Playlist: Journey Greatest Hits in Bloomington, MN

The deceptively titled
Playlist: Very Best of Journey
, which on the surface looks like a perfectly acceptable career retrospective, is actually a straight-up reissue of 1998's
Greatest Hits Live
, a 17-track collection of live tracks culled from performances that took place during the band's early -'80s arena rock heydays. A decent concert album, listeners looking for a proper
Journey
studio anthology would be better off with 2001's excellent
Essential Journey
. ~ James Christopher Monger