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product_id: 4901096
title: "Closer To Home"
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# Closer To Home

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Review: Lightning Bolt of an album from Mark, Don & Mel To Us - I grew up listening to this masterpiece and it will always resonate with the utmost integrity, passion, truth and not to mention a deep rumbling bass you'll ever hear from a Fender Jazz bass that vibrates your bowels. Here you have three musicians that matured and grew tight as a three piece unit and produced this highly acclaimed 3rd LP "Closer To Home" in 1970. The lyrical content is at it's core, masculine and displays truth, hope and love to our fellow man and woman. Every song on Closer To Home is excellent and essentially it's the most perfect album they recorded (Survival being 2nd and Phoenix 3rd in my opinion). Don and Mel's solid driving rhythm section with Mark Farner's articulate and dynamic vocals delivering mature lyrics, his trademark guitar sound and blusey riffs is most evident here and what put Closer To Home on the map with a lightning bolt. Don Brewer is an amazing drummer with near flawless execution. Had his drums been better sonically produced in the studio like say, John Bonham or Carmine Appice for example, he would have been more readily recognizable in that same league of great rock drummers when in fact he surely IS. Mel, well Mel is "The Man"! It also sickens me that those good for nothin' critics of the day panned Grand Funk as a no talent in the beginning. These are the same idiots that panned Led Zeppelin's debut album when that came out in early 69', so go figure. The only panning going on here my friends is the guitar from the right and left channels. This music was and is made for the people and Grand Funk Railroad always had the highest regard for their fans. This album bestows knowledge and wisdom delivered in a special sauce of addictive, hook laden riffs and melodies. It is hard to pick a favorite off this album, but I'd have to say "Nothing Is The Same" puts me to tears it's so f**king heavy! "Mean Mistreater" is beautiful and sad at the same time: I've tried hard to live w/o you in so many ways, I can't help myself I'm thinking you, for the rest of my days. "I Don't Have To Sing The Blues" is a wonderful, assuring tune with addictive melodies: Please don't tell me that's the way that is goes cause I tried hard and I know, I ain't been playin' in your backyard cause I got my baby and she loves me so.... The 2002 remasters edition restores this particular album to how it should have sounded. The past Capitol/Cema CD releases in the 80's and 90's were thin and dry as a bone sounding and needed tweeking (yes, the original album itself sounded better). We've waited a long time for Closer to Home to be reissued in it's full domestic glory (not including those imports with misinterpreted lyrics) with improved sonic quality. Closer To Home was and still is a special gift from Mark, Don and Mel to us. Enjoy!
Review: Great Stuff! - About "Closer to Home": Vintage Grand Funk Railroad sound! Holds its own when compared to GFR's invincible "Red Album." "Closer to Home" is superior in variety of sound and composition, however. This record has Grand Funk's original lineup-Mark, Don, Mel, AND Terry Knight. All of the other GFR groups pale in comparison, and that's saying quite a bit, because the other group manifestations aren't bad. The songs on "Closer to Home" cover everything from simple love and attraction to the Viet Nam war. Now, I own all of GFR's albums, but compared to this era, the Terry Knight era, the other records are just plain weak. Grand Funk Railroad's peak did not occur during their Rundgren-Pop Billboard-Zappa-Christian-Rock phase; it took place throughout the "On Time" to "E Pluribus Funk" period, and "Closer to Home" is right in the middle of this era. (Not counting the "Live" album, this consists of live versions of previously released material.) FYI: The only CD that's a must-buy outside of the Terry Knight productions, is the Zappa produced, "Good Singin', Good Playin',"-because, well, it's Zappa! About the "Grand Funk Remasters": First of all, what took so freakin' long to release these records in this format? Why do we have to listen to crappy sounding CDs in this day and age? As Nathan (William Snape) says in "The Full Monty" during one of his dad's (Robert Carlyle) clumsy dance rehearsals--"that were crap!" Even the Beatles catalog is taking forever to get released on quality CDs! ("The Capital Albums Vol. 1") Oh well, better late than never, I guess! I just have one last thing to say to the record companies, et al involved concerning this faux pas; guess which finger I'm holding up! There's a world of difference between the sound of these CDs and the sterile sounding earlier digital releases of the same material; that fact alone justifies buying the remasters. However, the bonus music on these CDs makes them a must-buy for anyone who likes Grand Funk.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lightning Bolt of an album from Mark, Don & Mel To Us
*by J***E on May 13, 2006*

