What Do You Think Is The Ultimate J Geils Band album? Or Song?

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  1. telliott

    telliott Senior Member

    Are there any live recordings from the recent reunion?
     
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  2. Electric

    Electric The Medium is the Massage

    When it comes to the J. Geils Band, I begin and end with their first album, which I bought based solely on the review in Rolling Stone when it came out.
     
  3. driverdrummer

    driverdrummer Forum Resident

    Location:
    Irmo, SC
    Centerfold
     
  4. jojopuppyfish

    jojopuppyfish Senior Member

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    Maryland
    Piss on the wall...yeah I've always loved Centerfold too.
     
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  5. katstep

    katstep Professional Cat Herder

    I was a huge fan in the late 70s/early 80s. Bloodshot, Sanctuary, Love Stinks. Years later when I was binging on Gram Parsons, I finally got around to reading the liners and credits to GP and saw a Wolf-Justman credit on Cry one More Time. S**t! I thought, that totally makes sense now, absolutely a Geils sound to it. Now I'm going backwards and exploring the early stuff I missed the first time around. Fantastic, amazing live band too. I've seen hundreds of live shows over the past 35 years and they were in the top 10. Blew me away.
     
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  6. DEAN OF ROCK

    DEAN OF ROCK Forum Resident

    Location:
    Hoover, AL
    Monkey Island should be in every home......
     
  7. clayton

    clayton Senior Member

    Location:
    minneapolis mn
    I've got all their Studio albums except the one without Peter Wolf, Full House Live and Blow Your Face out, Bloodshot's my favorite studio album, I saw them on tour supporting that album, The warm up acts were Gypsy, Charlie Daniels Band and Rory Gallagher. Great show and what a front man Peter Wolf is.
     
  8. gentt1963

    gentt1963 Forum Resident

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    Between NY and LA
    For me, it's the live version of Til The Walls Come Tumbling Down from Showtime. Ooh Yeah!
     
  9. popscene

    popscene Senior Member

    Location:
    San Marcos, CA
    The ultimate J. Geils song is obviously "Fright Night:"



    OK, so perhaps not. :unhunh:

    Seriously, you can't go wrong with any of their Atlantic output. Along with two of the greatest, most explosive live albums of all time, they didn't make a bad studio record during that time. My order of preference for the studio albums from this era is:

    The J. Geils Band
    Bloodshot
    Monkey Island
    The Morning After
    Nightmares
    Ladies Invited
    Hotline

    The EMI albums all have their merits (with the exception of You're Getting Even..., which is just dreadful), but with less consistent results.

    Now time to crank up some Geils!
     
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  10. jjhunsecker

    jjhunsecker Senior Member

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    I would say "Monkey Island". But I also admire "Freeze Frame" , as overplayed as it's hits were, because it showed that they were one of the few bands from the 1970s who could adapt and update their sound in the 1980s, and not sound like pandering fools
     
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  11. tspit74

    tspit74 Senior Member

    Location:
    Woodridge, IL, USA
    Album: Monkey Freakin' Island

    Song: "Can't Go On," from Ladies Invited.
     
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  12. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    Single: "First I Look at the Purse", with "Whammer Jammer" second.
    Album: Monkey Island, with Full House second. When the reviews of Full House first rolled out, the critics didn't care for it. Any rock album that has a cover of a Louis Armstrong song is alright in my books.
    It's too bad that Rhino's plan for an expanded Full House was derailed.
    Shout-out: Thunderbird!
     
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  13. John Fell

    John Fell Forum Survivor

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    Their non-lp cover of Little Walter's Dead Presidents is pretty cool.
     
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  14. MikaelaArsenault

    MikaelaArsenault Forum Resident

    Location:
    New Hampshire
    Freeze Frame
     
  15. cgw

    cgw Forum Resident

    Location:
    Upstate NY
    It took me a long time to get past that an try anchovies. Now I am all over them (had to being married to an Italiano).
     
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  16. davmar77

    davmar77 I'd rather be drummin'...

    Location:
    clifton park,ny
    on a related note, if peter wolf comes around with his band, be sure to check them out. we saw him last year and it was a great show.
     
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  17. JasonA

    JasonA Forum Resident

    Location:
    Cereal City
    I'm going to see the reunited lineup in Detroit in 2 weeks. Been listening to JGB for 35+ years, this will be my first time seeing them live.
     
  18. Spitfire

    Spitfire Senior Member

    Location:
    Pacific Northwest
    Full House
     
  19. MikaelaArsenault

    MikaelaArsenault Forum Resident

    Location:
    New Hampshire
    Will J. Geils be there?
     
  20. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

    Location:
    NYC
    Lookin' for a Love
     
  21. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

    Location:
    Detroit Mi USA
    Full House!!!!!
    From the long gone Cinderella Ballroom!
     
  22. alchemy

    alchemy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Sterling, VA
    Full House

    I can recall hearing that LP play at so many different parties at so many different houses.

    I always lie Give It Up from Bllod Shot and that clear red vinyl.
     
  23. JasonA

    JasonA Forum Resident

    Location:
    Cereal City
    Ha, no, but seeing 4/6 of the original band is better than not seeing them at all I guess!
     
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  24. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

    Location:
    NYC
    No, Mr. Geils is too busy suing the other members for using his name "J. Geils".

    Arnie
     
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  25. If you can listen to "Give It To Me", in particular the extended outtro, and "Detriot Breakdown" without shaking your *ss, then you need to see a doctor because you may be dead.

    As for their later stuff like "Centerfold" and "Sanctuary", they lost me when they lost the funk.

    But as a live band in the 70's, no one came close.
     
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