Lost and Gone Forever
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{{Infobox album
| name = Lost and Gone Forever
| type = studio
| artist = Guster
| cover = Guster - Lost and Gone Forever.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 28, 1999
| recorded = 1998
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rock
| length = 43:57
| label = Hybrid, Sire
| producer = Steve Lillywhite
| prev_title = Goldfly
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Keep It Together
| next_year = 2003
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Lost and Gone Forever
| type = studio
| single1 = Barrel of a Gun
| single1date = 1998
| single2 = Fa Fa
| single2date = January 3, 2000
| single3 = Happier
| single3date = 2000
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album |id=r430179}}
| rev2 = Rolling Stone
| rev3 = Sputnikmusic
| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/35470/Guster-Lost-And-Gone-Forever/|title=Review: Guster - Lost And Gone Forever |website= Sputnikmusic|publisher=|accessdate=October 2, 2016}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Lost and Gone Forever is the third studio album by the band Guster, released in September 1999. It was recorded earlier that year in Sausalito, California, and Bearsville, New York. In 1999, Ryan Miller claimed that Guster took 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."{{cite web|url=http://www.vividgreen.net/guster/faq.html |title=Guster FAQ |publisher= |website=Vividgreen.net |date= |accessdate=August 20, 2012}} According to Guster's own website, other titles considered for the album included (jokingly) "The Ides of Guster", "When Guster Attacks", "Senior Week" and "Book on Tape".{{Cite web|url=https://www.guster.com/|title=Guster's Official Website|website=Guster|accessdate=July 28, 2024}}{{nonspecific|date=July 2024}} All of the drums on this album were played by hand (no sticks).{{cite web |website=Discogs |title=Guster – Lost And Gone Forever |url=https://www.discogs.com/Guster-Lost-And-Gone-Forever/release/7860499}}
In February 2012, Paste magazine named Lost and Gone Forever the 79th greatest album of the 1990s.{{cite web|author=Josh Jackson |url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-90-best-albums-of-the-1990s.html?p=2 |title=The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s |publisher= |work=Paste |date=February 24, 2012 |accessdate=August 20, 2012}}
Track listing
All songs written by Ryan Miller.
{{Track listing
| title1 = What You Wish For
| length1 = 3:51
| title2 = Barrel of a Gun
| length2 = 3:11
| title3 = Either Way
| length3 = 4:43
| title4 = Fa Fa
| length4 = 4:43
| title5 = I Spy
| length5 = 2:57
| title6 = Center of Attention
| length6 = 4:07
| title7 = All the Way up to Heaven
| length7 = 5:00
| title8 = Happier
| length8 = 3:52
| title9 = So Long
| length9 = 2:38
| title10 = Two Points for Honesty
| length10 = 3:32
| title11 = Rainy Day
| length11 = 5:23
}}
Personnel
;Guster
- Adam Gardner – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, trumpet
- Ryan Miller – vocals, guitar, piano, organ, harmonica
- Brian Rosenworcel – drums, percussion, trombone, typewriter
;Guest musicians{{cite web|url=http://www.vividgreen.net/guster/albums.htm#a3|title=Gusterography|publisher=|accessdate=August 7, 2018}}
- Karl Denson – flute, saxophone (on "Fa Fa")
- Tony Levin – bass guitar (on "Fa Fa" and "Rainy Day"), Chapman stick (on "Two Points for Honesty")
- Chris Manning – bass guitar (on "What You Wish For" and "Barrel of a Gun")
- Page McConnell – theremin (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
- Dan Rieter – cello (on "Either Way" and "So Long")
- Tracy Silverman – violin, viola (on "Either Way)
- Alicia Berger – whistling (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
- Chonie De Ocampo – whistling (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
- Katherine Forgacs – whistling (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
- Emily Martinez – whistling (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
- Kristen Randall – whistling (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
- Lisa Williams – whistling (on "All the Way up to Heaven")
Charts
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| scope="col"| Chart (1999)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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| {{album chart|Billboard200|169|artist=Guster|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 29, 2019}} |
References
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