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Triumph  - Just A Game flac album
  • Performer Triumph
  • Title Just A Game
  • Country Canada
  • Style Hard Rock
  • Other formats APE AAC ADX MOD MPC RA FLAC
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1624 mb
  • Size FLAC 1993 mb
  • Rating: 4.1
  • Votes: 433

Just a Game is the third studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1979. The album contains one of Triumph's most popular songs on FM album-oriented radio, "Lay it on the Line", and the Top 40 hit "Hold On", which peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 33 in Canada. The vinyl LP version of the album featured a sleeve that folded open to reveal a board game (though later pressings just contained a regular vinyl sleeve without this.

Thankfully, 1979's Just a Game would see Triumph taking measures (albeit discreet ones) to establish a stronger personality of their own, by relinquishing some of those progressive tendencies in exchange for a generally bluesier, unquestionably rock-based songwriting approach that eventually defined them as slightly heavier foils to their famed countrymen. Another in-house production overseen by bassist, keyboard player, and all-around peacekeeper Mike Levine, Just a Game once again balanced an equal number of compositions from dual lead singers and songwriting forces Rik Emmett (guitar).

Just A Game is possibly Triumph's least interesting album. While most of their albums have at least one or two good songs or moments, Just A Game is a pure, straightforward Hard Rock/Blues Rock and Rock 'N' Roll album filled with generic and wholly unchallenging Rock numbers. The party rocker American Girls is lyrically so clich�d and musically so utterly dull that I must press 'next'. However on their third album JUST A GAME, the comparisons to Rush had finally taken their toll so TRIUMPH streamlined their sound more into the hard rock camp but also found their niche with those catchy AOR power ballad hooks that found two of their most popular tracks of their career hitting the top 40 worldwide including the Billboard charts.

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Just a Game is the third studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1979. The album contains their first big hit, "Lay it on the Line" and the near Top 40 hit "Hold On". Artwork The vinyl LP version of the album featured a sleeve that folded open to reveal a board game (though later pressings just contained a regular vinyl sleeve without this.

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Listen to the songs from album Just a Game. And what better place to start cutting slack than album opener "Movin' On," whose chorus of brightly layered harmonies alluded to Chicago pomp rockers Styx, who were enjoying the peak of their popularity and influence at the time of this release.

Tracklist

A1 Movin' On 4:05
A2 Lay It On The Line 4:00
A3 Youngh Enough To Cry 6:00
A4 American Girls 5:01
B1 Just A Game 6:10
B2 Fantasy Serenade 1:40
B3 Hold On 6:00
B4 Suitcase Blues 3:02

Companies, etc.

  • Mastered At – Kendun Recorders
  • Lacquer Cut At – SST Brüggemann GmbH

Credits

  • Art Direction – Michael Clancy
  • Backing Vocals – Clint Ryan, Colina Phillips, Elaine Overholt, Gord Waszek, Rosie
  • Bass Guitar, Keyboards – Mike Levine
  • Drums, Vocals – Gil Moore
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Doug Neil, Hugh Cooper
  • Engineer [Recording] – Mike Jones
  • Guitar [All Guitars], Vocals – Rik Emmett
  • Illustration – Renee Zamic
  • Mastered By – John Golden
  • Photography By – John Rolands, Philip Kaman
  • Producer – Mike Levine, Triumph
  • Written-By – Moore* (tracks: A1, A3, A4), Emmett* (tracks: A2, B1 to B4)

Notes

Recorded during fall and winter 1978 at Sounds Interchange Studios, Toronto

Early 80s reissue in a gatefold sleeve

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout: IP BBS 2591 A SST
  • Matrix / Runout: IP BBS 2591 B SST
  • Rights Society: GEMA
  • Label Code: LC 1421

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
LAT 1061 Triumph Just A Game ‎(LP, Album, Gat) Attic LAT 1061 Canada 1979
MCAD-31118 Triumph Just A Game ‎(CD, Album, RE, Unofficial) MCA Records MCAD-31118 Russia Unknown
MCAC-37268 Triumph Just A Game ‎(Cass, Album, RM) MCA Records MCAC-37268 US 1983
MCAC-1454 Triumph Just A Game ‎(Cass, Album, RE, RM) MCA Records MCAC-1454 US Unknown
RCLP 20134 Triumph Just A Game ‎(LP, Album) RCA Victor RCLP 20134 Greece 1979