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Thankful for: Frosting on the Beater
By dchud
Created 2007-11-23 11:30

The Posies' Frosting on the Beater [1] is, so far as I can tell, one of the more overlooked rock albums of the past 20 years. I recently recovered a copy off an old machine, and after not having heard it for at least five years, I can confidently say: this is great stuff.

"Dream All Day" was a "Buzz Clip" or whatever MTV called those "great songs by bands you've never heard of" clips they'd play a few times for a week or two way back in 1993 when you could still actually find good new music via MTV. I remember that well because I was sick that year, and watched a scary amount of cable TV whenever I was awake and wasn't playing NHL 94 on the Sega some friends kindly gave me. The album goes way deep, though - most every track has the potential for brain-stickage, and a new harmony or riff or drum part or effect combo to notice anew and elevate the soul, as such things are wont to do.

Give it a listen if you can find it.

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