How could I have missed the J. Geils Band for all these years. I had no idea that the band started in 1967. When Freeze Frame blew it up they seemed to be a sudden sensation. The first J. Geils Band song that I heard was No Anchovies, Please. It seemed to make it on the radio once in a while but I had no idea that it was a (make air quotes here) song. Still I thought it was funny. I think my cousin actually picked up Love Stinks.
J Geils Band falls in that category with Kansas in that I really liked this album but yet never felt compelled to look into anything else they did. I shouldn’t say never. Fifteen years later I eventually bought Love Stinks just because I wanted the No Anchovies, Please song.
I have a hard time comprehending how Freeze Frame could be so good and yet nothing else they did caught fire like that. I thought it was a regional thing at first. They were from Massachusetts.
I don’t think that there is a bad track on this album. At the same time, for as much as I listened to this back then, when I put it away it was away for a long time. This was one of those cassettes that eventually got played to death and it would be a very long time before I got around to replacing it on Compact Disc. It is music like this that makes me wish there were more hours in a day to listening to music. I used to listen to music like this for hours each day. I need to make an effort to get back to that but somethings gotta give.
Freeze Frame
Rage In The Cage
Centerfold
Do You Remember When?
Insane, Insane Again
Flame Thrower