Rain Dance/She Might Have Been A Nice Girl/Goin' A Little Crazy/Fiddlin'/Pain Train/One Divided/Grey Day/Life In The Bloodstream/One Man Army/Sour Suite/So Long Bannatyne
So Long Bannatyne heralded a fall in sales for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. At this time they began to experiment with looser and more progressive stylings. (US:52)
“A little softer than their previous recordings. No Randy Bachman and that lounge lizard Burton Cummings is now in complete control. Studio recordings go pretty much down hill from here.”
“Bachman's departure is more noticeable here. He has taken the band's hard guitar sound with him. Most of the material is softer, and more concentrated on Cummings' vocals. Still there are some haunting melodies to be found, and the album is far from the depths they were headed towards.”
“I just can't believe it. Such a good album from the early 1970s, and nobody wants to appreciate it. There was a time when these Guess Who albums were well known and respected, but as time went on, apparently people made up their minds about what bands should be remembered and which ones shouldn't. Unfortunately the Guess Who fell into the second camp and became forgotten.”
“Coming less than a year after the Guess Who's first post Randy Bachman LP this one shows the band still able to deliver the goods, along with some over indulgence and some exercises in questionable taste. They also came up with a few memorable tunes.”
“Something is amiss here, at least to my ears. I enjoy a few things about this album like the jumpy Rain Dance or the great Pain Train, but others rub me the wrong way. The mostly piano dominated, pop sound seems to point the way to Cummings' eventual role as a soft rock balladeer.”
“It contained the singles Rain Dance and Sour Suite, but this album was really a departure from the Guess Who sound. It's redeemed somewhat by Pain Train and Grey Day, but on the whole this record really failed to set the world on fire.”
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