They Go On And On

Tony Soprano is flipping through a mini-jukebox at his dining table. The camera gets up close with a 2 Tony Bennett songs. He'll pick 'em. No, he comes up on a Journey song, "Don't Stop Believin'". Surprise. But that's what made the Sopranos work. The never-knowing. That Journey song has been a thorn in the side of Rock critic's for years. Because the Rock press never liked them, Journey has let their songs do their bidding. "Don't Stop" has shown up on TV, movies and was even the subject of a David Fricke post 9/11 piece in Rolling Stone. As co-writer Jonathan Cain said, Journey aren't going anywhere. The public has voted. We won. The Rock crit-press who had to endure Journey at the end of the Sopranos? They lost.