Tag: Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile (1974) [2021, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]
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Label: Mercury Records | Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Rock

After gaining some recognition from the success of the band’s previous album, Bachman-Turner Overdrive got around to recording Not Fragile. Not only had one of the three Bachman brothers (Tim, the rhythm guitarist) left the band to BTO’s advantage, but Randy Bachman and C.F. Turner had clearly grown musically. To the album’s benefit, most of the material on Not Fragile are the band’s much-liked rock anthems, ranging from the hyper-distorted title track, through the famous but far more timid song “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.” Continue reading “Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile (1974) [2021, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]”

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Four Wheel Drive (1975) [2020, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]
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Total Size: 2.21 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mercury Records | Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Rock

Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Four Wheel Drive album is most often overlooked, mainly because all of the attention was focused on the singable “na na na naa”‘s of one of B.T.O.’s biggest hits in “Hey You.” But the rest of the album is made up of the band’s lunch-pail rock & roll sound, combining ample amounts of factory-made blues to street-dirty guitar rock. Continue reading “Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Four Wheel Drive (1975) [2020, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]”

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1973) [2020, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]
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Total Size: 2.38 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mercury Records | Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Rock

Ben Davies called Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s first album a “fusion of Lynyrd Skynyrd-style Southern/trucker rock and ZZ Top’s anthemic arena rock,” and with their logo imprinted in a big metallic gear which looks like it inspired James Cameron’s Terminator trademark, Randy Bachman, his brothers Tim and Robbie, and C.F. Turner dish out a methodical mix of plodding hard dirges. Continue reading “Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1973) [2020, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]”