Frosting On The Beater

The beauty of what music can do. How it can 'click' with you on many levels at just the right time in your life. I was 18 when this came out and they nailed it for me. They are part of the group of bands that turned out to be my earliest stepping stones into the world of alternative music. And that journey is far from over. That's what this album means to me. While I totally get that for others this may sound like a very average maybe even boring album (thanks for the person who wrote the review about wanting to play this to 'a grandmother or a sick dog'. That cracked me up and made my day 😄). To me, The Posies just hit all my musical sweet spots wiith every song they produce. The vocal hamonies, the reverb-guitar sound, the bubbly baselines, that 90's drum sound. I can listen to this every day and never get bored with it. So I just had to put it on this addendum list. Hope it 'clicked' with someone else as well 😊.

I have friends who are huge fans of the band, but I've never really gotten into them. I find them to be second-tier power pop; and every time I listened to the band I reaffirm myself on that

I always get the Posies mixed up with the Pixies. I don't care for the Pixies, but I like the Posies a lot. I consider myself a power pop fan - Big Star is one of my all-time favorites, and I love Matthew Sweet and Teenage Fanclub - but I haven't really listened to much by the Posies for some reason. I'll take this as a good reason to right that wrong. This album is great. I plan to re-listen and check out more of their catalog. It's a shame Ken Stringfellow turned out to be a bad guy, but I do try to separate art from the artist in general. 4 stars.

Very 90s alt-rock. Inoffensive but a whole lot of nothing for me.

There are albums where, from the first few bars, you know you're going to like it. This album hit me like that. It has the twee-ness of power-pop with some latent darkness. Very, very 90s. I love the guitar tones, the songs are catchy and change it up in great, unexpected ways, and the vocals are just great. No notes. Favorite tracks: "Love Letter Boxes", "How She Lied By Living", "Coming Right Along"

A time machine to the early 90's

Meh, I don't think it brought anything new personally.

Some nice inoffensive pop music you could play for a grandmother or a sick dog.

One of the bands that shaped my musical interest and inspired me to make music myself! Sublime album from head to toe.

8/10. This was a fun listen

I am always here for some Power Pop

1993 and an album cover that vaguely resembles Singles. I look into my crystal ball and.... ah come on, with a name like "posies" and that album cover, this is going to be soft alternagrunge. Call me Nostradamus. Ok I recognised Dream all Day. Album overall as expected. Just kinda meandering semi-grungy stuff, but I have a soft spot for it. 4/5.

Epic Power pop from Seattle!

Never listened to the posies before, I’m a fan of teenage fan club, so this music is right up my street, a great suggested album. Frustrating Spotify only seems To have a 5 track version of the album available, but I enjoyed listening to their greatest hits after that.

Seems like the sort of thing that would've been on the list.

3/5 album, but 0/5 album title. This set me up for the false hope that it would be as delightful as licking frosting off the beater, and it was nowhere close.

Another band recalled from my college radio days of the early to mid-90s, that I'd completely forgotten about. Surprised to discover the stuck around so long, only to be Me-Too-ed out of existence. Found most of this inoffensive but not that impressive, kind of a slacker, grunged-up Byrds vibe with pretty weak singing. The last song is very strong though.

Pre-"Door" the Posies sure enough need a way to find their way in. The band possesses a lot of vocal sugar, deployed across the songs fetchingly. Understand the user selections as grunge-friendly to the book canon's Britishness and it all falls into place.

Not bad, but it had nothing much extraordinary

Decent power-pop LP that sits a bit outside the norm of what was on the main 1001 list. Runs a bit long and gets a bit homogenous at the end, but again there was a distinct lack of some 90s flash-in-the-pan genres on the main list (in favor of breakbeat and triphop??) and it’s good to see some more picks from the decade here.

Better than it deserves to be.

Note: not on Amazon Music. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the glaring similarity between first song and Don't Fear The Reaper. No great issues using a great song as the basis of another as long as you don't get into trouble! Pleasant enough early 90s power pop.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Dream All day

Great choice. I listen to a lot of power pop, so I've long been peripherally aware of the Posies. But this is the first time I've really sat with this album. It's another one of those genres that was mostly left off the official list, and Frosting on the Beater is a good example of power pop from the 90s that should have been included. This album is full of many of the attributes of the best power pop - pleasant melodies, engaging vocal harmonies, and a bit of an edge to offset the prettiness. The weak spot is that it's lacking any truly memorable hooks, either musically or lyrically. Still a great album, and there are a few tracks here that I'd like to continue listening to. Thanks for sharing this. Fave Songs: Flavor of the Month, Burn & Shine, Coming Right Along, Love Letter Boxes, Earlier than Expected, Dream All Day

Listening to this and I felt like it was a bit ahead of its time in comparison to the 00s and 2010s alternative. This is classified as power pop which is an interesting take on it. I don’t find it very poppy but it has upbeat instrumentals and the lyrics are pretty good. I found this to have a range of styles and sound that resembled some modern bands. If they came out with this album now they’d probably be bigger than when grunge ruled music. 7.0/10

It’s interesting to hear a 90s album from Seattle that is somewhat anti-grunge. After listening to this inoffensive alt rock/power pop I can definitively say that grunge is the more exciting and groundbreaking genre. However, this album is not bad. It is very melodic and has moments where you can really hear the divergence between them and grunge though they share a lot of the same influences. At the end of the day I think this album is just too middle of the road. It has heaviness, but is not explosive as grunge, and it has melody, but not as fully developed as Britpop.

good rock 3.3

Only 19/48 minutes of this album is available on Spotify. This is about as much as I need to hear to make a judgement that this is perfectly adequate rock music. Rating: 2.5 Playlist track: Dream All Day Date listened: 04/10/24

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This was a nice enough 90s grunge/alt album. One of those like the first queens of the Stone Age album where the slow songs at the end is my favorite part for some reason.

It doesn't do a lot for me... a fine alt. rock vibe, akin to Toad the Wet Sprocket, which also shares a bit of a weakness which is that the lead singer's voice doesn't have a lot of personality. It is fine clean singing, but isn't too interesting. Most of the songs don't really have a hook, and it is the darker songs which i think are a bit more successful, Burn & Shine, How She Lied and Coming Right Along. The guitar work is really solid as well.

Decent album. A few interesting songs, but drops off pretty quickly. Definite door has a good sound to it.

Short, sweet, incredibly 1990s, and good fun.

Interesting record, but not much of my taste

Forgot I was listening to anything. Ao I guess it was fine 3 2

What a boring album. It was bland. Nothing noteworthy.

Ok