In 1983, Journey was riding high, right in the middle of a seven-year run that included 16 Top 40 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including five that hit the Top 10. Their 1981 album, Escape, reached #1 on the Billboard album charts and spawned four Top 20 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including three in the Top 10. Their follow-up album, 1983's Frontiers, didn't quite match the success of Escape, but it came pretty damn close, reaching #2 on the Billboard album charts. In addition, Frontiers included four Billboard Top 40 songs, including two in the Top 20 and one in the Top 10 ("Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (#8) and "Faithfully" (#12)).
I do, in fact, own Frontiers (and just about every other Journey album) on vinyl, thanks to my mom's neighbor unloading her entire vinyl collection on me a few years back, and I tend to listen to this album more than the others because "Separate Ways" is Lollipop's favorite song. For a svelte three-year-old, she can fist pump with the best of them. However, it's the first song off of the second side of the album, "Edge of the Blade," that I feature here today. It's a hard rocker, in the same vein as "Separate Ways," and it sounds like it could very well be the song in the background during a training montage of an '80s boxing or martial arts movie. Yes, it's that good. But seriously, what a kickass song. Steve Perry wails. Neil Schon lights it up on the guitar. How is this not more popular?
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