Frank Black's best songs?
I've been listening to Frank Black's "Los Angeles" for like an hour straight. What a great song. What else of his should I be listening to? Pixies, The Catholics, doesn't matter to me.
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pixies:
surfer rosa & come on pilgrim - import cd doolittle bossanova trompe le monde or you could start with death to the pixies, the pixies greatest hits cd. but all pixies cd's are worth getting. i never got into his solo stuff outside of his first album, but they might be good as well. |
Los Angeles is a great song, and just about anything off of Teenager Of The Year.
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never heard of him
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Anything written by Black Francis.
I also loved his first solo album, but it seemed like the filler rate jumped quite a bit after that. There would still be one or two fantastic songs on each album, along with a bunch of mediocre songs. I haven't heard the two albums that just came out, though. |
"Teenager of the year" is phenomenal. "Cult of Ray" is only slightly less appetizing.
Actually...if you like "Los Angeles" you really should check it all out. Mediocre....sheesh....please. |
Pistolero and Dog in the Sand are great FB&TC records.
Teenager is my favorite FB album. Doolittle is my favorite Pixies album, although the BBC record is really good too. The new frankblack.net has a lot of good info including an FTP site. |
Originally posted by subbacultcha Mediocre....sheesh....please. I should probably just stop comparing his recent work to the Pixies, but that's kind of hard to do, because I love the Pixies. I literally have an original copy of every officially released Pixies song (except for the Sound Waves EP which included Rock A My Soul.) So, what did you think of the two new albums? Everyone that I've talked to has loved them, but I haven't picked them up since they're on my christmas list. :) |
I literally have an original copy of every officially released Pixies song (except for the Sound Waves EP which included Rock A My Soul.) You can't compare the two.....that's the same fallacy as comparing a McDonald's burger to a nice thinly sliced veal steak.... oops, sorry :D I'm just kiddin'. Really though, how can the perfection that is/was the Pixies be held next to anything really? |
I like the song "bullet" very good stuff.
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"Bullet".....is that the one from the soundtrack to that "crime something, something suburbia" movie?
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Thanks everyone for the replies. I'll pick up Teenager of the Year this week. I have to admit that I never really started listening to Frank Black until I heard "Los Angeles" as the theme song for "Late World With Zach" on VH1. Ironically, when I interviewed Zach [Galifianakis], I asked him why they changed the theme song mid-way through the season and said that VH1 never actually bought the rights to use the song and nobody realized until a few weeks in.
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Originally posted by subbacultcha "Bullet".....is that the one from the soundtrack to that "crime something, something suburbia" movie? |
I saw the title and thought this thread had something to do with the show Millenium.
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