Shinin’ On by Grand Funk Railroad

Shinin' On, Grand Funk Railroad's eighth studio album, rolled out on Capitol in March 1974 with Todd Rundgren producing, the follow-up to We're an American Band. The Flint, Michigan, bruisers had stretched to a four-piece by now, Mark Farner on guitar and vocals, Don Brewer pounding the drums and singing, Mel Schacher on bass and Craig Frost on keyboards, and Rundgren kept their meat-and-potatoes stomp loud and lean.

It didn't quite match its predecessor, but it still got to number five in the US and went gold, and the band's hopped-up hard-rock cover of "The Loco-Motion" went all the way to the top of the singles chart. The critics never warmed to them, and the kids never cared. The packaging was pure '70s showbiz, too: cover art by graphics artist Neal Adams, based on an idea from photographer Lynn Goldsmith and manager Andrew Cavaliere, with 3D glasses in the sleeve so you could watch it jump off the jacket.

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