As you may have guessed in the earlier Pixies post, I am a massive fan of anything "Frank Black". Although I believe Frank was at his best with the Pixies, he has turned out an outstanding body of music, all with there own distinctive feel and style, everything from lullabies, to folk, to country and western to that classic rockin style that only he can create.
This quality live bootleg takes tracks from his first three albums "Frank Black", "Teenager Of The Year", "The Cult of Ray" and his self released Oddballs album, plus two from the excellent John Peel session with Teenage Fanclub. As usual not one bad track, if you don't immediately like this, then give it a few plays and I guarantee you will be going out buying his back catalogue.
I still remember buying his debut and same titled album "Frank Black" thinking it was going to be a continuation of the Pixies sound. Apart from the single "Los Angles" I was initially disappointed and put it on the shelf. A couple of weeks later I had nothing to play so I put it on and I couldn't believe it, a smile came to my face as I heard riffs and tunes I had missed the first time round. How many times has that happened to you? What albums have you initially purchased and been disappointed with, only for it to end up on your all time best play list? Leave a comment and let us know.
Just in case some people get confused the cover of this CD got some of the titles wrong, I have corrected them in this post and on the rip.
Artist: Frank Black
Album: Hate Me: Wetlands New York City
Year: June 13th 1994
Tracks:
1. Sir Rockaby
2. Two Spaces
3. Hate Me
4. (I Want To Live In An) Abstract Plain
5. At The End Of The World
6. Calistan
7. Headache
8. Freedom Rock
9. Space Is Gonna Do Me Good
10. Big Red
11. Suparabounf
12. Oddball
13. Pure Denizen Of the Citizen Band
14. White Noise Maker
15. Speedy Marie
16. Men In Black
17. Adda Lee
18. Parry the Wind High, Low
19. Ten Percenter
20. The Man Who Was Too Loud
21. Handy Man
22. Los Angles
23. Ole Mullholland
24. Czar
Ripped from not so glorious CD
If you like then try out these albums where all of these tracks were taken from:
The first and brilliant debut album:
The excellent second album:
The classic third:
His fifth album, not one of his best, but I love it and as some of the tracks are on this bootleg it had to be included. "Oddballs" (no picture or linlk) now OOP but you can still get it at eMusic
and the not to be missed John Peel Session with Teeage Fanclub:
There's lots more but these are good ones to get started with.
