Skip to main content

Triumph by The Jackson 5

Triumph

Release Date: 10/25/1990

Recording Date: 1/1980

Tracks: 9

Length: 00:48:39 Hrs

Label: Epic

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Soul, Funk, Disco, Pop/Rock, United States of America, Quiet Storm

Album Tracks (9)

Song Title
Length
1.
Can You Feel It
06:01
2.
Lovely One
04:52
3.
Your Ways
04:31
4.
Everybody
04:59
5.
This Place Hotel
05:44
6.
Time Waits for No One
03:24
7.
Walk Right Now
06:29
8.
Give It Up
04:21
9.
Wondering Who
04:19

What the Critics Say

Released during the summer of 1980, just as the hits from Michael's Off the Wall were sliding off the charts, Triumph became the Jacksons' first Top Ten pop album since 1972's Lookin' Through the Windows. This despite the album-opening "Can You Feel It," promoted with a spectacle of a video that made the Jacksons into gigantic superheroes capable of transforming bridges into bendable rainbow tubing, stalling at number 77 on the Hot 100. It didn't make much of an impact on the R&B chart either, but then again, its supernatural anthemic stomp is more a fireworks program finale than something as small scale as a mere single. As on 1978's Destiny, the Jacksons wrote and produced the material, this time with keyboardist Greg Phillinganes bumped up to associate producer, and with an uptick in star backing -- including but not limited to Ronnie Foster, Phil Upchurch, Webster Lewis, Michael Boddicker, and Ollie Brown, as well as Triumph holdovers Michael Sembello, Thomas Washington, and Nathan Watts. The other singles, including "Lovely One" (very nearly "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" reheated) and "This Place Hotel" (an elaborate six-minute affair, written and arranged by Michael, that could have easily swollen to greater length) propelled the album into sales greater than that of Destiny, and it's equally durable (and markedly slicker) all around. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

Advertisement
The Jackson 5

On Sale