Songs with atmosphere

Twenty years ago Survivor was my first favorite band. First I heard the album "Vital Signs" up and down, but the sounds to me now too shallow and complacent. "Premonition" is the second Survivor album, is one of only two two that I find still completely good. It is worth miles away from the streamlined Rocky songs "Burning Heart" and "Eye of the Tiger".

The songs of "Premonition" catch all a very special atmosphere that exists only be heard on this album. In "Runway Lights" you can see literally the tarmac of a small American airport at night in front of him. "Summer Nights" is a melancholy look back on a childhood sweetheart and "Poor Man's Son" a rhythmically very unusual commitment to the social origins of the band. Even the borderline lyrically "Heart's A Lonely Hunter" is supported by his wonderful melody until the end. "Light Of A Thousand Smiles" begins a formidable enthusiasm of a band that plays close to their fans in small clubs. A nice document from the period before the band of Hollywood was captured.