That Don't Fly:The Posies

Artist: The Posies

Album: Every Kind Of Light

Appears On (Mixes): Dub Club: Matt's 2005 Best Of -- Streets Named For New England Trees

Song Notes: Tell you the truth, the new Posies album didn't really click with me as well as some of the others did (I almost put on "Ontario", "Daily Mutilation" or "Hate Song" from Amazing Disgrace or "Golden Blunders" or "My Big Mouth" from Dear 23 instead), but I went with this one because it's from the new record and is just outstanding, and it actually took another mix CD by a friend of mine to show me how outstanding it is. This is just a really slow pretty song about the demise of a relationship. It reminds me of one that they played live the first time I saw them (this year at their Easy Street Records instore after Bumbershoot… where they played longer than they would have at Bumbershoot!), which no one could figure out what song it was from the lyrics I remembered (which I don't remember much of, but I remember it had some lyrical bits similar to "Blackbird" by the Beatles), and sounded similar in tone/arrangement to this one. Anyway, though, it's real good. -Rev. Syung Myung Me