2946 Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Tramp

From: Bachman-Turner Overdrive II; Year: 1973; Genre: Hard Rock

Most music today is sadly missing one aspect that this entire album has: being built around the entire album as a composition rather than making singles. Album Oriented Rock, (AOR), is just that; it's made so you would drop the needle down on the first track and you wouldn't notice a song ending and a new one beginning as much. You'd just flip it over and listen to the other side too; that's why if you like a certain album songs like this one, which are not the big hits still resonate and you'll still enjoy them. Sure, people would probably quickly to notice Let it Ride and Takin' Care of Business a lot quicker, but if the album passed to another track it was still a good song you'd probably enjoy.
Anyway, I like how this one plays around with the hard and bluesier, but catchier choruses to the much harder-edged verses.

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