Amazing Disgrace

Amazing Disgrace is the fourth album by the Seattle alternative rock band the Posies, released in 1996.^[7] It was their final release for DGC Records.^[8][9]

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Amazing Disgrace
Studio album by The Posies
Released	May 14, 1996
Studio	Robert Lang Studios (Seattle)
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	49:58
Label	DGC
Producer	Nick Launay;[1] Steve Fisk on "Ontario"
The Posies chronology
Frosting on the Beater (1993) Amazing Disgrace (1996) Success (1998)

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	B+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[6]

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As was the case on previous albums, the band's label told the Posies to return to the studio to record more "'hit material.'"^[10] Cheap Trick's Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen appear on "Hate Song."^[10]

Robert Christgau wrote: "Of course it's not the Beatles or Big Star—merely emulated, the formal ideas don't sustain their excitement."^[3] The Washington Post wrote that the album's "combination of pretty melody and ugly thoughts is utterly contemporary."^[11] Trouser Press called the album "surprisingly sour but still delicious."^[12]

All songs by Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow.

1. "Daily Mutilation" – 4:04
2. "Ontario" – 2:38
3. "Throwaway" – 3:53
4. "Please Return It" – 3:51
5. "Hate Song" – 4:06
6. "Precious Moments" – 3:47
7. "Fight It (If You Want)" – 3:04
8. "Everybody Is a Fucking Liar" – 3:15
9. "World" – 3:57
10. "Grant Hart" – 2:25
11. "Broken Record" – 2:40
12. "The Certainty" – 2:28
13. "Song #1" – 5:39
14. "¿Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?" – 3:51
15. "Terrorized" - 04:11 (Bonus Track)

The Posies

• Jon Auer – guitar, vocals
• Ken Stringfellow – guitar, vocals
• Joe Skyward – bass "found around 110 Hz"
• Brian Young – drums

Additional personnel

• Jessica Lurie – tenor saxophone on "Please Return It"
• Barbara Marino – baritone saxophone on "Please Return It"
• Robin Zander – vocal "screams" on "Hate Song"
• Rick Nielsen – guitar "freakout" on "Hate Song"
• Steve Fisk – keyboards on "Broken Record"
• Gavin Guss – trumpet on "Broken Record"
• Roderick Wolgamott Romero – "mumbling undertaker" vocals on "Broken Record"

Production

• Nick Launay – producer
• Steve Fisk – additional production on "Ontario"
• John Goodmanson, Nick Launay – engineer
• Jon Auer, Keith Cleversley – engineer (additional)
• Aaron Warner, John Burton, Mark Rosnick, Steve Culp – assistant engineer
• Greg Calbi – mastering

Artwork and design

• Tim Gabor – art direction, design
• Otto Bettmann, United Press International – photography (cover)
• Duncan Price, Joe Bass, Lance Mercer, Nordic Joe – photography (photographs)