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Zappa been Woking on the Railroad. Two Thumbs up.

Richard D. Cappetto | Moodus, CT United States | 01/16/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I orginally bought this Album in 1976 when it came out, I loved it then and still love it today. I was so happy to see it was finally coming out on CD. Hippo did an excellent job with the remastering and It is so cool that they added an extra song-Rubberneck. Rubberneck is clearly the most Zappa influenced song on the CD (Frank Zappa Produced Good Singin Good Playin) and it rocks. Frank also plays a mean lead on Ought To Get you. Floks if you like good singin, good playin and good rock N Roll you will love this CD.Rick Cappetto"

They had nothing to lose....

Garry Daniel | Knoxville, TN United States | 06/28/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sometimes when a band knows it's over, they will do one of two things; they will record and release a sloppy, unimaginitive album full of second rate songs just to satisfy the record company, or they will decide they have nothing to lose, and record and release a masterful album because they decided to go back to the reason they started in the first place, which is to make good music. Grand Funk chose the latter. They must have realized they weren't on top of the world anymore, and the infighting and bickering had taken its toll. Completely changing gears, they employed the services of Frank Zappa and recorded GOOD SINGIN' GOOD PLAYING, in my opinion, a great album.

Zappa knew GFR had it in them to make an album that brought to vinyl the concert sound they were famous for.He succeeded!

Though it's my opinion, Pass it Around is the best thing GFR ever put on tape. It's an excellent song. A driving, relentless song in which the whole band burns. Another great song is 1976.

Although negative in lyrical content, it still manages to get the message across that this is America, and if we want to, we can still be a great nation. Don't let them take your Guns, they say in one song, and it makes perfect sense to me.There should have been two huge singles from this album: Pass it Around for one, and Release Your love, for another. This album should have sold 8 million copies and launched a world tour for GFR, instead, they broke up upon its release. Sad as it is, GFR called it quits and never again worked with Zappa. But, the bright side is, they left us an absolutely wonderful album."