-- Grand Funk Railroad - All the Girls in the World Beware!! | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 11.98 Amazon Price $ 11.98 Savings $ 0.00 | |  Release Date: 25 February, 2003, Capitol
TRACK LISTING - Responsibility
- Runnin`
- Life
- Look At Granny Run Run
- Memories
- All The Girls In The World Beware
- Wild
- Good & Evil
- Bad Time
- Some Kind Of Wonderful
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS BY THE QUARTET FUNK | | Along with the unpopular "BORN TO DIE" album, this is one of the best albums they recorded with keyboard player CRAIG FROST (this was the second album the CRAIG would write songs with DON and MARK), despite how the cover and title of this album (something I thought DON BREWER might have come up with)is completely silly, if not stupid. Additionally, I thought lyrics to the title track went extremely too far, although the excellent riffs of bass guitar, organ, drums, guitar, and vocals made this song rock out. Anyway, my 2 favorite songs on this album are the broken romance soft-ballads "MEMORIES" and "BAD TIME" that were written and sung by MARK. They feature various keyboards and excellent harmony vocals, but they would have sound better if CRAIG would have played the mellotron instead of the band using an orchestra. The first song RESPONSIBILITY that features an excellent piano intro, drums, bass guitar riffs, harmony vocals, and outstanding lead vocals and guitar riffs by MARK is a great beginner, and "RUNNIN" that features a horn section, DON`S lead vocal, organ, harmony vocals, bass guitar, and guitar riffs is a great rocker. The fast-paced LIFE has excellent drum playing, bass guitar, guitar, and organ riffs. Plus, MARK FARNER`S voice on "LIFE" reminds me of MICKEY THOMAS of JEFFERSON STARSHIP, and "LOOK AT GRANNY RUN" has MARK and DON trading off lead vocals, with guitar riffs, piano playing, drums, and the horn section with a sax solo. LIFE is also a great song with the horn section, drums, piano playing, bass guitar riffs, guitar riffs, and singing by MARK . "GOOD AND EVIL is a good psychodelic rhythm and blues rock tune with distorted vocals and organ and guitar riffs. Unfortunately, the last song "SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL" is my least favorite song of just about everything I have heard from them. Whoever originally wrote this may had a point, but I have never liked the way it sounds. "BAD TIME" would have been a better closer for the album. When I downloaded this off NAPSTER, I switched the order of the last 2 songs because of my personal choice. More importantly, I can understand what MARK FARNER`S divorce put him through because I know how it feels to lose somebody you love and are really in love with. Furthermore, I also think MARK, DON ,MEL, AND CRAIG should have recorded a GRAND FUNK RIALROAD cd with MARK writing about the war with IRAQ. | | | | Entertaining | This isn`t really a bad album. The album is coherent in it`s material. There are only too much songs on it that are quite standard GFR-material and are missing the raw edge of their earlier work. So when you want the hard rocking Grand Funk, don`t buy this one. I also don`t like the use of the vocoder in the song `All the girls in the world beware`. It makes the sound too messy.
I rate this album 3,5 stars because it has no really weak songs on it and it has some really strong tracks (`Life` - this one is hardrocking and sounds inspired and the singing by Mark Farmer is very strong, `Memories` and Good & Evil` are well done `slow` tracks) and everyone knows the classics `Bad Time` and `Some kind of wonderful`. Though I don`t like that last song. I`ve heard it too much and well it in fact has always irritated me (otherwise I had rated this one 4 stars). | | | | Chhessy, cheesy, cheesy | | I loved the early hard rock GFR. Heavy loud bass and screaming guitar. The songs and playing were basic but fun. I also liked the later albums such as "we`re an american band" "phoenix" and "Shinin on" hey even Born to die, but this....ugggh, bubblegumtrashyhornblowincommercialmidstreamrubbish. Forget this one please and listen to any of the others. | | |
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