The Posies
The Posies are an American power pop group. The band was formed in 1987 in Bellingham, Washington by primary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow. They are best known for their radio hits "Golden Blunders" (from Dear 23), as well as "Dream All Day", "Solar Sister" and "Flavor of the Month" (from Frosting on the Beater). The band is currently signed to Rykodisc.
History
Early years (1986–88)
Core members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow began writing songs together in late 1986 while Ken was in school at the University of Washington. Auer later recalled in an interview that "we first met at a Dan Reed Network show; we were united in feeling we could do that stuff much better ourselves, the two of us". Their first public performance came as an acoustic duo that next summer while Ken was home in Bellingham. During the last part of 1987 and the first two months of 1988, Ken drove home on weekends to join Jon as they recorded twelve songs in Jon's family's home studio. Though intended as demos to attract other members and form a full band, the recordings turned out so well that they became the Posies' first self-released album, Failure. Interest in the Posies rose out of the numerous home-copied cassettes that began to spread around Seattle and Bellingham.
Podcasts:
The Posies
ALBUMS
- Blood/Candy released: 2010
- Every Kind of Light released: 2005
- At Least, at Last released: 2000
- In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In released: 2000
- The Best of The Posies: Dream All Day released: 2000
- Alive Before the Iceberg released: 1999
- Success released: 1998
- Randy Leasure's Posies CD Sampler released: 1996
- Amazing Disgrace released: 1996
- Frosting on the Beater released: 1993
- Dear 23 released: 1990
- Failure released: 1988
- Limitless Expressions: The B-Sides released:
At Least, at Last
Released 2000- Trace My Falls (demo)
- Burn & Shine (French radio 1993)
- Dreaming (2 Meter Sessies, Dutch radio/TV 11.1.93)
- Wiggly World (outtake)
- Come Along And Dance (demo)
- Revelation To Follow (demo)
- Daily Mutilation (demo)
- You're The Beautiful One (demo)
- World (demo)
- Pay You Back In Time (demo)
- Throwaway (demo)
- Sad To Be Aware (demo)
- Everybody Is A Fucking Liar (demo)
- Somehow Everything (demo)
- Fight It (If You Want) (demo)
- Oh Michael (demo)
The Best of The Posies: Dream All Day
Released 2000- My Big Mouth
- Golden Blunders
- Any Other Way
- Suddenly Mary
- Spite and Malice
- I Am the Cosmos
- King Midas in Reverse
- Dream All Day
- Solar Sister
- Flavor of the Month
- Definite Door
- Coming Right Along
- Going, Going, Gone
- Ontario
- Throwaway
- Please Return It
- Sad to Be Aware
- Everybody Is a Fucking Liar
- Flood of Sunshine
Limitless Expressions: The B-Sides
- Going, Going, Gone
- This One's Taken (demo)
- Brief Candles
- Open Every Window
- Feel
- Saying Sorry to Myself
- King Midas in Reverse
- Limitless Expressions
- Ooh Child
- Sad to Be Aware
- Ever Since I Was Alone
- Song Of The Baker
- Christmas
- Golden Blunders (acoustic)
- Leave Me Be
- Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You
- Farewell Typewriter (eclipse version)
- Start a Life (FOTB version)
- Spite and Malice
- Open Every Window (demo)
- Flavor of the Month (live)
-
by I-rival
The Pieces
by: I-rivalI started off today all by myself
But one by one by one the pieces fell
Out of place and into grace
You just fell
Out of grace and into place
Just where you belong
Why did you throw it away
Cause nothing lasts forever
It's hard enough to give it up
But you made it look effortless
I wasted the day away fighting with myself
I don't know which side won but one by one the pieces fell
Out of place and into grace
You just fell
Out of grace and into place
Just where you belong
Why did you throw it away
Cause nothing lasts forever
It's hard enough to give it up
But you made it look effortless
[x2]
Woah you fell out of grace
Woah woah
Woah you fell out of grace
We fell into place
Why did you throw it away
Cause nothing lasts forever
It's hard enough to give it up
But you made it look effortless