FRANK BLACK: Rank and discuss his albums here.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:52 pm

For the most part, this is like picking your kids...

1. Teenager Of The Year
2. Frank Black & The Catholics (s/t)
3. Frank Black (s/t)
4. Dog In The Sand
5. Pistolero
6. Black Letter Days
7. Show Me Your Tears
8. Devil's Workshop
9. Honeycomb
10.The Cult of Ray

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i need more frank black albums.
i only have 1, 3, 9 and 10

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

wait those aren't pixies albums

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i'll take "teenager of the year" over all the pixies albums.
and a few beatles albums too.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:56 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

i need more frank black albums.
i only have 1, 3, 9 and 10

Really? Holy crap you do need more FB.

And yeah, Teenager is openly the best album of the 1990's.

KPH · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:56 pm

I think I'd rank Cult of Ray a little higher.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i really need to get some of these. i really like the ones I have heard (dog in the sand, pistolero)

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:57 pm

KPH Wrote:

I think I'd rank Cult of Ray a little higher.

Maybe I have something against that album and it's not THAT bad in the least but its not better than what's above it.

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:57 pm

i tried...i really did. i just didn't like much of what i heard.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:58 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

i need more frank black albums.
i only have 1, 3 and 9

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

1. Black Letter Days
2. Show Me Your Tears
3. Teenager Of The Year

after that I'd need to listen to 'em to decide...Honeycomb is prob dead last. 1 & 2 would be above any Pixies album

Busty Rhodes · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:59 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

And yeah, Teenager is openly the best album of the 1990's.

Hmmm.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:03 pm

Busty Rhodes Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

And yeah, Teenager is openly the best album of the 1990's.

Hmmm.

Here we go...

Stone red's dark sunshine · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:17 pm **Posts:** 1096

jewels santana Wrote:

i'll take "teenager of the year" over all the pixies albums.
and a few beatles albums too.

billy g Wrote:

1 & 2 would be above any Pixies album

It's a shame that so many people are on crack these days.

puma · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:04 pm

he's coming out with a new one on 6/20.

the only one i heard was honeycomb, not a big fan of it. but i need to rectify that.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:07 pm

Stone Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

i'll take "teenager of the year" over all the pixies albums.
and a few beatles albums too.

billy g Wrote:

1 & 2 would be above any Pixies album

It's a shame that so many people are on crack these days.

Pish posh. He's also better live with his band than the Pixies ever where.

robotboy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:08 pm

I have s/t, teenager, black letter days, and cult of ray, but I am flabbergasted to think that some people rank these higher than pixies albums but I guess we'll agree to disagree

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Stone Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

i'll take "teenager of the year" over all the pixies albums.
and a few beatles albums too.

billy g Wrote:

1 & 2 would be above any Pixies album

It's a shame that so many people are on crack these days.

Pish posh. He's also better live with his band than the Pixies ever where.

absolutely...original go round pixies kinda sucked live

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

yeah teenager was a great album, but overall his solo career has been one huge "meh" for me

I do enjoy many of the songs, but it'll never have the same impact that growing up with the Pixies did. There was nothing released that was close to what I experienced when I heard Doolittle for the first time in 1990.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:13 pm

Spade Kitty Wrote:

I do enjoy many of the songs, but it'll never have the same impact that growing up with the Pixies did. There was nothing released that was close to what I experienced when I heard Doolittle for the first time in 1990.

That has a lot to do with how old you where because I hold the Pixies up like that as one of my five favorite bands of all time or whatever because of when I got into them and all that. At this point though I would much rather listen to FB. Its just better

Of course I also think Trompe and Bossanova are the best Pixies albums.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

robotboy Wrote:

I have s/t, teenager, black letter days, and cult of ray, but I am flabbergasted to think that some people rank these higher than pixies albums but I guess we'll agree to disagree

Pixies are a really fun listen but I think of them as being a lot more style than substance. Black really grew as a songwriter over the last ten years. I have much more respect for his recent (leaving honeycomb aside) work than I do for the pixies although I really enjoy both. Its also probably has alot to do with that his songs off black letter days just speak to me more where I am in my life now (late 30's) than pixies possibly still could.

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:16 pm

I only have two Pixies albums and no Frank Black albums...I guess I need to fix that. Any advice? Stone?

robotboy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:16 pm

billy g Wrote:

robotboy Wrote:

I have s/t, teenager, black letter days, and cult of ray, but I am flabbergasted to think that some people rank these higher than pixies albums but I guess we'll agree to disagree

Pixies are a really fun listen but I think of them as being a lot more style than substance. Black really grew as a songwriter over the last ten years. I have much more respect for his recent (leaving honeycomb aside) work than I do for the pixies although I really enjoy both. Its also probably has alot to do with that his songs off black letter days just speak to me more where I am in my life now (late 30's) than pixies possibly still could.

fair enough. but we just don't see eye to eye on this, billy g.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

Yail, I'm really not quite sure what you're trying to say there.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

i've never seen the pixies live but fb played a solo show here in a very small club during the black letter days cd and completely tore the shit out of the place. people went crazy and it was easily one of the best shows i have ever seen in my life.

weirdly, i've heard most of his stuff with the exception of teenager of the year.
i think i had two babies going when that came out.

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