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n. (plural of freeway English)
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Freeways is the sixth studio album by Canadian rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive, released in 1977. It was the last album that Randy Bachman would be a part of with BTO until seven years later when a "reunion" Bachman-Turner Overdrive studio album was made and released in 1984. This is also the last studio album to be made with the band's classic and most successful Not Fragile line up. It was the first BTO studio album to become a commercial failure, featuring the first BTO single that did not chart ("My Wheels Won't Turn"). Randy Bachman wrote every song besides "Life Still Goes On."
Many of BTO's core fans did not like the album, as it was not the heavy, guitar driven rock n' roll that BTO was known for. Fred Turner was reportedly so unhappy with this album that he wouldn't allow a straight-on picture of himself to be used on the cover, saying he felt like a "side man." Years later, Randy would agree that the Freeways album was rushed to the studio, and that the band should have taken some down time, allowing them to develop more song ideas. He did however, mention "Down Down", "Shotgun Rider", and "My Wheels Won't Turn" as songs that were worthy of inclusion on any BTO album, singling out the Duane Allman-esque guitar solo on "My Wheels Won't Turn" as one of Blair Thornton's finest moments on record.
This album was one of the last albums to reach the charts by any formation of BTO. The 8-track tape version of this album has the distinction of being one of the few 8-tracks that is arranged exactly like the album, with no song breaks.
Freeways is the second EP released by Canadian synthpop group Men Without Hats. It was released in Canada only, and only for a limited time.
Released in 1985, it contains songs originally released on the group's 1980 EP Folk of the 80's, plus several versions of the song "Freeways".
"Freeways (Euromix)" first appeared as a B-side track on a European 12" edition of the " I Got the Message" single in 1982.
According to the liner notes of the 1985 cassette edition, the song "Freeways" was recorded between August and December 1980 at Studio Marko, Montréal, with core Men Without Hats member Ivan Doroschuk providing vocals & electronics, longtime member Jeremie Arrobas providing drums & electronics (Jérémie Arrobas wrote the music), and very brief bandmember Tracy Howe playing guitars. The original recording was engineered by André Perrault, and it was remixed by engineer Louis Gauthier. The song was dedicated to Bill St.-Georges.
The various mixes of "Freeway" on the cassette release differ in the following ways:
- (Super 87) contains lyrics in English.
- (Nationale 7) contains lyrics in French.
- (Europa 8) contains lyrics in German.
- (Euromix) is longer and uses verses from all three languages.
It is not clear if the Euromix is the original mix by Perrault and the others are Gauthier's remixes, or if the original version is unreleased and all four released versions are Gauthier remixes. Also unclear is when each mix was completed; all that can be confirmed by copyright dates on releases is that the Euromix was made before 1983 and the others were made before 1986.
Footage of the band's 1985–1986 "Freeways" tour was the basis for the 2006 DVD release Live Hats.
The Freeways EP is a very rare release on both 12" and Cassette and appears to have been available for a very limited time, in Canada only. Most of the tracks have still not appeared on CD as of 2014.
Usage examples of "freeways".
The choppers normally assigned to spotting traffic conditions on the freeways were providing live pictures of Central Los Angeles, with columns of smoke ascending vertically into the air.
He had also avoided freeways where encountering a California Highway Patrol car would have been more likely.
Twenty minutes later she was on the 101 heading south, approaching a maze of intersecting freeways near downtown.
Except for the occasional antique gasoline-powered machines that rolled imperiously along the nearly deserted freeways, the principal method of transportation was the coal-fueled steam-powered bus.
A day later, with all his belongings, few as they were, packed into the shabby suitcase from his closet and a small advance against his salary gone to pay his back rent, he was driven in an inconspicuous brown automobile through the streets and freeways of a Los Angeles grown gray through five years of Depression but almost free of smog as industrial activity and automobile exhausts dwindled toward zero.