Lost and Gone Forever

Lost and Gone Forever is the third studio album by the band Guster, released in September 1999. It was recorded earlier that year in Sausalito, California, 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."[4]

Lost and Gone Forever
Studio album by Guster
Released	September 28, 1999
Recorded	1998
Genre	Rock
Length	43:57
Label	Hybrid, Sire
Producer	Steve Lillywhite
Guster chronology
Goldfly (1997) Lost and Gone Forever (1999) Keep It Together (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]
Sputnikmusic	[3]

In February 2012, Paste magazine named Lost and Gone Forever the 79th greatest album of the 1990s.[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Ryan Miller.

1. "What You Wish for" – 3:51
2. "Barrel of a Gun" – 3:11
3. "Either Way" – 4:43
4. "Fa Fa" – 4:43
5. "I Spy" – 2:57
6. "Center of Attention" – 4:07
7. "All the Way up to Heaven" – 5:00
8. "Happier" – 3:52
9. "So Long" – 2:38
10. "Two Points for Honesty" – 3:32
11. "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)

[6]

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard Top 200	169

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2000	"Fa Fa"	Adult Top 40	26

References

1. Lost and Gone Forever at AllMusic
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20071227202125/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/guster/albums/album/92639/review/5941725/lost_and_gone_forever
3. "Review: Guster - Lost And Gone Forever". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
4. "Guster FAQ". Vividgreen.net. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
5. Josh Jackson (February 24, 2012). "The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s". Paste. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
6. "Gusterography". Retrieved 7 August 2018.