freeze frame

After years of working the club circuit, the J. Geils Band finally hit the big time with new wave infusion of their twelfth album. 'Freeze Frame' was recorded at the studio at the converted Long View Farm in North Brookfield, MA. Peter Wolf and Seth Justman co-wrote four of the songs; and Justman wrote the rest of them on his own and produced the album. Wolf remembers: "One of the things about the Geils Band, we really weren't that ambitious about having a zillion seller or something. We never really went into rock'n'roll to make money, we went into rock'n'roll so maybe we didn't have to work 9 to 5. It was probably the happiest time in my life, because we were doing tours where every place was sold out and thatʼs a performers dream... All the touring, all the one nighters and all the driving in station wagons and sleeping in funky hotels and funky dressing rooms, finally, there was a certain sense of respect coming back to the band." 'Freeze Frame' was the band's first album to chart in the UK at number twelve and went to the top of the album chart in the US, owing much to the popularity of videos played on MTV.

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'Freeze Frame'

"Now I'm lookin' at a flashback Sunday

zoom lens feelings

just won't disappear

Close-up darkroom

sweet talk in my ear

Her hot spot love

for me is strong

This freeze-frame

moment can't be wrong"

'Centerfold' became an international hit, going to number three in the UK and

number one in Canada and the US.

"Does she walk? Does she talk?

Does she come complete?

My homeroom homeroom angel

Always pulled me from my seat

She was pure like snowflakes

No one could ever stain

The memory of my angel

Could never cause me pain

Years go by I'm lookin' through a girly magazine

And there's my homeroom angel on the pages in between

My blood runs cold my memory has just been sold

My angel is the centerfold"

'Angel in Blue'

"And the bees they had stung her

The birds they had flown

There were guys she could number

But none had she known

And she never had dreams

So they never came true

Oh my fade away angel

Angel in blue"

'Freeze Frame' 
full album:



All songs written by Seth Justman except where noted.

Side one
"Freeze-Frame" (Justman, Peter Wolf) – 4:01
"Rage in the Cage" (Justman, Wolf) – 4:56
"Centerfold" – 3:36
"Do You Remember When" (Justman, Wolf) – 4:45
"Insane, Insane Again" – 4:43
Side two
"Flamethrower" – 4:58
"River Blindness" – 6:06
"Angel in Blue" – 4:51
"Piss on the Wall" (Justman, Wolf) – 3:02