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GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
SHININ' ON |
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| | Reviews: 6 |
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| Average Rating: 8.00 |
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A great hard rock album
by R. CAPPETTO Moodus, CT United States
Reviewed on March 4th, 2003
Shinin On is a great hard rock album, This is from the We're An American band period of GFRs History; where Don Brewer, Grand Funk's Great Drummer and vocalist, steps up with his song writing and lead singing (on songs such as Shinin On, Please Me, Getting Over you, and Carry Me through). And GFR rocks hard on Please Me, Getting Over you, Carry Me through, and Shinin On. The song Destitute N Losin (the B side from Locomotion) is included on this one, and it is a great Mark Farner song. To Get Back in is a good song. Locomotion the number 1 hit from this album, was a big hit for GFR, but kind of hurt the band in that people starting thinking of GFR as a pop band, that must produce hits; and many of the hard core hard rock GFR fans, were disappointed that GFR covered that song, and felt they were selling out for radio play. I personally always liked the song and I love Mark Farner's great Guitar solo in that one. Mr. Pretty Boy is a strange song (no drums) that really does not fit on this hard rock album. BUT over all Shinin On is Pure Grand Funk, and Pure Hard Rock; Don Brewer, Mark Farner, Mel Schacher and Craig Frost rock hard on shinin on. This CD is 24 bit remasterred and has two bonus tracks Destitute and losin, which I mention above, and an alternative version of Shinin on, both are great numbers. The CD sounds great, it also has new liner notes, which are excellent, and very nice artwork. It is a must get for every GFR fan.
RickDC
More "Shinin' On" reviews:
[2004-06-03] Was this album intended to sound like a bootleg? (6)
[2003-09-26] It could have been better. (6)
[2003-04-11] excellent! (10)
[2003-03-15] Mostly great songs, spacey production (8)
[2003-03-04] A great hard rock album (10)
[2003-02-28] Very Good (8)
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