Just the drum groove alone at the start of the song was worth the price of admission. We picked two songs in a tie in opening up our Grand Funk Railroad songs list because we thought the single released by the band called “Can You Do It?” was the band’s most underrated single of their career.
It’s sad that the band broke up after this album because Frank Zappa took the band to an entirely new level of musicianship on the record. The song featured a brilliant guitar solo by Frank Zappa that fit in perfectly with band’s hard rocking groove. We open our top 10 Grand Funk Railroad Songs list with a selection from the last great Grand Funk Railroad album entitled Good Singin’ Good Playin.’ The track “Out To Get You,” was a semi-instrumental track that was the opening song on side two of the record. The band’s last album of their career was released in 1983 entitled What’s Funk? # 10 – Out To Get You / Can You Do It? A few years later in 1981, Grand Funk returned with the album Grand Funk Lives. The band broke up in 1976 after they released Good Singin’ Good Playin.’ The album produced by Frank Zappa stands as one of the best records of the band’s career. Some of the band’s biggest hits were covers of classic 1960’s songs that the band made their own with Mark Farner’s high, yet deep tenor vocal performances.
From their debut album in 1969, to their break-up album in 1976, the band would release eleven albums of pure rock and roll that straddled the line between Progressive Rock, and soul-infused loud pure rock and roll. In 1969, Grand Funk Railroad released their first album entitled On Time. We didn’t call them Grand Funk Railroad, we called them Grand Funk. If you ever saw the band live, you were taken on a journey of foot-stomping, high-energy rock, that few bands could compete with. The band was known for their high-energy shows. Every teenage rock fan had at least one or two Grand Funk Railroad albums in their collection. Grand Funk Railroad was HUGE in the 1970s. It’s almost a crime that so many young people who have come of age in the twenty-first century have never heard any Grand Funk Railroad songs.
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