| | Grand Funk Railroad Born To Die CD - Import Grand Funk Railroad Discography of CDs
Originally released on Capitol (11482). Includes liner notes by Steve Roeser.
Digitally remastered Japanese pressing of this 1976 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve featuring two previously unreleased Live Rehearsal takes: 'Bare Naked Woman' and 'Genevieve'. Rhino. 2006
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
The title says it all: Although not steeped in heavy metal riffs or gothic sound effects, this 1976 effort from Grand Funk Railroad creates a mood gloomy enough to rival the darkest moments of Black Sabbath. By this point in their career, the band was feeling run into the ground and this is reflected in the mood of the lyrics: the title track is mournful rumination on the inevitability of death and "I Feel for Your Love" explores the depression created by the end of a relationship. The result is an album that feels like an anomaly in the Grand Funk Railroad catalog: the album's dark mood sits at odds with the group's normally energetic style and, thus, robs it of a lot of its punch. Even though the production is solid and the group's instrumental performance is tight, neither of these elements make it easy to listen to an album of oppressively dreary songs. However, a few bright spots shine through: "Sally" is a country-tinged mid-tempo rocker that highlights Mark Farner's harmonica playing and "Take Me" is a driving, lusty rocker that briefly adds a shot of much-needed energy to the proceedings. Of the gloomier tracks, "Love Is Dyin'" stands out because it applies a strong, guitar-heavy rock melody to its sad sentiments to create a song that is both driving and emotionally affecting. Ultimately, Born to Die is such a grim affair that it may turn off some of the group's fans but it remains an interesting curio for the Grand Funk Railroad completist. ~ Donald A. Guarisco
Grand Funk Railroad: Mark Farner (vocals, guitar); Don Brewer (vocals, drums, percussion); Craig Frost (keyboards, background vocals); Mel Schacher (bass).
Additional personnel: Jimmy Hall (harmonica, saxophone); Donna Hall (background vocals).
Born To Die Music | List Price | $42.99 (You save $2.24) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Pop, Hard Rock, Japanese LP Sleeve | | Label | Phantom | | Orig Year | 1976 | | All Time Sales Rank |  348007  | | CD Universe Part number | 7064361 | | Catalog number | 67932 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 13, 2008 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Mark Farner - vocals, guitar
Don Brewer - vocals, drums, percussion
Craig Frost - keyboards, background vocals
Mel Schacher - bass
Also: Jimmy Hall, Donna Hall | | Additional Info | Japan; Remastered; Mini LP Sleeve |
Born To Die Review
GuidelinesRemember to focus your comments on Grand Funk Railroad Born To Die CD - Import. Check our review guidelines for specific details regarding customer review policy. To submit your review, please fill out the above form and click "Submit Review." A staff member will then verify your review meets our guidelines. Upon approval, your review will be published within a few days. Please do not use this form to comment on web site errors or for order related questions. If you have concerns of this nature, please contact customer service by filling out this form.
Purchase Born To Die CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Marilyn Martin CD (1986) Reissued
Born To Die
 $10.65 
| | Santana Festival CD (1977) (Import) Japan; Remastered; Mini LP Sleeve
Born To Die
$30.19  
| | Jazz In The Charts:1937 Vol 33 CD (2006) (Import) Import
Born To Die
$11.29
| | Jazz In The Charts Vol. 95-Jazz In The Charts-1951-52 CD (2006) (Import)
Born To Die
$11.29
| | Alice In Chains Black Gives Way To Blue CD (2009) Limited Edition; Digipak
Born To Die
$12.59   
| | Rosanne Cash List CD (2009)
Born To Die
$11.99 
After the dark and chilling themes of 2006's BLACK CADILLAC, which saw Rosanne Cash dealing with the deaths of her mother, Vivian Liberto, her father, Johnny Cash, and her stepmother, June Carter Cash -- all of whom passed within a two-year span -- one might assume that her next project would move into an even deeper level of bleakness, but with THE LIST, it's immediately clear that she has instead found a more measured place to stand. It's a lovely and redemptive outing that looks back to go forward. When Cash turned 18, her father, alarmed that his daughter only knew the songs that were getting played on the radio, gave her a list of what he considered 100 essential American songs; Cash kept that list, and now she's drawn on it for this wonderfully nuanced outing that brims with a kind of redemptive ...
