All the Girls in the World Beware [Original recording remastered]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Full Title - All The Girls In The World Beware! 24-bit digitally remastered reissue of the band's top 10 Gold 1974 album featuring the top five hits 'Some Kind Of Wonderful' & 'Bad Time'. 10 tracks in all with an expanded 16-page booklet & new liner notes. Capitol Records. 2003.

Tracks:

Responsibility
Runnin'
Life
Look At Granny Run Run
Memories
All The Girls In The World Beware
Wild
Good & Evil
Bad Time
Some Kind Of Wonderful

Album Description

Full Title - All The Girls In The World Beware! 24-bit digitally remastered reissue of the band's top 10 Gold 1974 album featuring the top five hits 'Some Kind Of Wonderful' & 'Bad Time'. 10 tracks in all with an expanded 16-page booklet & new liner notes. Capitol Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Entertaining.......2005-11-26

This isn't really a bad album. The album is coherent in it's material. There are only too much songs on it that are quite standard GFR-material and are missing the raw edge of their earlier work. So when you want the hard rocking Grand Funk, don't buy this one. I also don't like the use of the vocoder in the song 'All the girls in the world beware'. It makes the sound too messy.
I rate this album 3,5 stars because it has no really weak songs on it and it has some really strong tracks ('Life' - this one is hardrocking and sounds inspired and the singing by Mark Farmer is very strong, 'Memories' and Good & Evil' are well done 'slow' tracks) and everyone knows the classics 'Bad Time' and 'Some kind of wonderful'. Though I don't like that last song. I've heard it too much and well it in fact has always irritated me (otherwise I had rated this one 4 stars).

ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS BY THE QUARTET FUNK.......2004-12-14

Along with the unpopular "BORN TO DIE" album, this is one of the best albums they recorded with keyboard player CRAIG FROST (this was the second album the CRAIG would write songs with DON and MARK), despite how the cover and title of this album (something I thought DON BREWER might have come up with)is completely silly, if not stupid. Additionally, I thought lyrics to the title track went extremely too far, although the excellent riffs of bass guitar, organ, drums, guitar, and vocals made this song rock out. Anyway, my 2 favorite songs on this album are the broken romance soft-ballads "MEMORIES" and "BAD TIME" that were written and sung by MARK. They feature various keyboards and excellent harmony vocals, but they would have sound better if CRAIG would have played the mellotron instead of the band using an orchestra. The first song RESPONSIBILITY that features an excellent piano intro, drums, bass guitar riffs, harmony vocals, and outstanding lead vocals and guitar riffs by MARK is a great beginner, and "RUNNIN" that features a horn section, DON'S lead vocal, organ, harmony vocals, bass guitar, and guitar riffs is a great rocker. The fast-paced LIFE has excellent drum playing, bass guitar, guitar, and organ riffs. Plus, MARK FARNER'S voice on "LIFE" reminds me of MICKEY THOMAS of JEFFERSON STARSHIP, and "LOOK AT GRANNY RUN" has MARK and DON trading off lead vocals, with guitar riffs, piano playing, drums, and the horn section with a sax solo. LIFE is also a great song with the horn section, drums, piano playing, bass guitar riffs, guitar riffs, and singing by MARK . "GOOD AND EVIL is a good psychodelic rhythm and blues rock tune with distorted vocals and organ and guitar riffs. Unfortunately, the last song "SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL" is my least favorite song of just about everything I have heard from them. Whoever originally wrote this may had a point, but I have never liked the way it sounds. "BAD TIME" would have been a better closer for the album. When I downloaded this off NAPSTER, I switched the order of the last 2 songs because of my personal choice. More importantly, I can understand what MARK FARNER'S divorce put him through because I know how it feels to lose somebody you love and are really in love with. Furthermore, I also think MARK, DON ,MEL, AND CRAIG should have recorded a GRAND FUNK RIALROAD cd with MARK writing about the war with IRAQ.

Chhessy, cheesy, cheesy.......2004-02-07

I loved the early hard rock GFR. Heavy loud bass and screaming guitar. The songs and playing were basic but fun. I also liked the later albums such as "we're an american band" "phoenix" and "Shinin on" hey even Born to die, but this....ugggh, bubblegumtrashyhornblowincommercialmidstreamrubbish. Forget this one please and listen to any of the others.

Not Great, not terrible either........2003-04-01

I heard alot of negative reviews about this cd so I almost didn't buy it. Not as bad as I thought. A little cheesy at times. Nothing like there first 5 albums which were great. But, by far is not there greatest cd either. Watch Granny run run sounds like grandpa got viagra. Of course this album was released in 1974, before viagra existed. Now I have all GFr's albums (except for there early 80's releases). Much more to Gfr than the capitol series. Very interesting band, glad I got into them. Mark Farner was very political as well. Wonder what his take would be on the happenings on the iraq war?

A refreshing change for Grand Funk !.......2003-03-23

Any Grand Funk fan can simply look at the album cover of "All The Girls In The World Beware"...predict a change in direction for the band.This was the first Grand Funk album I ever heard...on 8-TRACK tape... may they rest in peace. As a teenager it was a fun album...and hearing it now after all of these years..."All The Girls..." is STILL a fun album...not the usual Grand Funk sound...but a GREAT change of pace !

