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The Posies were an American power pop group. The band was formed in 1986 in Bellingham, Washington, United States, by primary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow. Their music has its origins in Merseybeat and the Hollies. They are influenced by Hüsker Dü, XTC, Elvis Costello and Squeeze. [1]
“There are so many influences and styles woven into what we do and we’ve never made the same record twice, not even close to it,” adds Auer. “And our new record is as sophisticated and challenging as anything we’ve ever made.”
- “Solar Sister” Another track from Frosting on the Beater, and perhaps the quintessential Posies song, and certainly a quintessential power pop song. It is a transcendent take on Mersey Beat-meets-psychedelia, and heavy-but-melodic rock guitar.
- “Coming Right Along” While Dear 23 closes with an epic song of triumphant optimism, epic Frosting closer “Coming Right Along” is perhaps an even greater feat: optimism with little evidence to support such a view.
- “Golden Blunders” “Golden Blunders” may well be the Posies best pop song; absurdly catchy and almost joyous. Like “Ontario,” the music oddly belies a serious lyrical topic, here a couple having a child too young and regretting it: “Four weeks seemed like a long time then / But nine months is longer now / But even if you never speak again / You’ve already made the wedding vow.”
- “Flood of Sunshine” The album closer for Dear 23 is an overwhelming and transcendent, eight-plus minute epic. Both the guitars and the vocals are as good as shimmering, soaring guitars and vocals can get; Auer has three separate solos and it is not too many.
Sep 9, 2010 · Jude Clarke talks to the band's musical polymaths Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer, and gets thoughtful, detailed and fascinating answers, about their influences, history, and how they collaborate to produce their brand of "moderate, brainy, literate,…
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- Solar Sister. The last song from Frosting on the Beater to show up on this list is “Solar Sister.” It was the second single sandwiched between “Dream All Day” and “Definite Door.”
- Coming Right Along. “Coming Right Along” is the second-to-last song from Frosting on the Beater that will show up on this list. It is another long-running song like “Flood of Sunshine.”
- Daily Mutilation. “Daily Mutilation” is the song that opened Amazing Disgrace. Its lyrics are somewhat disturbing. However, “Daily Mutilation” still stands out well because of its dynamic drumming, which is presumably a product of the lineup changes.
- Flood of Sunshine. Chances are good interested individuals can guess that “Flood of Sunshine” never saw release as a single for Dear 23 as soon as they see its length.
Aug 24, 2018 · On Frosting on the Beater, the Posies subsumed their early XTC-isms and other influences into a distinct mode and found their own sense of the timeless.
Oct 15, 2018 · One of your key influences was Big Star, whose cocktail of brilliance and obscurity and doomed-ness made them the archetypal ‘power-pop’ band – while also transcending the genre much as you have. 18 years after they split in disarray, Big Star unexpectedly reformed in 1993, with you guys in the band.
