Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Imagine Black Sabbath without instrumental dynamism and lyrical vision; imagine Led
Zeppelin without pyrotechnics: What you're imagining is the Bachman-Turner Overdrive --
a lowest-common-denominator rock band that's found immense commercial success in a
stylistic limbo between heavy-metal and MOR rock. They rely heavily on the basics to
convey their musical message, but unlike 99% of their competition, BTO give the... More >

These vulgar Americans, have they no culture of their own? The Who, plodding slightly, is here rotated to reveal . . . guess who? Black Sabbath, that's who, without the horsesh*t necromancy. And I love every stolen riff, if not every original one. (Grade: B)