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Please preview the songs before purchasing. I did a one click download of the entire "Blow You're Face Out" album and it includes only the studio version of "Give It To Me." I am not sure if this an Amazon issue or done intentionally by Rhino. I can't find the live version on Amazon.Other than that this is good stuff. As one reviewer indicated a few of the songs do get tedious and it's not as good as "Full House" but I would still recommend it.
It is also a capable followup to 1972's Full House, which remains one of the best live recordings of any American band in the 20th century. An apt salute to the six studio albums of boogie rock that the J. Geils Band had recorded between 1970-1975, this 1976 live extravaganza showcases the band at their best--performing live. Released at a time when live albums were big sellers (Frampton Come Alive, Kiss Alive, i.e)., this underated gem gives the band a chance to deliver their best songs with irreverent energy and unstoppable rythym that'll have you dancing within the first two minutes of the opening "Southside Shuffle" till the last chords of "Give it to Me" Some may find Peter Wolf's banter a bit lengthy and/or annoying in between many songs on Blow Your Face Out. Others may find Wolf's pre-rap, D.J.'ish chatter a novelty.Either way it's in-your-face fun.
This album has great energy and captures the 'Live' J Geils Band experience very nicely. There is no comparison to actually seing this band live, but this (along with their "Full House" album) is as close as your ever going to get. I highly recommend it.
The quintiscential Geils band live album. If you grew up in the seventies, this was the party album. Good sound and great energy.
In the history of the J Geils Band, "Blow Your Face Out" is their definitive live work. So, we can look at "Blow Your Face Out" as their summing up of their struggling years and showing the road warrior mentality and experience that all those years can provide on a record.It's full of their old material and captures their well known knack as a live band. This record came as their Atlantic years were ending. No one knew but soon the EMI America years would start and the fame of the band would be achieved but, at the time of "Blow Your Face Out", Geils was still struggling to become the great success they later attained. As someone who saw the band in that era, this live record is as close as it gets to having been at a show in the 70's."Monkey Island" was their final studio record for Atlantic but, in reality, "Blow Your Face Out" was their real swan song to their past at that point and shows a glimpse of the greatness that was to soon come at EMI America.Buy the record. You'll love it.
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