Lost and Gone Forever

Lost and Gone Forever is an indie rock album by Guster. I was surprised I already knew the first track, "What You Wish For", as it was not a single. That track and "Barrel of a Gun" are the highlights of an album that starts strong, but gets weaker and softer during playback. "Fa Fa" and "Two Points for Honesty" are ok. The rest is uninteresting.

Was a nice listening album but didn't really move the needle for me. A bit too whiny and sad for me at points. But totally unoffensive.

Fa Fa was so much fun, and though I cringed that I loved the rest of the album, I did.

A truly fantastic album.

I remember the song Fa Fa... had complete forgotten about this band and that song. I enjoyed hearing that again as well as the rest of the album.

I almost enjoyed this, but something about the production or the lyrics or the style of singing or the way they played was off. On their own, fine, but combined, they don’t quite fit together and it makes me head hurt. :( This is a good album, but I won’t listen again. You can’t make me! 4/5

Not bad

This was a band that I’ve never heard of but was instantly enthralled by their music. Definitely will listen again and check out more of their discography in the future. What an interesting pick !

I LOVE Guster! So happy to see them come up here. That being said I don’t even think this is in my top three Guster albums. Ganging Up on the Sun, Easy Wonderful, and ESPECIALLY Keep It Together are all much stronger than this choice. 5 star band, 3 star album, averaged.

I'm not sure why, but whenever I hear the name Guster, in my mind I associate them with Weezer and expect their music to be similar. I guess just because they came out around the same time and their names have a similar cadence. But Guster is nothing like Weezer - they are so much better. Just really well-crafted songs. This is good stuff. 4 stars.

Very good

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Barrel of a gun, Fa fa, So long

It’s was ok. Nothing great or bad, just mid.

Good record. I would love to know why the person putting it forward had it rise to 1001 level.

Guster's Lost and Gone Forever is kind of your generic alt from 1999, but I enjoyed it. I think part of my enjoyment is due to me already knowing "Either Way" and "So Long," definitely the best songs on the album. (Shoutout to my BIL!) But even without knowing two songs, the album flows well and has a distinct vibe. I wasn't mad listening to this album a few times.

I know Guster's most popular song "Satellite", which got a lot of play in my circles all through the late 2000s to mid 2010s. I didn't really know Guster had a pre-2000s reputation, though. This album feels like textbook 90s pop-rock and alt rock, yet it has a little touch of something extra. Maybe it's the trumpet giving things a slight ska vibe, and maybe it's the prominent bongos giving things a slight worldbeat vibe. And maybe it's the intriguing little vocalizations that the lead singer does on occasion that seem uniquely and pleasantly out of place. In any case, I am usually a sucker for anything 90s alternative rock or adjacent (though this project has tested my limits on 90s britpop), so really no surprise that I enjoyed this.

This band name is familiar to me and I can't remember why. Above average alt rock of its era: the base is solid but it ads some musical flourish and touches that stretch beyond its genre roots.

It's kinda upbeat and pleasant indie rock. The tone is upbeat too and I particularly like the drums played by hand.

Perfectly fine 90s rock. At least they did edit it down to under 50 minutes unlike so many others from this era. But nothing really special about this. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Hitherto unknown to me 90s alt rock. Better than expected!

What evs

I think I enjoyed this one.

I promised myself that I would add a comment for every album on this list, but the pile of generic indie/indie-adjacent rock is so large that I've run out of words. This is a fine album, I listened to it, and then it was over. I wouldn't mind hearing it again, I would never seek it out.

Above Average Indie

This might be the most average album we've ever had.

Lost and Gone Forever is a bit too plain for my tastes, just very unremarkable easy listening. 2.

Whiny vocals and extremely generic indie-rock with literally nothing that stood out for me. Two stars.

I found it really flat

Read the words "90s indie rock" to conjure and beam a perfect copy of exactly how this album sounds directly to your brain.

It was fine

I’ve enjoyed some of what I’ve heard from this band, but this LP was far too generic for an indie record to stand out. Some decent instrumentation, but things did get a little cheesy at times. ‘Ganging up on the Sun’ would’ve been my pick for a Guster add to the list.

Forgettable