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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
GFR the roots of Hybrid rock., February 25, 2003
This was GFR, first the Heavy Metal Monster Power Trio; Then the powerful hard rock grooving quartet, and Now on All The Girls In The World Beware GFR became a Hard rock R 'N' B hybrid, way ahead of their time. While this Album upset many of GFRs hard Rock Fans, especially with Songs like Look At Granny Run Run, Bad Time and Some Kind Of Wonderful it, as I said, was an album way ahead of its time; and it influenced many bands and artists such as Prince for a long long time. Many artists in the last 10-15 years have been mixing Hip Hop and Rock; GFR mixed Rock and R N B long ago (back in 75). This album still has the GFR signature sound and had some heavy rockers like Life (a good hard rocker), Runnin (very sophisticated lyrics, great singing by Don Brewer and a cool horn section), Good N Evil (an experimental song for GFR), And Responsibility (again sophisticated lyrics by Mark Farner). Wild, All The Girls in the world beware and Memories are also good songs; Memories is a very pretty ballad. All The Girls has one of the best Bass lines I have ever heard-Mel Schacher Rocks! and Wild is a typical rock n roll I am a pig songs. Bad Time and Some Kind Of Wonderful both charted in the top 5 and are still main stays in GFRs live shows. This CD is 24 bit remasterred and has a hidden track. It sounds great, it also has new liner notes which are excellent and very nice artwork. This is a must have for any real Grand Funk Fan and a must have for those who would like to see the roots of Hybrid rock.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
What Happened?, February 27, 2003
If I had never heard Grand Funk before, and picked up this
c.d.,I'd think "not too bad". However,I've been a fan of this
band from the very beginning, so I just have got to ask,"What
happened to that hard rock edge that made this band so great?"
This is a very pop sounding recording. It seems that they
went out in search of chart topping hits,instead of staying
true to the music that got them where they were in the first
place. I think this recording is the beginning of the down
fall for these talented musicians.
Fortunately they would return to form,unfortunately it
would be a number of years before they got there.
If you are an all around music lover, I'd say,pick this
one up,there are some good songs and you'll probably like it.
However if you are a hard core Grand Funk fan,or a hard rock
music fan,I'd advise you to pass this one up. This band has
done much better in the past,and will come around again to do
much better in the future. Maybe they just needed a little
time off.
Thanks
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, November 26, 2005
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).
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