Showtime [Import, Original recording remastered, Live]

J. Geils Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 11, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B00000714P
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,584 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jus' Can't Stop Me

2. Just Can't Wait

3. Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down

4. Sanctuary

5. I'm Falling

6. Love Rap

7. Love Stinks

8. Stoop Down #39

9. I Do

10. Centerfold

11. Land of a Thousand Dances

Editorial Reviews

One of the most popular groups of the 70s, the J. Geils Band performed great rock & roll influenced by soul and r&b. Their renowned live performances are legendary. Showtime! is J. Geils 1982, million selling live album that captured their biggest hits at the height of their career and includes Love Stinks, Centerfold and I Do. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Actually, the best BOSTON has to offer, January 3, 2005

By 

Robert Dumas (Pawling, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showtime (Audio CD)

You can't go wrong with a live J. Geils Band album. These guys were born to be on stage and during their '70s halcyon days, a better live rock & boogie band could you find.

Unfortunately, "Showtime" covers live material from the band's least creative (albeit most commercial) period -- the late '70s/early '80s. Their previous live recordings -- "Full House" and "Blow Your Face Out" -- are vastly superior, but having all three live albums certainly provides fans with a great retrospective of J. Geils concerts over the years.

If you like hot, sweaty, blues-based boogie rock played with a good-time frenetic approach, J. Geils is the band for you and any of their aforementioned live albums will represent nicely. But, as I said, by virture of the more pedestrian material covered here, "Showtime" is the weakest of the band's live efforts.

Finally, not that true fans need a history/geography lesson, but J. Geils Band formed in the bars, pubs and clubs of Boston... NOT Detroit. The previous reviewer seems confused. Perhaps because Geils had a song called "Detroit Breakdown" he assumed it was were the band hailed from. They are, however, from Beantown.

Anyway, former lead singer Peter Wolf continues to make great solo CDs -- check them out, too; especially "Sleepless."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much Maligned Classic, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Showtime (Audio CD)

This CD is out-of-print in the U.S. It showcases a unique band at their peak and blows the roof off of similiar live albums of the time --no overdubs, lots of comedic interplay between bandmates. The horn section could "...turn goat milk into gasoline" as the Blues Brothers once commented, and Peter Wolf belts with the best. DO NOT be fooled by its anonymity -- this is a true-collector's classic.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Geils at their most popular., March 19, 2000

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"triggerd" (Ferndale, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Showtime (Audio CD)

This album holds a special place in my heart. I was at one of the six(!) dates they did at Pine Knob Music Theater (Clarkston, MI), my first concert. Basically, this is a snap-shot of those shows. It's about 1/3 of the actual concert, it makes you want more. This includes hits like "Centerfold" and "Love Stinks", but it's gems like "I'm Falling" and "Stoop Down #39" that make it a great album. From the start of "Jus' Can't Stop Me" to the last cheers of "Land of a Thousand Dances", this album takes me back to being 11 years old and getting my first rock-n-roll experience. What a way to start!