![]() Written entirely by frontman Mark Farner, it combined tracks like “Footstompin’ Music” (its most successful single, reaching No.29) and “Upsetter” with protest comments such as “People, Let’s Stop The War” and “Save The Land. The album, overseen in the studio as usual by manager-producer Terry Knight, was of its times in combining straight-ahead rock’n’roll with message songs. 12 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 8 E Pluribus Funk Grand Funk Railroad SW 853 (Capitol) Ur 21 FACES 6 A Nod Is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse Warner Bros. The Michigan band’s two albums before that are now both platinum, and E Pluribus Funk wasn’t about to see them lose their magic touch. ![]() Their fourth LP Survival had been released only seven months earlier, and took just two weeks to go gold, later moving to platinum. But on November 15, 1971, that phrase was adapted into the language of one of America’s biggest rock bands, as Grand Funk Railroad released their fifth studio album, E Pluribus Funk.īy this stage in their career, Grand Funk were producing platinum-selling albums for fun, and at an incredibly productive rate. The album, made by a band by now popular enough to sell out Shea Stadium (depicted on the back. “E pluribus unum,” Latin for “out of many, one,” is a motto on the Grand Seal of the United States, the seal that is used to authenticate documents by the US government. But on November 15, 1971, that phrase was adapted into the language of one of America’s biggest rock bands, as Grand Funk Railroad released their fifth studio album, E Pluribus Funk. Get the best deals on Grand Funk Railroad E Pluribus Funk when you shop the largest online selection at . + Grand Funk Railroad took longer than usual to make their fifth album, Survival, in early 1971, but when they came to make their sixth, E Pluribus Funk, that September, they spent less than a week at the effort.
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