The Posies - Amazing Disgrace
So what do a bunch of trendy kids who look as if they just crawled out of Seattle have to offer the world of AOR/Melodic Rock ? Buying this album was an attempt to bring my collection kicking and screaming into the nineties.
The style of this album is power pop, which seems to one of happening trends at the moment. The best description would be 'The Rembrants with attitude'. Imagine what The Rembrants would sound like if they were really pissed off. Like most young rock band these days, the influence of Nirvana can be detected. Look even further and a little bit of Cheap Trick is probably floating around in there somewhere.
This is a departure from my usual listening material. It certainly wasn't love at first listen. However, repeated listens and an attempt to approach it with an open mind, did produce better results.
The highlights are when they put their 'angry young men' attitudes back in the box and concentrate of entertaining us with simple melodic tunes. My favorite track is 'Terrorized' which occurs as a bonus track on the international version of the CD. The boys were obviously listening to their old Blue Oyster Cult records before writing this one. 'Don't Fear The Reaper' style harmonies abound.
Maybe this is just to radical a departure for me. It is good to have, to add a bit of variety to my collection, but I couldn't honestly recommend it to anyone.
Rating : 4
