Grand Funk
by Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk by Grand Funk Railroad
Year: 1969
Release date: 1969-12-29
Overall rank: 5,473rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 74 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (95th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (425th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,473rd)

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Grand Funk Railroad bestography

Grand Funk is ranked 2nd best out of 22 albums by Grand Funk Railroad on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Grand Funk Railroad is Closer To Home which is ranked number 3856 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 384.

Grand Funk Railroad album bestography « Higher ranked (3,856th)
Closer To Home
This album (5,473rd)
Grand Funk
Lower ranked (9,926th) »
We're An American Band

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Grand Funk rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,473rd | 1960s rank: 425th | 1969 rank: 95th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 74 votes)
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09/16/2026 09:37 Norman Bates  Ratings distribution  10,16875/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.


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From dihansse 11/04/2021 20:11 in My discoveries per year
So I'm at round 8 where I'll focus again on an album I own (for a change I will each time take the one with the highest original rank but not recently listened to) and an album on my wishlist. I'll start this round with the year 1969. An album I already know/own: One absolute killer song, I think…
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85/100
Great album, very honest in its delivery and probably their best album. It is raw and doesn't even try to be refined, even comparing to their debut funnily enough. There were some arrangements and harmonies there and they are almost completely absent here, but this is not a complaint, those differences give both albums individual character!

I love the sound of the bass here, every album ever should have the bass guitar loud like this.
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85/100
America's favorite hard rock band played Paranoid 2 years before Sabbath. THis is indeed a hard rocker
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100/100
I heard this just at 42 years old. incredible. Now it's in my top 20 albums of all the time
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70/100
Great Rock sound, but missing good songwriting.
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A great record.
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