Grand Funk
by Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk by Grand Funk Railroad
Year: 1969
Release date: 1969-12-29
Overall rank: 5,659th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 73 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (100th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (432nd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,659th)

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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 3820 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 388.

Grand Funk Railroad album bestography « Higher ranked (3,820th)
Closer To Home
This album (5,659th)
Grand Funk
Lower ranked (9,832nd) »
We're An American Band

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Grand Funk rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,659th | 1960s rank: 432nd | 1969 rank: 100th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 73 votes)
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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 77.0/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.


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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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Great Rock sound, but missing good songwriting.
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From 02/04/2016 23:05 | #158708
A great record.
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Grand Funk had a vinyl called Mark,Don & Mel. I do not seem to get it anywhere on the net.
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From 09/15/2013 22:11 | #86044
MARK FARNER THE BEST VOICE IN ROCK HISTORY, AND MOST ENERGY. I WAS AT SHEA STADIUM, THE STADIUM WAS A ROCKIN AND ROLLIN. 55 THOUSAND + PEOPLE SINGING CLOSER TO HOME. MARK FARNER VOICE RESONATED THROUGH OUT THE STADIUM. HOW COOL IS THAT, GRAND FUNK ARE THE LOUDEST ROCK GROUP I EVER HEARD, MY EARS RANG FOR 3 DAYS AFTER THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CONCERT IN DECEMBER 1970. IT WAS REALLY AN EXPERIENCE TO GET TICKETS FOR GRAND FUNK AT MSG (MADISON SQUARE GARDEN) STANDING THERE FOR HOURS AND HOURS WALL TO WALL PEOPLE, THE ONLY WAY OUT AFTER YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS, WAS OVER THE TOP OF OTHER PEOPLE TRYING TO GET CONCERT TICKETS THEM SELVES TO SEE GRAND FUNK PERFORM LIVE. GRAND FUNK ROCKS FOREVER
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