The Posies - Solar Sister (acoustic)

[Anthony420542]

I love this acoustic,I'm used to the electric one...Both lovely

[FuckingStanz]

if anyone wants to hear soundboard quality audio of this performance, i've uploaded it on my account. you can send your gift baskets afterwards.

[indianaratman]

eerrrr eeerrr

[stiefel1998]

the best song "love comes"

[FuckingStanz]

@stiefel1998 Uh no, listen to more Posies than what came with Vista. Christ. 

[stiefel1998]

@FuckingStanz okay ;D

[Hellon999]

Amazing! <3

[Stallion0157]

I love this vid, wish there was a higher quality version available!

[bartboop]

A complete masterpiece! "Frosting on the beater" is one of the best uses of double entandre ever.

[bartboop]

A complete masterpiece!

[whatevermanidontcar1]

Frosting on the Beater is one of my all time favorite albums.

[Pai3000]

Beautiful

[stucerocks]

I love Ken. he's as aloof in person too. This band is amazing. Who writes song after song like this? thank you!

[didiroesler]

really one of the most beautiful tunes ever!!

[dkindt69]

absolutely beautiful, thanx for the post...

[bassthing26]

absolute class tune!

[PeripheralSenses]

I miss 120 Minutes...

[denizm75]

me too!! Especially when Dave Kendall hosted, he was the best

[Alise218]

i love this song..next to coming right along

[ku5hitic]

is it bad if i like old music and musician i like 90s and 80s especially the posies they own!!!

~omy~

[gaarachibikun]

bro chill the posies are sick, a good band is a good band no matter hold old they are

[dannyboy2687]

LOVE THAT SONG!!

[dflec]

Nice, Expect to see more of these two

[Mel0dymaker]

Why expect more ? cough up the knowledge...

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

I have The Adventure Club Sessions album-it has "Will You Ever Ease Your Mind" by them!

[mayuragadgil]

are they men or women?

excellent

[zackehall]

Ah! I could listen to this over and over again. Pure perfection. Sure I llike the studio version but this is.... magic.

[backflipsergio]

so beautiful...

[LeftCoastGator]

Remarkable version of this song, just stunning. Too bad FOTB was released during the grunge craze; the rockin' album version is fine, but I think if these guys has been able to release a simpler, less fuzzy, more acoustic-driven version of the album (which I think they would have preferred), it would have been incredible.

[FuckingStanz]

God, how could a song this beautiful go unnoticed? I'm surprised it hasn't been used in a movie.

[diddywahdaddy]

I've commented on this one before...but truly, it's outrageous that The Posies didn't get their well earned fame on the Frosting On The Beater CD/LP. It's top shelf shouldabeen legendary rock/pop material, really is. Why didn't it happen? One can only guess. Did geffen at the time just decide to put all their bucks into Nirvana? If so, big shame! Not on Cobain & Co, but on geffen (if that's why)...

[cbr1100xxrules]

I LOVE this acoustic version!!

[FuckingStanz]

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Can anyone tell me that mystery chord?

[cbrandom]

Sounds like drop D# (everything tuned up one half-step; or semi-tone if you're British) to me. But yea, I've had a rough time figuring out the chords too.

[juanjakejuanpajc]

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[jamiethomaslane]

Saw Ken and Jon perform acoustic at the Meredith music festival back in 2001. They playeed the best set of the day yet hardly anyone knew who they were. I guess that sums up how they have been their whole career.

[PeterC79]

I was pissed about missing that........I found out after meredith was over.

[NoNotThat]

oh my GOD i love this performance. ken's voice + jon's voice = heaven...

[BBThames]

Remember, it was bands like this who put your Snow Patrols, Linkin Parks, and Incubus's where they are today. If it wasn't for these grunge bands getting this sound out there, Pop and Gangsta Rap would have taken over the airwaves... Would you have really wanted that? Nah, I didn't think so.

[FuckingStanz]

1) pop and gangsta rap did take over the airwaves, they are more popular than rock now.  2) linkin park is watered down shit music and we'd be better off without them. 3) if it were early 90s gangsta rap and pop, i'd actually prefer that to the current state of rock.

[King31395]

Hahahaha!

I think that sums it up about right.

[BBThames]

1) You are obviously not listening to actual rock.

2)Where the hell do you live? L.A.?

3)Are you Britney Spears?

Seriously, there is good rock out there. I'm guessing you live in some city where the radio stations are owned by some huge monopolistic company such as Clear Channel. It's sad to read postings like this really. You might as well get satellite radio.

[FuckingStanz]

What's funny about this post you made labeling me a mindless product of Britney Spears and Viacom is that you listed Snow Patrol, Incubus, and Linkin Park as being, A) Good. and B) Influenced by the Posies. Those bands are neither. I am not a Clear Channel sheep, dipshit. But I think it's funny that you are 'against them' when you use Clear Chanel bands in your defense. Linkin Park? Are you fucking kidding me? That band is derivative faux-angst rock for 9th graders with bad taste. Unreal

[FuckingStanz]

And finally, it's funny that you took an authority on music history by default from being a generation-x'er, when no other member of your generation shared your view point from everything I've heard. Grunge was considered a bad term, only the bandwagon hoppers like yourself embraced it. Dumbasss. You denounced Clear Channel, yet looking through your profile, you have 100% mainstream rock taste and only listen to bands that MTV has promoted. Fucking irony, sir.

[BBThames]

Enough with the potty mouth. Do you kiss your own mother with that mouth? Calm down already. Grunge was not a bad term back in the 90's. Please show me where some "expert" says it was. By the sound of it, you weren't even alive during that time. Actually I'm shocked you even know who the Posies were. Ok, so you love reading people's profiles? I'll be sure to put some bands on there you probably never heard of. Oh and waht's with you and Linkin Park? It sounds as if you had an ex who liked them.

