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On vinyl -  I have Just A Game, Allied Forces, Never Surrender, Thunder Seven and Sport Of Kings.

On CD -  I have all the same, plus Stages , Surveillance and Living For The Weekend: The Anthology.  My CD versions, currently, are the TRC versions out of Canada - which replaced my original issue MCA versions out of the US - but I'm now updating those to the new Remastered Millennium versions. (And doing that is kinda what rekindled my love of the band, and  brought me here).

 
I used to have Edge Of Excess on CD, too, along with Rik's first solo album - but I've either lost, misplaced, or sold them off used at some time or another - because I can't seem to find them.

 I've never bothered to get any of the earlier albums, and for some unknown reason, I've never owned a copy of Progressions Of Power either.
 

Rocketdog:

On vinyl -  I have Just A Game, Allied Forces, Never Surrender, Thunder Seven and Sport Of Kings.

On CD -  I have all the same, plus Stages , Surveillance and Living For The Weekend: The Anthology.  My CD versions, currently, are the TRC versions out of Canada - which replaced my original issue MCA versions out of the US - but I'm now updating those to the new Remastered Millennium versions. (And doing that is kinda what rekindled my love of the band, and  brought me here).

I used to have Edge Of Excess on CD, too, along with Rik's first solo album - but I've either lost, misplaced, or sold them off used at some time or another - because I can't seem to find them.

 I've never bothered to get any of the earlier albums, and for some unknown reason, I've never owned a copy of Progressions Of Power either.
 

 

I would definatly recommend getting the earlier work.  Progressions has some of Rik's best guitar work with Triumph on it.  Hard Road, Nature's Child, and Woman in Love are all great tunes, plus I Live for the Weekend is just a smokin' track.  The debut, Triumph (aka In the Beginning) has the fan favorite Blinding Light Show, 24 Hours A Day, and Street Fighter(one of my fav Triumph solos).  Rock n Roll Machine probably gets the least amount of listening from me, but The City is probably worth the disc in itself, great song.  Bringing It On Home has also been a favorite of mine off RNRM.

Also, the earlier work might be some of Gil's best drumming.  Has a more raw-aggressive feel to it, IMO.

Although I agree EOE really shouldnt be a 'Triumph' album, I really dig it.  If that baby comes out in '87 '88 with a different band name...look out!

knetzke11:

I would definatly recommend getting the earlier work.  Progressions has some of Rik's best guitar work with Triumph on it.  Hard Road, Nature's Child, and Woman in Love are all great tunes, plus I Live for the Weekend is just a smokin' track.  The debut, Triumph (aka In the Beginning) has the fan favorite Blinding Light Show, 24 Hours A Day, and Street Fighter(one of my fav Triumph solos).  Rock n Roll Machine probably gets the least amount of listening from me, but The City is probably worth the disc in itself, great song.  Bringing It On Home has also been a favorite of mine off RNRM.

Also, the earlier work might be some of Gil's best drumming.  Has a more raw-aggressive feel to it, IMO.

 

Although I agree EOE really shouldnt be a 'Triumph' album, I really dig it.  If that baby comes out in '87 '88 with a different band name...look out!

Some of the songs you listed, I've got on the Living For The Weekend: The Anthology disc - and I have to admit, I was necessarily crazy about all of them. I did, however, order a copy of Progressions Of Power today - so we'll see what I think of that once I've had a chance to fully experience it. Thanks for the lowdown, though.

Rocketdog:

knetzke11:

I would definatly recommend getting the earlier work.  Progressions has some of Rik's best guitar work with Triumph on it.  Hard Road, Nature's Child, and Woman in Love are all great tunes, plus I Live for the Weekend is just a smokin' track.  The debut, Triumph (aka In the Beginning) has the fan favorite Blinding Light Show, 24 Hours A Day, and Street Fighter(one of my fav Triumph solos).  Rock n Roll Machine probably gets the least amount of listening from me, but The City is probably worth the disc in itself, great song.  Bringing It On Home has also been a favorite of mine off RNRM.

Also, the earlier work might be some of Gil's best drumming.  Has a more raw-aggressive feel to it, IMO.

 

Although I agree EOE really shouldnt be a 'Triumph' album, I really dig it.  If that baby comes out in '87 '88 with a different band name...look out!

 

Some of the songs you listed, I've got on the Living For The Weekend: The Anthology disc - and I have to admit, I was necessarily crazy about all of them. I did, however, order a copy of Progressions Of Power today - so we'll see what I think of that once I've had a chance to fully experience it. Thanks for the lowdown, though.

