Separate Ways

:"For the 2005 album by Teddy Thompson, see Separate Ways (2005 album), for the Elvis Presley album, see Separate Ways (Elvis Presley album)

Infobox Single
Name = Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)


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Artist = Journey
from Album = Frontiers
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Released = Start date|1983|02|05
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Genre = Hard rock, Synth rock
Length = 5:24
Label = Columbia
Writer = Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry
Producer = Kevin Elson, Mike Stone
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Chart position = * 8 (American Top 40)
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"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song by Journey on their album "Frontiers" and released as a single on February 5, 1983. It peaked at #8 for 6 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 40. A driving keyboard anthem, it was written by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain. The song is a fast, heavy song, unusual for 1980's Journey.

Video

The music video for the song featured the band playing at a wharf in New Orleans (the Louisa Street Wharf), sometimes playing their real instruments (including Jonathan Cain's playing his Roland Jupiter-8 "up-the-wall"), but also pretending to play non-existent instruments. The video also features over 50 camera moves, and full choreography by Columbia Records Art & Creative Services.

It was reported that on the first day of shooting, there was a cold breeze coming off of the Mississippi River, which the wharf was located next to. This made filming all the more difficult on the band and Perry, who was seen retreating numerous times to his camper on-site to keep warm. Fact|date=June 2008

"Separate Ways" was the first single for which the band shot a video.The band also shot a video for "Send Her My Love". Previous songs, such as "Any Way You Want It," "Don't Stop Believin'," and others were performances that were taped and edited, and not choreographed music video pieces. [ [http://www.steveperryfanclub.homestead.com/JourneyOnTheVideoSet.html "Journey On The Video Set", 1983 ] ] . The video landed at number 13 on MTV's 1999 listing of the 25 worst videos, with commentators criticizing Perry's overemotive expressions and gestures as well as his unfashionable pink-on-black tank top. Fact|date=June 2008

This was the first song to be performed live from the album, making its debut during the "Escape" tour. Fact|date=June 2008

Recent media

*The song was featured in an episode of "The Simpsons" ("All's Fair in Oven War") where Homer Simpson imagines what it would be like to live next to himself. It then switches to a scene in which Homer #1 yells out to Homer #2 to turn his loud rock music down..."Separate Ways" is the song that is played.
*A Perfect Circle's DVD aMOTION showcases Billy Howerdel's video discovery of his fellow band-members dancing manically to the song in an empty hotel room.
*Japanese professional wrestler Ryuji Yamakawa who works for BJW uses the song as his entrance theme.
*Rapper Cam'ron sampled Separate Ways for his song "Dead The Funeral" (2007)
*Brazilian power metal singer André Matos covered this song on his debut solo album Time To Be Free (2007)
*Connecticut metalcore band Nientara covered this song on their split release with A Thousand Falling Skies.
*Video was lampooned on Beavis and Butt-Head, where Butt-Head asks "Uh, is this the Partridge Family?" and comments "Look at this guy--his whole head sucks!"Rapper S.A.S also sampled this song in their 2007 song World's Apart Featuring Jae Millz

References

External links

* [http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/journey/separate_ways_worlds_apart "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) video] at Sony BMG