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Frank Black

MUSIC

See also Frank Black and the Catholics.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frank Black
Singer/Songwriter
4-Apr-1965   Pixies frontman
Joey Santiago
Guitarist
10-Jun-1965   The Pixies' lead guitarist

DISCOGRAPHY

Frank Black (1993, 4AD)
1Los Angeles
2I Heard Ramona Sing
3Hang On To Your Ego (The Beach Boys cover)
4Fu Manchu
5Places Named After Numbers
6Czar
7Old Black Dawning
8Ten Percenter
9Brackish Boy
10Two Spaces
11Tossed (instrumental)
12Parry the Wind High, Low
13Adda Lee
14Everytime I Go Around Here
15Don't Ya Rile 'Em

I Heard Ramona Sing is a tribute to The Ramones.

Teenager of the Year (1994, 4AD)
1Whatever Happened to Pong?
2Thalassocracy
3(I Want To Live On An) Abstract Plain
4Calistan
5The Vanishing Spies
6Speedy Marie
7Headache
8Sir Rockaby
9Freedom Rock
10Two Reelers
11Fiddle Riddle
12Ole Mulholland
13Fazer Eyes
14I Could Stay Here Forever
15The Hostess with the Mostest
16Superabound
17Big Red
18Space Is Gonna Do Me Good
19White Noise Maker
20Pure Denizen of the Citizens Band
21Bad Wicked World
22Pie in the Sky

The Cult of Ray (1996, American)
1The Marsist
2Men In Black
3Punk Rock City
4You Ain't Me
5Jesus Was Right
6I Don't Want To Hurt You (Every Single Time)
7Mosh, Don't Pass the Guy
8Kicked in the Taco
9The Creature Crawling
10The Adventure and the Resolution
11Dance War
12The Cult of Ray
13The Last Stand of Shazeb Andaleeb

Frank Black Francis (2004, Spinart)
Disc 1
1The Holiday Song
2I'm Amazed
3Rock a My Soul
4Isla de Encanta
5Caribou
6Broken Face
7Build High
8Nimrod's Son
9Ed Is Dead
10Subbacultcha
11Boom Chickaboom
12I've Been Tired
13Break My Body
14Oh My Golly
15Vamos
Disc 2
1Caribou
2Where Is My Mind?
3Cactus
4Nimrod's Son
5Levitate Me
6Wave of Mutilation
7Monkey Gone to Heaven
8Velouria
9The Holiday Song
10Into the White
11Is She Weird?
12Subbacultcha
13Planet of Sound

Disc 1 is solo recordings by Frank Black recorded the day before The Pixies recorded their first album. Disc 2 is reworkings of some of these songs by Frank Black with Pere Ubu collaborators Two Pale Boys.

Honeycomb (2005, spinArt)
1Selkie Bride
2I Burn Today
3Lone Child
4Another Velvet Nightmare
5Dark End of the Street (Dan Penn cover)
6Go Find Your Saint
7Song of the Shrimp
8Strange Goodbye
9Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day (Doug Sahm cover)
10Honeycomb
11My Life is in Storage
12Atom in my Heart
13Violet
14Sing for Joy

Fastman Raiderman (2006, Cooking Vinyl)
Disc 1
1If Your Poison Gets You
2Johnny Barleycorn
3Fast Man
4You Can't Crucify Yourself
5Dirty Old Town
6Wanderlust
7Seven Days
8Raider Man
9The End Of The Summer
10Dog Sleep
11When The Paint Grows Darker Still
12I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)
13Golden Shore
Disc 2
1In The Time Of My Ruin
2Down To You
3Highway To Lowdown
4Kiss My Ring
5My Terrible Ways
6Fitzgerald
7Elijah
8It's Just Not Your Moment
9The Real El Rey
10Where The Wind Is Going
11Holland Town
12Sad Old World
13Don't Cry That Way
14Fare Thee Well

Christmass (2006, Cooking Vinyl)
1(Do What You Want) Gyaneshwar
2Bullet
3I Burn Today
4Wave Of Mutilation
5Living On Soul
6She's My Way
7Massif Centrale
8Where Is My Mind?
9Raider Man
10Demon Girl
11Dead Man's Curve
12Cactus
13Six-Sixty-Six
14Radio Lizards
15Don't Get Me Wrong
16All Around The World
17Nadine
18Manitoba
19The Water
20Song Of The Shrimp

Live album.

Frank Black 93-03 (2007, Cooking Vinyl)
Disc 1
1Los Angeles
2Ten Percenter
3Czar
4Old Black Dawning
5Abstract Plain
6Calistan
7Speedy Marie
8Headache
9Freedom Rock
10Men In Black
11You Ain't Me
12I Don't Want To Hurt You
13All My Ghosts
14I Gotta Move
15Bad Harmony
16Western Star
17Robert Onion
18Hermaphroditos
19Velvety
20California Bound
21Massif Centrale
22Manitoba
Disc 2 (North America)
1Deadman's Curve
2Raiderman
3My Terrible Ways
4I'll Be Blue
5Johnny Barleycorn
6Ten Percenter
7Dog Gone
8The Swimmer
9Suffering
Disc 2 (Europe)
1Bullet
2Nadine
3CPL593A
4Living On Soul
5Burnt Out Rock 'n' Roll
6Been All Around the World
7Six Sixty Six
8Horrible Day
9(Do What You Want) Gyaneshwar
Disc 2 (Japan)
1Ten Percenter
2Deadman's Curve
3My Terrible Ways
4I'll Be Blue
5Bullet
6Nadine
7CPL593A
8Living On Soul
9Suffering
10I Burn Today
11I'm Nod Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)
12Sing For Joy

Best-of compilation, spanning the first ten years of Frank Black's solo career. Songs on the second disc vary by region, but were all taken from concerts on 27 October 2006 at Mr. Small's in Pittsburgh, PA, and 6 November 2006 at the Distrikt in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Bluefinger (2007, Cooking Vinyl)
1Captain Pasty
2Threshold Apprehension
3Test Pilot Blues
4Lolita
5Tight Black Rubber
6Angels Come To Comfort You
7Your Mouth Into Mine
8Discotheque 36
9You Can't Break A Heart And Have It
10She Took All The Money
11Bluefinger

Released as Black Francis. Inspired by the paintings of Herman Brood.

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