One of the great lost albums, Monkey Island is where the Geils Band make the blues their own. It's an elaborately produced, adventurous set that analyzes their commerical failure and looks for answers to hard-to-ask questions. Unlike their 1972 live album Full House, Monkey Island refuses to pander to blues conservists or boogie-rock hammerheads; the album is steeped in the kind of pathos and bitterness that infuse the Stones' Sticky Fingers. The album flopped, but it remains the group's most personal statement.