''Lost and Gone Forever'' is the third studio
album
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by the band
Guster
Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and ...
, released in September 1999. It was recorded earlier that year in
Sausalito, California
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, 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." All of the drums on this album were played by hand (no sticks).
In February 2012, ''
Paste
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'' magazine named ''Lost and Gone Forever'' the 79th greatest album of the 1990s.
Track listing
All songs written by
Ryan Miller.
#"What You Wish for" – 3:51
#"Barrel of a Gun" – 3:11
#"Either Way" – 4:43
#"
Fa Fa
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" – 4:43
#"I Spy" – 2:57
#"Center of Attention" – 4:07
#"All the Way up to Heaven" – 5:00
#"Happier" – 3:52
#"So Long" – 2:38
#"Two Points for Honesty" – 3:32
#"Rainy Day" – 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
*Alicia Berger, Chonie De Ocampo, Katherine Forgacs, Emily Martinez, Kristen Randall, Lisa Williams - whistling (on "All The Way up to Heaven")
*
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)
Charts
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Singles -
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References
1999 albums
Guster albums
Sire Records albums
Albums produced by Steve Lillywhite
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