TS: Chicago vs Grand Funk Railroad

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― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Chicago in a landslide. No signs of suckage until album VIII.

Did GFR even have eight albums?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Chicago might be better, but give me Grand Funk Railroad, while I'm still alive!

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Chicago beats Grand Funk Railroad with a pink fluffy paddle on pay-per-view.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

when Chicago does something as geniusly stupid as We're An American Band, call me.
"C'mon dudes, let's get it on"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I mean, can Chicago help me to PARTY DOWN??? Well, can they??

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

get une 'Street Player'

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't know chicago very well. but the first four GFR albums are fine dumb rock and so is the first live album "Live Album".

― Ben H (Ben H), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

who's your captain?

Grand Funk...(they also get mega-bonus points for the 3-D LP cover)...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Early Chicago? OK, that was some pretty good stuff. After that, they should be banished just for the insanity that was the Peter Cetera Experience.

Even in early years, Chicago never did anything that could touch "Some Kind of Wonderful."

― Poker Addict (Wolverinefan2), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

"Some Kind Of Wonderful" is the calling card of every bad bar band in the land...subtract points for Grand Funk...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

"Some Kind Of Wonderful" is the calling card of every bad bar band in the land...subtract points for Grand Funk...

Oh, and like "Color My World" isn't burned into the brains of every beginning piano student in the freakin' world.

I can't take GFR seriously because too many stoners in my era played "Closer to Home" to death. In fact, until I just looked it up, I thought that "I'm Your Captain" was a 20 minute epic. No, it only seems that way.

But Chicago, too, employed a surfeit of bombasticity. Can they both lose? If I have to take sides, I go with my hometown Chicago. Flint, MI can fend for itself.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Or more precisely, Chicago Transit Authority vs. Grand Funk Railroad: Which is the better of the two bands who both debuted in '69, quickly dropped the unwieldy, vaguely train-related portion of their names (the caboose, as it were) and thereafter went on to sell a jillion records over the next coupla years?

Well, Chicago had better singles and longevity, whereas Grand Funk had "the wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner", etc. And both had two lead singers who couldn't. Sing, that is. But at least Grand Funk had imagination enough to think of actual album titles.

Grand Funk rules the midwest!

― Myonga Von Bong-Rattling Bass (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Chicago, too, on this one, but..."no sign of suckage"???

Every time they pulled out the ol' pedal steel on III and attempted those CNSYisms I just...I cringe to this very day! PURE, RAW suckage.

But, hey, none of it's as bad as "T.N.U.C.", is it?

― matt the queeg, Friday, 21 April 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey now, let's not assign Grand Funk to the cesspool that is Flint, MI. The jukebox heroes of GF were actually from a little burg called Davison, which, while only nine miles east of Flint, explains why there was actually no funk whatsoever in Grand Funk. Grow up in Flint, can't help but have some funk in your soul . . . grow up in Davison (which I did), and you have to move out while you're still young to even have a chance of getting an infusion of funk.Unfortunately, Flint is such a hellhole, then and now, the benrfit of having funk deep inside you from an early age is simply not worth the penalty of being forced to live there.

― Poker Addict (Wolverinefan2), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

When one is in Cleveland or Chicago the fine grained difference between Flint and Davison is not apparent. When one lives in Capac, MI (as I once did) Davison seems a metropolis. But when the DJs of the 70s (external to these Michiganian distinctions) would announce GFR on the radio, they would place them out of Flint. Perception is reality.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

grand funk

sham 69

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Grand Funk

― Joey Joe, Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

J. Arthur--yeah, I know, I was just goofin; to get Davison in the thread. One of Mark Farner's cousins had a crush on me in junior high school; there, now I have that esoteric and very personal trivia in here too.

― Poker Addict (Wolverinefan2), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

watch this and ask me the question again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0deL8fLvqEE&search=grand%20funk

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

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