Triumph - Just a Game
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Artist: TriumphEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: Tml Entertainment
Soundtracks:
- Movin' On
- Lay It on the Line
- Young Enough to Cry
- American Girls
- Just a Game
- Fantasy Serenade [Instrumental]
- Hold On
- Suitcase Blues
Free Music Notes for Just a Game
Free Music Review: The breakthrough of Canada's other great hard rock export
Hit: 5 Stars
Canadian hard rockers Triumph's third album entitled Just a Game was originally released in the spring of 1979 on RCA.
The original pressings of the album had a tinny sound but then MCA issued a better sounding version in 1985 and then Triumph reissued it on their own label TRC which is an independent label here in the US in 1995 complete with the original artwork and TML (was TRC) re-issued it with a NEW REMASTER and full artwork in late 2005.
Just a Game introduced us Americans to Triumph which consisted of Gil Moore (drums and vocals), Mike Levine (bass guitar and keyboards) and the great Rik Emmett (guitars and vocals). It wasn't until 1999 that I first heard this album on CD and then bought the reissue and it's well worth the price of admission, so to speak especially for the album's rock radio staples "Hold On" (which was the band's first US Top 40 hit) and the rock radio classic "Lay It On The Line".
However, there is more to Triumph's 1979 breakthrough than the two aforementioned classic rock radio staples. "Moving On" and the rocking "American Girls" are two of Gil Moore's best vocals ever which appear on this album, his blues influenced vocals are a great counterpoint to Rik's searing tenor. The title cut and the closing Suitcase Blues are some of Rik's finest hour as a musician and songwriter. The latter sounds like a song that you could drink a good drink to when your woman leaves you for another man without notifying you.
Unfortunately Rik, Gil and Mike were overshadowed by Geddy, Neil and Alex a/k/a the other infamous power trio Rush whom are the greatest and most successful Canadian rock band in history.
Who would have thought Canada wasn't big enough for two amazing power trios is nuts as both Triumph and Rush are great bands.
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