THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Bachman-Turner Overdrive: "Four Wheel Drive" (Mercury). Not only is this album their worst—only natural when you've already milked a formula for three pretty good records— but people seem to know it: The sure-fire single didn't make top 10.
THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive: "Four Wheel Drive" (Mercury). Not only is this album their worst—only natural when you've already milked a formula for three pretty good records— but people seem to know it: The surefire single didn't make top 10. Watch out for flying gear teeth. C plus.
Randall Bramblett: "That Other Mile" (Polydor). A find. Transcending its well-connected professional genre, the slightly distracted passion of Bramblett's singing combines with his oblique fusion of Southern boogie, studio country-rock, and Caribbean styles to take the edge of privilege off his philosophical fatalism. Bramblett's music is too warm and funny to sound selfsatisfied. and the way he collects images around an aphoristic catchphrase is too open-ended to sound smug. Start with side two. A minus.