Label: Toshiba-EMI LTD. (Japan), TOCP-7621
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Flint, Michigan, U.S.
Time: 35:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 250 Mb
Charts: US: #5, AU #11, CA #3, JP #15. US: Platinum.
“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.
By
this stage in their career, Grand Funk were producing platinum-selling
albums for fun, and at an incredibly productive rate. Their fourth LP
Survival had been released only seven months earlier, and took just two
weeks to go gold, later moving to platinum. 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.
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. 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.”
When E Pluribus Funk was released, it too only needed two
weeks to turn gold. It debuted on the Billboard chart at No.40, in the
week that it was picked by the magazine in its “Action Records” section,
along with Alice Cooper’s Killer album. A week later, it was No.10, and
peaked at No.5. When Billboard reviewed “Footstompin’ Music” as a
single, it described the track as a “solid discotheque winner for
jukeboxes and top 40.”
Grand Funk marked the album release with their
second tour of Europe, beginning in early December in Copenhagen. The
ten-date itinerary included the first live rock show to be staged at the
Palais de Sport in Lyon. Pluribus was eventually certified platinum by
the RIAA in 1991.
(udiscovermusic.com/stories/grand-funk-railroad-e-pluribus-funk-album/) Review by Paul Sexton. November 15, 2024
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