I can't bear Steve Perry
...and when you look back over the band's long history, it's surprising how many years the band worked without Perry. He kept quitting and then coming back a few years later.
But it seems all of their major hits feature his screeching, desperate, whining "voice", if you want to call it that. You know the way Mary Hart's voice affected Kramer on Seinfeld? Sent him into a seizure? I don't suffer seizures when I hear Perry sing, but I crave oblivion.
I despised the band and all their music for years. Then I saw some local band in a Corpus Christi bar a few years back. Four pieces, the lead singer a bored looking girl in a housedress, barefoot and smoking a cigarette as she sang. They did "Don't Stop Believin'" and I realized for the first time that it was a terrific song. She just owned it.
I started listening to Journey with a new perspective. I still hate all their recordings, but they do have a lot of fine songs. And I realize the only I can't stand them is because of that wretched voice of Perry's. I was so pleased the most recent time he quit when the band replaced him with a Filipino guy they found on YouTube.
Steve: nobody is indispensable.
MERIT: **
ORIGIN: unknown
PERSISTENCE: ***
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