{"id":145,"date":"2004-02-19T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-02-19T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T05:04:00","slug":"my-waffling-on-the-greatness-of-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"My waffling on the greatness of Journey."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was waffling on whether I should have asked my ex-girlfriend to return &#8220;Journey&#8217;s Greatest Hits.&#8221; I wanted it back when she told me she had it. When I finally listened to it, I wondered why I ever asked for it back. But I think I figured out that at least three of the songs are worth having. Really, the best of the bunch isn&#8217;t even a Journey song, it&#8217;s &#8220;Oh, Sherry&#8221; from after Steve Perry was kicked out and went solo. But I also have to chuckle when I hear, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;,&#8221; &#8220;Separate Ways,&#8221; and &#8220;Lovin&#8217;, Touchin&#8217;, and Squeezin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I listen to my iPod on my walk to and from work and it&#8217;s nice to hear silly songs. So here&#8217;s the start of my silly commute list:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Song<\/th>\n<th>Group<\/th>\n<\/td>\n<tr>\n<td>Chains of Love<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A Little Respect<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stop!<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Drama!<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Star<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chorus<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Love to Hate You<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Breath of Life<\/td>\n<td>Erasure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>What Do I Know<\/td>\n<td>Josh Clayton-Felt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;<\/td>\n<td>Journey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Separate Ways<\/td>\n<td>Journey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lovin&#8217;, Touchin&#8217;, and Squeezin&#8217;<\/td>\n<td>Journey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Love Will Tear Us Apart<\/td>\n<td>Joy Division<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>These Days<\/td>\n<td>Joy Division<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Too Shy<\/td>\n<td>Kajagoogoo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Break Out<\/td>\n<td>Swing Out Sister<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t made it very far through the alphabet, and I started with &#8220;E&#8221;. Also, Joy Division isn&#8217;t all that silly, but it&#8217;s good walking music anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was waffling on whether I should have asked my ex-girlfriend to return &#8220;Journey&#8217;s Greatest Hits.&#8221; I wanted it back when she told me she had it. When I finally listened to it, I wondered why I ever asked for it back. But I think I figured out that at least three of the songs are worth having. Really, the best of the bunch isn&#8217;t even a Journey song, it&#8217;s &#8220;Oh, Sherry&#8221; from after Steve Perry was kicked out and went solo. But I also have to chuckle when I hear, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;,&#8221; &#8220;Separate Ways,&#8221; and &#8220;Lovin&#8217;, Touchin&#8217;, and Squeezin&#8217;.&#8221; I listen to my iPod on my walk to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My waffling on the greatness of Journey.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}