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“Flavor of the Month” by The Posies

From the album Frosting on the Beater (1993)

“Flavor of the Month” by The Posies appears on 15 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1993 on the album Frosting on the Beater. Its best result is #785 on The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,341 alternative song of all time.

15countdowns
2stations
#785best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1999–2014years charted

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"Flavor of the Month" comes from Frosting on the Beater, the Posies' third album, released in 1993, and it's a pointed bit of hometown sniping: Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow wrote it as a dig at all the overnight-sensation grunge bands in Seattle. David Bianco mixed it.

The album around it went darker than anything the band had done before, thanks in part to producer Don Fleming, and it was the last Posies record with original drummer Mike Musburger. The song got an unlikely second life later on, when the band gave it brand-new words and turned it into "Voyage of the Aquanauts" for Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 785 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1086 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1088 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1095 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1094 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1079 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1079 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1079 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 954 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 942 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 955 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 984 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1015 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1071 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1126 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

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