Lost and Gone Forever

Lost and Gone Forever
Studio album by Guster
Released	September 28, 1999
Recorded	1999
Genre	Rock
Length	43:57
Label	Hybrid Records
Producer	Steve Lillywhite
Professional reviews
AllMusic Guide link Rolling Stone link
Guster chronology
Goldfly (1998) Lost and Gone Forever (1999) Keep It Together (2003)

Lost and Gone Forever is an album that was released by the band Guster in September, 1999. It was recorded earlier that year in Sausalito, California and Bearsville, New York. In 1999, Ryan Miller claimed that Guster got the album's title "from the popular folk song 'Oh My Darling, Clementine'" and "chose it because we felt it reflected the lyrical content of the record."^[1]

Track listing

1. "What You Wish For" – 3:51
2. "Barrel of a Gun" – 3:11
3. "Either Way" – 4:43
4. "Fa Fa" – 4:43
5. "I Spy" – 2:57
6. "Center of Attention" – 4:07
7. "All The Way Up To Heaven" – 5:00
8. "Happier" – 3:52
9. "So Long" – 2:38
10. "Two Points For Honesty" – 3:32
11. "Rainy Day" – 5:23

Miscellanea

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• The album name Lost and Gone Forever beat out The Ides of Guster and When Guster Attacks, Senior Week and Book on Tape.
• The harmony in the end of "All the Way Up to Heaven" is technically an 88-part harmony, with Ryan and Adam filling in all the voices. Creating this effect took a full in-studio day.
• Tony Levin (bassist for Peter Gabriel) appears on three songs and Page McConnell from Phish plays the theremin in one song.
• Lost and Gone Forever was named the 753rd greatest album of all time by WXPN 88.5 radio. ^[2]
• During the 12/2/2000 show at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY where Guster opened for Barenaked Ladies, Ryan claimed that the song "Either Way" was written about a girl he once dated in Niagara Falls, NY.
• It's tradition for fans to blow bubbles at live performances during "Either Way".^[3]
• The lyrics for "I Spy" (as written and recorded) make reference to "the May parade", but, in concert, the band often changes this lyric to "the gay parade" at their whim.
• "What You Wish For" is featured in the movie Life as a House.

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

References