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About This Track
Any Way You Want It is a popular song performed by Journey released on the album Departure as the opening track, as a single in 1980 and was rerecorded with Arnel Pineda and Deen Castronovo for their 2008 album Revelation. The song was written by frontman Steve Perry and guitarist Neal Schon. It peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band often plays it to close their concerts. It appears on all four of the band’s live albums (Captured, Greatest Hits Live, Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour, and Revelation on DVD). The song was named the 80th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.
Since its release, the song has continued to infiltrate public consciousness due to its use in television advertisements by popular brands such as Heinz, McDonald’s, Ford and Samsung. It has been used in films such as Caddyshack and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and was covered in the episode “Journey” of the musical TV series Glee in a mash-up with another Journey song,Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’.
Song information
According to cowriter Steve Perry, the song was heavily influenced by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy and more particularly by bassist leader Phil Lynott. In July 1979, Journey was touring with Thin Lizzy across the United States when Lynott, Perry and Schon decided to share rhyme scheme exercises during a hanging out in Miami. The “basic” work on “the guitar-vocal-guitar-vocal interchange thing that happened between Phil and his lyrics and the guitarist and his arrangements, inspired the Any Way You Want It sorta give and take thing.
Since its release, the song has continued to infiltrate public consciousness due to its use in television advertisements by popular brands such as Heinz, McDonald’s, Ford and Samsung. It has been used in films such as Caddyshack and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and was covered in the episode “Journey” of the musical TV series Glee in a mash-up with another Journey song,
Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’.Song information
According to cowriter Steve Perry, the song was heavily influenced by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy and more particularly by bassist leader Phil Lynott. In July 1979, Journey was touring with Thin Lizzy across the United States when Lynott, Perry and Schon decided to share rhyme scheme exercises during a hanging out in Miami. The “basic” work on “the guitar-vocal-guitar-vocal interchange thing that happened between Phil and his lyrics and the guitarist and his arrangements, inspired the Any Way You Want It sorta give and take thing.
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Shouts
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Starlow13 wrote:
a "wow song" :D
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BalooUriza wrote:
This reminds me of Toyotathon for some reason.
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toolissy wrote:
die Live-Version von "Captured" klingt viel besser :)
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akenathon750498 wrote:
Anyy way you want ittt hahaha yeaaaaahh
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chatterbabe wrote:
another awsome song yeaaaaaaaaaaa
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Ondri- wrote:
Great song, very catchy and uplifting.
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greenvillepa wrote:
great song.
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
Caddyshack,lmfao!!!
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MissPurpleHaze wrote:
The lovin' things <3
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Bandit17C wrote:
Everytime I hear this song, I picture Rodney Dangerfield dancing on the fairway in "Caddyshack."
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MR_DRIFTER wrote:
OLD SCHOOL FEEL GOOD MUSIC....YEAH
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kemp678 wrote:
Wheeeeee!
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ADAMLEEGUZMAN wrote:
thats the way you need it ,hell yea....
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SamNUK wrote:
CaddyShack
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BuffyJackson wrote:
any way you want it ha ha
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fkgleave wrote:
any way , we all want it
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risico001 wrote:
I feel like golfing...
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howellelim wrote:
if you do it right the women all say it
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BMWPRETTY wrote:
Hold tight~ ! LOL! :-)
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allie2005eagle wrote:
Steve Perry was and is once in a lifetime artist.
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