{"id":6373,"date":"2014-09-17T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2014-09-17T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T09:30:50","slug":"boots-by-george-harrison-hair-by-robert-smith-the-posies-interview-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/17\/boots-by-george-harrison-hair-by-robert-smith-the-posies-interview-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part Two<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken Stringfellow:<\/strong> Listening to Failure<\/em>, it would be hard to tell what we were listening to. Because the album has a very sixties vibe to it, kind of like if some sixties beat group moved to California. But I can give you a breakdown that will show you where some of these songs came from. I can tell you what I think they’re direct rip-offs of, and you’ll see through the sixties-ness of them to the original source.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Easy\u201d sounds a bit like The Byrds<\/strong> or something like that. But it really is [based on] a Bob Mould<\/strong> song. There’s so many Bob Mouldisms in the chord progression and melody; it’s just that the production fools you into thinking it’s sixties-based. We were absolutely obsessed with H\u00fcsker D\u00fc<\/strong>; they were heading into a more songwriter-y vibe; they had left the punk sound behind.<\/p>\n

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Jon Auer:<\/strong> Two bands that we absolutely worshiped<\/em> were The Replacements<\/strong> and H\u00fcsker D\u00fc.<\/p>\n

Ken:<\/strong> \u201cAt Least for Now\u201d is maybe a little closer to its source. It’s a less agonized version of a Paul Westerberg<\/strong> song. Imagine it as a slightly more cheerful version of \u201cHere Comes a Regular.\u201d We were massive Replacements fans. And what was a nice turnaround is that when this record got released as an LP and started to get national airplay, it really became a favorite of Paul Westerberg’s. He took us on tour shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI May Hate You Sometimes\u201d seems like it’s some sort of Beatles ’65<\/em> thing, but if you listen to the wordplay and the nonstop vocals, it’s a little bit of Elvis Costello. It’s a title that has so much irony in it that it’s not clever enough to be great irony.<\/p>\n

Jon:<\/strong> You can certainly hear the influence of The Beatles, but any record made past a certain time has that influence on it. If you wanted to compare \u201cI May Hate You Sometimes\u201d with \u201cThe Word\u201d from Rubber Soul<\/em>, we copied the cowbell, the percussion track. It’s pretty much an homage; we just ripped ’em off.<\/p>\n