Personal Essay on Violent Femmes: Hallowed Ground.Grand Funk has released 13 studio album, 4 live albums, 8 albums and 25 singles. The band is most notable for their peak in popularity during the 1970s. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No More Grand Funk Railroad (shortened to Grand Funk) is an American hard rock band formed in 1969.60 Songs That Explain the ’90s – Expanding to 90.They brought in Todd Rundgren to produce their albums Were An American Band (1973) and. They frequently sold out stadiums and arenas. “I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home” is a perfect 10-minute epic, so different than most of their other songs. Also known as either Grand Funk Railroad or GFR, Grand Funk was generally dismissed by critics and radio programmers, but was able to sell over 20 million albums through constant touring.Mark Farner (or is it Don Brewer?) sounds like a young Elton John on the song “Take Me.” Even the tune sounds like it could be a Bernie Taupin track.Also see “Mean Mistreater” by The Bar-Kays. Their songs covered are often better than their originals. The band achieved peak popularity and success during the 1970s with hit songs such as 'Were an American Band', 'Im Your Captain (Closer to Home)', 'Some Kind of Wonderful' (a cover of Soul Brothers Six ), 'Walk Like a Man', 'The Loco-Motion' (a cover of Little Eva ), 'Bad Time' and 'Inside Looking Out' (a cover of the Animals ).Even their take on “The Locomotion” is fun. Grand Funk Railroad is an American rock band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1969 by Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher. Their version of The Soul Brothers Six “Some Kind of Wonderful,” is wonderful. It was The Jayhawks’ cover of “Bad Time” that sent me in the GFR direction, that made me want to give this classic rock band of the 70s the attention they deserve. I don’t know their catalog all that well, but listening to this Greatest Hits collection, I knew pretty much every song, so I know more than I thought I did. And listening to an entire Grand Funk Railroad album, quite possibly for the first time ever, made me smile. I imagine they regretted posing for this immediately and ever since. It’s a photo from the gatefold of their 1973 We’re An American Band album. No, it’s not the cover of the Greatest Hits album. Yes, that’s actually the members of Grand Funk Railroad naked.
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