Very Best Grand Funk Railroad Album Ever

Performer: Grand Funk Railroad
Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Notes: This album assembles a fantastic mix of Grand Funk Railroads Top 40 hits and radio favorites. Personnel: Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Don Brewer (vocals, drums); Mel Schacher (vocals). Never a critic's favorite, Grand Funk Railroad was a hard rock band with a good dose of pop sense, as this collection shows. Mixing straight-ahead rock with soul touches, songs like "Bad Time" were classic radio fare, with huge hooks and a memorable, if basic, sound. This Dutch release is essentially the same as Capitol's Classic Masters, with a slightly different running order. ~ Steve Leggett

Homer Simpson may have captured the essence of Grand Funk Railroad in the SIMPSONS episode where he rhapsodizes about "Mark Farner's wild, shirtless lyrics, the bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher," and yes, "the competent drum work of Don Brewer." Emerging from the industrial town of Flint, MI, Grand Funk were a workman-like "people's band." They turned the Cream power-trio format into a stadium filling, larger-than-life experience that made them one of the most popular live acts of the early '70s. Their early albums were filled with amped-up blues-rock, but towards the end of their initial tether, they scored hits with covers of soul tunes such as "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "The Locomotion." IRS troubles contributed to their breakup in the late-'70s, but Grand Funk reunited with a vengeance in the '90s.

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