#The j. geils band musta got lost full#

Support “Certain Songs” with a donation on Patreonįiled Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: J. (It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs.) “Must of Got Lost” is one of the greatest examples of The Handclap Rule - handclaps make a good song great and a great song immortal - ever recorded, and after that breakdown, there wasn’t a need to got back to any verses, just repeat the glorious chorus forever and ever.Ī filterable, searchable & sortable database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. Geils Band (Spoken) Hold on this song has a little introduction to it Its aint supposed to be sad though you might feel it.

#The j. geils band musta got lost full#

Instead, the full band kicks back in and they repeat the chorus - interrupted only by a quick Geils guitar solo - until the fade. CNever thought Gabout tomorroFw CSeemed like a Glong time to Fcome CHow could. Still, had it been a straight quiet verse / loud chorus song, “Must of Got Lost” would have been memorable, but not all time, but about halfway through the song, they switch it up and suddenly, it’s just Peter Wolf, Stephen Bladd’s kick & snare drums and some of the most perfectly-placed handclaps in pop music history. GIELS BAND Standard Tuning EADGBE Intro C F C F Verse 1. ago I only moved to MA in the 90s, but apparently this band was royalty here at one time. With Seth Justman providing extra piano hooks, the chorus of “Must of Got Lost” that stuck so deep into my head, I did not realize how grammatically incorrect it was until I started writing this post. Must of got lost, must of got lost, must of got lost The individual CDs are contained in cardboard sleeves printed with the original vinyl artwork but without additional booklets/inner sleeve reproductions. In any event, prior to the success of “Centerfold,” their biggest song was “Must Of Got Lost,” which I remember from the tail end of my KYNO-AM listening days as one of those songs that they never played enough.īut when they did, I really loved the dynamics, as “Must Of Got Lost” slowly built from the stop-time keyboards & drums and classic chord changes of the verses to the whole band kicking in full bore on the crazy catchy chorus. Oh, and their harmonica player was Magic Dick, which is one of the five all-time greatest names ever in popular music. Once they started writing their own songs, about three albums in or so, the bulk were written by keyboardist Seth Justman and singer Peter Wolf, whom I’m guessing that a lot of people initially assumed was the “J. Geils was the guitar player, but despite the band being named after him, he didn’t write very many of the songs, which seems weird.

Geils Band from their beginning as a blues band to their end as a massive pop band is a story best told by somebody who actually knows it. Geils Band - Musta Got Lost, With Intro (Letra e msica para ouvir) - (Spoken / Hold on this song has a little introduction to it / Its aint supposed to. Album: Nightmares…And Other Tales From the Vinyl Jungle