Staying true to the name, tidbits of a groovy influence can be heard as well.
A comment was added to Im Your Captain by SuzyG. Grand Funk Railroad - Walk Like a Man Watch on Sin’s A Good Man’s Brother Closer To Home (1970) One of GFR’s heaviest tracks in their catalog, the song features a riff-centered arrangement that blasts the listener, but only enough to keep them grounded. From their first album in 1969 to reach their first number one with We’re an American band in 1973, Grand Funk Railroad (shortened Grand Funk for legal reasons) developed a unique and a thousand times imitated the style of hard rock blues full of passion, talent, technicality, and strength. Most played songs Im Your Captain (Closer to Home) (271) Were an American Band (250) Rock & Roll Soul (242) Inside Looking Out (239) Footstompin Music (. For most, this single-disc collection will be more than adequate, but listeners looking for the complete Grand Funk story should check out Capitol's three-disc Thirty Years of Funk from 1999, or the four-disc Trunk of Funk, also from Capitol, released in 2002. Grand Funk Railroad Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings song lyrics, song meanings, albums. 7 Career-Defining Songs Of Grand Funk Railroad. Greatest Hits has all the essential jukebox fare (lacking only their so-so cover of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter"), including the clichéd but emotionally right "Heartbreaker," everybody's favorite guilty pleasure, the mock epic "I'm Your Captain," and a pair of pop-soul gems, the group's cover of the Soul Brothers Six's "Some Kind of Wonderful," and Mark Farner's best-ever song, the marvelous "Bad Time," which came complete with cellos and fuzz guitar. Distilled into a 14-track greatest-hits set like this one, it's easy to see that Grand Funk (they dropped - then re-added - the "Railroad" part of their name as the juggernaut rolled on) was essentially a singles band (although their albums did phenomenally well back in the day) with not a whole lot to say but a knack for saying it really well, which, when you think about it, is usually a sure ticket into the Top 40. Grand Funk Railroad took their veiled Motown/Stax influences and grafted them onto a fuzz-drenched hard blues-rock template, and muffler dragging roared out of Flint, Michigan like the little engine that could, confounding the critics and building an impressive record sales portfolio in the 1970s by giving their ardent, blue-collar fans no more and no less than what was expected of them.
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