This Day in Music History: Journey/Dream, After Dream (12/10)

Dream, After Dream, performed by the American rock band Journey, is the soundtrack album to the Japanese film Yume, Yume No Ato. Released on this day in 1980 on Columbia Records, it was the seventh album length recording by the group. The soundtrack, however, firmly overshadowed the film itself, which enjoyed little notoriety. The album itself though, is an often over-looked and mostly unknown gem of an album. If you ever see this anywhere, grab it. ASAP. You won't be disappointed. I am lucky I came across it in the early 80's and picked it up just because they were very popular at the time. It has been one of my favorites ever since.

The album is notable for being a significant departure from the arena rock which characterized the band's three preceding albums, harking back to their progressive rock beginnings and relying on complex musicianship and instrumentals.

Dream, After Dream features a full vocal on three of its nine tracks, "Destiny", "Sand Castles" and "Little Girl" (which was later the B-side of the "Open Arms" single and was featured on Journey's Time3 collection). The track also appears as a bonus track on the 2006 reissue of Departure and in 2011 on Greatest Hits 2. "Destiny" is the band's longest recorded song.

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