Grand Funk Railroad - 02 - Anybody's Answer

Grand Funk Railroad - 02 - Anybody's Answer On Time is Grand Funk Railroad's first studio album, and was released in August 1969 by Capitol Records. It was produced by Terry Knight.

"Time Machine", the band's first single release, barely broke the top 50 in the singles charts. However, after the success of their second album "Grand Funk" (aka the Red Album) "On Time" went gold shortly thereafter in 1970, one of four RIAA Gold Record Awards for the band that year. The other two albums reaching gold status in 1970 for GFR were Closer to Home and Live Album.

A notable characteristic of the album's production - quite rare for hard rock bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s - is that the guitars are mixed rather low in comparison to the bass guitar, which is louder than any other instrument. The normal practice at the time was to turn the guitar up in the mix higher than any other instrument. Some fans have claimed this was because Mel Schacher was usually considered to be the band's best musician, but why this was done is unknown. While the Terry Knight-produced Grand Funk Railroad albums tend to feature the bass as prominent in the mix, Mark Farner's guitar was mixed higher on subsequent albums.

Lyrics: If you find yourself looking for someone
To make good the bad things that you've done.
Do you think you're looking straight ahead?
And, will you find the answer when you're dead?


Well, then you should listen now to me.
And, I'll tell you how I think it should be.
No one tells you why you're here to live.
This is why it's you who must forgive.


No! you can't kill your brother ...
No! because you love each other.
No! you can't steal his pennies ...
No! 'cause you didn't leave him any.


Ahhhhhh ... ahhhhhh ...
Ahhhhhh ... ahhhhhh ...


And if reason tells you not to live,
But you feel there's something left to give.
You can't leave this place until it's done,
So you'll see one more rising of the sun.


Sun ...
Sun ... you're gonna' see it one more time.
Sun ... oh you can't get away from it.
Sun ... you're gonna see it, oh, one more time

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[SweetSmoke21]

"You can't leave this place until it's done,

So you'll see one more rising of the sun" - the best lyrics :)

[Lmcdan1313]

@acebailey60 the lyrics re you can't steal his pennies cause you didn't leave him any

[acebailey60]

The lyrics are you can't still his minute, cause you didn't leave a minute.

[garfieldingeniero]

how long time not hear this great song, what a fuck with music in this times? everything in a music was done.

[TOPOFFMAN]

I love the way this record sounds. The drums were in the left channel, and guitars going back and forth, and Mel in the middle. This album, their first record, has far better sound quality than the red album and closer to home in my opinion. My fav is "Call Yourself A Man" on this album.

[Lmcdan1313]

One of Grand Funk's finest,more obscure tunes,written and sung by Mark Farner.