The Posies - Frosting on the Beater (w/ guest Tom Losito)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by musician Tom Losito () to discuss the Posies' Frosting on the Beater (1993, DGC). Tom tells the gents about discovering the band via a LastFM deep dive. Then Bill, Brian, and Tom discuss what "power pop" means to Tom, the Posies' lack of a signature sound and evolution through the years, Jon Auer's cool guitar tones, Ken Stringfellow's pop sensibility, the band's signature harmonies, Mike Musburger's killer drums, and more as we make our way through the album track by track! This week's sponsor is the very lovely . Check'em out!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.5	And I'm Brian.
0:03.6	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.8	1993's Frosting on the Beater by The Posey's.
0:10.6	I call your sister, Carrie, but I never say it.
0:17.2	You lit to a whisper.
0:23.1	It's been your soul like sister.
0:29.1	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:34.3	We try to have a conversation around the music that fans do, and then we cap it all
0:38.4	off with a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we enjoy in the music and the
0:44.6	things we think about while listening to them. We're not doing it alone this week, Mr. Bill.
0:50.0	Absolutely not. Who's joining us? Tom Lucido of one of our favorite local bands.
0:55.7	Finally, we've talked about him for like three years now.
0:59.4	And that band is 2016's great album's favorite album of the year winner, quote, unquote.
1:08.8	Wasn't it 2015?
1:10.1	The Vaughns. Yes, it was 20 okay was it 20 no 2016
1:15.1	2015 2015 was the Vaughn's 2016 was low light and then this past year was Ruby Bones yeah you
1:24.1	were right that's that's folks it's why it's bill's show i just come to work each week hey man
1:29.5	but you remember the dates and names better than i do most of the time so uh speaking a witch dates and
1:35.0	names that's it before we get into our conversation with tom uh it was a great conversation
1:40.9	we want to make sure that everybody's on the same page, names, dates,
1:44.7	and places. We know what's going on. So that way, we're in the middle of the conversation.
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