Bachman Turner Overdrive Head On CD - Import

HEAD ON is the 10-track remastered reissue of Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 1975 release that features "Lookin' Out For # 1" and "Take It Like A Man," featuring a performance by Little Richard.

This is near the end of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive story, one of the group's last albums to feature Randy Bachman. Bachman's dominance of the group is apparent -- his face alone fills the front cover, he produced the record, and he wrote or co-wrote five of the nine songs. His unhappiness is apparent, too: listen to him sing, "I feel there's no use in hanging around" on the lead-off track, "Find Out About Love," and plead, "I'm an average man, but my name is in lights" in "Average Man." By the time you get to the cocktail jazz ballad "Lookin' Out For #1" (BTO's sole entry on the easy listening chart), you can tell he's not including the group. By the time of BTO's next album, Bachman was gone, and their hit-making days were behind them. ~ William Ruhlmann

Head On comes near the end of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive story; it's one of the group's last albums to feature Randy Bachman. Bachman's dominance of the group is apparent -- his face alone fills the front cover, he produced the record, and he wrote or co-wrote five of the nine songs. His unhappiness is apparent, too: listen to him sing, "I feel there's no use in hanging around" on the lead-off track, "Find Out About Love," and plead, "I'm an average man, but my name is in lights" in "Average Man." By the time you get to the cocktail jazz ballad "Lookin' Out for #1" (BTO's sole entry on the easy listening chart), you can tell he's not including the group. By the time of BTO's next album, Bachman was gone, and their hit-making days were behind them. [There is also a version that includes a bonus track.] ~ William Ruhlmann

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

CD contains 1 bonus track.

Recorded at RCA Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Randy Bachman (vocals, guitar); C.F. Turner (vocals, bass); Blair Thornton (guitar); Rob Bachman (drums, percussion).

Personnel: Randy Bachman (vocals, guitar); C.F. Turner (vocals, bass guitar); Blair Thornton (guitar); Robbie Bachman (drums, percussion); Barry Keane (congas).

Audio Remasterer: EROC.

Recording information: RCA Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Additional personnel: Little Richard (piano); Barry Keane (congas).Q (3/04, p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[Bachman's] efforts on this fifth BTO album do him credit showing a sensitivity in delivery that few would expect."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/04, p.118) - "[A] boogielicious 1975 set..."