★★★★★
Mark Farner and Don Brewer's Grand Funk Railroad were alternative superheroes on the '60s/'70s cusp, when US bands could live high on the hog thanks to outdoor shows. Dogged by mismanagement and internal strife, the Railroad knocked out meaty riffs under the auspices of producers like Todd Rundgren and Jimmy Lenner, and this well-stuffed set includes their calling cards—"We're An American Band" and the absurd "Walk Like A Man (You Can Call Me Your Man)". Quite a period piece...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Sound: Hard to believe that this album or band wasn't on any reviews. Grand Funk Railroad was the top grossing U.S. band in the 1970s in the U.S. They are one of the original "Hard Rock" bands that enjoyed success in the 1970s. The album "Grand Funk" or better known as "The Red Album" is a dose of in your face heavy "r&b;" drenched soulful rock. The guitar tones on this album are amazing. Mark Farner played with two simple effects, a fuzz pedal and overdrive...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
STILL FEEL GONE MARCH 16-20 1992 COLUMBIA LEGACY Uncle Tupelo's 1990 debut took its name from a Carter Family song and gave birth to the No Depression/alt.country movement. Yet, ironically, it's the most rock-oriented album they made, owing as much to Hüsker Dü as to Hank Williams. The 1991 follow-up Still Feel Gone today sounds slightly schizoid, as Jeff Tweedy's rock songs jostle with Jay Farrar's developing roots sensibility...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Now this really is an American band--confident, healthy, schlocky, uncomplicated on the surface and supporting all manner of contradictions underneath. I prefer the title cut, which bursts with a--you should pardon the expression--raw power they've never managed before, to "The Loco-Motion," where Mark sounds shaky. But how many bands get to record a ninth album, much less make it their best?
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
This group is creating a stir, apparently because they play faster than Iron Butterfly. Which I grant is a step in the right direction. I saw them live in Detroit before I knew any of this. I enjoyed them for 15 minutes, tolerated them for five, and hated them for 40. This lp, their second, isn't as good as that performance.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
This strictly post-Terry Knight compilation confirms my belief that they did most of their worthwhile recording with Todd Rundgren, although "Bad Time" and "Some Kind of Wonderful," from their first collaboration with Jimmy Ienner, are definitive plusses. The strategy is clear in retrospect--back to their junk-rock roots with ? and the Mysterians and maybe even Terry Knight & the Pack...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
If it takes me three months to decide that this is a listenable hard rock record, just how listenable can it be? Well, Todd Rundgren has done remarkable things, that's for sure--the drumming has real punch, the organ fills attractively, and Don Brewer's singing is a relief. Great single, too.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The usual competent loud rock with the usual paucity of drive and detail--not only does it plod, it plods crudely. Likable, in its way--I find myself touched by "People, Let's Stop the War." But it's not telling me anything I don't already know.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
If the violent debacle of the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert was theevent that killed off the '60s, Grand Funk Railroad was the band thatplayed the funeral. Unhindered by artistic ambition or strong ties tothe counterculture, these minimally competent Michigan rockers wereproletarian crowd-pleasers, custom-built for the crass '70s...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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