
—
and
that’s
hard
to
do,
especially
when
the
press
gets
involved.”

No.
18.
Gregg
Rolie, “The
Hands
of
Time”
From:

Gringo
(1987)

You
may
assume
that
Rolie
couldn’t
pull
off
the
sleek
plasticine
sound
of
the ’80s,
since
his
departure
coincided
with
Journey’s
shift
in
that
direction. “The
Hands
of
Time”
proves
otherwise.

No.
17.
Bad
English, “Price
of
Love”
From:

Bad
English
(1989)

They
whiffed
on
a
rocker,
then
hit
with
a
Diane
Warren
power
ballad.
So
guess
what
their
next
single
sounded
like?
A
somehow
forgotten
No.
5
hit.

No.
16.
Neal
Schon, “Love
Finds
a
Way”
From:

So
U
(2014)

Schon’s
best
solo
single
agan
showcases
Castronovo
and
Mendoza,
both
of
whom
participated
in
offshoot
bands
and
the
main
Journey
lineup.
Castronovo’s
ability
to
pull
off
Perry-type
vocals
while
manning
the
drums
is
a
remarkable
thing
to
watch.
A
friend
of
Rolie’s
son
memorably
walked
up
to
Castronovo
after
a
performance
and “and
he
goes, ‘I’m
convinced
that
you’re
only
half
human’
—
because
he
can
do
that,”
Rolie
told
me,
with
a
laugh. “I
couldn’t
believe
that
he
was
singing
the
way
he
was
singing
and
playing
these
complex
things.
It’s
amazing
to
me.
He
thinks ‘What?
Can’t
everybody
do
that?’ ‘No,
no,
not
at
all!'”

No.
15.
Journey, “When
You
Love
a
Woman”
From:


Trial
By
Fire
(1996)

A
suitably
staid
clip
for
a
very
staid
song.

No.
14.
Journey, “I’ll
Be
Alright
Without
You”
From:

Raised
on
Radio
(1986)

Points
given
for
the
new
accapella
ending.
Points
taken
away
for
Randy
Jackson’s
polka-dotted
bass.

No.
13.
Steve
Perry, “No
More
Cryin'”
From:


Traces
(2018)

Notable
for
the
unwelcome
absence
of
organist
Booker
T.
Jones.
The
Stax
legend
connected

Traces
with
Perry’s
love
of
R&B,
while
girding
it
all
with
mirthful
soul.
Keyboardist
Dallas
Kruse
mimes
the
part.

No.
12.
Bad
English, “When
I
See
You
Smile”
From:

Bad
English
(1989)

In
which
three
past
or
future
members
of
Journey
are
shown
up
by
John
Waite’s
gloriously
hair-sprayed
visage.

No.
11.
Journey, “Feeling
That
Way”
From:

Infinity
(1978)

Love
the
Budweiser
on
Gregg
Rolie’s
keyboard.
The
only
disappointment
was
learning
that
he
wasn’t
simply
boozing
it
up.
The
beer
company
was
a
Journey
tour
sponsor.

No.
10.
Steve
Perry, “Most
of
All”
From:

Traces
(2018)

Notable
for
its
welcome
showcase
of
Thom
Flowers,
who
turns
in
a
delicately
involving
guitar
solo
after
helping
shepherd
Perry’s
long-awaited
comeback
as
co-producer
of

Traces. “Most
of
All,”
an
emotional
goodbye
to
Perry’s
late
girlfriend
Kellie
Nash,
was
one
of
its
triumphs.

No.
9.
Gregg
Rolie, “What
About
Love”
From:


Sonic
Ranch
(2019)

Rolie
was
inspired
by

Ringo
Starr‘s
message
of
peace
and
love
as
a
member
of
the
longest-tenured
lineup
of
the
All-Starr
Band,
and “What
About
Love”
is
the
result.
Rolie
then
enlisted
his
son
Sean
Rolie
to
help
with
a
music
video.
Its
jittery
blend
of
candid
backstage
footage,
performance
clips
from
the
Journey
Through
Time
offshoot
band,
and
open-road
imagery
served
as
a
canny
update
of
Rolie’s
image
for
a
new
era.

No.
8.
Steve
Perry, “You
Better
Wait”
From:

For
the
Love
of
Strange
Medicine
(1994)

It’s
cool
that
he
carried
the
patented
tuxedo-jacket
look
into
his
solo
career,
but
a
run-down
shack
out
in
the
desert
clearly
wasn’t
the
most
hospitable
setting.
Perry
loses
the
shirt.

No.
7.
Steve
Perry, “Foolish
Heart”
From:


Street
Talk
(1984)

Deceptively
difficult
to
film,
this
concept
came
courtesy
of
Journey
video
producer
Paul
Flattery’s
director
of
photography.
But
slowly
zooming
in
and
out
on
Steve
Perry
from
the
balcony
of
this
intimate
theater
proved
to
be
outrageously
expensive. “You
didn’t
have
a
crane
that
could
have
the
camera
actually
in
the
balcony
and
below
the
parapet,
and
then
come
up
and
go
all
the
way
down,”
Flattery
told
me. “So,
the
solution
was
to
build
a
fake
balcony,
which
you
could
then
strike
as
soon
as
the
camera
was
clear
of
it.
Then
you
could
get
everything
and
everybody
out
of
the
way
by
the
time
you
got
down
to
the
stage
and
the
camera
turned
around.
For
something
that
looks
so
simple,
that
was
a
lot
of
hard
work.”

No.
6.
Journey, “The
Way
We
Used
to
Be”
From:

Freedom
(2022)

They
made
the
best
of
pandemic-era
restrictions
with
a
fizzy
animated
video
that
finds
Neal
Schon
suddenly
transforming
into
Journey’s

familiar
scarab.

