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Welcome to the Burning Sky Records! You can now order the 45-track (not counting any hidden tracks ;) ), 3-CD album "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited"! It rocks!
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“Beautiful Escape” Album Available NOW! Special Combo Deal!
“Beautiful Escape” and Posies fans,
After all of these months of hard work, the big day has finally arrived! The 45-track (not counting any hidden tracks ;) ), 3-CD Album “Beautiful Escape: The Songs of the Posies Revisited” is available NOW! We are also offering a special combo deal – if you buy the Album, you can add the EP to your order for just $2 more!
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Ken Stringfellow on the “Beautiful Escape” EP Still thinking about it? Please check out what Posies founding member Ken Stringfellow had to say about the “Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along” EP on his web site:
“Listened to this week and can recommend…the EP preceeding the Posies tribute album—including Dominique’s version of ‘Will You Ever Ease Your Mind’ and Jim Protectors’ freak-take of ‘Coming Right Along’. I will register that I myself thought the artwork for the tribute was maybe too literal to the title, and could have been more Posie-ish, but, the tracks…wow! Every track on this EP is a novel, extremely well thought out and great sounding take on a Posies song, from ‘Dream All Day’ (by an LA band called the Meadows, but with 3 current or former Posies contributing) to ‘I Guess You’re Right’ (by some New Yorkers of some stripe). You can buy the EP for $7, so, same price as Itunes, and you get CD quality audio. One of the partners in making the Posies tribute is Steve Turnidge, who I have to say is an extremely talented mastering engineer, so the sonic quality of the tracks makes the physical disk worth having.”
We were very gratified to hear that Ken has been digging the EP! (We were also very pleased to read the props for Steve – he really does do amazing work!) You probably saw Jon’s great comments on the Album, and now you’ve seen Ken’s take on the EP (Ken hasn’t received his Album yet – I will be giving it to him in person at the CD Release Party on May 17th) – If The Posies themselves are liking the “Beautiful Escape releases, don’t you think you will, too?
We hope that you will check out the “Beautiful Escape” releases – I think that you will be very happy that you did!
Cheers,
Alan and the Burning Sky Records “Beautiful Escape” Team
Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow weigh in on "Beautiful Escape"!
Founding Posies member JON AUER has this to say about Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited:
“I’ll have to own up to being suspect when I first heard the concept of forty-five different artists recording new versions of Posies songs. I guess at my core I feared polite, cursory renditions of our relatively ‘best known’, the proverbial ‘skating on the surface’ as they say in the vernacular or at the very least folks just ‘phoning it in’. Still, as skeptical as I might like to portray myself, and after lending my ears to the procession, I couldn’t deny the ultimate conclusion I arrived at: a lot of Beautiful Escape… truly manages to surprise me and I’m really touched that it does. At its best, if you will, I’d liken it to diving headfirst into a sonic mirror from a slightly alternate universe, a place where clusters of tone, choices of instrument, and phrasings of word are reinvented enough to render me able to enjoy something I originally created as if never considered possible in the first place. Wow. In a similar sense, perhaps it’s like a stranger finding one of your old photo albums and restaging your favorite pictures in ways and with colors you might never have visualized. Colors that look and feel somewhat familiar, but upon closer inspection smell like a fresh coat of paint on a house you barely remember building. Double wow. Who would’ve ‘thunk’ it possible? Not me, I assure you. I suppose until now, that is.”
Founding Posies member KEN STRINGFELLOW adds:
“Though I don't think we're as important as the Velvets or Big Star, they say that everyone who heard those bands formed a band soon after--and thus, despite not achieving the high water mark in terms of sales, they profoundly influenced the course of popular music. Are the Posies the next band to join that list? Well, drop the word 'profoundly' and we're getting somewhere. So, in a sense, this collection is a nice cross section of the breadth and depth and global diversity of the people in whom we've struck a chord of inspiration. And it's true for all of us who make music, once you put something out there, you will be surprised how far it travels, and whose day it might make better. An inspiring thought, and I'm honored to contribute anytime to the inspiration to create.”
"Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish" Available Now!
Our 35-track, 2-CD Album titled “Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish” is available NOW!
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The cost of the Album is $24.99, which I hope you’ll think is a fair price for 2-CDs, 35 tracks, 2.5 hours of way cool covers of Jellyfish songs.

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Member Since: 3/23/2007
Band Website: BurningSkyRecords.com
Band Members: Here is the track list for the 45-track, 3-CD Burning Sky Records Album, "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited." The Album is available NOW!!!"

Disc 1 - The Red Disc
1. Dream All Day - The Meadows (US)
2. Flavor Of The Month - Maxi Dunn (UK)
3. I May Hate You Sometimes - The Drowners (Sweden)
4. Please Return It - Peter Searcy (US)
5. Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive - The Junior League (US)
6. Chainsmoking In The USA - The Sugarrush (Finland)
7. Throwaway - Throwback Suburbia (US)
8. Burn and Shine - Steven Wright-Mark (US)
9. At Least For Now - Don Mabus (US)
10. Song 1 - The Virtues (Sweden)
11. Start A Life - Joe Skyward and Brette Howard (US)
12. Blind Eyes Open - Panther Style (US)
13. Ontario - cosmopolitANTS (Spain)
14. You Avoid Parties - We Know, Plato! (US)
15. Coming Right Along - Megafauna (US)

