Charley Francis (someone with a better Frank Black site than me reckons his real name is
Charles Thompson, I don't know who is right but he has short fuzzy hair) was the singer in
the Pixies but sadly they are no more. He seems to have got really fat since the Pixies split
up, I think he may perhaps be comfort eating. He some times plays with Teenage Fan Club,
or so I've heard and he's usually about in England at festival time I think he was at Pheonix
this year, was he or am I making it up, bugger I don't know.
Frank Black is different from the Pixies, the Pixies were more noisy and had this sort of
'messed up mexican' style. FB's stuff is really melodic and catchy and well I don't like to say
Poppy but it's like he sneeks into pop's back garden in the middle of the night and has a shit
on the lawn. Lot's of guitar some that sound like country music in space and some that are
very go-y that make you want to jump about and shake your head with a beer bottle in one
hand and a cigarillo in the other. The first album was so hot, but the other two are dead, dead
good.
FB sings about weird stuff, that doesn't make sense at first and then some of them you start
to understand and you realise that he's been watching to much of the X files. It's not really
like the Pixies but it's similar to their last album Trompe le monde.
Frank Black:
1) Los Angeles
2) I heard Ramona sing
3) Hang on to your ego
4) Fu manchu
5) Places named after numbers
6) Czar
7) Old black dawning
8) Ten percenter
9) Brackish boy
10) Two spaces
11) Tossed
12) Parry the wind high, low
13) Adda Lee
14) Every time I go around here
15) Don't ya rile 'em
singles:
Hang on to your ego
Bonus tracks:
The ballad of Johnny Horton
Surf Epic
Teenager of the year:
1) Whatever happened to pong?
2) Thalassocracy
3) I want to live on an abstract plain
4) Calistan
5) The vanishing spies
6) Speedy Marie
7) Headache
8) Sir Rockaby
9) Freedom rock
10) Two reelers
11) Fiddle riddle
12) Ole Mulholland
13) Fazer eyes
14) I could stay here forever
15) The hostess with the mostest
16) Superabound
17) Big red
18) Space is gonna do me good
19) White noise maker
20) Pure denizen of the citizens band
21) Bad wicked world
22) Pie in the sky
singles:
Headache (disk 1)
Bonus tracks:
Headache (disk 2)
Bonus tracks:
Cult of Ray:
1) The marsist
2) Men in black
3) Punk rock city
4) You ain't me
5) Jesus was right
6) I don't want to hurt you (every single time)
7) Mosh, don't pass the guy
8) Kicked in the taco
9) The creature crawling
10) The adventure and the resolution
11) Dance war
12) Cult of Ray
13) Last stand of Shazeb Andleeb
Comes with free 4 track e.p.
1) Village of the sun
2) Baby that's art
3) Everybody got the beat
4) Can I get a witness?
For a proper nice Frank Black site try these little buggers.....
http://rugch5.chem.rug.nl/~pieter/frank
black
Lots of information and pictures and that and plenty more links to more Frank Black stuff -
Knock yourself out.
