#frank black

[smashorpass50plus]

[hackett-out]

[pushthlildaisies]

[alienaphasia]

Any millennium fans out there? Any?

[elvisomar]

Frank Black | Man of Steel | Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files (1996)

[cosmonautroger]

Frank Black, Hang On To Your Ego (The Beach Boys)

[mauricedelafalaise]

Pixies, 1987

[fangomusic]

The '80s GIFs

Talking Heads, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, Sonic Youth, Peter Gabriel, Pixies, Prince, Tracy Chapman, U2.

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Frank Black - Wetlands, New York City, June 13, 1994

A nice surprise – Frank Black is taking his second solo LP, 1994's classic Teenager of the Year, out on the road in 2025 for an, er, 31st anniversary tour. And he's even coming to Denver! I might have to go. Way back in my own teenage-hood, this record was a big one for me and my friends, and seeing Frank at McCabe's Guitar Shop right when it came out was an important experience.

Teenager of the Year holds up! When so much of the alt-rock world was angstily navel-gazing, Frank was writing wildly imaginative speculative fiction in miniature form, covering topics (Climate change! Space travel! The Three Stooges!) that no one else was with wit and concision. These songs were also catchy as hell, overstuffed with hooks and harmonies. Freedom rock, baby.

The Teenager of the Year band was pretty killer, too — bassist Eric Drew Feldman (Pere Ubu, Captain Beefheart, PJ Harvey, etc), drummer Nick Vincent and guitarist Lyle Workman. Appropriately, it's these very same musicians who will be joining Frank on tour next year.

So let's listen to an old tape of the group during the TotY tour, playing at that long-gone jam band haven Wetlands, way down in Tribeca. A lot of the new album is played, along with a lot of the self-titled debut, along with some excellent rarities like the Jonathan Richman tribute "The Man Who Was Too Loud," "Oddballs" and many more.

[slushi-chan]

This is Peak comedy

[olivrsm]

[nerds-yearbook]

The pilot for the Chris Carter created show Millinium aired on October 25, 1996. With over 17 million people watching, it set a record for viewership at the time. Fox allowed them to take three months to film the episode and pumped $10 million into the launch, including releasing it at some theaters. The show took place in the same universe as the X-Files (the series was concluded as an episode of the X-Files after being canceled). The show featured Lance Henriksen as Frank Black, a former FBI profiler, who had the ability to see through the mind of serial killers and had joined the mysterious Millinium Group. ("The Pilot", Millinium, TV Event)

[musickickztoo]

Frank Black *April 6, 1965

[nothing-but-music-videos]

Pixies

"Debaser"

Music video, 1989

[dinosaursr66]

The Pixies sit on top of my list of all-time favorite bands. I own almost all of their work and Frank Black and Kim Deal/the Breeders. They did it for me right from the start.

SONG OF THE DAY - Tuesday, May 14, 2024

[dailygrowl]