Disc 2 - The Green Disc
1.) Golden Blunders - The Smith Bros. (US)
2.) Every Bitter Drop - The Royalz (UK)
3.) Will You Ever Ease Your Mind? - Flip Your Wig (Denmark)
4.) Somehow Everything - The Genuine Fakes (Sweden)
5.) Everybody Is A Fucking Liar - Ken Stringfellow (France,US)
6.) Suddenly Mary - John Parry (US)
7.) Everyone Moves Away - The Well Wishers (US)
8.) The Longest Line - Slinkyredfoot (US)
9.) Going, Going, Gone - Super Ratones (Argentina)
10.) The Certainty - Alex Smee (UK)
11.) Under Easy - Frank Royster (US)
12.) No Consolation - Electroplex (Australia)
13.) 20 Questions - Cokeroque (Spain)
14.) When Mute Tongues Can Speak - Ian McGlynn (US)
15.) Flood Of Sunshine - Mike Dees (US)

Disc 3 - The Blue Disc
1.) Conversations - The Wellingtons (Australia)
2.) Definite Door - James Deem (US)
3.) Solar Sister - EVEN (Australia)
4.) Daily Mutilation - Jon Auer (US)
5.) Terrorized - The Shifter (The Netherlands)
6.) Fight It (If You Want) - Dinky Drums (Germany)
7.) I Guess You're Right - tiny Tendrils (US)
8.) Precious Moments - Darling Cait (US)
9.) Earlier Than Expected - The Pozers (US)
10.) Apology - Strange Fruits (Japan)
11.) Help Yourself - Every Damn Day (US)
12.) Paint Me - The Calculus Affair (US)
13.) Who To Blame - Luis Francesco Arena (France)
14.) Open Every Window - Greenlawn Abbey (US)
15.) You're The Beautiful One - Brian Pylant (US)
16.) Hidden Track - ????
Here is the track list for the Burning Sky Records EP, "Beautiful Escape...Is Coming Right Along: Precious Moments from the upcoming album. The EP is available NOW!!!"

1. Dream All Day - The Meadows
2. Solar Sister (EP-only track) - Cokeroque
3. Somehow Everything - The Genuine Fakes
4. I Guess You're Right (EP-only track) - David Shaw and The Round Trip
5. Precious Moments - Darling Cait
6. Coming Right Along (EP-only track) - Jim Protector
7. Will You Ever Ease Your Mind (EP-only track) - Doubleman with Dominique Stringfellow

Here is the track list for the 5-track "Hello" EP, which is available NOW!

"Hello" EP
1.) Hello - The Sonic Executive Sessions
2.) Bedspring Kiss - Tommi Zender (EP-only track)
3.) Joining A Fan Club - threads
4.) Calling Sarah - Ken Morrison
5.) The Glutton of Sympathy - Edison Gower (EP-only track)
Here is the track list for the 35-song 2-CD release "Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish" which is available NOW on Burning Sky Records.

Disc 1: A Tribute to "Bellybutton"
1. The Man I Used To Be - AmeriTrash
2. That Is Why - Sextus
3. The King Is Half Undressed - Fred
4. I Wanna Stay Home - DC Cardwell
5. She Still Loves Him - Mike Elgert
6. All I Want Is Everything - Millicent Friendly
7. Now She Knows She's Wrong - LoveDrive
8. Bedspring Kiss - Nigel Frayling-Kelly
9. Baby's Coming Back - Wayne Cabral
10. Calling Sarah - Ken Morrison
Bonus Tracks:
11. Hello - The Sonic Executive Sessions
12. Mr. Late - Ed James
13. Queen Of The USA - The Taters
14. Always Be My Girl - The Mayflowers
15. That Girl's A Man - Maxi Dunn
16. Watchin' The Rain - Negative Earth
17. Let This Dream Never End - Mike Dees
Disc 2: A Tribute to "Spilt Milk"
1. Hush - Readymade Breakup
2. Joining A Fan Club - threads
3. Sebrina, Paste and Plato - Rockosaurus Rex
4. New Mistake - PoP Is ArT (with Derek Chafin)
5. The Glutton Of Sympathy - Enfadados
6. The Ghost At Number One - Black Sugar Transmission
7. Bye, Bye, Bye - The Celebrities
8. All Is Forgiven - The Gluttons Of Symphony
9. Russian Hill - Robert Baird
10. He's My Best Friend - Benj Clarke and Bill Brandenburgh
11. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Dave Stephens
12. Brighter Day - Brand New Machine
Bonus Tracks:
13. Ignorance Is Bliss - Loveshine
14. Family Tree - Checkpoint Charley
15. I Don't Believe You - Stephen Wright-Mark
16. I Need Love - The Vague
17. Will You Marry Me? - The Pozers
18. Runnin' For Our Lives - DiEL
(Artist links kindly compiled by DC Cardwell)
Sounds Like: Feedback on “Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited
Where do I start with this? Well, how about "It's incredible!" Burning Sky Records follows up last year’s wonderful Jellyfish tribute (“Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish” with a very risky 3-disc set with the music of The Posies. This is no easy task, since The Posies music is some of the most complex melodic masterpieces ever made in the pop world, but there are honestly 45 well-done tracks by artists that obviously love the band's music.
Highlights include (and there are 45 of them) The Drowners’ "I May Hate You Sometime", which is radio ready and shows this song still sounds as current as it did when it was first released in 1988. Other rockers fair well on the album, too; Every Damn Day rocks out "Help Yourself" fiercely, and you can sense the raw emotion Peter Searcy puts into "Please Return It".
The Well Wishers’ "Everyone Moves Away" flows with perfect harmonies that would make Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow proud. Arguably the standout track is "You Avoid Parties" - it is gorgeously done by We Know, Plato! The guitars are replaced with keys and the song is sung with simple, yet passionate vocals that show just what a beautiful escape The Posies music is.
The set also includes great tracks by 4 present and former members of the band, making this one of the most essential albums of 2008. I'm not sure how you top a tribute album like this, but if anybody can do it will be Burning Sky Records.
---Jay Anderson, Popbang Radio---
Record Label: Burning Sky Records
Type of Label: Indie

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