Poster Children - Classic or Dud?

I should also note that in their instrumental semi postrock guise they're known as Salaryman and are quite good. And then there's the fact that John McEntire used to play drums for them so many moons ago before concentrating on you-know-what...

I adore them so I do, only seen them once, in Amsterdam of all places supporting Steel Pole Bathtub and they were really special and engaging and lovely. I think I like 'Where we Live' the best, but really I can listen to any one of their tunes and it reminds my why I love music so.

Salaryman are ace too. Both albums. At the Salaryman / Long Fin Killie / Mouse on Mars / Tortoise gig in Camden they were the best band.

I agree about the negative association, but no, no beards and no Tortoise sounds. *coughthereisthatlinkIputupyoucanclickonforinfohack*

Johnny "machine" Hearndon was always a fill in whenever their current drummer quit, which seemed to be every other time they came around.

I haven't heard any of their records since "Tool of the Man", but they were alot of fun to see live back in the early 90s.

They used to play where I went to school once or twice a year back in those days, so I saw them live four or five times.

[UNRELATED] And for god's sake, will people stop listing Tortoise as a band Jim O'Rourke's produced? All he ever did was two remixes.

Hm! How unusual, I'd always heard otherwise -- oh well! Them incestuous scenes, lemme tell ya. ;-)

Favourites: Junior Citizen, RTFM, Salaryman s/t

This capsulizes my feelings for the Poster Children. I wanted to see them with Fugazi last year, but I went to see Arab on Radar, Biz Markie, The Rapture and Kid Koala instead.

"Western Springs" should be 2004's sleeper indie single, much like the NPs with "The Laws Have Changed" in 2003...but, alas, no one pays attention to the Poster Children anymore.

The video is here. Reminds me a little bit of several Talking Heads videos mashed together.

this was the first band i remember that talked a lot about their website.

I had never heard that If You See Kay pun until I heard that song, and still it had to be pointed out to me...I also owned their CD for many months before realizing it was actually called "Flower Plower"...

I used to love their female bassist...she would play that thing like she was wrestling with an anaconda...

I've been listening to "He's My Star" on repeat for several weeks now... what a fantastic song.

great band

Great band, one of the best live bands I've ever seen

it's been a really long time since they released an album, hasn't it?

I also owned their CD for many months before realizing it was actually called "Flower Plower"...

looool I don't think I ever realized that until .... just now

Yes and they would play the odd show every so often in the greater IL area, but I haven't heard of one for a long while, I haven't kept up with them, but I still love the records and saw them a zillion times in Mpls over the yrs

I don't have that record though. but my roommate did. (xp to myself)

it sucks that all these top 40 fuckers stole their "If You See Kay" gag

Black Dog and 21st Century off of RTFM are fucking classic. Black Dog actually causes me to get shivers down my spine for the first minute. Not many songs do that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU-FAS3iZXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtkUf0sbe8

Ok so we've been moving the house around.
I've managed to negotiate my own private corner, surrounded by my music, my instruments, porn mags and so on
It's given me the opportunity to rediscover my old music

I pulled out Daisy Chain Reaction expecting to be underwhelmed. I can honestly say , I must've played this hurriedly once and cast it aside in '91 (nineteen ninety fucking one!) cos it wasn't fast/ angry enough or something. It's been languishing in my collection, annoying me ever since; surviving my moving house and lugging vinyl curses.

So, I placed it on my lo fi ion turntable (that I've used to convert not one album since I bought it at the turn of the century).

What a pleasant , almighty surprsie! How come I passed this over? Ahead of its time? Sonically huge (Albini?)

And I saw Steel Pole Bathtub ^ but never these!

Now, to get a better turntable ,eh? Anything else worth seeking by Poster Children? Ok, this does not exactly blow me away, but it's fucking good stuff. It did start lagging a touch towards the end of side 2. But, then I discovered that my 49p Ion stylus had collected a sackful of 1991 dust ...

They were real consistent actually. RTFM is my favorite.

So! New solo project from Rick Valentin.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/02/poster_children.html

Annnnd they're fully back with a Daisychain Reaction tour this fall

https://twitter.com/Poster_Children/status/740937882899222529

Fucking right on. Man, I just checked their shows list, I can't believe it's been 17 yrs since I've seen them.

1997.05.07 Seventh Street Entry Minneapolis, MN Failure, Summercamp

RFTM had just come out, I had Junior Citizen but I don't think I saw them around that record. Anyway, it felt like years & years since I had seen them (probably like 2). I drove straight from my second shift job and walked into the Entry just as they were about to start and they just absolutely fucking slayed. I don't remember anything about Failure, I actually night have left becuz PC had torched the room so badly.

i recently added 'tool of the man', and 'junior citizen' to my digital archive.
this nudge could make me actually listen to them for the first time in a very very long time
cd edition : 'tool of the man' cover had one of those of magic eye images on the back.
for a few weeks i almost cracked that visual trick, but i very much doubt i could do it now.
actually, i have a couple of albums with magic eye styled artwork actually .. did this become a thing ?

junior citizen is currently sounding absolutely fantastic.

(i seem to recall finding 'tool .. ' somewhat annoying at the time, but i will find out later on .. )

great band one of the most underrated of the 90s

well, that was brilliant.
really enjoyed listening to 'junior citizen' again.
it must be over 15 years since i heard that.
the guitars are fantastic.
and despite the fact it was released a long time ago, (over 20 years !!! f*cking hell .. )
the cd sounds amazing.

first band on the internet!!!

(i don't know if that's true but felt like the first band to make a big deal about being on the web)

i think they might have had the first ever podcast.

Long may they thrive

http://www.pantagraph.com/poster-children-diy-or-not-at-all/article_1661a875-8e0b-5553-9ad3-ff1571f3ddde.html

And new album!

http://store.posterchildren.com/album/grand-bargain

Aw yeah Flower Plower remaster with bonus tracks:

https://store.posterchildren.com/album/flower-plower-2023-remaster

But even more aw yeah -- a Rose Marshack autobiography! This'll be great for sure.

https://store.posterchildren.com/merch/play-like-a-man

For some reason I never heard No More Songs About Sleep and Fire until today. It's good! Like a visit from an old friend.