| | Heptones Sea Of Love CD (1995)
Born To Die
$13.65
Sixteen tracks recorded ...
| | Don't You Leave Me Here New York, Vol. 3 CD (1998)
Born To Die
$15.95
25 tracks from 1926-31, feat. Savoy Bearcats, Lloyd Scott Orch., Charlie Johnson's Orig. Paradise 10, Leroy Smith Orch., Joe Steele Orch., ...
| | Johnny Lewis Shuckin' 'N Jivin' CD (1998)
Born To Die
$33.75
Quadruple-threat Johnny Lewis sings, and plays trumpet, and plays saxophone, and plays percussion. So why, one asks, would he even bother to hire a band? Well, organist "Moody" Thompson, guitarist Joe Villa, and drummer Kenneth Drake spur the multi-instrumentalist in different directions, making for a compelling, funky, straight-up fun session.
The Johnny Lewis Quartet was a standard organ trio-plus-tenor sax combo working in restaurants and nightclubs in the Pacific Northwest when the group released its sole album, 1972's Shuckin' 'n Jivin', in a tiny self-pressing. Recorded live at the Trojan Horse restaurant ...
| | Pages Creatures Of The Earth CD (2004)
Born To Die
$8.89
| | Phil Lesh 06/27/06 - Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC. CDs (2006) Limited Edition
Born To Die
$22.29
| | Sloan Never Hear The End Of It CD (2006) Import
Born To Die
$30.29
A few records after their career-defining 1996 third album, One Chord Leads to Another, Sloan seemed to fall into a trap that snared many classicist guitar pop bands: their devotion to classic hooks and harmonies, the very thing that set them apart from their peers, began to turn from fresh to familiar. Not that the band's skills diminished, but they were now merely reliable, with each new album offering subtle variations on their signature sound: one might be a little sunnier, one might be a little rougher, but each record could easily be classified as just another good Sloan album. All of this makes their eighth album, Never Hear the End of It, such a welcome shock: it's unmistakably the work of the same band that loves '60s guitar rock -- everything from Merseybeat to the Velvet Underground -- as much as they love new wave and college rock, but they have found a way to make the familiar sound fresh again by constructing the album as a seamless suite spread over 30 songs and fitting on a single CD. The easiest touchstone, of course, is the second side of Abbey Road, where brief snippets separated longer songs that were often multi-segmented, as they are here, but Never Hear the End of It isn't nearly as lush or grandiose as the Beatles' career-capping final recorded album. It's densely saturated with color, yet it's also lean and direct; it may swirl with rushes of psychedelic harmonies and shards of punk guitars, but it's precisely constructed upon the quartet's knack for sharp, memorable pop hooks, so there's a sense of momentum and purpose in how the album winds through the detours and main roads on these 30 songs. This has some of the shaggy eclecticism of The White Album, yet it flows like Rundgren's deliberate head trip A Wizard, a True Star, all the while never abandoning Sloan's pop strengths, which makes Never Hear the End of It a rather remarkable piece of art pop -- one where the concept is evident, but one where the pop elements are never sacrificed for art. Cut for cut, segment for segment, this is as indelible as the best of Sloan, but here the emphasis is not on the ...
| | In Compagnia Di Umberto Saba CD (2008) (Import) Import
$12.65 | | Linda Kazmarek Awesome & Amazed CD (2008)
Born To Die
$14.79
“Awesome and Amazed”The piano styling’s of Linda Kazmarek“Awesome and Amazed”- The title describes it all. God’s love is awesome. We are all sinners and not worthy of God’s love and yet he gives it to us freely. God gave His only son that we might have eternal ...
|
|
|
Email a Friend
