Freeze Frame (The J. Geils Band album)

Freeze-Frame is the tenth studio album by American rock band the J. Geils Band, and the last one to feature original vocalist Peter Wolf. The album was released on October 26, 1981, by EMI Records. It reached number one on the United States Billboard 200 album chart in February 1982, and remained at the top for four weeks. The album featured the hit singles "Centerfold" (No. 1 US; No. 3 UK) and "Freeze Frame" (No. 4 US). "Angel in Blue" also reached the US Top 40.

Freeze-Frame
Studio album by
The J. Geils Band
ReleasedOctober 26, 1981 (1981-10-26)
Recorded1980–1981
StudioLong View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Genre
  • Rock
  • new wave
Length40:55
LabelEMI
ProducerSeth Justman
The J. Geils Band chronology
Love Stinks
(1980)		 Freeze-Frame
(1981)		 Showtime!
(1982)
Singles from Freeze-Frame
  1. "Centerfold b/w "Rage in the Cage"
    Released: September 13, 1981
  2. "Freeze-Frame b/w "Flamethrower"
    Released: January 14, 1982
  3. "Angel in Blue b/w "River Blindness"
    Released: May 26, 1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Robert ChristgauB+
Rolling Stone
Rock 82(favorable)

Keyboardist Seth Justman wrote or co-wrote all of the album as well as receiving credit as arranger and producer of the material.

A 2013 Spin article called "Flamethrower" the band's funkiest song and said: "With three avant-gardish anomalies that flirted with harmolodic punk-jazz funk ("Rage in the Cage," "Insane, Insane Again," and "River Blindness") balancing out three slick Top 10 pop hits, 1981's Freeze Frame holds the rare if not impossible distinction of being simultaneously both the J. Geils Band's most blatantly pop and mostly blatantly experimental album."

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