On Time – GRAND FUNK RAILROAD***

Are You Ready/Anybody’s Answer/Time Machine/High On A Horse/TNUC/Into The Sun/Heartbreaker/Call Yourself A Man/Can’t Be Too Long/Ups & Downs

On Time was the debut album from the Michigan hard rock group Grand Funk Railroad. They would achieve enormous popularity in the States during the early 1970s, predominantly with late adolescent males. (US:27)

“On Time, Grand Funk Railroad's debut album, shows the band breaking out of the starting gate with a flourish. Such songs as the opening anthem Are You Ready and the minor hit Time Machine, are great examples of a band that absolutely knew how to both let the good times roll and try to affect change.”

“A cracking début album from Grand Funk, full of exciting and fresh sounding hard rock music. As with all of their early albums it's low on sophistication and high on melody and just sheer fun.” ,p> “On Time is an incredible slab of crushing drum heaviness overlaid with stinging guitars and incredibly powerful booming bass lines. This album is a crunchy hard rock gem that I'd recommend to anyone. The songs are amazing. Heartbreaker is an incredibly blues rock jam you don't ever want to stop. Into The Sun just rampages. TNUC is all dinosaurian thud and thunder. And Time Machine was Grand Funk's original fiery call to arms. One of the best proto-metal albums ever.”

“Great album, unfortunately, it is probably their best. Serious, great melodies and very raw and powerful heavy metal. Compared with this album all other heavy metal is either too overproduced, or too fast or artificially slow or polluted. This is just right.”

“What I like about Grand Funk's debut is that it just rocks hard and heavy right from the beginning, while containing quite a lot of memorable vocal melodies that you can party and dance to. Of course, there's a noticeable blues influence as well, and that's almost impossible to ignore because all hard rock bands back then were influenced by the blues.”

"Grand Funk Railroad's first album wasn't a bad effort. Let's consider that the band were, basically, about raw power. With this debut its obvious there was room for a lot of growth; they certainly were not polished. And therein lies the charm of Funk.”