Customer Reviews

Don't Fight It

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The album that put Red Rider on the map, featuring the track, " White Hot", which received good airplay on AOR in 1980. Slightly uneven compared to later Red Rider efforts more dominated by Tom Cochrane, but more interesting and less obvious. This is good "thinking man's pop". Cochrane's writing--featuring esoteric locational references, metaphors and similes, his edgy vocals, and the production make this very enjoyable. Best cuts: "White Hot" -- an African desert gun-running love song -- and the title track.

Songs like "White Hot" & "Don't Fight It" make this an exceptional classic canadian rock complnlation. I love all
the songs on this cd and it's the best one Red Rider released
before Tom Cochrane Went solo.

I have a 3,143 collection of only "Debut" albums.
This is one of them---one of the best! Get this on CD is you can.

Peter Boyton...Why did you leave the band?!

I owned this album and lost it during relocations. I haven't heard some of these songs in 30 years, and I was surprised how great and current they still sound. Nothing cheezy or dated about this album: it rocks. And as far as albums go, all but two of the songs are worth listening to multiple times. That is a great track record for any album. If you own anything by Tom Cochrane or Red Rider, you should own this album as well.

I have been collecting music for over 50 years and this is the one album that I would pick over just about everything. You can listen to it over and over and it always sounds fantastic and not dated. Every song is a gem. I've managed to see Tom Cochrane in concert twice and the only thing that would make it better is to have an 8 hour concert so he could play all his music. One of the most under recognized great musicians and songwriters.