Closer To Home - GRAND FUNK***

Sin's A Good Man's Brother/Aimless Lady/Nothing Is The Same/Mean Mistreater/Get It Together/I Don't Have To Sing The Blues/Hooked On Love/I'm Your Captain

Closer To Home was the third album from Grand Funk, billed the loudest band in the world. Whilst American early teen girls were drooling to Bobby Sherman their slightly older brothers were getting into Grand Funk. Neither made much impact on the other side of the Atlantic. (US:6)

“Closer To Home is the only song Grand Funk Railroad, known as the loudest band in the world, ever needed to release. They were one of those bands who defied all logic, the critics hated them with a passion, while the fans loved and embraced them, purchasing something in the neighbourhood of 30 million albums alone... a nice neighbourhood to be living in."

"Closer To Home is Grand Funk Railroad at their peak, here they are at their heaviest and most hard-hitting as a band. After this they'd never sound nearly as good, or powerful, ever again. At one time in the early 70s they were the loudest and heaviest band on the planet. The album starts out with a pair of Grand Funk's heaviest tracks, the classics Sin's A Good Man's Brother, and Aimless Lady. Both are absolute masterpieces built on Mark Farner's searing crunchy guitars, Don Brewer's thunderous drums, and Mel Schacher's booming bass lines. Mean Mistreater is a wonderfully amazing mid-tempo ballad, but it's the album's closer, the nearly ten minute epic I'm Your Captain that cements Grand Funk's legacy as one of the greats of all time."

"This album is a combination of late 60s classic rock and later, 70s hard rock. It has elements of both, and neither of them are very prominent. There are lots of easy listening vocal melodies, the drumming is fluid and hard rock-like with lots of fills and some of the riffs get really heavy. The best song is the epic I'm Your Captain while the rest are all solid, except Get It Together, which sounds too poppy to me."

"America's original power trio, Grand Funk Railroad, ushered in the 70s with Closer To Home. In the wake of the group's third studio effort, Mel, Don and Mark performed sold out shows before huge crowds and rabid fans from coast-to-coast. GFR were now legitimately big time. Although the critics hated the proud three-piece noise machine, all that ever really mattered to the members of GFR was their ever expanding fan base."