Alive Before the Iceberg [Live]

Posies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 18, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Badman Records
• ASIN: B00004L8G5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,210 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Somehow Everything

2. Please Return It

3. Dream All Day

4. You're the Beautiful One

5. Start a Life

6. Precious Moments

7. Grant Hart

8. Flavor of the Month

9. Everybody Is a Fucking Liar

10. Broken Record

11. Surrender

12. Throwaway

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a great live rock album with no overdubs!, September 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Alive Before the Iceberg (Audio CD)

It seems some of you out there have been jaded by those shimmering, "just like the record only with clapping and more reverb" live albums that are more overdubs than live. A real live rock band who is jumping off amps and running across the stage with reckless abandon will sound like this record - Raw and Balls Out - especially when playing at the venues described in the liner notes (one had a stage made of sheets of plywood and oil drums). If you are a fan of The Posies beyond Failure and Dear 23, BUY THIS CD! It's loud, it rocks, and it's The Posies, what more could you want? It even sounds like they're having fun! Imagine that, a rock band actually enjoying themselves! I gave it four stars instead of five only because I can't stand the song "Broken Record", but the cover of "Surrender" is hilarious; one unabashed rock show cliche after another, and the live version of "Please Return It" is much better than the album version. Enough said. Except that you should make sure to get the acoustic live album which is excellent (although not as good as they were in NYC near the end of the tour) and also the amazing Jon Auer solo record. Pray to your God that these guys keep putting out records.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars rawness and passion, April 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Alive Before the Iceberg (Audio CD)

This live album recorded in Barcelona (with extensive liner notes by Ken Stringfellow) captures the band the way I always wished their studio albums had: all is rawness and passion regardless of perfect pitch and time.

3.0 out of 5 stars The Posies and Barcelona, March 2, 2001

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Aleb Isogul (Chicago IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alive Before the Iceberg (Audio CD)

The Posies have a very nice and long relationship with Barcelona. This "Alive before the iceberg" is recorded there and the record company that released the record (Houston Party) was founded there, but the connection goes further: Jon Auer (Co-leader of the band)has lived for a while in this spanish city, he has produced a CD from a local band there (Gallygows) and they (The Posies) have recorded some new material in a studio located on the city. In the "Alive before..." CD liner notes Ken Stringfellow explains a little bit more about the relationship between the band and the spanish character. The recording is not great but it's honest and real and... I really love this guys.