THE POSIES - Broadcast Performances volume four
compiled by Kelly Minnis
redchapterjubilee@yahoo.com
http://www.redchapterjubilee.com
Tracks 1 - 3: Radio Paris, November 4, 1993
Another acoustic Jon and Ken performance. Something you'll note is missing is "Burn and
Shine" which appeared on the band's boxed set released in 2000. Something else you will
notice is that the pitch has been corrected on these three tracks. Jon wouldn't allow me
to fix the pitch on "Burn and Shine" for the box. It's kinda funny the first time but sped-
up tape just gets on my nerves so...I fixed it. My copy from a tape copy of a cassette
recording of the original broadcast. I don't know at which point the tape speed screwed up.
1. Any Other way
2. Flavor of the Month
3. Earlier Than Expected
Track 4: "The Word," U.K. TV 1994
The band play live television with their latest British single but are unable to play the
whole song due to time restraints, so that's why the band just kinda blow up in the last
verse of the song. And dig on the announcer getting the song title wrong! My copy is a
digital dub from a VHS copy of the original broadcast.
4. Distant Door
Tracks 5 - 19: Lee's Palace, Toronto, april 19, 1995
Excerpts of this show were broadcast on Canadian rock radio. My copy is from a cassette
dub of the original broadcast and sounds much better than I remembered it. The bass
guitar is pretty high in the mix but it's still quite enjoyable. Track 19 is sourced from
a different recording of the radio show, capturing the last song of the broadcast. There's
a significant difference in mix. Must've been recorded off a different station's broadcast.
Some stations use different compressions and such in their signal chain before broadcast.
It sounds like this station used something with a shitload of mids. Anyhow, this is a great
show highlighting material from Amazing Disgrace, still a year away from release at that
point.
5. Definite Door
6. Solar Sister
7. Dream All Day
8. Love Letter Boxes
9. Flavor of the Month
10. When Mute Tongues Can Speak
11. Fight It
12. Grant Hart
13. Throwaway
14. Any Other Way
15. Lights Out
16. Please Return It
17. Burn and Shine
18. Hate Song
19. How She Lied By Living
Tracks 20 - 21: DeBeurs Radio, Amsterdam, June 1998
The band plays an acoustic full-band session. My recording is a copy of a cassette copy.
You know the drill by now. It sounds like either the session was slightly overmodulated or
someone's cassette player was in the red so you've got some tape distortion. Not too bad
but noticeable.
20. Friendship of the Future
21. Start a Life