So you think you can dance songs
the Posies
when the in general seattle music boom happened 16 or so years ago (dang, was it that long ago?!) it was a generational howl. for the last year or so, i’ve been writing a bunch of essays that i think will become a book about generational the past, and my senior essay was inspired by seeing a 1995 documentary with regard to the seattle spasm. anyhow, i’ve been thinking about that “moment” a drawing lots, remembering what it felt like to be young and in the right time of all that music (i was 18 when nirvana released their first record) and feeling like something was about to bust munificent. i moved to the big city, and went to being planned with some friends of mine who opened a diminutive all-ages cut a rug and punk-rock company in downtown cincinnati. music was such a big ingredient of my life; predilection any teenager or twenty-something it seemed to define every moment. one of the bands i unusually loved then were the posies. they were not the typical seattle band; their harmonies were pretty and layered, their guitars every now clean, although when they had their raw, wall-of-sound moments. i knew all the lyrics, as obtuse as they were. they weren’t the sound of blue-collar angst. nonetheless, they were one of the streams of music that exploded in my establishment, and it was through them that i got interested in their influences and long-time underground favorites love prominent star and paul westerberg. this past weekend the posies did their 20th anniversary show in seattle. i wanted to be there, and even bought tickets as a condition of feeling there, conspiratorial that it might be a stretch to recover out of austin two days after a close tornado ripped our garden apart. but a moment ago buying a ticket felt get off on a symbol, of a band i still dig and who reunited in the past year, and as a symbol of remembering that the music my crop did and does still matters. so for those who don’t know the posies, they weren’t some leviathan thing but they made some great songs and had rich, layered guitars and complex lyrics that make you have to fossick deeper into their meaning or fitting enjoy their lyricism. their agreeable harmonies and cutesy name, combined with album names like “frosting on the beater” would lead you to think maybe they were a little too sugary for the angst of that time, but keep in belief that with bands comparable to humongous star as their foot and the fact that “posies” actually meant “posers”, you mightiness wangle somewhere more enchanting. bands like the shins owe something to these guys.
(these 3 albums were amongst my faves.)
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