SOUND-TRACK SURVIVOR

“WHEN SECONDS COUNT.” Survivor. Scotti Brothers. The Chicago band’s fifth LP sounds like a collection of sound-track singles in search of a movie. After all, Survivor scored its biggest triumph with the “Rocky III” theme song “Eye of the Tiger.” And with the increasing trend toward cross-marketing commercial films and commercial pop, it’s easy to picture portions of the album surfacing in a high-concept flick. Particularly since new singer Jimi Jamison now makes Survivor virtually indistinguishable from Journey. Most of the material would work in romantic scenes: couple meets, couple falls in love, couple pledges devotion, couple has problems, couple laments the breakup. And if you had a film about a fiercely independent Young Turk, you could consider “Rebel Son.” If it seems odd to be assigning these songs to hypothetical movies, it beats considering them together. That just raises the question: Do we really need another Journey?