MINT SHRINK +PHOTOS GRAND FUNK SURVIVAL Hard CRUNCHY
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1971 MINT IN SHRINK WRAP + PHOTOS
CAPITOL RECORDS COLLECTIBLE
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
SURVIVAL
USA - (red) CAPITOL RECORDS -SW 764
A most beautifully preserved copy, the *best* seen in many years:
TOP MINT vintage pressing on the scarce lime green Capitol label:
*** still in the factory shrink wrapper and MINT all the way...
contains the 3 individual 8"X10" color photos....
By 1972 the mighty Grand Funk were still hard & crunchy and they cleaned-up production and general absence of sloppiness, which is the first thing you will notice upon hearing Survival. A surprisingly good album, Survival contains a number of standout cuts, including a killer take on the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter." With the devotion their fans showed toward them, it seemed that Grand Funk could do no wrong, and here, they prove their fans right.
Survival is something else again. All of the songs, visceral urgency aside, are interesting as compositions and performances. The playing and singing is remarkably free of past sloppiness, the singing at least has definition and resonance, and the guitar work is a real surprise: clean and clear and even subtle at times.
Another interesting thing about it is that it is the first Grand Funk album to be structured around a sort of theme. Just look at the song titles: "Comfort Me," "I Want Freedom," and even "Gimme Shelter."
That theme in all of its several variations has a great deal to do both with Grand Funk's rejection by the pop culture "establishment" and their sense of unity with their audience. If Black Sabbath's music is about disjuncture and disorientation, Grand Funk's is a direct expression of warmth, reaching for the vast befuddled teen audience and saying: "Look, our confusions and yearnings are the same, and we need you as much as you need us." They do it by invoking the specter of the draft in "Country Road," by direct appeal in the beautiful "Comfort Me" ("I was lost in a world of madness/Please take me from all of this sadness/ Comfort me/ In whatever I do/Comfort me/And I'll comfort you too...") And in "All You've Got Is Money," Grand Funk, millionaires all, even manage to invoke their audience's sympathy over the attenuated personal relationships that come with vast fortunes. This is one band whose success sparks not the slightest trace of envious resentment in their fans.
- "Country Road" - 4:22
- "All You've Got Is Money" - 5:16
- "Comfort Me" - 6:48
- "Feelin' Alright" - 4:26
- "I Want Freedom" - 6:18
- "I Can Feel Him In The Morning" - 7:15
- "Gimme Shelter" - 6:29
CONDITION: The cover is MINT in original factory shrink wrap + rare sticker advertising the three color photos within ...no split seams, no bends, no writing...MINT, one of the *best* covers you'll find anywhere...
The vinyl is all clean, both sides, M- plays TOP level clean...with CLEAN red Capitol labels
keeper copy!
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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