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Survivor Island
1. "Eye of the Tiger" (#1, 1982) | 3 votes |
2. "American Heartbeat" (#17, 1982) | 0 votes |
3. "I Can't Hold Back" (13, 1984) | 3 votes |
4. "High on You"(#8, 1985) | 1 votes |
5. "The Search Is Over" (#4, 1985) | 0 votes |
6. "Burning Heart" (#2, 1985) | 1 votes |
7. "Is This Love?" (#19, 1986) | 0 votes |
8. Other (Please specify) | 1 votes |
Edgy MD Sep 02 2014 10:11 PM |
Oh, you may like to think Survivor begins and ends with "Eye of the Tiger," radio programmers, but their 13 loyal fans beg to differ. Survivor had a nice little run of success, charting 18-20 times stateside, and even had another overwrought Rocky song. They also had this Black Sabbathy thing going where they kept bouncing back and forth between two lead singers, eventually touring with both of them in more recent times.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 03 2014 08:29 AM Re: Survivor Island |
They're such a great candidate for the DIMT I never woulda thought of them. To me, Survivor wasn't so much a band as some construct specifically built to deliver songs to accompany shitty Stallone films, and as such, in my mind, came to represent all that was wrong with them: the cookie-cutter stories, the way they bashed you over the head with GUTS ("In the HEAT of ATTACK, it's PASSION that KILLS!"), and the crass product placement (and the products themselves: particularly, BRUT and BOSS and SPORTSCREME. Just completely artificial. Survivor was the BRUT of rock n' roll.
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HahnSolo Sep 03 2014 09:06 AM Re: Survivor Island |
My gf at the time decided that "High on You" should be our song. God, our tastes sucked.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 03 2014 09:11 AM Re: Survivor Island |
Fun Survivor fact: Original vocalist Dave Bickler was the voice singing in Budweiser's hilarious "Real American Hero" radio commercials.
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Edgy MD Sep 03 2014 09:15 AM Re: Survivor Island |
Good show. HahnSolo, please click the "Other" selection.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 03 2014 10:16 AM Re: Survivor Island |
The geek with the glasses was Survivor's original founder and lead singer, Jim Peterik.
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Edgy MD Sep 03 2014 10:20 AM Re: Survivor Island |
De-hugified. Use the "fimg=" tool for huge pictures, and set an alternative width after the equals sign.
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cooby Sep 05 2014 05:15 PM Re: Survivor Island |
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How about it?
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Edgy MD Sep 05 2014 07:07 PM Re: Survivor Island |
You want to read my memoir? Really?
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 06 2014 11:43 PM Re: Survivor Island |
And whoa, after reading all about those times
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