Artist: SURVIVOR
Album: CAUGHT IN THE GAME REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1983/ 2010
Media type: CD

“FROM PRETTY much out of nowhere Survivor scored one of the biggest ever selling hit singles in 1982 with the classic ‘Eye Of The Tiger’, a song written for the blockbuster movie ‘Rocky III’, featuring Sylvester Stallone. Buoyed by that success, the band took stock and regrouped to record their fourth album, the much overlooked ‘Caught In The Game’.

Mostly written and rehearsed in a Carpet Warehouse in their native Chicago, then recorded in Los Angeles and produced by guitarist Frankie Sullivan (engineered by future Guns N’ Roses producer Mike Clink), the album is a pithy coalescence of Survivor’s trademark sound and style. Arresting but smoothly produced, the songs ring with crystal clear clarity, refusing to out stay their welcome. With ‘Caught In The Game’, ‘What Do You Really Think?’, ‘I Never Stopped Loving You’ and the epic ‘Santa Ana Winds’ standing out from the pack.

Amazingly, the album (originally released in 1983) failed to repeat the massive achievement of the ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ record, delivering no hit singles and making only a fleeting appearance on the album charts. It was a shocking development especially when you consider that ‘Caught In The Game’ harbours some of the band’s best songs. It was also the last album to feature vocalist Dave Bickler, and saw the band going through some major changes in an effort to reverse their lack of continued good fortune.”

TRACK LISTING:

1. Caught In The Game
2. Jackie Don’t Go
3. I Never Stopped Loving You
4. It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
5. Ready For The Real Thing
6. Half-Life
7. What Do You Really Think?
8. Slander
9. Santa Ana Winds