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.

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."

Track listing
All songs written by Seth Justman except where noted.

The J. Geils Band

 * Peter Wolf – lead vocals
 * Seth Justman – keyboards, vocals
 * J. Geils – guitar
 * Danny Klein – bass
 * Magic Dick – harmonica, saxophone
 * Stephen Jo Bladd – drums, vocals

Additional musicians

 * Randy Brecker, Tom "Bones" Malone, Lou Marini, George Young, Ronnie Cuber, Alan Rubin – horns
 * Tawatha Agee, Cissy Houston, Fonzi Thornton, Luther Vandross, Ken Williams – backing vocals
 * Cengiz Yaltkaya – conductor

Production

 * Seth Justman – producer, arrangements
 * David Thoener – engineer, mixing at Record Plant, New York
 * Jesse Henderson, Steve Marcantonio – assistant engineers
 * Joe Brescio – mastering