Grand Funk Railroad - E Pluribus Funk (1971)

Yet another LP that Elvin the rock guru turned me onto. This was my first full exposure to GFR's rousingly energised, tightly-rocking music, and it's an album that stirs up loads of great teenage memories.

The anti-war anthem 'People, Let's Stop the War' sounds a bit hokey now, but most of the other tracks, including the infectiously lilting 'Upsetter' and the exquisitely melancholy 'Loneliness', still have plenty going for them. It was this album that made me go out and grab the Todd Rundgren-produced 'We're an American Band' (1973), another instant memory-jogger.