Jerry Curry wrote, re: my booming of FROSTING...
> Bill, No more...."Can I get a witness?" requests for you.
Aw Jerry, c'mon. If we pop-geeks can't close ranks we'll go the way of the
dinosaur. <g>
> As for _Frosting....._, I find the
> sonic dissonance (along, with the heinous masturbation reference of the
> title) to be damn near a betrayal of everything I thought the band was
> about.
"heinous"? Shoot, everybody does it Jerry. <g>
> That record basically, made me lose a lot of faith in The Posies. Faith,
> I never ever fully recovered.
You and many other people I've heard from, as I said.
> Funny, we were just talking about this
> very same subject on the Audities poplist but we could discuss it
> philosophically.
And we can't?
> The consensus is that the Posies received so much grief
> about being "uncool" in a town enraptured with grunge, that they altered
> their sound. It's a real bitch when you dig a type of music that either
> 1) was never considered "cool" or 2) is now considered passe'.
Well, my house-mate Dave's on that list and he sent me some of that. He sent a clip
that I thought pretty effectively countered that "consensus", which I unfortunately
don't have here at work.
Here's a clip from Scott Miller, of Game Theory/Loud Family anonymity, that doesn't
exactly speak for me, but says it well:
> The Posies probably shape my ongoing impression of '90s music more than any
> other group. I loved Nirvana, but to me most grunge bands seemed kind of
> purposefully backward-looking--a cross between early seventies Black Sabbath
> and mid-eighties abrasive hardcore stuff like Big Black. And nothing like "low-fi" or
> "electronica" or any of the hip-hop variations has struck my ears as being new and
> innovative.
>
> FROSTING ON THE BEATER is to my thinking a state-of-the-art record. It's the
> benchmark for that ultra-compressed '90s sound, which not everyone loves, but for
> better or worse nobody ever used to make records that sounded like that because
> the technology and the know-how just weren't there yet. Which is not to say it's
> just the production and mixing. They're extremely innovative with their guitar
> tunings, and the vocal harmonies are very sweet while at the same time having a
> sort of cinematic pathos to them. All their albums are terrific but that's the one
>that
> places them in my perception of history.
>
I miss the Posies and hope to goodness, they one day reform and revisit
> those heady _Dear 23_ days.
>
Well, I miss 'em too, and if it meant that I was stuck hearing DEAR 23 again, I
think I could adjust, he said with tongue squarely in cheek.
> Sorry Bill, we'll have to chalk this one up to our rather severe "edgy
> pop" vs "lush pop" asthetic taste differences.
Exactly. But we agree plenty too, and it's fun speaking the language.
I know I broke off our engagement Jerry, but can't we still be friends? <g>
b.s.
n.p. Del McCoury Band- THE FAMILY (sure I finally bought it)
