The PosiesBest The Posies Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
4
Opinions
4
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 4 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Posies's catalog across 4 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated The Posies album is Alive Before The Iceberg (1999) with a 7.9/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Frosting On the Beater and Every Kind of Light. The discography on Wavelength spans 1993 to 2005.
Alive Before The Iceberg
“*"Live albums always offer a precarious task for musicians. If a band merely fills the studio molds with too-perfect clarity, fans want for the lack of stage improv. If the band jams on the closing riff for six minutes, the fans yawn. So what's the perfect balance of fiddling and play-by-numbers? If you've ever exclaimed, "Man, the guitarist adds a little vibrato to the one note in the hook! And t”
Dream All Day: The Best Of The Posies
“"Best of" collections are always awkward affairs for fans, who are naturally never quite satisfied with the song selection. The situation is intensified for bands of only modest mainstream success, whose completist fans will likely comprise 90% of the album sales for such a compilation. In the Posies' case, the label that underpromoted their albums and eventually dropped them is almost certainly u”
Every Kind of Light
“Sixth studio album from the power-pop band, which now is effectively the duo of John Auer and Ken Stringfellow.”
Frosting On the Beater
“The Posies may not have been the founders of power pop—we’ll credit Badfinger, the Raspberries, Todd Rundgren and hell, if you really want to be specific, the Beatles, for that accomplishment—but they did as much as anyone to further the cause and procure that genre’s place in the rock pantheon. Sadly, they weren’t as successful as they should have been, and while it may have been slightly prematu”
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