Blown/Welcome Home/Stonegates/Let It Ride/Give It Time/Tramp/I Don't Have To Hide/Takin' Care Of Business
The follow up album from the Canadian hard rock band Bachmann-Turner Overdrive heralded their commercial breakthrough in the States. Features the US top 12 hit Takin’ Care Of Business. (US:4)
“Just really radio friendly hard rock, full of poppy stuff, but yet hard at the same time. You either like it or find overrated, overplayed and possibly boring.”
“There is one good guitar riff after another on this solid long play. Hard rock as it should be. This is pure fun to listen to. Stonegates is an awesome cut, and who doesn't have a soft spot in their heart for Takin’ Care Of Business?”
“Absolutely perfect hard rock, hooky as can be but still very powerful, and with amazing songwriting. Blown is a great opener. Stonegates rocks out. Let It Ride may be the best Bachman-Turner Overdrive song ever, a nearly perfect riff machine. That's true of Takin’ Care Of Business as well, a song that demands to be played loudly.”
“Beyond a doubt there are a small handful of rock groups that stand not only the test of time, but consistently punch the drive, so that within the first two seconds after a particular song is played, causes the listener's auto-neurons to fire and entice that listener to instinctively crank the volume to the outer threshold of toleration. Not to mention singing each lyric verbatim with the distinct inflection and mimicry of the performer. Takin' Care Of Business is such a song.”
“The hard rocking Canadian band followed up their rugged debut with an album that resembles the first in some ways but has more of a radio-friendly sound.”
“Short, simple and to-the-point this is a shining example of what a good album should be, even with some daft tracks in the middle; a capsule of what was going on at the time and simultaneously timeless.”
“BTO really put themselves on the musical map with this album, well known for the hit tracks Let It Ride and Takin' Care Of Business. There are other musical nuggets on this album to boot.”
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