I grew up listening to this masterpiece and it will always resonate with the utmost integrity, passion, truth and not to mention a deep rumbling bass you'll ever hear from a Fender Jazz bass that vibrates your bowels. Here you have three musicians that matured and grew tight as a three piece unit and produced this highly acclaimed 3rd LP "Closer To Home" in 1970. The lyrical content is at it's core, masculine and displays truth, hope and love to our fellow man and woman. Every song on Closer To Home is excellent and essentially it's the most perfect album they recorded (Survival being 2nd and Phoenix 3rd in my opinion). Don and Mel's solid driving rhythm section with Mark Farner's articulate and dynamic vocals delivering mature lyrics, his trademark guitar sound and blusey riffs is most evident here and what put Closer To Home on the map with a lightning bolt. Don Brewer is an amazing drummer with near flawless execution. Had his drums been better sonically produced in the studio like say, John Bonham or Carmine Appice for example, he would have been more readily recognizable in that same league of great rock drummers when in fact he surely IS. Mel, well Mel is "The Man"! It also sickens me that those good for nothin' critics of the day panned Grand Funk as a no talent in the beginning. These are the same idiots that panned Led Zeppelin's debut album when that came out in early 69', so go figure. The only panning going on here my friends is the guitar from the right and left channels. This music was and is made for the people and Grand Funk Railroad always had the highest regard for their fans. This album bestows knowledge and wisdom delivered in a special sauce of addictive, hook laden riffs and melodies. It is hard to pick a favorite off this album, but I'd have to say "Nothing Is The Same" puts me to tears it's so f**king heavy! "Mean Mistreater" is beautiful and sad at the same time: I've tried hard to live w/o you in so many ways, I can't help myself I'm thinking you, for the rest of my days. "I Don't Have To Sing The Blues" is a wonderful, assuring tune with addictive melodies: Please don't tell me that's the way that is goes cause I tried hard and I know, I ain't been playin' in your backyard cause I got my baby and she loves me so.... The 2002 remasters edition restores this particular album to how it should have sounded. The past Capitol/Cema CD releases in the 80's and 90's were thin and dry as a bone sounding and needed tweeking (yes, the original album itself sounded better). We've waited a long time for Closer to Home to be reissued in it's full domestic glory (not including those imports with misinterpreted lyrics) with improved sonic quality. Closer To Home was and still is a special gift from Mark, Don and Mel to us. Enjoy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Stuff!
*by R***A on May 17, 2005*

About "Closer to Home": Vintage Grand Funk Railroad sound! Holds its own when compared to GFR's invincible "Red Album." "Closer to Home" is superior in variety of sound and composition, however. This record has Grand Funk's original lineup-Mark, Don, Mel, AND Terry Knight. All of the other GFR groups pale in comparison, and that's saying quite a bit, because the other group manifestations aren't bad. The songs on "Closer to Home" cover everything from simple love and attraction to the Viet Nam war. Now, I own all of GFR's albums, but compared to this era, the Terry Knight era, the other records are just plain weak. Grand Funk Railroad's peak did not occur during their Rundgren-Pop Billboard-Zappa-Christian-Rock phase; it took place throughout the "On Time" to "E Pluribus Funk" period, and "Closer to Home" is right in the middle of this era. (Not counting the "Live" album, this consists of live versions of previously released material.) FYI: The only CD that's a must-buy outside of the Terry Knight productions, is the Zappa produced, "Good Singin', Good Playin',"-because, well, it's Zappa! About the "Grand Funk Remasters": First of all, what took so freakin' long to release these records in this format? Why do we have to listen to crappy sounding CDs in this day and age? As Nathan (William Snape) says in "The Full Monty" during one of his dad's (Robert Carlyle) clumsy dance rehearsals--"that were crap!" Even the Beatles catalog is taking forever to get released on quality CDs! ("The Capital Albums Vol. 1") Oh well, better late than never, I guess! I just have one last thing to say to the record companies, et al involved concerning this faux pas; guess which finger I'm holding up! There's a world of difference between the sound of these CDs and the sterile sounding earlier digital releases of the same material; that fact alone justifies buying the remasters. However, the bonus music on these CDs makes them a must-buy for anyone who likes Grand Funk.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent
*by R***. on December 21, 2024*

Grand Funk Closer to Home a.k.a. I'm Your Captain, is one of my favorite songs. I used to listen to it quite often when I was stationed in Berlin back in the 70s. I'm rather partial to Led Zeppelin, but Mark and the boys nailed it with this tune. Just my opinion, but headphones give you the best listening experience with this one.

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