Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited

Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited Released 2008
Label Burning Sky Records

Disc 1
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
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 F*cking 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
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
(Hidden Track – ???)

Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow weigh in on “Beautiful Escape”!

Founding Posies member JON AUER has this to say about Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited:

“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.”

Founding Posies member KEN STRINGFELLOW adds:

“Though I don’t think we’re as important as the Velvets or Big Star, they say that everyone who heard those bands formed a band soon after–and thus, despite not achieving the high water mark in terms of sales, they profoundly influenced the course of popular music. Are the Posies the next band to join that list? Well, drop the word ‘profoundly’ and we’re getting somewhere. So, in a sense, this collection is a nice cross section of the breadth and depth and global diversity of the people in whom we’ve struck a chord of inspiration. And it’s true for all of us who make music, once you put something out there, you will be surprised how far it travels, and whose day it might make better. An inspiring thought, and I’m honored to contribute anytime to the inspiration to create.”

Ken Stringfellow on the “Beautiful Escape” EP Still thinking about it? Please check out what Posies founding member Ken Stringfellow had to say about the “Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along” EP on his web site:

“Listened to this week and can recommend…the EP preceeding the Posies tribute album—including Dominique’s version of ‘Will You Ever Ease Your Mind’ and Jim Protectors’ freak-take of ‘Coming Right Along’. I will register that I myself thought the artwork for the tribute was maybe too literal to the title, and could have been more Posie-ish, but, the tracks…wow! Every track on this EP is a novel, extremely well thought out and great sounding take on a Posies song, from ‘Dream All Day’ (by an LA band called the Meadows, but with 3 current or former Posies contributing) to ‘I Guess You’re Right’ (by some New Yorkers of some stripe). You can buy the EP for $7, so, same price as Itunes, and you get CD quality audio. One of the partners in making the Posies tribute is Steve Turnidge, who I have to say is an extremely talented mastering engineer, so the sonic quality of the tracks makes the physical disk worth having.”