Customer Reviews

Head on

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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!

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!

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!
j_b_carlson@yahoo.com

This is Bachman-Turner Overdrive's fifth album, originally released in 1975. While not as heavy as their first four (BTO 1, BTO 2, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive), this album is still excellent and shows more of a variety of song styles. When origianlly released on CD, however, (like most of BTO's origianl studio albums), some artwork was omitted and the tracks were not fully remastered. Tracks range from the hard-rocking "Take It Like A Man" and "Wild Spirit" to the lighter jazz of "Lookin' Out For #1". "Woncha Take Me For Awhile" and "Away from Home" are true BTO classics as well, and should get more recognition (In my opinion). My rating of each track is as follows
1. Find Out About Love (5/5)
2. It's Over (5/5)
3. Average Man (4/5)
4. Woncha Take Me For Awhile (5/5)
5. Wild Spirit (5/5)
6. Take It Like A Man (feat. Little Richard)(5/5)
7. Lookin' Out For #1 (3/5)
8. Away From Home (5/5)
9. Stay Alive (3/5)[recorded in mono]

There is re-release of this CD available (also listed here on Amazon.ca), which has better sound quality and packaging (it was released in a digipack), and includes the non-album single "Down To The Line" as a bonus track.

I was skeptical of the higher price going with this remastered album until I heard it for myself.

let me just say - great music, beautifully recorded. It IS worth the extra cost. Well worth it.

I hope they do this with Four Wheel Drive and the others, too - though it'll mean duplicating my collection!

This is some of BTO's best albums. Sadly though, it's been largely ignored & for some time, this album was out of print. I'm glad to see it's back on the market once again, where it truly belongs. BTO these days, is under-rated but they are the guys who set the pace & broke the trail for the rest that followed. Not bad for a band from Canada, eh?

This album is also good. Find out about love is smooth. I love rock and this one sure does deliver the goods.

This is a great BTO album that is unique in its song selections. Full bodied rock and roll with a touch of smooth jazz featuring the hard driving "Away from Home" and the jazzy "Lookin Out for Number One".......

I live in South Carolina and the CD was shipping out of North Carolina. I figured it would only take a couple of days but I had to wait almost 2 weeks. First they shipped it out UPS when they could have sent it out USPS which is what UPS did once they finally got it to my city. I had to wait four more days once USPS got it.