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Very groovy and cohesive. But the material is too jam-like and a bit chaotic. Something between 3.5 and 4. More into instrumental virtuosity compared to the debut.

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EveryDisc · 4.0 / 5 · · 2017-08-22 19:20:01

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The second Grand Funk Railroad album and the second album in a year. This is almost a peak, there is already success in the hit parades and a platoon of fans. Mark Farner – truly a one-man band, excellent guitar solos alternate with his own harmonica, plus charismatic recognizable vocals and periodic keyboard passages. A real rock mountain. On this album, there are all the components characterizing the group's sound and its style. Do you want to hear classic GFR – take the first album or this one. The LP begins with Got this thing on the move – a memorable hit, which completely characterizes the essence of Farner's trio. Please don’t worry, High falootin’ woman will not let you get bored. The epic In need with a country instrumental on electric guitar as a coda evokes almost delight, Paranoid is classic for hard rock of the late 60s – early 70s, and Inside looking out – a hard-cover on The Animals with a stunning guitar solo. In its time, GFR should have become the American answer to English hard rock. But in fact, they developed their own recognizable style, based on a purely American musical palette. Can I recommend this classic of American rock? I am obliged to!

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