No.
5.
Steve
Perry, “We’re
Still
Here”
From:

Traces
(2018)

Perry’s
first
scripted
video
since
1994’s “Missing
You”
recalls
the
pitched
nostalgia
of
Journey’s “Still
They
Ride”
–
but
from
a
much
different
perspective. “I
think
I
was
the
first
person
to
ask
him
about ‘We’re
Still
Here,’
and
I
was
taking
that
as,
like,
existential,”
former

Rolling
Stone
editor
David
Wild
told
me. “Instead,
it
was
him
remembering
how
he
went
down
to
record
some-
thing
in
Hollywood
at
one
of
the
studios
and
all
these
young
people
and
rock ‘n’
roll
freaks
were
out,
sort
of
crawling
around
— ‘streetlight
people,’
as
he
once
coined
it.
He
was
praising
and
con-
necting
with
them.
There’s
still
youth
and
still
energy
on
the
streets.”

No.
4.
Steve
Perry, “Strung
Out”
From:

Street
Talk
(1984)

Perry
began
sessions
for
this
first
solo
album
by
tearing
through
an
early
version
of “Strung
Out.”
It
was
largely
indistinguishable
from
the
average
Journey
song
in
both
construction
and
approach.
Things
got
more
interesting
with
the
video,
as
Journey
video
producer
Paul
Flattery
oversaw
a
prequel
for
Perry’s “Oh
Sherrie”
promo
clip. “We
were
trying
to
make
pieces
of
art
as
opposed
to
pieces
of
commerce,”
Flattery
told
me.
The
obvious
goal
was
to “build
on
the
success
of ‘Oh
Sherrie,’
which
was
a
huge,
huge
hit
—
and
so
we
wanted
to
ride
the
coattails
of
that.
I
don’t
know
if
anybody
had
ever
done
a
sequel,
let
alone
a
prequel.
What
happened
was,
it
gave
MTV
an
incentive
to
play
both
together
as
a
kind
of
a
suite.
So
they
would
say,
here’s
the
new
Steve
Perry
thing
—
and
then
of
course,
it
would
lead
into
his
biggest
hit,
which
wasn’t
a
bad
thing
to
do.”

No.
3.
Journey, “Faithfully”
From:

Frontiers
(1983)

A
road
video
for
song
written
on
the
road
about
life
on
the
road,
and
the
terrible
strain
that
can
put
on
a
relationship.
The
funny
scene
with
Steve
Smith
belies
this
song’s
underlying
message:
Author
Cain
and
singer
Perry
were
both
struggling
against
heartbreak.
The
track
itself
came
together
spontaneously,
before
Perry
asked
to
be
alone
in
the
studio
to
record
his
vocal.
The
finished
take
was
unlike
any
Perry
ever
tried.
He
credited
that,
in
part,
to
the
fact
that
Cain
had
written “Faithfully”
in
his
own
key. “From
the
opening
lines,
he’s
just
absolutely
dripping
with
emotion,”
founding
MTV
VJ
Martha
Quinn
told
me. “Every
time
you
put
the
needle
down,
you
can
just
feel
it.”
Perry
completed
the
song
by
conjuring
an
ending
dance
between
his
“whoa
whoa
whoa”
and
Neal
Schon’s
guitar
out
of
thin
air.

No.
2.
Journey, “Separate
Ways”
From:

Frontiers
(1983)

The
set
up,
featuring
Journey
members
playing
air
instruments
while
a
model
marches
around,
has
been

mercilessly
mocked.
But “Separate
Ways”
was
simply
a
product
of
its
time
–
and
hardly
the
worst
example
of ’80s-era
video
excess. “It
goes
back
to
that
optimism
and
sense
of
fun
that
people
will
return
to,
time
and
time
again,”
Quinn
said. “Rock
aficionados
may
have
said, ‘Oh,
that
was
cornball.’
Well,
ask
people
that
are
still
doing
send-ups
today,
down
to
every
last
camera
angle.”
At
the
same
time,
the
video
inadvertently
set
the
stage
for
future
solo
success.
Perry
brought
then-girlfriend
Sherrie
Swafford
to
the
set,
and
she
reportedly
became
jealous. “You’re
going
to
have
a
slut
in
your
video?”
Jonathan
Cain
remembered
Swafford
asking
Perry.
That
left
Perry
to
openly
wonder
if
he’d
have
to
write
a
song
for
Swafford
to
smooth
things
over. “And
so
he
did,”
Cain
said
with
a
laugh.

No.
1.
Steve
Perry, “Oh
Sherrie”
From:

Street
Talk
(1984)

Journey
video
producer
Paul
Flattery
came
up
with
a
story-within-a-story
approach
that
showed
Steve
Perry
pushing
back
against
a
typically
over-the-top
shoot
in
order
to
film
a
more
straightforward
plea
to
namesake
girlfriend
Sherrie
Swafford.
The
rejected
high-concept
portion
originally
had
an
Egyptian
motif,
but
they
couldn’t
find
a
suitable
location,
so
they
switched
to
a
Shakespearean
approach.
(“I
like
to
think
of
it
as ‘Richard
III’
—
with
Steve’s
hair,”
Flattery
quipped.)
On
set,
Perry’s
concluding
interaction
with
Swafford
may
have
provided
some
hint
at
what
was
to
come: “The
weird
thing
was
at
the
very
end,
the
first
take
we
did,
he
goes: ‘Hey,
I
kinda
love
you.’
By
take
6,
it
was ‘I
kinda
like
you,'”
Flattery
said
with
a
laugh.

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