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Never Surrender

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Triumph was one of the most energized rock bands ever. They had a stretch run of 6 albums that were just great from beginning to end...(no filler) Not too many classic rock-n-roll bands have done that. Probably also why they didn't get too much radio play-they never knew what to release as a single. Always compared with Rush, as a Canadian power trio- their live shows were awesome.Rush had all the style-but Triumph might have been the better STRAIGHT AHEAD ROCK band. Never Surrender is possibly their best album- ? it's a toss-up though between several.All the songs are great.. the best song from this is 'Battle Cry,' which has stylings reminiscent of Zeppelin and P.Floyd. Other classics would include 'ordinary man' 'blinding light show,' 'Just a game,' 'Fight the good fight,'etc.. Triumph was a helluva good band.

I bought this on vinly when it was released I think 1983? Any how this is an album that belongs in any collection. Triumph like the band Rush does not have to write hard rock tunes so that us the fans can feel their power. I hope fellow reveiwers are following me on this. They play with so much power that it does not have to be hard to feel it. Very under rated band by some. Would have been interesting if they had stayed together longer even though they had a good run. Would love to see them reunite. With that all being said this is a solid rock cd, although I do not have to tell the older fans that. Glad that I bought this cd.

NEVER SURRENDER is yet another great reissue of a Triumph CD. The remastering job is sterling, and the songs are all great, especially the cautionary "A World Of Fantasy", which warns us that we're better off sticking with the tried-and-true than hopping trends. I should know, because sticking with what was real when choosing music to buy at a store caused one of the clerks to call me "sweet pea" because she admired me for buying "real" music whereas so many people under 40 prefer rap and dance-pop. Overall, this CD, along with JUST A GAME, ALLIED FORCES, PROGRESSIONS OF POWER, and THUNDER SEVEN is part of the essential Triumph library.

Not only is this the best Triumph album ever. It's the best hard rock album of all time! Ok I'm a little biased since Triumph is my favorite group. Simply put this album rocks from beginning to end. There are no fillers on this album! Every song is a classic in it's own right. Put them all together and you have one classic album!I never get tired of listening to this album! Every time I put it on my stereo I feel like I'm rocking like nobody else is in the world! If your a Triumph fan and you don't have this CD. Buy it as soon as possible! If you like good hard rock and you don't have any Triumph CD's. Buy this album and soon you will find yourself buying more of the Rock And Roll Machine!

Canadian power trio Triumph released their long awaited followup studio album to their 1981 Platinum seller Allied Forces entitled Never Surrender in the Spring of 1983.
Many fans were wondering when first buying this album if the album would be either as good or better than its predecessor as the massive sales of Allied Forces made the band work hard to come up with a superb followup to their Allied Forces album.
I go with the former as did many fans who helped push the album to #26 on the Billboard album chart and Gold status here in the States.
Never Surrender picked up where its predecessor left off.
The album features some of the band's best tracks like singer/guitarist Rik Emmett's massive hit single "A World of Fantasy" and the superb six and a half minute title cut.
Singer/drummer Gil Moore's best vocal performance on this album is on the hard rocker "When the Lights Go Down" which (at first) sounds like an acoustic blues song at first before rocking out.
Other standouts are the opening "Too Much Thinking" (which had samples of the late great President Ronald Reagan at the intro of the track), the rock radio hit "All the Way" and of course Moore's hard rocker "Battle Cry".
The three instrumentals (the classical guitar intro "A Minor Prelude", the powerful second half starter "Overture (Procession)" and the closing electric guitar and classical guitar solo piece "Epilogue (Resolution)") and the rocking "Writing on the Wall" are also great songs as well.
Despite the success of Never Surrender, the band's US label at the time RCA wrongly picked a fight with Triumph and the band fled the label after this album and signed to MCA which was run by Eagles manager Irving Azoff at the time and switched the ownership of the band's music from RCA to MCA (Azoff paid RCA for the band's master tapes and bought out the band's RCA deal and he would eventually revert the rights of the band's music over to Triumph) and then in 1995 to Triumph's own label TRC (now known as TML whom re-mastered the album and re-released it in 2004).
IMHO, rock bands should not be on RCA as they had tended to be cheated and mistreated (Styx, Triumph, The Kinks and David Bowie were all shafted by that label). Aside that bit, Never Surrender STILL ROCKS!
Highly recommended!

Triumph's Never Surerender is one of those sweet suprises that does not have a bad song all the way through and features three songs that rock right up there with anyone.

The first song "Too Much Thinking", just sizzles and gets you jacked up for the rest of the album.

"World of Fantasy" rates with any classic rock song of the era IMO.

"When the Lights Go Down" is another top hard rocking song.

I'm surprised these guys don't have more of a reputation cause all these songs are original, feature killer guitar work and loads of energy.

Those are the standouts for me, along with a cool ,bluesy, instrumental at the end "Epilogue", but every song is a good listen.

This is a great album, you'll be pleasantly suprised if you're just discovering these guys and you enjoy Van Halen and other hard rocking, guitar centric bands of the era.

Okay, this album was a good effort, and is a worthy followup to the successful Allied Forces. This album has some memorable cuts such as NEVER SURRENDER, A WORLD OF FANTASY, and BATTLE CRY. WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN isn't one of my favorites, but still rocks hard. I recommend this album for any Triumph fan. If there's one criticism that I have of this great band, it's the fact that they used more than one vocalist; I don't understand the rationale for this approach. Rik has the best pipes, and has a very distinctive voice. It seems as though some of the band's identity is lost when they switch vocalists back and forth. Gil is excellent on vocals, but Rik's work stands out the most and defines their sound. Still, this album gets my respect.

Since I don't listen to this "genre" of music I cannot personally comment, but my daughter-in-law, whom it was for, is very pleased. One good thing I can say is that it was easy to find and I understand she had failed in a search without a computer.

Telling of my age, but I saw Triumph in '82 on their Never Surrender Tour in the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. Foghat opened for them. This album is one of the great forgotten classics of Rock and Roll.

I could go on and on about the band or the CD. There is so much to say about both. I wish they had much more airplay here in the U.S., but even so, I must say that they are in the top 5 bands in my collection of over 1000 CD's. If you love really great rock, not just top 40 stuff, you must have Triumph in your collection and Never Surrender is a MUST HAVE!. Get it and enjoy real rock as it should be! You can not go wrong with this CD!