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Totally Driven is a greatest hits album by British hard rock band Uriah Heep, released on 12 November 2015 on their own label, Uriah Heep Records. The album contains re-recorded versions of 27 of their best known songs, recorded with the long-standing 1986-2007 lineup.

Uriah Heep – Totally Driven: A Career-Spanning Compilation of Power and Melody

Totally Driven, released in 1996, is a compilation album by British rock band Uriah Heep, not a studio release. The album serves as a comprehensive retrospective of the band’s long and diverse career, bringing together material from multiple eras and lineups, spanning the early 1970s through the mid-1990s.

Rather than focusing on a single period, Totally Driven highlights Uriah Heep’s defining characteristics across decades: powerful vocal harmonies, melodic hard rock songwriting, Hammond organ textures, and Mick Box’s distinctive guitar style. The compilation includes tracks originally sung by different vocalists, offering a broad overview of the band’s evolution.

Songs featured on the album draw from classic albums such as Look at Yourself, Demons and Wizards, and The Magician’s Birthday, as well as later-era material from the Bernie Shaw period, illustrating how the band successfully adapted to changing musical landscapes while maintaining a recognizable identity. This makes Totally Driven particularly appealing to new listeners seeking an entry point into Uriah Heep’s extensive discography.

The compilation was well received by fans for its balanced track selection and strong sound quality, effectively showcasing both the band’s early progressive-leaning hard rock and their later melodic, modernized output. While it does not introduce new material, Totally Driven functions as a curated journey through Uriah Heep’s legacy, emphasizing consistency, musicianship, and longevity.

Today, Totally Driven is regarded as one of the more solid career-spanning collections in the band’s catalog, ideal for listeners who want a broad yet coherent picture of Uriah Heep’s contribution to classic and melodic hard rock.

Tracks

Disc one

1. “Gypsy” – 3:54
2. “Traveller in Time” – 2:50
3. “Bird of Prey” – 4:43
4. “Sunrise” – 4:06
5. “Rain” – 4:16
6. “Come Away Melinda” – 3:32
7. “Return to Fantasy” – 4:37
8. “Look at Yourself” – 3:22
9. “Come Back to Me” – 4:04
10. “The Easy Road” – 2:39
11. “Sweet Freedom” – 6:13
12. “Why Did You Go?” – 3:23
13. “July Morning” – 8:51
14. “Easy Livin'” – 2:40

Disc two

1. “Between Two Worlds” – 5:25
2. “Only the Young” – 4:33
3. “Different World” – 4:21
4. “Love in Silence” – 6:23
5. “Blind Eye” – 3:16
6. “Wonderworld” – 4:20
7. “Stealin'” – 4:42
8. “Time of Revelation” – 3:57
9. “Cross That Line” – 5:23
10. “More Fool You” – 3:11
11. “Universal Wheels” – 4:52
12. “The Golden Palace” – 7:57
13. “Lady in Black” – 5:41

Album Art