Progressions is a weird one, to me it definatly has the 'Triumph' sound to it.  Meaning, similar to what they found with Just A Game, and continued through with Allied Forces, Never Surrender, and Thunder Seven.  PoP usually gets skipped when people think about the 'Triumph' signature songs.  Hard Road is the Fight the Good Fight or Never Surrender of the PoP album.  I think why people over looked it is because it is fairly random in how they ordered the tracks.

1. I Live for the Weekend-smokin' guitar driven track
2. I Can Survive-Sorta ballad sounding thing at the beginning, solid cut IMO, has some good stuff once it really gets going
3. In the Night-this is a big change from the first two Gil-sung tunes, a ballad with soaring vocals from Rik, possibly his greatest display of range, but a very slow paced song
4. Nature's Child-good hard rock track with a facemelter of a solo
5. Woman In Love-another Gil track in the hard rock vein
6. Take My Heart-yet another ballad sung by Rik following up a rockin' Gil tune
7. Tear the Roof Off-Gil hard rock anthem, used as the opener for the PoP tour
8. Fingertalkin'-Rik acoustic piece
9. Hard Road-my favorite off the disc, good lyrics, good guitars, good all around effort.  One of Rik's heavier tracks vocal wise.  I kinda see it as being in a series of amazing songs by Rik, starting with Hold on of JAG, continued with Hard Road, then Fight the Good Fight and Never Surrender.  Time Goes By could have an arguement for being in there too.

Overall though, Triumph's heaviest record(unless you count EOE lol).  More distortion on the guitars and Gil singing 5 of 9 instead of Rik singing 5 of 9 makes it more toward the hard rock/metal edge.  Some of Rik's best solos are done here IMO.  It just kinda hops all over the place with songs, which I think turned some people off to it.  There's no reason Hard Road shouldnt be mentioned with those other songs, but yet its always overlooked.

Also, I hope you got the remasters of this one.  I don't have the pre-remasters disc but I heard that the production for PoP wasn't as good as some of their others like JAG or AF.  It had a sort of feeling like you were listening in a tunnel, and everyone said the remasters opened up the sound and fixed that problem pretty well.  The general concensus I gathered was that PoP and Stages were the two the remastering helped the most.  That was a while ago though, but I know both benefited from the re-release.

knetzke11:

Progressions is a weird one, to me it definatly has the 'Triumph' sound to it.  Meaning, similar to what they found with Just A Game, and continued through with Allied Forces, Never Surrender, and Thunder Seven.  PoP usually gets skipped when people think about the 'Triumph' signature songs.  Hard Road is the Fight the Good Fight or Never Surrender of the PoP album.  I think why people over looked it is because it is fairly random in how they ordered the tracks.

1. I Live for the Weekend-smokin' guitar driven track
2. I Can Survive-Sorta ballad sounding thing at the beginning, solid cut IMO, has some good stuff once it really gets going
3. In the Night-this is a big change from the first two Gil-sung tunes, a ballad with soaring vocals from Rik, possibly his greatest display of range, but a very slow paced song
4. Nature's Child-good hard rock track with a facemelter of a solo
5. Woman In Love-another Gil track in the hard rock vein
6. Take My Heart-yet another ballad sung by Rik following up a rockin' Gil tune
7. Tear the Roof Off-Gil hard rock anthem, used as the opener for the PoP tour
8. Fingertalkin'-Rik acoustic piece
9. Hard Road-my favorite off the disc, good lyrics, good guitars, good all around effort.  One of Rik's heavier tracks vocal wise.  I kinda see it as being in a series of amazing songs by Rik, starting with Hold on of JAG, continued with Hard Road, then Fight the Good Fight and Never Surrender.  Time Goes By could have an arguement for being in there too.

Overall though, Triumph's heaviest record(unless you count EOE lol).  More distortion on the guitars and Gil singing 5 of 9 instead of Rik singing 5 of 9 makes it more toward the hard rock/metal edge.  Some of Rik's best solos are done here IMO.  It just kinda hops all over the place with songs, which I think turned some people off to it.  There's no reason Hard Road shouldnt be mentioned with those other songs, but yet its always overlooked.

Also, I hope you got the remasters of this one.  I don't have the pre-remasters disc but I heard that the production for PoP wasn't as good as some of their others like JAG or AF.  It had a sort of feeling like you were listening in a tunnel, and everyone said the remasters opened up the sound and fixed that problem pretty well.  The general concensus I gathered was that PoP and Stages were the two the remastering helped the most.  That was a while ago though, but I know both benefited from the re-release.

Thanks, again, for the insight. And yes, I did get the new millennium re-master version.

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