Rate your Survivor (etc...) cds

[Abitaman]

SURVIVOR

Caught in the Game B
Eye of the Tiger B+
Vital Signs A
Live in Indianapolis A- (good live show)
Live in Japan B+
When Seconds Count B
Too Hot To Sleep A (IMO the best)
Greatest Hits B (The one of many, but this one has the tv looking front. Longer than the one that came befor, but not much better)
LA Grange, IL B- (Good show, poor sound)
Highland B (Good show, poor sound)
Live in 1994 B-
Rock Hard in Paducah B+ (actually Jimi's solo band billed as Survivor)
Mohegan Sun B
Fire Makes Steel B+ (demo)
Extended Versions B (an offical live cd, not bad)
Ultimate Survivor A (best of the best of)
Reach B- (Use to like this a lot more than I do now)
Live in KC B


JIMI's SOLO AND SIDE PROJECTS


Cobra B+
In the Studio B
Target B
Captured C+
When Love Comes Down B+
Demos B-
Live at the Biebob B
Have Mercy Demos B (almost same list as Demos as above)
Empires A-


JIM PETERIK
World Stage A (Some really great songs)
Rock America A (Kevin Chalfant sings Survivor!!!!!!!!)
Above the Storm A-
Best of A
Demos A-


PRIDE OF LIONS
Pride of Lions B+
Live C+ (Survivor songs included, but sound is poor and back up players is a cd player!)
The Destiny Stone A-
The Roaring of Dreams B (Haven't listened to it but twice)

What do you think of your cds?

[Journey/Survivor]

SURVIVOR

Caught in the Game B
Eye of the Tiger B+
Vital Signs A
Live in Indianapolis A- (good live show)
Live in Japan B+
When Seconds Count B
Too Hot To Sleep A (IMO the best)
Greatest Hits B (The one of many, but this one has the tv looking front. Longer than the one that came befor, but not much better)
LA Grange, IL B- (Good show, poor sound)
Highland B (Good show, poor sound)
Live in 1994 B-
Rock Hard in Paducah B+ (actually Jimi's solo band billed as Survivor)
Mohegan Sun B
Fire Makes Steel B+ (demo)
Extended Versions B (an offical live cd, not bad)
Ultimate Survivor A (best of the best of)
Reach B- (Use to like this a lot more than I do now)
Live in KC B


JIMI's SOLO AND SIDE PROJECTS


Cobra B+
In the Studio B
Target B
Captured C+
When Love Comes Down B+
Demos B-
Live at the Biebob B
Have Mercy Demos B (almost same list as Demos as above)
Empires A-


JIM PETERIK
World Stage A (Some really great songs)
Rock America A (Kevin Chalfant sings Survivor!!!!!!!!)
Above the Storm A-
Best of A
Demos A-


PRIDE OF LIONS
Pride of Lions B+
Live C+ (Survivor songs included, but sound is poor and back up players is a cd player!)
The Destiny Stone A-
The Roaring of Dreams B (Haven't listened to it but twice)

What do you think of your cds?

That's kind of tough for me to do.

For example, if I'm to compare Reach to other Survivor albums, then it ranks lower on my list. But if I compare Reach to the majority of albums by the majority of other bands, then I rank it high.

So I'll rank them only against other Survivor albums.

Survivor B+
Premonition B-
Eye Of The Tiger A
Caught In The Game A+
Vital Signs A
When Seconds Count B
Too Hot To Sleep A+
Reach C+

When Love Comes Down B-
Empires A-

Target B
Captured A-

Cobra A+

[Ehwmatt]

Caught in the Game A
Vital Signs A+
Live in Japan B
When Seconds Count B-
Too Hot To Sleep B
Extended Versions B+
Ultimate Survivor A+
Reach B (definitely not as bad as advertised)

JIMI's SOLO AND SIDE PROJECTS

Empires A- (LOVE this album... Cry Tough, title track, Just Beyond the Clouds, plenty of other great cuts... underrated)

JIM PETERIK
World Stage A-
Rock America A-
Above the Storm A+ (This was the best melodic rock release of 2006, far better than Falling in Between and whatever else was really hyped up that year around here)


PRIDE OF LIONS
Pride of Lions A
Live B+ (Vehicle, some great PoL cuts, Toby's fine job on Search/Cant Hold Back. Only thing keeping it from an A- for me is the absence of PoL songs that really would have kicked ass live... namely, Turn To Me, Falling Back To Then, Born To Believe in You, and Second Hand Life. Would have preferred these over songs like Man Behind The Mask, Music and Me, What Kind of Fool, and the Gift of Song... those are weak tracks studio and live... )
The Destiny Stone A-
The Roaring of Dreams B- (I loved the first two PoL releases and was really disappointed in this disc... a few decent tracks I still come back to, namely Faithful Heart, Heaven on Earth, and Language of the Heart... rest of the songs were missing something. Oh well, after the first two PoL records and his outstanding solo effort, JP was bound to come down a bit)

[Eyeof]

I think it's hard to compare boots to the level of real albums or even official live releases, so here goes:

Survivor: B-
Premonition: B
Eye of the Tiger: A
Caught in the Game: A
Vital Signs: A-
When Seconds Count: B
Too Hot to Sleep: B-
Reach: C+
Extended Versions: A-

Fire Makes Steel (Demo) - A (Considering it's a demo...wow...only what could have been. I love the feel of this album)

I'm not going to worry about all of the greatest hits, what's the point...but I think Ultimates is probably the best sounding and that and the 1993 at least included new stuff.

Boots:
Live In LaGrange 1993 - A (as far as boots go...not great sound, but the band really rocked at this time and Dave was on his game.)
Live in Indy - A (Great souding Boot)
Live in Japan - A (about the same as Indy)
Highland 1993 - B (Good material, Dave and the band still tight)
Live with David Carl: B- (Good sound for a club boot and especially when you consider the circumstances they played on well)
Live 1987 from New Jersey (WSC Tour): C+ (Not a bad bood...sound is funneled and not the best days of the band)
Live at Mohegan Sun: C- (Not very good Sound and not a tight set at all)
Live from 1998 World Tour: C
Live in Indiana 1999: B- (I love the set list, but Dave's voice wasn't as strong any longer)
Live in Hachenburg: B- (A bood second era, JJ boot, and it contains a new song - Velocitized)
Live in KC 2006: C (Not a bad sound, but the Frankie Backup vocals are aweful and Robin is pretty raw on the material at this point.)
Live in Orlando 2006: C (Not terrible, not great sound).

JJ solo -
Empires: B+ (A great effort, I really enjoy this album)
All the demo stuff is pretty good as well, but overlaps a lot.

Pride of Lions: B (A bit overboard for me at times, but overall, pretty good stuff).








Caught in the Game A
Vital Signs A+
Live in Japan B
When Seconds Count B-
Too Hot To Sleep B
Extended Versions B+
Ultimate Survivor A+
Reach B (definitely not as bad as advertised)

[Red13JoePa]

Live in KC 2006: the Frankie Backup vocals are aweful

LOL, they are.

And I generally like his BG vox, but Frankie was turned up WAY too loud by the sound dude on this show.