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CLASSIC ROCK BLOG FLAC BACHMAN TURNER MOVIE
The tempo slows down on the Black Keys' sludgy, fuzzed-out blues rocker "Thickfreakness" and the crackling hip-hop of Atmosphere's "Bird Sings Why the Caged I Knows." With 32 songs for less than the cost of a movie ticket, PUNK-O-RAMA continues to showcase the biggest and best talent offered up by Epitaph for the discerning punk fan.
CLASSIC ROCK BLOG FLAC BACHMAN TURNER SERIES
Not surprisingly, this eighth installment in the series also includes stalwart outfits from the label's early years, such as Bad Religion, NOFX, and Pennywise, as well as younger critical faves like Swedish garage rockers the (International) Noise Conspiracy and Division of Laura Lee. Timed to precede the 2003 Vans Warped Tour, this compilation casts a wide net in featuring old-school punks from California (Pennywise, Rancid), New Jersey (The Bouncing Souls), and Boston (Dropkick Murphys). The double-CD PUNK-O-RAMA 8 continues in the vein of its predecessors with a batch of songs recorded by a wide variety of punk artists culled from the Epitaph Records stable. 8 is the eighth compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series. And well done at that, I'd say.Punk-O-Rama Vol. One thing I think I remember reading about the band is that Randy wrote Blue Collar as another "Bus Stop" (Guess Who) song. Fred Turner's ultra low-end bass on Not Fragile's "Second Hand" is sweeeet!!!!!!! I know they sort of got a bad rap for their appearance (BTO =ing Bachman-Turner Overweight) and for their vocals but I think their music more than made up for any of that. I really wanted to see them in 1977 (which would have been my first real concert), but their tour was cancelled before they got to L.A. And I love Average Man and It's Over from the Head On album! this is the song a Detroit dj would eventually begin playing that would garner attention to the band), Don't Get Yourself In Trouble, Stayed Awake All Night (later covered by Krokus), Welcome Home, Give It Time, Not Fragile, Rock is my Life. these guys had both the big radio hits (Takin' Care of Business, Let It Ride, Roll on Down The Highway, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Hey You and Four Wheel Drive), and even better album cuts such as Blue Collar (I know. Even though each album had a different sound to it, they all had well-crafted guitar-driven songs between both Randy and Tim Bachman and, later, Randy and Blair Thornton (love how you would hear one guitar fade out of one speaker and the other guitar fade in to the other speaker as they traded solos).īut as you know, LG.
I, too, was a huge fan of this band in the early to mid 70's.
Of course the founder and leader was none other than Randy Bachman, who left the Guess Who after artistic differences with Burton Cummings in the early 70's, but I think things worked out for the best and they are good friends now all these years later. Not bad for a bunch of Canadians from Winnipeg who moved to Vancouver B.C. There was a period for almost two years that BTO was the biggest band in the world, successful tours and lasting fame too. Besides there is nothing wrong with simple straight ahead rock and roll, not everything has to be innovative or leading edge to be good. One of my friends used to smack BTO all the time, called them, "Beat Twice for ******".lol.it didn't bother me at all, they were MY BAND and that was all that mattered. I will never forget playing the first one when I got it for Christmas in 1973, or the fact that my Mom borrowed it all the time and eventually wore the groove of Blue Collar out completely, but I didn't mind it's because of her that I got into music at a young age, and she always ordered at least one or two albums a month from her record club for me which was great.
I grew up with BTO, I bought all of their albums from the first one to Head On, after that record the line-up changed and they had lost something that made me lose interest.