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Grand Funk Railroad - Classic Masters (2002)

Posted By: Designol
Grand Funk Railroad - Classic Masters (2002)

Grand Funk Railroad - Classic Masters (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 518 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 185 Mb
Label: Capitol | # 72435-39857-2-1 | 01:10:57 | Scans included
Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock, Blues Rock

This 24 BIT fully remastered classic masters contains 15 Grand Funk Railroad hits on one CD and it sounds absolutely wonderful. This classic masters CD has a good representation of Grand Funk Railroad's career at Capitol (69-76) from Time Machine and Mean Misterater, to I'm Your Captian/Closer To Home (There Magus Opus), to We're An American Band (there biggest Hit) Walk Like A Man and Shinin On (Both Big its), to Take me and Bad Time (there two last Radio hits whit Bad Time being the most played song on the radio in 76).

Capitol Records launched a midline-priced series called Classic Masters and the 2002 entry for Grand Funk Railroad is meant to appeal to the casual fan. It is intended to replace 1991's Capitol Collectors Series title – an earlier budget line from the label – although track-wise it's identical except for one song. Both have 15 cuts, but Classic Masters includes "Take Me" whereas Capitol Collectors Series has "Inside Looking Out." Looking back, it's amazing to realize just how enormously popular these Michigan hard-rockers were in the late '60s and early '70s. For Grand Funk Railroad, popular meant populist blue-collar appeal, and vocalist/guitarist Mark Farner, bass guitarist Mel Schacher, and drummer/vocalist Don Brewer (and, later on, keyboardist Craig Frost) were despised by critics, of course. The merits of anthems like "We're an American Band," "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home," and the cover "The Loco-Motion" are obvious, but a compilation such as Classic Masters enables deeper appreciation of songs like "Time Machine," "Shinin' On," "Mean Mistreater" (recorded live in 1970 at the Atlanta International Pop Festival), and "Bad Time." Classic Masters is 24-bit digitally remastered, whereas Capitol Collectors Series is credited as being mastered from the original two-track stereo mixes; Classic Masters should be considered the superior collection sound-wise (although it's not as if Grand Funk Railroad's records were as sonically complex as Pink Floyd's), but Capitol Collectors Series has better liner notes. Capitol is to be commended for its overdue CD reissues of Grand Funk Railroad's catalog, but Classic Masters is an excellent sampler die-hard fans like Homer Simpson would approve of.

Review by Bret Adams, Allmusic.com

Grand Funk Railroad - Classic Masters (2002)



Tracklist:

01. We're An American Band (03:26)
02. Time Machine (03:45)
03. Walk Like A Man (You Can Call Me Your Man) (04:05)
04. Some Kind Of Wonderful (03:22)
05. Gimme Shelter (06:18)
06. Shinin' On (05:56)
07. Heartbreaker (06:34)
08. Rock & Roll Soul (03:29)
09. The Loco-Motion (02:46)
10. Footstompin' Music (03:46)
11. Mean Mistreater (04:55)
12. Feelin' Alright (04:26)
13. Take Me (05:06)
14. Bad Time (02:56)
15. I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home (09:59)


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Analyzed: Grand Funk Railroad / Classic Masters
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Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR6

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 1032 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Grand Funk Railroad - Classic Masters (2002)

Grand Funk Railroad - Classic Masters (2002)

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