Head on [Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Import]

Bachman Turner Overdrive | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B0000DIJLQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,175 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Find out About Love

2. It's Over

3. Average Man

4. Woncha Take Me for a While

5. Wild Spirit

6. Take It Like a Man

7. Lookin' out for #1

8. Away from Home

9. Stay Alive [Mono Version]

10. Down to the Line (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

2003 reissue of 1975 album is packaged in a digipak & features 10 tracks including 1 bonus track, 'Down The Line'. Repertoire.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good remastered sound!!!!, March 31, 2005

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Ride the country 77 (Montgomery, AL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Head on (Audio CD)

Just wanted to let all the BTO fans that this is a nice reissue. Beautiful digipak with great sound and 'Down to the Line' as a bonus track. Hope Repertoire decides to reissue other BTO albums. This is truly an underrated classic!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Overlooked Classic, March 31, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Head on (Audio CD)

Cool album by BTO, admittedly, not their hardest rockin' but a MUST for any BTO fan. Bonus track Down To The Line should have been a top 40 hit! Fun album to listen to!

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The *best* BTO album, hands down. Get it NOW!!!, May 17, 2005

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Jeffrey B. Carlson "Jeff 'Stuck in the 70's' ... (Timonium, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Head on (Audio CD)

I have to say that The Guess Who, Randy Bachman's previous band, was consistently more great, but you have to realize that BTO was at the time forging into the infant world of Heavy Metal and made some amazing contributions.

Sure, they weren't EVER much to look at, being fat and hairy beyond all coolness, and the drumming and bass work was sub-par by any standards. But Randy had such a cool handle on inventing chord progressions and the melodies and leads to go with them that he transcended all the band's shortcomings.

Randy Bachman WAS BTO the same way Kerry Livgren WAS Kansas. "Head On" proves that, and having his face on the cover is totally apropos. The vinyl version was designed to fold out into a poster four times the size of the front cover, with each member's face taking up a quadrant of the whole. I had mine up on the wall and kept my record on the turntable most of the time! When I played another record, I would put Head On in that sleeve, so I always knew where my copy of Head On: in the cover of the record on the turntable.

If you've never heard this album and you are a BTO fan, I dare you to listen to 'Find Out About Love' without it sticking in your head and echoing in your thoughts for the next three hours. Or try not to snap your fingers during your first listen of the jazz-cool "Looking out for #1".

CF Turner's voice always makes me giggle because he sounds like he has a phlegm bubble in his throat and is trying to shake it loose by singing REAL loud. But I learned to love it for it consistency and pure originality. Who sounds anything like him? I can't think of anyone.

If you are a guitarist and you have a good tablature of Looking Out for #1, please email it to me! Thanks!
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