[FuckingStanz]

Your ignorance reveals itself further. Watch the grunge documentary "Hype". Watch interviews with any grunge bands. They all disliked the term. I'm not talking about "expert critics" i'm talking about grunge artists themselves. They seem to ALL disagree with your dumbass assertion that everyone was proud to be associated with it. Please do some research and find out yourself. I'm younger than you and I am still more knowledgeable in the area of indie and alternative rock. Get over it.

[FuckingStanz]

Why are you shocked I've heard of the Posies? Because you automatically typecasted me as being a generation-y stereotype, which was PAINFULLY ironic considering your taste for the likes of watered down imitations of older generation-x bands from the early 90s. Linkin Park being the prime example. It's just weird that I listen to mostly early 90s indie and you are into whatever the radio plays, and yet you are talking down to me like I don't have a clue about the 90s. Act your age.

[odysseyandoracle]

The Posies have nothing to do with grunge. They just happened to come from Washington at roughly the same time.

[FuckingStanz]

Firstly, grunge doesn't mean anything. Nirvana sounds nothing like Pearl Jam. Secondly, the Posies are more in the vein of power-pop. You don't hear harmonies this good in "grunge". Thirdly, he said it was his personal favourite song, not the all time universe favourite. Though, it should be.

[BBThames]

Do you really know what grunge is? I'm guessing you are what us Gen X'ers call a "Texter" or Generation "Why", FuckingStanz. What people like to call "Alternative Rock" nowadays, spawned from your underground and grunge bands or "garage bands" as others refer to them. In my honest opinion... and sorry if I sound like a broken record here (that's a chipped CD for you kids out there), the Posies helped shape today's "alternative rock" sound. Argument over.

[FuckingStanz]

I seriously doubt any other generation-x'er would want to be associated with your pretentious, inaccurate, and assumption-ridden blobs of text. You know the term "grunge" you're defending there? Grunge bands hated that term for confining diverse sounds into a one dimensional marketing term. AND AGAIN, if you still consider grunge to be a real scene, the Posies are not part of it. It's funny how you claim historical authority while not having a fucking clue what you're talking about.

[FuckingStanz]

Secondly, I didn't say anywhere that the Posies weren't an influential band. Show me where I did, please. I'm looking forward to it. Because I'm sure the realization will have hit you by then that you didn't even read my post properly.

[DARickster777]

SEATTLE ROCKS!!!

[oihanaju]

a week ago I sew the posies in Bilbao(basque country) and is the best concert that i have never seen!! so beutiful!! thanks ken and jon

[Shoemeister]

Brilliant. Amazing harmonies.

[Stanzmastertron4000]

Is there no official video for this song?

[cbr1100xxrules]

great song. great version.

[caksmomn]

i'm humiliating myself for shuhaibars

[luminaia]

It's Drop D

Just google: posies solar sister tab

The first one is pretty accurate, I just went through. Make sure you capo. This one is capo 2 -- the album version is capo 3.

[cbrandom]

Am i just blind? I don't see the capo :/ I'll give it a shot again though

[cbrandom]

So I've been messing with it, and I get the best result with the capo on the 1st fret, actually. I don't think the voicing is perfect in the tabs, but its closer.

[trufetes]

are you sure with the dropD? in 1:05 i think i see a g shape played with a regular tuning, it's not clear but i'm pretty sure about it. the capo is rather in the 1st fret. i think internet sites about tabs tells bollocks, why a Bm11 when it sounds much more a F# in the third chord?? makes no sense at al!!

[cbrandom]

Anyone have a tab for this? I can't figure any of it out, the tuning isn't standard nor drop-d, so I'm lost.

[caksmomn]

Awesome, and arrogant. Beautiful.

[three27]

One of the best bands of all time.

[caksmomn]

Don't forget arrogant. ;O)

[cbrandom]

I'm failing to see the arrogance, and I've listened to the shit out of this song.

[caksmomn]

Like I said, "arrogant."  The 'arrogant' don't defend themselves... they wait for others to do it for them. And it's never the humble who have people fight their battles for them, it's the rich, and conceited. Thanks for the song, gentlemen. I give it a 5 1/2 outta' 10. At least they're not smelly, or from the middle east. Thank Heavens!!

[cbrandom]

So who is arrogant here then? The sister? Or those praising her?

[caksmomn]

I AM DOING WHAT YOU AND BASSAM AND SAMAR

[caksmomn]

bassam and samar shuhaibar... >sighs heavily< i'm soooh lucky, and have such a privaledge to be mistreated by them... thanks guys! i love being proved i dont deserve love, or attention/affection, or anything but hurt from people like you.

[caksmomn]

keep singing, making LOTS of money, and just caring about you and your gum-smile sisters. >sighs< tell brian i said hello, too. life is soooo beautiful..

[stezul]

But nobody have "It's great to be here again" by Posies?

[Thezencheeseburger]

One the most overlooked and talented groups ever...

[forakiller]

amazing song

[carokapranos]

aghh los amo <3. jaja, que jovenes estaban! :)

[perrybd]

Probably my favorite Posies song. Thanks for the post.

[wgonk]

yes what else to say...this is the best posies song! I once sing sang song september girls with them live in utrecht...a was a drunk third posie for 3 minutes !they rock! wgonk

[diddywahdaddy]

Tell me one thing which I absolutely cannot understand: Why, oh, WHY didn't Frosting On The Beater hit the bigtime?? It's one the greatest albums EVER!! Was it all Geffen's fault??

[oheyevee]

Quite possibly. That album defined my childhood, but it's nice to keep it as a secret.

[tzzie]

so young!! jummie!

[dandood2]

nice song... geat album !

[porketpetit]

the best song of posies!