Premonition

Glad to have a CD of this to add to my collection. My L.P. is scratched to worthlessness !!

Survivor just puts out good albums with catchy well done lyrics and music - hard to find the words.

Survivor is the most under-rated band in history. Ask most people who they are and you get the same response. They sang Eye of the Tiger. However, that wasnt the only song they ever sang!! These guys were true American rock, before the age of MTV. Bands who write and play their own music are always higher on my list. Jim Peteriks song writing was awesome and Frankie Sullivans guitar playing was perfection. I agree they were better with Dave Bickler, but I think it was more because that time period was their original music when they were new and fresh. Over time, the well of great tunes seems to dry up, it happens to everyone.

Survivors second album Premonition is the first Survivor album which carries the very sound that we are familiar. Their self-titled debut album is a good album with a bunch of great rock. But the album as a whole sounded too varied to grasp the image of the band. Kind of a Know-it-all all hits collection pop rock band. They failed to impress a large number of music fans and I think it was Jim himself who was not satisfied with the album. But with this second album they surely acquired the banner something unique and impressive. Part of the reason this album became excellent probably came from Jims collaboration with Sammy Hagers solid rock track Heavy Metal. It was in 1981, the word heavy metal was still not a household word. I can imagine Jims mumbling heavymetal, heavymetal...while producing this album and he was confident that style of rock would dominate. A light of Thousands Smiles served as a prophcy as the word premonition was taken from the lyric of this track. Take You On A Saturday is one of the highlight of this album-- very tight heavy track which might overwhelm die-hard Kiss fans. But what Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan tried to do in this album is to create the style of Heavy Metal not for rocks sake but with mass appeal. With the mission on their shoulders Survivor as we know it finally launched and the album became a small success in the U.S. with excellent tracks such as Chevy Nights, hits like Poor Mans Son, and Summer Nights. Recommended for all Survivor fans, 80s heavy metal rock fans, Sammy Hager fans, and Europian MHR fans.

Sounds perfect! Remember hearing this on my brother inlaws klipsch horns. Awesome!

When Sylvester Stallone was looking for a new song for ROCKY III he listened to this album. Survivor had finally made the top 40 with POOR MANS SON. Im sure he had no idea just what would happen when he asked them to write the theme song. So I guess you could say that if not for this album, the words EYE OF THE TIGER would be nothing more then words form a script. What we have here is a great album of rock. From the opening riff of CHEVY NIGHTS to the b-side of EYE, TAKE YOU ON A SATURDAY, this album was self produced by the band,(just look at the album cover) which means no CORPORATE ROCK here. Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan wrote all of the songs. Every one of them finds way to tug at your heart. The haunting HEARTS A LONELY HUNTER (which by the way is my favorite) to the rock n roll fantasy LIGHT OF A THOUSAND SMILES (which is something everyone of us has done at least once in our lives) not to forget the homecoming tear jerker RUNWAY LIGHTS this album will make you feel good when you listen to it.

The first four songs, which were Side 1 (back when there were records with sides), are, to my mind, one of the greatest pure pop music album sides ever. Summer Nights is grossly overlooked when people think of the great songs of the decade -- I have to believe that Kid Rock had it rattling around in his brain when, almost 30 years later, he visited the same thematic terrain in All Summer Long, but without anywhere near the vulnerability and wistfulness that makes the Survivor track so indelibly great.

This was one of my favorite 80s cds. Just a great feel good effort. Great melodies and vocals from Dave Bickler. I felt like Survivor went bubblegum after he left. This one had at least 4 potential radio hits and never got any air play. That sort of thing started happening alot after MTV cranked up and injected cancer into the american music scene. This cd rocks. You definitely wont be sorry you bought it. Their first cd is very good as well.

This has always been one of my favorite albums....now I have it on CD! So glad that I found it at Amazon!

Way back when, actor Sylvester Stallone was smart enough to ask Survivor to write a pumped-up theme song for