The Pop-Rock Torch Passing...
Planetarium feels like there's rarely more than a few bands out there at any one time who actually INHERIT the great spirit of classic pop music. Not to say there's not other good pop bands out there, but that true ennui of great bands past is really only carried on by a very small number, wouldn't you say. And that spirit was carried for a good number of years there in the nineties by none other than....drumroll please......The Posies.
In order to illuminate how great they are a little better, allow me to present the logic analogy:
The Posies:Big Star::Big Star:Beach Boys
You follow? So rush right out there and pick up a copy of their classic 1992 major-label debut (and the best one), Frosting On The Beater. I wrote a review of it waayyyyyy back then about how the Posies were always kind of the band that it was cool to trash, but how they're inevitably worlds better than whoever's currently dissing 'em. So give yourself an early holiday treat, and check it out.