Frank Black

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Frank Black

MUSIC

Name Occupation Birth Death Known 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)

1 Los Angeles

2 I Heard Ramona Sing

3 Hang On To Your Ego (The Beach Boys cover)

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 (instrumental)

12 Parry the Wind High, Low

13 Adda Lee

14 Everytime I Go Around Here

15 Don't Ya Rile 'Em

I Heard Ramona Sing is a tribute to The Ramones.

Teenager of the Year (1994, 4AD)

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

The Cult of Ray (1996, American)

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 The Cult of Ray

13 The Last Stand of Shazeb Andaleeb

Frank Black Francis (2004, Spinart)

Disc 1

1 The Holiday Song

2 I'm Amazed

3 Rock a My Soul

4 Isla de Encanta

5 Caribou

6 Broken Face

7 Build High

8 Nimrod's Son

9 Ed Is Dead

10 Subbacultcha

11 Boom Chickaboom

12 I've Been Tired

13 Break My Body

14 Oh My Golly

15 Vamos

Disc 2

1 Caribou

2 Where Is My Mind?

3 Cactus

4 Nimrod's Son

5 Levitate Me

6 Wave of Mutilation

7 Monkey Gone to Heaven

8 Velouria

9 The Holiday Song

10 Into the White

11 Is She Weird?

12 Subbacultcha

13 Planet 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)

1 Selkie Bride

2 I Burn Today

3 Lone Child

4 Another Velvet Nightmare

5 Dark End of the Street (Dan Penn cover)

6 Go Find Your Saint

7 Song of the Shrimp

8 Strange Goodbye

9 Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day (Doug Sahm cover)

10 Honeycomb

11 My Life is in Storage

12 Atom in my Heart

13 Violet

14 Sing for Joy

Fastman Raiderman (2006, Cooking Vinyl)

Disc 1

1 If Your Poison Gets You

2 Johnny Barleycorn

3 Fast Man

4 You Can't Crucify Yourself

5 Dirty Old Town

6 Wanderlust

7 Seven Days

8 Raider Man

9 The End Of The Summer

10 Dog Sleep

11 When The Paint Grows Darker Still

12 I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)

13 Golden Shore

Disc 2

1 In The Time Of My Ruin

2 Down To You

3 Highway To Lowdown

4 Kiss My Ring

5 My Terrible Ways

6 Fitzgerald

7 Elijah

8 It's Just Not Your Moment

9 The Real El Rey

10 Where The Wind Is Going

11 Holland Town

12 Sad Old World

13 Don't Cry That Way

14 Fare Thee Well

Christmass (2006, Cooking Vinyl)

1 (Do What You Want) Gyaneshwar

2 Bullet

3 I Burn Today

4 Wave Of Mutilation

5 Living On Soul

6 She's My Way

7 Massif Centrale

8 Where Is My Mind?

9 Raider Man

10 Demon Girl

11 Dead Man's Curve

12 Cactus

13 Six-Sixty-Six

14 Radio Lizards

15 Don't Get Me Wrong

16 All Around The World

17 Nadine

18 Manitoba

19 The Water

20 Song Of The Shrimp

Live album.

Frank Black 93-03 (2007, Cooking Vinyl)

Disc 1

1 Los Angeles

2 Ten Percenter

3 Czar

4 Old Black Dawning

5 Abstract Plain

6 Calistan

7 Speedy Marie

8 Headache

9 Freedom Rock

10 Men In Black

11 You Ain't Me

12 I Don't Want To Hurt You

13 All My Ghosts

14 I Gotta Move

15 Bad Harmony

16 Western Star

17 Robert Onion

18 Hermaphroditos

19 Velvety

20 California Bound

21 Massif Centrale

22 Manitoba

Disc 2 (North America)

1 Deadman's Curve

2 Raiderman

3 My Terrible Ways

4 I'll Be Blue

5 Johnny Barleycorn

6 Ten Percenter

7 Dog Gone

8 The Swimmer

9 Suffering

Disc 2 (Europe)

1 Bullet

2 Nadine

3 CPL593A

4 Living On Soul

5 Burnt Out Rock 'n' Roll

6 Been All Around the World

7 Six Sixty Six

8 Horrible Day

9 (Do What You Want) Gyaneshwar

Disc 2 (Japan)

1 Ten Percenter

2 Deadman's Curve

3 My Terrible Ways

4 I'll Be Blue

5 Bullet

6 Nadine

7 CPL593A

8 Living On Soul

9 Suffering

10 I Burn Today

11 I'm Nod Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)

12 Sing 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)

1 Captain Pasty

2 Threshold Apprehension

3 Test Pilot Blues

4 Lolita

5 Tight Black Rubber

6 Angels Come To Comfort You

7 Your Mouth Into Mine

8 Discotheque 36

9 You Can't Break A Heart And Have It

10 She Took All The Money

11 Bluefinger

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

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