Things get started upbeat...with Craig Frost's piano opening on "Responsibility" setting the tone for the album's style...and as soon as Mark Farner starts singing...you want to sing along...which happens quite often on this album !

"Running" is a great Don Brewer song...and has a "Rare Earth"...70's Motown feel to it... complete with a horn section...which continues to appear throughout the album...it's a great "driving" tune.

"Life" is very similar...with some great Mark Farner guitar and solid bass lines by Mel Schacher. Am I hearing 70's "Temptations" ? A great song !

"Look At Granny Run"...well...while not my favorite...it's fun...humorous and catchy ! I have this frightening of image of my grandfather chasing my grandmother around in their senior years...which is okay of course...but not something I sit and think about. More great horns on this one !

"Memories" is the the ballad contribution...and Mark Farner and the band are great here...a vey bluesy feel...and an excellent change of pace at this point on the album ! Nice job !

" All The Girls In The World Beware" is pretty good...again...a 70's Temptation/Motown sound....GREAT bass and keyboards here by Mel and Craig.

"Wild"...eventually a "B-side"...is a great song...complete with horns...and great playing from the entire band ! You definitely want to move and sing along !

"Good And Evil"...ahhh...now THIS is some back to basics Grand Funk...a medium tempo song with a great blues touch...EXCELLENT guitar by Mark...and EXCELLENT keyboards from Craig....but everyone is very good here.

"Bad Time" and "Some Kind Of Wonderful"...the hits...speak for themselves...great songs...fun to listen to !

Tracks:

Responsibility
Runnin'
Life
Look at Granny Run Run
Memories
All the Girls in the World Beware
Wild
Good and Evil
Bad Time
Some Kind of Wonderful

Album Description

Japanese remastered pressing packaged in a miniature LP sleeve of their 1974 album.. Virgin. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Average customer rating:

GOOD ALBUM
A Different Kind Of Album For GFR
Better than most fans think
Not as muscular as the cover suggests

All The Girls In The World Beware
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Release Date: 1999-03-02

Album Details

First Time Available on CD. Tracks Include:
1. Responsibilty
2. Runnin'
3. Life
4. Look At Granny Run Run
5. Memories
6. All The Girls in the World Beware
7. Wild
8. Good and Evil
9. Bad Time 10.oh Wonderful.

Customer Reviews:

GOOD ALBUM.......2002-09-10

I RECOMENDED THIS ALBUM TO ANY GRAND FUNK FAN.

A Different Kind Of Album For GFR.......2002-02-06

This was GFR first the Heavy Metal Power Trio; Then the powerful hard rock quartet, and Now on All The Girls In The World Beware a Hard rock R N B hybrid, way ahead of their time. While this Album upset may have GFRs hard Rock Fans with Songs like Look At Granny Run Run, Bad Time and Some Kind Of Wonderful it was an album way ahead of its time and influences people like Prince. Many artists in the last 10 years have been mixing Hip Hop and Rock GFR mixed Rock and R N B long ago in 75. This album still have GFRs signature sound and had some heavy rockers like Life, Runnin, Good N Evil, And Responsibility. Wild All The Girls ... and Memories are also good songs, Memories is a very pretty ballad. All The Girls has one of the best Bass lines I have ever hear and Wild is a typical rock n roll I am a pig songs. Bad Time and Some Kind Of Wonderful both charted in the top 5 and are still main stays in GFRs live shows. This is a must have for any real Grand Funk Fan and a must have for those who would like to see the roots of Hybrid rock.

Better than most fans think.......2001-08-04

This 1974 recording doesn't rate highly with most Grand Funk fanatics. I suppose it's no surprise; after years of loud, in-your-face rock albums and tours, Mark Farner, Don Brewer, Mel Schacher and Craig Frost went into the studio and made an album that has a lot more R&B and a lot less rock than ever before. And yet, despite the complaints, All The Girls...has many inventive moments. The seven-minute Good And Evil is fascinating for Brewer's strange, processed lead vocal. Look At Granny Run Run is sheer, goofy fun and Memories is a serious stab at out-and-out balladry. Of course, older fans said 'what the heck is this band doing a ballad for?' They might have a point, but no creative musical act should be put in a stylistic straightjacket.

Not as muscular as the cover suggests.......2001-05-14

Many Grand Funk purists would argue that the band peaked as early as their first live album, but commercially they just went from strength to strength. Released not long after a couple of chart-topping hits, "All the Girls in the World Beware!" was the beginning of the end for Grand Funk Railroad. Although tracks like "Some Kind of Wonderful" had their appeal, it's hard to believe that the same band that recorded the classic "red" album just a few years previously was now responsible for such bland fare as "Bad Time". The greatest irony is that just when the market for hard rock was growing like a monster, one of the prime acts of the genre was fading away to a meek shadow of its former self

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All the Girls in the World Beware!!
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Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000896SU
Release Date: 2003-04-07

Tracks:

Responsibility
Runnin'
Life
Look at Granny Run Run
Memories
All the Girls in the World Beware
Wild
Good and Evil
Bad Time
Some Kind of Wonderful

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