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Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited

Please don't call this a tribute album. True, we did have another tribute album in mind when we set out to do a follow-up to our epic debut release Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish, but what you see before you was destined to be very different almost from the start.

With four present and former Posies (JON AUER, KEN STRINGFELLOW, BRIAN YOUNG, JOE SKYWARD) and legendary producer DON FLEMING on board, it seemed ridiculous to continue to call this a tribute album, so we happily changed the title of the album from Beautiful Escape: The Ultimate Tribute to The Posies to Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited. And that's really what this album is - a chance for musicians including Posies fans, friends of The Posies, and past and present members of The Posies themselves to try their hand at reinventing some of the best powerpop songs ever written.

Cheers, and happy listening!
Alan Heaton and Steve Turnidge, Burning Sky Records


Track Listing

Disc 1: The Red Disc

Track

Track Name

Artist

1

Dream All Day

The Meadows

2

Flavor Of The Month

Maxi Dunn

3

I May Hate You Sometimes

The Drowners

4

Please Return It

Peter Searcy

5

Sweethearts Of Rodeo Drive

The Junior League

6

Chainsmoking In The USA

The Sugarrush

7

Throwaway

Throwback Suburbia

8

Burn And Shine

Steven Wright-Mark

9

At Least For Now

Don Mabus

10

Song #1

The Virtues

11

Start A Life

Joe Skyward and Brette Howard

12

Blind Eyes Open

Panther Style

13

Ontario

cosmopolitANTS

14

You Avoid Parties

We Know, Plato!

15

Coming Right Along

Megafauna

 

 

Disc 2: The Green Disc

Track

Track Name

Artist

1

Golden Blunders

The Smith Bros.

2

Every Bitter Drop

The Royalz

3

Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?

Flip Your Wig

4

Somehow Everything

The Genuine Fakes

5

Everybody Is A Fucking Liar

Ken Stringfellow

6

Suddenly Mary

John Parry

7

Everyone Moves Away

The Well Wishers

8

The Longest Line

Slinkyredfoot

9

Going, Going, Gone

Super Ratones

10

The Certainty

Alex Smee

11

Under Easy

Frank Royster

12

No Consolation

Electroplex

13

20 Questions

Cokeroque

14

When Mute Tongues Can Speak

Ian McGlynn

15

Flood Of Sunshine

Mike Dees

 

 

 

Disc 3: The Blue Disc

 

Track

Track Name

Artist

1

Conversations

The Wellingtons

2

Definite Door

James Deem

3

Solar Sister

EVEN

4

Daily Mutilation

Jon Auer

5

Terrorized

The Shifter with Reinier Gerritsen

6

Fight It (If You Want)

Dinky Drums

7

I Guess You're Right

tiny Tendrils

8

Precious Moments

Darling Cait

9

Earlier Than Expected

The Pozers

10

Apology

Strange Fruits

11

Help Yourself

Every Damn Day

12

Paint Me

The Calculus Affair

13

Who To Blame

Luis Francesco Arena

14

Open Every Window

Greenlawn Abbey

15

You're The Beautiful One

Brian Pylant

16

Dream All Day (Hidden Track)

Jim Protector

Beautiful Escape - The Songs of The Posies Revisited

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A note from founding Posies member JON AUER:  "I'll have to own up to being suspect when I first heard the concept of forty-five different artists recording new versions of Posies songs. I guess at my core I feared polite, cursory renditions of our relatively 'best known', the proverbial 'skating on the surface' as they say in the vernacular or at the very least folks just 'phoning it in'. Still, as skeptical as I might like to portray myself, and after lending my ears to the procession, I couldn't deny the ultimate conclusion I arrived at: a lot of Beautiful Escape... truly manages to surprise me and I'm really touched that it does. At its best, if you will, I'd liken it to diving headfirst into a sonic mirror from a slightly alternate universe, a place where clusters of tone, choices of instrument, and phrasings of word are reinvented enough to render me able to enjoy something I originally created as if never considered possible in the first place. Wow. In a similar sense, perhaps it's like a stranger finding one of your old photo albums and restaging your favorite pictures in ways and with colors you might never have visualized. Colors that look and feel somewhat familiar, but upon closer inspection smell like a fresh coat of paint on a house you barely remember building. Double wow. Who would've 'thunk' it possible? Not me, I assure you. I suppose until now, that is."

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