'Dear 23' by The Posies. Released in August in 1990 it immediately became and still is in my Top 25 albums from the 90's. It's that great, The Hollies on steroids I use jokingly say back then. Producer John Leckie, one of my all time favorites did a stellar job here.

Dear 23 is the major label debut by Seattle Alternative rock/grunge/power pop band The Posies. "Apology" appears in Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995 along with "I May Hate you Sometimes" from their first album, Failure.

• The major-label debut from alternative/power popsters. • Remastered from original tapes. • 2-CD expanded with 27 bonus tracks. We began our career exactly 30 years prior by releasing a home-recorded cassette called Failure, which to our complete surprise became an instant favorite around the Northwest, earning us critical accolades, radio airplay, and major label interest all in a very short time. We were lucky to find ourselves living just a few doors down the road in Seattle from Arthur “Rick” Roberts and Mike Musburger, who agreed to join our band on bass and drums, respectively.

Signed to Geffen Records, we recorded our second album Dear 23, and toured the U.S., including support tours for both Redd Kross and The Replacements. These three albums on Geffen remain beloved by our fans; our most popular, most often cited, most requested works. However, over the years, the CDs have been in and out of print, there have been inconsistent presences on streaming, the LPs either long out of print or not issued at all depending on the territory.

Dear 23 on CD came out in the early days of the format, and the older CDs are not exactly true to the analog masters the albums were made on. Good news: all that’s about to change. Dear 23 will be re-issued by Omnivore Recordings (who have, among many releases new and old, reissued our first album Failure plus releases by Big Star, Game Theory, etc).

Each album will be released as a double CD set: one CD containing the original album, remastered from the original analog tapes, plus enough bonus material to fill out the rest of the CD; and one full CD of more bonus material. Don’t expect just a repackaging of material already available on our 2000 boxed set of outtakes—nearly all of the bonus tracks on these new reissues have never been heard!

Dear 23 will now stretch across two LPs and will be mastered at 45 RPM. We made the decision to stick to just the original albums for the vinyl release, and give it room to breathe across two glorious slabs of wax.

So if bonus tracks are your thing, the 2-CD set will have you covered. Catch The Posies on their 30th Anniversary tour in 2018 too!

Billy Squire - Debut Intervention SACD

I've been curious about Intervention's mastering quality. Time to partially find out.

How is the mastering & the bonus trax?

I agree with Rick about the remastering. Omnivore has proven many times over with Big Star and Chris Bell that they know exactly how this kind of music is supposed to sound.

The demo versions are not revelatory, but are nice to have. The demos of unreleased songs, nicer still.

Most important to me was the addition of single and compilation tracks as bonuses, so everything from this era is finally together in one package.

Go get it and you won't regret it:

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Wargirl Arbolita

6 song EP debut from a Southern California group that describes their sound as third world garage rock. Love the title track.

In honor of our recent discussions:

The Band - Music From Big Pink MFSL SACD