Goldfly

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{{Infobox album
| name = Goldfly
| type = studio
| artist = [[Guster]]
| cover = Goldfly.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 4, 1997
| recorded = December 1996
| studio =
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = 42:11
| label = Hybrid
| producer = Steve Lindsey
| prev_title = [[Parachute (Guster album)|Parachute]]
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = [[Lost and Gone Forever]]
| next_year = 1999
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/goldfly-mw0000035908|title=Goldfly - Guster | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev2score = 5.6/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/guster/goldfly.shtml|title=Guster: Goldfly: Pitchfork Review|date=January 26, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010126215000/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/guster/goldfly.shtml|archive-date=January 26, 2001}}</ref>
}}
'''''Goldfly''''' is the second studio album by the rock band [[Guster]], released in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/guster-mn0000945245/biography|title=Guster Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Edgers |first1=Geoff |title=Making the Grade |journal=Spin |date=Jan 2000 |volume=16 |issue=1 |page=42}}</ref> The album was recorded in December 1996 at the House of Blues Studios in [[Encino, California]]. It sold around 20,000 copies as an independent release, before being picked up by [[Sire Records]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sansone |first1=Glen |title=On the Verge |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=May 1998 |issue=57 |page=16}}</ref> The Sire version was remixed by [[Mike Shipley]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Rosen |first1=Craig |title=Hybrid label links with Sire Records |magazine=Billboard |date=January 31, 1998 |volume=110 |issue=5 |pages=18, 90}}</ref>

There are three versions of the album. The original, rare, independently released version has the hidden song "Melanie" before the first song. The version released on Hybrid/[[Sire Records]] has the hidden song as the eleventh track. The third version, distributed to members of Guster's rep program, is a bad CD pressing of the album which contains "Melanie" as the first track, while "Getting Even" and "Bury Me" are combined as a single track.

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| title1 = Great Escape
| length1 = 3:06
| title2 = Demons
| length2 = 4:25
| title3 = Perfect
| length3 = 4:23
| title4 = [[Airport Song]]
| length4 = 3:25
| title5 = Medicine
| length5 = 3:56
| title6 = X-Ray Eyes
| length6 = 3:27
| title7 = Grin
| length7 = 4:17
| title8 = Getting Even
| length8 = 4:43
| title9 = Bury Me
| length9 = 2:35
| title10 = Rocketship
| length10 = 4:01
| title11 = Melanie
| length11 = 3:48
}}

==Personnel==
;Guster
* [[Ryan Miller (musician)|Ryan Miller]] – guitar, lead vocals
* [[Adam Gardner]] – guitar, lead vocals
* Brian Rosenworcel – percussion, background vocals

;Additional musicians
* [[Davey Faragher]] – bass
* John Ferraro – drums
* Steve Lindsey – [[Hammond organ]] and [[Clavia|Nord]] synthesizers
* Andy Happel – violin
* Rudy DiCello – cello

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.discogs.com/master/view/442407 ''Goldfly''] at [[Discogs]]

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