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Lost and Gone Forever
Guster
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 1999-09-28
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
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Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Guster's formula is quite simple: Take time-tested harmonies à la Simon and Garfunkel or the Hollies, pour them over pleasant acoustic guitars, and add a pinch of congas for toe-tapping made easier. Lost and Gone Forever all but screams "radio friendly!" (especially with hit-producing wunderkind Steve Lillywhite at the knobs), but luckily the final product is more palatable than that. The musical plan is occasionally augmented by an electric guitar or strings, but generally follows harmonious sounds over articulate voices. Some people will listen to Lost and Gone Forever and find it too slight and completely corny, but others will fall under the spell of Ryan Miller and Adam Gardner's full-bodied vocal blend. --Jason Josephes

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

1) So, so good   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love this cd. I listen to a lot of music from every genre, but this is in constant rotation on my iPod because it's so solid. It's happy, great music that also manages to be intelligent and ironic, and that's something I'm always in the mood for.PS You MUST see these guys live! I dragged along a friend to their concert and even though she'd never heard of them she loved it and ended up buying almost all of their cd's the next day. She ended up not being able to go at the last minute to their next concert, but I went by myself because I wasn't going to miss a chance to see them perform live. Yeah, they are that good.

2) Received in time for Christmas   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This was purchased as a Christmas present for my daughter. It arrived just in time for Christmas. She was very happy with the purchase.

3) Better than in concert   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Love the cd, hated the concert - In New York at the Beacon, the sound system sucked

4) The best guster CD if not the best CD ever   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I have bought this CD a year ago and to this day it remains in my stereo all the time. Every single song on it is an instant guster classic and each song is very catchy in its own way. What you wish for is easily the best opening song on any guster cd to date. The bongos perfectly blend with the acoustic and electric guitars creating the most perfect musical sound i have ever heard, even better than the catchiness of oar or even dave matthews band. The barrell of a gun is easily my favorite guster song of all time and i have listened to it 95 times on my i pod alone. Either way and FaFa are both extremely catchy but either way is mellower. I spy is short leading into the cuter sounding center of attention and all the way up to heaven (the whistling is very catchy i whistled this song in the halls of school one day). Happier so long and two points for honesty are on the mellow side but they are still great listens. Rainy day starts off mellow and builds up to being another one of gusters best songs.Bottom line, this CD is possibly the best CD ever made. Barrell of a gun is one of the best songs ever made. Look at their live album and notice that almost every song from this cd is played on that live album and they all sound amazing. Guster is an amazing band and once you listen to this cd it will be imprinted in your head forever.

5) One of my favorite albums EVER   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love all types of music (rock, alternative, folk, jazz, country, bluegrass, etc. etc.) and listen to a little bit of everything. Having said that, if I was on a deserted island for a year, this would be on my top 5 of CD's to listen to repeatedly. The harmonies are amazing, the songs are Beatlesesque, and the pacing is great (except for the last song, Rainy Day, which I think even the band admits is kind of a "downer" after the rest of the (fairly) upbeat album). I've liked every CD they've done since then, but I'm not sure if they will match the brilliance of this CD. They are great musicians, they seem to be great guys (in interviews, in concert, etc.), they have a sense of humor about themselves, and they deserve their success.