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Street Action

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Released
  
February 1978

Producer
  
BTO

Release date
  
February 1978

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock

Length
  
40:00

Artist
  
Bachman–Turner Overdrive

Label
  
Mercury Records

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Street Action (1978)
  
Rock n' Roll Nights (1979)

Similar
  
Bachman–Turner Overdrive albums, Rock music albums

Bachman turner overdrive street action full album


Street Action is the seventh studio album by Canadian rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO), released in 1978. It was the first BTO album released after the 1977 departure of co-founder Randy Bachman, and had a distinctively heavier sound than the previous two BTO studio albums (Head On and Freeways). This was pointed out in a Mark After Dark interview with BTO drummer Robbie Bachman:

Contents

Mark: "The two albums that followed Randy's departure ... I always thought these albums were underrated and really excellent. Both of those albums had a heavier approach. Were you aiming those albums at a younger and more Heavy Metal oriented audience?" Robbie: "We were aiming at our old BTO audience! They might sound different, because Randy kept putting his pop stuff on us. When those two albums with Jim Clench came out, that was always the direction that we wanted to go in. If you look at the Blair Thornton, Robin Bachman and Fred Turner songs on the [earlier] BTO albums, that's the same sound."

This album is currently available as part of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive Classic Albums Box Set.

Track listing

(All songs by Clench, Thornton, Turner and Robbie Bachman)

  1. "I'm in Love" – 3:52
  2. "Down the Road" – 4:03
  3. "Takes a Lot of People" – 4:06
  4. "A Long Time for a Little While" – 3:52
  5. "Street Action" – 4:16
  6. "For Love" – 4:39
  7. "Madison Avenue" – 6:01
  8. "You're Gonna Miss Me" – 4:07
  9. "The World Is Waiting for a Love Song" – 5:04

Personnel

  • Robbie Bachman - percussion, drums
  • Jim Clench - bass, electric bass, vocals
  • Blair Thornton - lead guitar, electric guitar
  • C.F. Turner - guitar, electric guitar, vocals
  • Production

  • Engineer: Rolf Henneman
  • Assistant engineer: Jeff Tolman
  • Art direction: James OMara
  • Photography: James OMara
  • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1I'm in Love3:53
    2Down the Road4:04
    3Takes a Lot of People4:06

    References

    Street Action Wikipedia