Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best Of B.T.O. (1976) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best Of B.T.O.
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 800mb & 200mb
Label: Label: Mercury/SRM-1-1101 | Released: 1976 | Genre: Classic-Rock
A1 Roll On Down The Highway 3:56
A2 Hey You 3:33
A3 Lookin’ Out For #1 5:20
A4 Gimme Your Money Please 3:50
A5 Let It Ride 3:33
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B1 Take It Like A Man 3:40
B2 You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet 3:38
B3 Blue Collar 6:05
B4 Takin’ Care Of Business 4:45
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
Credits
Engineer – Buzz Richmond (tracks: A5, B4), Mark Smith (9) (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3)
Producer – Randy Bachman
Written-By – Blair Thornton (tracks: B1), C.F. Turner (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B1, B3), Randy Bachman (tracks: A2 to A3, A5, B2, B4), Rob Bachman (tracks: A1)
Notes
Original pressings are embossed / textured with raised printing / design.
“CTH” etched in runout denotes a Columbia-Terre Haute pressing.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A): T1 SRM-1-1101-CTH-A2
Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B): T1 SRM-1-1101-CTH-B2
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 800mb & 200mb
Label: Label: Mercury/SRM-1-1101 | Released: 1976 | Genre: Classic-Rock
A1 Roll On Down The Highway 3:56
A2 Hey You 3:33
A3 Lookin’ Out For #1 5:20
A4 Gimme Your Money Please 3:50
A5 Let It Ride 3:33
-
B1 Take It Like A Man 3:40
B2 You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet 3:38
B3 Blue Collar 6:05
B4 Takin’ Care Of Business 4:45
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
Credits
Engineer – Buzz Richmond (tracks: A5, B4), Mark Smith (9) (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3)
Producer – Randy Bachman
Written-By – Blair Thornton (tracks: B1), C.F. Turner (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B1, B3), Randy Bachman (tracks: A2 to A3, A5, B2, B4), Rob Bachman (tracks: A1)
Notes
Original pressings are embossed / textured with raised printing / design.
“CTH” etched in runout denotes a Columbia-Terre Haute pressing.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A): T1 SRM-1-1101-CTH-A2
Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B): T1 SRM-1-1101-CTH-B2
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best Of B.T.O. (1976) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best Of B.T.O. (1976) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best Of B.T.O. (1976) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2018
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Cartridge: SHURE M97xE With JICO SAS Stylus
Amplifier: Marantz 2252
ADC: E-MU 0404
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Vinyl Condition: NM-
This LP: From my personal collection
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Having never made a completely satisfactory album, in part because many of their songs sound somewhat similar, this short but sweet 9-track “best-of” culls the most essential songs from the band’s first five studio albums and neatly sums up a damn good singles band. Surprisingly, this collection’s mellower songs (“Blue Collar” and “Lookin’ Out For #1”) are quite good tracks whose sly melodicism demonstrates the underrated guitar prowess of Randy Bachman, formerly of The Guess Who. But that understated style isn’t what these beer bellied longhairs are best remembered for. Rather, the band are better known for their good hard charging, foot stompin’ guitar grooves and bassist Turner’s often-gruff yet hooky vocals (Bachman sometimes sings lead as well). These attributes are best exemplified by “Rollin’Down The Highway,” a butt kicking party tune with big riffs, a great beat, and shout it out loud vocals, while the massive #1 hit “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” (with its galloping grooves, bright hooky guitars, and Bachman’s “b-b-b-baby” vocals), “Takin’ Care Of Business” (another great groover that’s admittedly overplayed but undeniably fun), and the comparatively underrated “Let It Ride” (for my money the crown jewel in the BTO catalogue, I love the acoustic guitars, its hard rocking stomp, and especially its airy harmonies) are also chest thumping classics that still sound great, especially when blasting out of car stereo speakers. Other songs such as “Hey You,” “Take It Like A Man,” and “Gimme Your Money Please” are also solid but when grouped together they can’t help but sound like inferior retreads, as these Canadian classic rockers weren’t exactly the most versatile band around. Still, by and large Best Of BTO (ignore the (So Far), this is it, folks) provides some good time blue collar boogie thunder.sfloman.com
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