Survival [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Grand Funk Railroad | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1971
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000071WYG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,645 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Remastered reissue of their Top Ten-charting album from 1971 includes the hits, 'Feelin' Alright' & 'Gimme Shelter', plus five previously unreleased bonus tracks, 'I Can't Get Along With Society' (2002 Remix), 'Jam (Footstompin' Music)', 'Country Road' (unedited original version), 'All You've Got Is Money' (unedited original version), & 'Feelin' Alright' (unedited original version). Capitol. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still my favourite GFR album, April 23, 2008

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Jimmy Fairchild (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Survival (Audio CD)

If you only want one GFR CD in your collection, my advice is to choose this one. I love the original LP (I have 2 copies of that), and having it in CD is worth the price. The additional 'bonus' tracks are not as polished, they're obviously (in my opinion) 'works in progress', and they sound it. After listening to the bonus cuts, I have become thankful that the band did not stop at those versions - The addition of these bonus versions would be interesting to a hardcore GFR fan - maybe - but to me they are weak seconds to the original album cuts. Bottom line - buy this CD for the original album and you won't be disappointed.

26 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Album & A Funny Story For 40-Somethings, March 23, 2005

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David Atwood "zappa_appreciative" (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Survival (Audio CD)

I think the previous reviewers of this great album said it best. So I won't repeat what they've written. So allow me to romanticize the past and tell you my story of Grand Funk Railroad's album, "Survival."

When this album came out, I think I was 7 or 8. Since my brother was always sneaking out of the house at one in the morning to smoke weed with his delinquent friends (after all, it was the early seventies), I would swipe his records while he slept off his hangover the following day. I would sit and listen to all that great music on our Sears stereo console cabinet that was practically the size of Janis Joplin's coffin!

As we 40-somethings remember, albums were great! Unlike boring CD's that are so bland and sterile, albums were big and featured really cool cover art that jumped out at you! You just had to have it! Even if the music sucked, the cover art was cool and it looked great in your bedroom! I can remember sitting around with my friends in my bedroom, just studying the cover art and liner notes, as if it were the FBI studying the JFK assassination film. To top it off, there was always some kind of media that accompanied albums (posters, fold-out lyric sheet, band post cards, etc...).

"Survivor" came with 3 individual 8"X10" color posters of each band member, which I swiped immediately from the album and put them up on my bedroom wall. Heck, he was so out of it that I don't think he ever noticed.

And so it was one evening in 1972, my hard working, hippie hating, "rock n'roll-is-the-root-of-all-evil" dad, returned home from a hard days work and saw the band pictures on my wall. The pictures, which featured each band member dressed as cavemen and clutching bones with meat hanging off them, saw them and exploded.

I'm not sure if Amazon.com will allow me to repeat the profanity that was uttered from dear ole' dad, but suffice to say that my dad cursed for a solid 30 minutes without repeating the same curse word twice.

For some reason, he didn't make me take the posters down. I guess my dad was cooler than I thought. Those were the days.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Gotta Make a New World", March 8, 2003

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Jerry Fry (Freeman, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Survival (Audio CD)

"Survival" has probably passed the test of time better than any of the other Grand Funk albums. "I Can Feel Him in the Morning", a song that sounds like Farner is singing about God, has to be one of their greatest songs. Remember the first time you ever heard it? Did you know what Brewer was going to do on the drums and did it sound great? "Gimme Shelter" was borrowed from the Stones. I didn't realize it was a Jagger-Richards song until I bought "Hot Rocks". "Comfort Me" and "Country Road" are also highlights on this album. Some of the song "I Can Feel Him in the Morning", sounds like Farner is singing about Vietnam. It was still going on at the time and Grand Funk skirted political issues until "We're an American Band", which I think only a teenager can appreciate.