Allied Forces by Triumph

Allied Forces, Triumph's fifth album, came out in 1981 and caught the Mississauga power trio at full throttle: Rik Emmett's flashy, singing guitar leads, Mike Levine's bass and keyboards filling out the bottom, and Gil Moore pounding the drums and bellowing his share of the vocals. It's the record most people point to as the band's signature.

"Magic Power" is the one that stuck, a soaring, fist-in-the-air anthem, and "Fight the Good Fight" is a stately, slow-building rocker that climbs into a big heroic payoff. The title track went out first as a single, a month before the album hit the racks, and the one-two punch of the other singles pushed the record to number 23 on the Billboard albums chart while both songs caught fire on American rock radio.

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