Album : J Geils – Best Of The J. Geils Band

“Do you wanna dance? Move and groove and slip and slide? Come on baby don’t you hide”

That lyric opens up the album. Kind of sums up what we’re getting into. The band comes out smokin on this first cut ‘Southside Shuffle’. It’s J Geils at their best. I guess that’s why it’s on this album. You get a real sense of the band. So much I like about this tune. Greasy, hard, rough and tight.  J. Geils has a nice little solo. So many good cuts. “House Party’ is another one of their signature tunes. You want to move. Wolf will get ya going. This is some of the best rock n roll in my pile. The boys pay a little tribute to Detroit with a killer track. Its good hard music. Wolf does a rap and Magic Dick takes over on a live cut of ‘Whammer Jammer’. He nails it. Three more great tracks finish the album. Take my word for it.

‘I Do’ is one of CB’s favorite love songs. A celebration. No swooning here. Hey baby I love ya. Kinda says it all. Always makes me feel good when I here this one. My proposal song.

One of my favorite bands These guys made music their style. Bringing all the music they loved and threw in in a pot and pumped out some great stuff. They learned their chops playing a lot of gigs and you can hear it. All the members contributed to the sound. I really do dig Geil’s guitar. Danny Klein and Stephen Jo Bladd on bass and drums. Seth Justman great work on keyboards. Peter Wolf vocals and frontman duties (one of the best) and Magic Dick blowing a mean harmonica. What a sound.

Party music, club/bar music. Weekend music, lets cut loose music. Let it hang out and feel good about it. A couple other bands were doing this kind of music back then. The E Streeters and Southside Johnny. Cut from the same cloth.

I wore this album out along with a bunch of other Geils records. It gives you a real good taste of what the bands about. This is one of my favorite “Best of” albums. Live with it for a while U might dig it. It’s a short intense listen but so gooood!

“You can do the boogaloo”