The One Thing Bad English Accomplished That Journey Couldn't Do

The band only had two albums both of which were absolutely amazing. Great songwriting great playing and Diane Warren.

[@oldtimer1294]

Thanks man!!! Bad English was best AOR band ever... From the first song that I've heard that was my favorite band in late 80s...

[@scar4265]

It's not just Bad English it's John's solo work. I saw him in a 300 seat venue 3 years ago. John is incredible.

[@ettysnip7805]

Backlash is my fav, Time Stood Still!!!!

[@drfreud65]

I liked John Waite most when he was frontman for The Babys

[@vivajay]

Diane Warren was just nominated (for the 9th time) for an Oscar and lost (for the 9th time). Amazingly she’s won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy. So if she would have won an Oscar, she’d be just a Tony award away from the EGOT.

[@johneoff707]

"When You Love a Woman" was #1 on the AC chart. I know that's not the main Top 40 chart, but it was still quite an accomplishment for a band that had been gone for ten years and came back with a mediocre album in the midst of the grunge era.

[@faceless2056]

John Waite rules!

[@seekanddestroy162]

Almost forgot Neal and Jonathan were in Bad English. Love The Baby's.

[@joany8787]

Dave, saw bad English sun, oct 22,1989 at fm Kirby center Wilkes barre,pa still have ticket. Waite kicked Ass as always.saw Waite again fri,jul 25,2014,at Mohegan sun, he was still kicking ass.

[@sylvesterrusso1715]

Did not know Journey never had a number 1...thanks for that tidbit.

[@alansims1704]

Listen to Michael Sweet of Stryper in the mid 80's and now 2021, he sounds exactly the same!!!

[@travissloan6864]

Deen Castronovo was in a band named Wild Dogs when Neal Schon discovered him.

[@stevehoward1980]

Took a while to remember recently You think with my bad writing skills I would of remembered !

[@martinbgelundarvidsen6261]

A lot of tracks for a third album floats around. How about mixing and producing them? (Frontiers records)

[@Ed31003]

another frontman you have mentioned who i thought really is another one of a kind voice, though much like Steve is Kevin Chalfant, in the Storm, chk the cut "Show me the way"

[@Miamiborne1969]

True John Waite is awesome!

[@WineSippingCowboy]

He permitted Love and Theft to record their version of If You Ever Get Lonely and it became a hit in country music! JW is underrated. And his solo songs not named Missing You are underplayed.

[@masterdom3246]

Muy interesante.

[@naturallawman2965]

Waite is extremely hit & miss these days.

[@chrisdymmel2934]

Not likely that there would have been a third album anyway, at the time Bad English fell apart Can and Waite had sworn to never work together again and Neal and Deen were already doing demos with Hardline.

[@neugey]

Disagree somewhat, the Backlash album was quite weak and had a lot of filler. But it has one great ballad in "Time Stood Still" that is actually better than either "When I See You Smile" and "Price of Love".

[@davidbalzano7025]

Bad English could have been bigger. 1st album had 2 big hits plus a couple of minor hits like Possession and Forget Me Not. Backlash in retrospect was good too but times and tastes changed. I enjoys John Waites Rough and Tumble and many of his well worth seeking out solo albums like Temple Bar from 1995.

[@rzrbckmz23]

I liked Backlash. "Straight to My Heart" is awesome. I thought the first album had some filler but I like about every song on the second album. the problem is grunge had just hit when Backlash came out and it was buried and never got airplay, promotion and did not tour behind it.

[@hirskdubbi]

Possession is a great song!!! So great

[@WineSippingCowboy]

On the 2nd album, like Straight to Your Heart. Underrated and hardly played in US radio. John Waite should play this song more! That was their only hit from that album bc the record company did not push the other songs. Related. Instead of fighting Neal Schon, Ross Valory should have reunited with The Storm. Steve Smith could come along. Kevin Chalfont and Josh Ramos can still perform well!

[@brokensonnet1220]

The band looks familiar from journey

[@jamesrudd8705]

Who else accomplished this? Boston Styx REO Speedwagon Heart Foreigner Shall I go on?

[@rmm1981]

I feel like you are missing the point lol

[@John-ig1zr]

Please stop with the finger very annoying....

[@jamesrudd8705]

It's part of the schtick, so to speak.

[@jamiemorgan4146]

Screw #1 !!!! Yeah, it makes money, but to me, a song that reaches #1 is usually too Teenybopper....

[@hirskdubbi]

The second bad English album wasn't too great

[@randyperfecto7468]

Respect Journey but weak band, AC/DC opened up for them in San Antonio I. The late seventies and blew them away. Respect them but Journey was a female band

[@bottomfeeder1307]

Diane Warren is no longer a great songwriter. I'm not sure what happened. Perhaps the big wigs that control the music industry has a leash on her songwriting limits.