Lost and Gone Forever by Guster

Lost and Gone Forever, Guster's third album, came out in September 1999, and it's the record that pulled the Tufts University trio of Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller and Brian Rosenworcel up from the underground and into the mainstream. Steve Lillywhite produced, with sessions earlier that year in Sausalito, California, and Bearsville, New York.

The quirk is real: every drum on it was played by hand, no sticks, which gives these bright, harmony-stacked pop songs a skittering, rootsy bounce. "Fa Fa" made it onto the Adult Top 40, and "Barrel of a Gun" is the one that stuck on the countdowns. Miller said the title came from the old folk song "Oh My Darling, Clementine" because it matched what the songs were about; rejected jokes included "When Guster Attacks". Paste later named it the 79th greatest album of the 1990s.

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