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Triumph - In the Beginning Audio CD

A fair review of the Triumph "In the Beginning" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Triumph reviews here, or go back to the Triumph tabs.

Triumph Band: Triumph
Title: In the Beginning
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Release Date: 2008-01-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: 24 Hours a Day 2: Be My Lover 3: Don't Take My Life 4: Street Fighter 5: Street Fighter (Reprise) 6: What's Another Day of Rock & Roll 7: Easy Life 8: Let Me Get Next to You 9: Blinding Light Show/Moonchild

Awesome Rock n' Roll music!
I wore that out a long time ago. I had a copy of the Rock n' Roll machine casette that had several of these songs on it. I finally have the cd and listen to this over and over. I love Street Fightin' Man(reprise) and Moonchild. The classical elements and guitar work still stand strong today in my book. If you want a great rock cd then pick this up!.


Formula Rock
Paint by the numbers hard rock. Even a generic hard rock band like Triumph can sound good if you're in the right frame of mind, which is to say if you are able to ignore lyrics that are cliche to the nth degree and riffs copped freely from Led Zep and even Boston. Deal with it.


Decent beginning, not the best starting point
For many years it had seemed that there wasn't a lot of memorable material on it. I recently bought this album for completion's sake, because I had read good things about it, and because it had been decades since I'd heard it. On later albums Triumph progressed fairly steadily to their artistic peak at the "Thunder Seven" album, so there was never really a great need to have this "origin issue" in my collection.

Having listened to this very nicely remastered album several times, things haven't changed too much. It's early Triumph and little more, which is fine. The most memorable and distinctive track is "Blinding Light Show/Moonchild," but that song doesn't exactly bowl me over. Still, there are some worthwhile moments here, mostly in the first few tracks. As a starting point for discovering Triumph I'd recommend either (or both!) of the albums "Rock and Roll Machine" and "Just A Game. ".


Their first and it's one of their best!
The others are sub par in my opinion with maybe Allied Forces and Thunder Seven being the exceptions. Well as others have said, this release along with Rock & Roll Machine and Just A Game are all must have Triumph cd's.

If you really enjoy good guitar driven rock & roll the first 3 cd's are the ones you want. Sound quality is good and the tunes rock. What more can you ask for?

No bad for a 3 piece outfit hailing from Toronto Canada. They were indeed a great band at one point and time. .


Great album from a fairly obscure group.
They're not a band you hear too often (or at all) on the typical classic rock radio stations. Prior to a few weeks ago, I had never even heard of Triumph. This album combines hard rock with some nice softer ballads. They're style reminds me of Rush and Boston, but they throw in their own sound to give them an extra push. Highly recommended.


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