#210
August 1984
Survivor
Vital Signs
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
First Night
It’s the Singer Not the Song
Opening with an acoustic guitar, Survivor lays the template for its biggest record and sounds more like John Parr than John Parr. Did Survivor sound like every song on every movie soundtrack in the 80s because that was the sound of the 80s or did they set the template with “Eye of the Tiger”? Chicken and Rock Egg, I guess.
You’ve heard almost the entire first side of this album. “Can’t Hold Back”, “High On You”, “First Night”, “The Search is Over”. Put it on the turntable, lace up your skates, grab your corset bedecked girlfriend and hit the roller disco.
I have to give it up for “It’s the Singer Not the Song” that has a bounce that could find it in the repertoire of a band in a different genre. Oh, who’m I kidding? I just like it.
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