Survival [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Grand Funk Railroad

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: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,592 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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

20 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	David Atwood "zappa_appreciative" (Houston) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Jimmy Fairchild (Canada) - See all my reviews

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Effort from an American band, March 13, 2006

By	The Purple Heart (USA) - See all my reviews

There is a lot of different types of music on this album from Americas " Power Trio " of rock. It'all good. One hint of greatness from these guys is how Mel uses his bass as a rythm guitar to fill the gaps in " Gimme Shelter " which I prefer over the Stones version. They do make that song alone in itself sound great / better. This one is another of my ' audio arsenal ' and it should be yours too, especially if you are a GFR fan ( the American Band ). Good listening to you.