FRANK BLACK: Rank and discuss his albums here.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:21 pm

Spade Kitty Wrote:

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

That you and I probably think similiarly in our appreciation and deification of the Pixies, I just feel more like billyg now whereas the FB solo shit has never grabbed you. No biggie.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:21 pm

Even if you are stuck in 1990 you fucking child.

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

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Even if you are stuck in 1990 you fucking child.

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

it took like 7 years for "teenager" to really click with me.
and it keeps growing on me every year.

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

also, i guess i'm all alone in loving the shit out of "honeycomb"

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:31 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

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

...somehow I only have 1, 3, 9, and 10. But I'd put Ray above Honeycomb.

Ayah, you neeeeeeed Teenager. I'm trying to think of an album from the 90's I like more, and only Siamese Dream is coming up so far.

tentoze · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:34 pm

Honeycomb is the only FB album I've heard (like it quite a lot). And, while the admission might bring on universal derision and contempt, I have never heard a Pixies album of any flavor.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:36 pm

Ex Lion Tamer Wrote:

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

i'm in the same situation. surfer rosa and that other one that i have. brain freeze.....doolittle.

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

does anyone else have surfer rosa and come on pilgrim on one CD?
for the longest time i didn't even realize that i had a bonus EP, i thought it was all one long album.

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

[quote="Cap'n Squirrgle"Ayah, you neeeeeeed Teenager. I'm trying to think of an album from the 90's I like more[/quote]

i've checked the used bins and it's never there--now i know why. okay, i'm gonna get it new. most of everything that's current is boring the hell out of me anyway.

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

Ex Lion Tamer Wrote:

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

Which two do you have? Let me see what I can do to help you out with obtaining some more Pixies/FB stuff.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:55 pm

ayah Wrote:

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Ayah, you neeeeeeed Teenager. I'm trying to think of an album from the 90's I like more

i've checked the used bins and it's never there--now i know why. okay, i'm gonna get it new. most of everything that's current is boring the hell out of me anyway.

Prepare yourself for 22 songs, bout 2 minutes each, of overwhelmingly catchy nature. Some a little more chill, but lots of eager, aggressive, hard-hitting, poppy guitary goodness. Lyle Workman plays guitar on that one, and it's one of my favorite guitar albums... twisty, off-balance solos, where he sounds like he's gonna veer off the road and lose it, but never does.

Must've played that on "SO Loud" at least 200 times in the car as an undergrad.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:00 pm

ayah Wrote:

i've checked the used bins and it's never there--now i know why. okay, i'm gonna get it new. most of everything that's current is boring the hell out of me anyway.

I got lucky then, because I found mine used in a T.O. record shop back in '95. If you're real curious, I'll up it for you tonight.

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:39 pm

Stone Wrote:

Ex Lion Tamer Wrote:

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

Which two do you have? Let me see what I can do to help you out with obtaining some more Pixies/FB stuff.

I have a vinyl copy of "Doolittle" and a dupe CD copy of "Surfer Rosa", which I haven't been able to find for at least a year and never really got to know very well, but I do like "Doolittle" a lot. I got no Frank.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:50 pm

I'll YSI some of these albums tonight kids and report back to the interested.

I should make a FB mix but it would be all the big anthem songs like "Freedom Rock" and "If It Takes All Night" Maybe I'll give it a try.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:51 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I'll YSI some of these albums tonight kids and report back to the interested.

I should make a FB mix but it would be all the big anthem songs like "Freedom Rock" and "If It Takes All Night" Maybe I'll give it a try.

<-- wants to put in his unsolicited 4 cents.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:55 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I'll YSI some of these albums tonight kids and report back to the interested.

I should make a FB mix but it would be all the big anthem songs like "Freedom Rock" and "If It Takes All Night" Maybe I'll give it a try.

I'm interested in albums and a mix suggestion.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:57 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

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

My 1 and 2 are pretty much interchangeable, but I'd rank 'em like this:

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

I prefer the best of FB's solo work over the Pixies, but I don't hold the Pixies as sacred as some of you. Probably because their appearance in my life didn't coincide with the arrival of pubic hair.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:57 pm

Took me a while to buy the snake oil Bloor was selling, FB is a monster.

Black Letter Days, and teh opener Black Rider (a Tom Waits cover, kids) is in your face jail rock of the highest order.

Black Letter Days is my fave solo album.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:58 pm

Aight I put this together without much thought so pardon the many ommissions.

Code:

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DIFPB0AMDLJE1ATMBT7JATQP8

Tracklisting:
1. Los Angeles
2. All My Ghosts
3. Thalassocracy
4. Chip Away Boy
5. Western Star
6. Do You Feel Bad About It?
7. The Vanishing Spies
8. California Bound
9. The Hostess With The Mostest
10. St Francis Dam Disaster
11. Kicked In The Taco
12. Dog Gone
13. Freedom Rock
14. Horrible Day
15. Superabound
16. If It Takes All Night
17. Adda Lee
18. 21 Reasons
19. The Man Who Was Too Loud

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:07 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

My 1 and 2 are pretty much interchangeable, but I'd rank 'em like this:

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

I'm really surprised that you don't have the s/t Catholics album ranked higher. I think that album has some Great (capital G mind you) songs on it. Also, after the dissapointing Cult of Ray, I remember literally losing my shit when it came out. One of his better tours as well.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:19 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Radcliffe Wrote:

My 1 and 2 are pretty much interchangeable, but I'd rank 'em like this:

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

I'm really surprised that you don't have the s/t Catholics album ranked higher. I think that album has some Great (capital G mind you) songs on it. Also, after the dissapointing Cult of Ray, I remember literally losing my shit when it came out. One of his better tours as well.

At the time I was more disappointed in the stripped-down live-to-2-track approach of FB and the Catholics than I was in the scant pickings of Cult Of Ray - but then again, I consider a bunch of songs on C of R as good as anything on Teenager of the Year (ie: "Men In Black", "You Ain't Me", "Jesus Was Right", and "The Last Stand Of Shazeb Andleeb").

But those ranking are all relative. FB and the Catholics might be at #9, but that doesn't mean I don't like the hell out of it. 'Cuz I do.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:22 pm

Black Letter Days all the way, but I have probably only listened to half of his output. I like the Pixies less as I get older.

Timis · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:25 pm

thanks for posting that mix bloor....i have tried to get into FB, but havent been able to. i love the pixies a shit ton though. hopefully with this mix, it will change me.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:28 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

But those ranking are all relative. FB and the Catholics might be at #9, but that doesn't mean I don't like the hell out of it. 'Cuz I do.

Word. I feel the same way.

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