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Whing song plays on your funky railroad?

1) "Bad Time"	3 votes
2) "I'm Your Captain"	1 votes
3) "The Loco-Motion"	1 votes
4) "Shinin' On"	0 votes
5) "Some Kind of Wonderful"	2 votes
6) "We're an American Band"	2 votes

Edgy DC Oct 04 2007 09:36 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 05 2007 05:09 PM

Worst band ever. Not really, but Steve-O argues that Grand Funk Railroad was. Steve wasn't with me when Codiene opened for Mazzy Star. But it's hard to do Bachman-Turner Overdrive without doing Grand Funk. They're inextricably linked in my mind. Together they epitomize seventies summer festival rawk, and the only lineup of Ringo's Starr's Travellng All-Starr Motorcade that I saw featured both Randy Bachman of BTO and Mark Farner of Grand Funk. Bonus commonality, both "Takin' Care of Business" and "We're an American Band" are about getting the job done, seeing a million faces, rockin them all, and moving on to the next town. The next town is always St. Louis. Say what you want, but it was Grand Funk who broke the Beatles record for concert tickets sold to Shea. (They discovered the secret was to have more tickets available.) The fact is your mix tape isn't complete with the Railroad, though they were only briefly grand and scarcely funky. Weigh in on them, and then maybe we can put the seventies summer festival rawk behind us. 1) "Bad Time" Name another song cool enough to be covered by both Guns 'n' Roses and the Jayhawks. 2) "I'm Your Captain" I think all seventies music is about getting home. This clip is from a concert at a legendary stadium called Shea. 3) "The Loco-Motion" They're clearly competing for worst fashion choice here. I'm giving it to drummer boy with the ruffled sleeves. 4) "Shinin' On" These guys were the original Saga. Two vocalist firepower here. Turn it up. 5) "Some Kind of Wonderful" Mining the soul canon once again. 6) "We're an American Band" I had no idea that the drummer sang that. Wow! All while bringing the cowbell by the megaton. One song has got to win and five have to lose. And it's up to up to YOU!

Frayed Knot Oct 04 2007 10:29 PM

Write in: I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about I'm in love with the girl that I can't live without I'm in love but I sure picked a bad time To be in love, to be in love. Let her be somebody else's queen, I don't wanna hear about it There is too many others that know what I mean And that's why I gotta live without it. Chorus: Cause, I'm in love with the girl I'm talking about I'm in love with the girl I can't live without I'm in love but I feel like I'm living it out I'm in love but I must have picked a bad time to be in love A bad time to be in love A bad time to be in love A bad time to be in love All the stories coming back to me About my friends and the people I don't wanna see All the stories they just couldn't be true Least not until I hear them from you (Chorus) A bad time to be in love (such a bad time) A bad time to be in love (such a bad time) A bad time to be in love (such a bad time) A bad time to be in love (such a bad time) A bad time to be in love

TransMonk Oct 04 2007 10:40 PM

Can I get a witness?

Edgy DC Oct 04 2007 10:43 PM

="Frayed Knot"]Write in: I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about I'm in love with the girl that I can't live without... That doesn't need a write-in. It's the first song on the ballot.

metirish Oct 05 2007 07:11 AM

Voted for We're an American Band" , great song , Jackyl did a rocking cover years ago.

Johnny Dickshot Oct 05 2007 07:20 AM

I like BTO better. Way better, than these guys, even if there's no huge difference between them, if you know what I mean. These guys had too much pretension. "I'm Your Captain" has to be one of the most boring rock classics ever. "American Band" is overwrought. It's cute that they bring out Wet Willie to perform with 'em in "LocoMotion" -- can you believe there was a band called Wet Willie? I had their single "Streetcorner Serenade" which was like a 50s vocal group thing with added whiteboy boogie. "Shinin On" is just... grbage. That leaves "Bad Time" as the weiner.

seawolf17 Oct 05 2007 07:25 AM

Some Kind of Wonderful, and it's not even close.

Edgy DC Oct 05 2007 07:38 AM

="Johnny Dickshot"]I like BTO better. Way better, than these guys, even if there's no huge difference between them, if you know what I mean. I know, I just had to reward Mark Farner, who is still buff, while Randy Bachman is still doughy. ="Johnny Dickshot"]"Shinin On" is just... grbage. I wasn't going to include it, but it reached number 11 on the Billboard chart. Eleven! When did singles like that ever chart? Grand Fact of the Day: In a market-flooding throwback to rock 'n' roll's early days, GFRR released eight albums in their first three years. That's a lot of 12-inch cover art. Check out this summer festival lineup --- they seem to be the headliners too --- at Crosley Field. Wow! On edit: Please don't try and watch the whole boring boogie clip.

Mendoza Line Oct 05 2007 04:31 PM

There's a band called [url=http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com/]Those Darn Accordions[/url] that does a hilarious cover of "We're an American Band". It's much better than the original, but Grand Funk didn't set the bar all that high. We're an accordion band We're an accordion band We're coming to your town We make annoying sounds We're an accordion band

cooby Oct 06 2007 08:47 AM

Another tough one for me, not so much because I was a Grand Funk fan, but most of their mainstream stuff above, I liked quite a bit. Gonna go with "Locomotion" because their version blows Little Eva out of the water, and hers was pretty dang good. Very very close second to "Bad Time" because as I recall at the time I had fallen for a guy that for some reason it wasn't a good time to fall for him so it reflected what I was thinking then. PS, what does Steve know?

sharpie Oct 10 2007 12:02 PM

Long Island. Junior High. The tough guys all liked Grand Funk until Led Zeppelin came around. I think they kind of ushered in the anti-hippie movement but I still think they're better than BTO. I could write in "Outside Lookin' In" (all those junior high school greasers singing along with "spend my time makin' up nickel bags") but I went for the radio-friendly "We're An American Band."