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Released
  
4 March 1997

Length
  
42:11

Release date
  
4 March 1997

Label
  
Aware Records

Recorded
  
December 1996

Artist
  
Guster

Producer
  
Steve Lindsey

Genre
  
Rock music

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Goldfly (1997)
  
Lost and Gone Forever (1999)

Similar
  
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Goldfly is an album by the rock band Guster, released in 1997. The album was recorded in December 1996 at the House of Blues Studios in Encino, California. As of 2011, this album is out of print.

Contents

There are three versions of the album. The original, rare, independently released version has the hidden song "Melanie" before the first song. The version released on Hybrid/Sire Records has the hidden song as the eleventh track. The third version is a bad CD pressing of the album which contains "Melanie" as the first track while "Getting Even" and "Bury Me" are combined as a single track. This was only distributed to members of Guster's rep program.

Due to the limited budget of the album, no B-sides were recorded besides a song called "Happy Birthday Ken" which was a gift to Ken Goldman, who had housed the band in California when they were recording.

In concert, it is a tradition for fans to throw ping-pong balls onto the stage at the end of "Airport Song". This is done in reference to the game of ping-pong that can be heard as the music fades at the end of the studio track.

A sample of the guitar riff and bongos from "Rocketship" can be heard in "Pot Of Gold" on the rapper Game's R.E.D. Album.

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Track listing

  1. "Great Escape"
  2. "Demons"
  3. "Perfect"
  4. "Airport Song"
  5. "Medicine"
  6. "X-Ray Eyes"
  7. "Grin"
  8. "Getting Even"
  9. "Bury Me"
  10. "Rocketship"
  11. "Melanie" (unlisted bonus track)

Guster

  • Ryan Miller - guitar, lead vocals
  • Adam Gardner - guitar, lead vocals
  • Brian Rosenworcel - percussion, background vocals
  • Additional musicians

  • Davey Faragher - bass
  • John Ferraro - drums
  • Steve Lindsey - Hammond organ and Nord synthesizers.
  • Andy Happel - violin
  • Rudy DiCello - cello
  • Songs

    1Melanie3:15
    2Great Escape3:11
    3Demons4:27

    References

    Goldfly Wikipedia