Gimme Your Money Please/Hold Back The Water/Blue Collar/Little Gandy Dancer/Stayed Awake All Night/Down & Out Man/Don't Get Yourself In Trouble/Thank You For The Feelin'
Self titled debut album from hard rockers Bachman-Turner Overdrive, formed by former Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman. They would achieve their commercial breakthrough with the next album. (US:70)
“Bachman Turner Overdrive's debut set was a melange of blue collar-style boogie, competent hard rock, and even a jazzy bossa nova number in Blue Collar.”
“Bachman Turner Overdrive's self titled debut long play is good solid testosterone rock. Great lead guitar, solid bass lines and a sturdy drummer are all there. This music is not intellectual or progressive in anyway, just good steady boogie rock.”
“Bachman-Turner Overdrive's debut is a wonderful slice of super hard and chunky yet hooky and sublime 70s hard rock heaven. They really know how to write gems and every song is spectacular. The album starts with a real one two punch in Gimme Your Money Please and Hold Back The Water. Blue Collar has a wonderfully mysterious air about it, and Stayed Awake All Night is a riff monster.”
“A good debut album. All the elements are here, the pot needed a little bit of stirring. Gimme Your Money Please and Hold Back The Water provide a strong opening before the blues-jazz of Blue Collar takes us to a completely different place all together. After the change of pace the album settles back in to the rock and roll groove and pretty much stays there.”
“The big boys from Bachman-Turner Overdrive started grindin' gears with over-the-road blues-based hard rockin' cuts on their self-titled debut.” “BTO do one of the best jobs of using the rock guitar to its full potential than any group in history. They also mix it with melodic arrangements, and the result is several all-time gems.”
“The band had much bigger hits later on, and maybe some still rank among their best, but for sheer power, tunefulness, and energy, this debut album is the one to get. Not a dud track in the whole bunch.”
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