one guy's ode to journey's ESC4P3 album:

The album begins with "Don't Stop Believin'," a song that just may have magical properties within its opening piano signature. Seriously, lock yourself in a room right now and listen to that keyboard part 35 times in a row. Sick of it yet? If you said yes, then you're a filthy liar.

Now here's the mind-blowing part. As any serious "Escape" fan will tell you, that's only the third- or maybe fourth-best track on the album. The next song, "Stone in Love," is even better -- and part of Journey's master plan to tease you with a fast song, then a slow song ("Who's Crying Now"), another fast one ("Keep on Runnin' ") and another slow one ("Still They Ride").

After that, you've reached "Escape," a five-minute, 16-second track with only four intelligible phrases. (They are: "They won't take me, they won't break me," "He's on the streets breakin' all the rules," "I've got dreams I'm livin' for" and "This is my escape, yes I'm on my way.") And yet it still prevails as the best song on the album -- maybe on any album.

Listening to the song "Escape" is the equivalent of getting a personal two-hour life-coaching session by Tony Robbins and then smoking PCP. Each time "Escape" finishes, I am completely convinced that I can dunk a basketball, break a 2-by-4 in half with my bare hands and eat 25 hot dogs in a minute.

you know, i've never heard the full ESC4P3 album by journey (and i call myself a fan) well, now i know what i have to do