Bachman-Turner Overdrive II

Bachman Turner Overdrive

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 1989)
• Original Release Date: December 1973
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca Special Products
• ASIN: B000001F7L
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,652 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars one of bto's best efforts, July 27, 2000

By	p dizzle "p dizzle" (augusta, georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

bto was a muscular boogie band from canada, both musically and literally (frontmen randy bachman and fred turner could have played line for any number of football teams! )this album marked the band's commercial breakthrough with the monster hit "takin' care of business" (still heard regularly on office depot commercials) and minor hits "let it ride" and "welcome home." the sound is hard rock from start to finish, but not as metallic as the next effort 'not fragile' would be. the boogie is still here (eg., "business" and "tramp"), as well as a glimpse of mr. bachman's jazz chops (check out the end of "welcome home," an almost completely different song as the band gets into a brubeck groove), as was "blue collar" from their first album. this album captures the live feel, not far removed from the bar room. no studio gimmicks, no subtlety, just power chords and hard rock joy!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars W H E W ! ! ! ! ! THIS ONE LEAVES YA EXHAUSTED....., November 10, 2004

By	N. N Wahlert "nnwahler" (seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

BTO's big break in the states........early '74 saw the release of the three-and-a-half-minute single version of "Let It Ride" (this disc's got the full version, with C.F.'s supersonic screaming intact). And "Takin' Care Of Business" saw us all through the summer of '74.

But there's a lot more to this effort--in fact, see if you can make it thru the album's first half without being totally pooped. In fact, the opener, "Blown"--a real "window-smasher" of a rocker--gets the adrenaline pumping right away, to say the least........Randy Bachman's famous "Long-Kamm Slide" is the icing on the cake with this track. It's amazing "Blown," which was the most-played album track on FM stations 30 years back, hasn't made it onto today's rigid Classic Rock playlists.

A Randy Bachman composition, "Welcome Home," is an indication of how wily the man could be; it's not for nothing that he's considered one of rock's great robbers.....hear, for instance, his amusing jazz guitar solo which rounds out the track (after he's all done yelling the song's title at the very top of his lungs for the umpteenth time.

"Stonegates" is five-and-a-half minutes of solid fun. The album begins to sputter and fritz a bit with "Give It Time" and "Tramp" (it hurts that they're both the same tempo and beat); but overall, this is great stuff, still a helluva lotta fun today.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hint of greatness to come..., November 5, 1999

By A Customer

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. I only wonder why some record company today doesn't have the current band in the studio pumping out new hard rock classics. BTO is a much better band than most of the ones that are out there now.