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| freedom rocker |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 18:27:15
ok, i'll try to explain this.
My mother and I do not even remotely have the same taste in music but I let her listen to honeycomb and she loved it and wants to buy her own copy, I am freaked out. Am I getting old is frank getting too old. I know the answer is no but It seems so strange to finally hear a Frank Black album that is so far reaching musically. This is probably my second favorite FB album and I feel guilty(sort of).
The sound makes relevant all the musical forms that I have never claimed (officialy) to like. I think frank has trancended some boundary and still kept his trademark sound. Honeycomb is, dare I say it, beautifull. He doesn't employ many of his trademark quirks that seem unnapealing to the untrained ear but this is definitely Frank Black, Bravo! So I now set out on a quest to let people, who would not normally take to Frank, taste the sweet Honeycomb.
Has anyone else noticed this?
the blues isn't an art-form, it's a product-- not unlike computer chips and tampons.
--dead milkmen |
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 08/15/2005 : 19:05:40
I have tried and in the process of turning on as many people to Frank. I think this is a great album to share with others due the fact that it's not written for a niche of fans ... but has a very cool, broad appeal.
So yeah I have bought ppl copies as gifts... and what is a better gift than the gift of Honeycomb...
So I have told everyone that has a pulse in my life about this album... and I have gotten some converts... am in the process of gettting more! 
Heck... we even have a radio show to do a mass conversion in a month or so!!!!
So get on the Honeycomb bus... or step back people! 
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 20:13:47
quote:
Originally posted by floop
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Short-bus gifted, you mean?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
do you really think i would insult someone's toddler?
don't answer that
Floopie, you know I'd be disappointed and hurt if you didn't.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| floop |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 15:43:31
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Short-bus gifted, you mean?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
do you really think i would insult someone's toddler?
don't answer that |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 14:16:41
yep! fingers crossed. |
| Devils Islander |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 14:14:17
quote:
Originally posted by fbc
between me and you, d'ya think he'll find a way back to his quirky little numbers that made Frank Black so different to the rest?
You never can tell, which is probably why we all love him so much.
...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are. |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 14:01:41
i share the same thoughts
between me and you, d'ya think he'll find a way back to his quirky little numbers that made Frank Black so different to the rest? |
| Devils Islander |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 13:50:18
...yeah, Violet excepted, I love the rest of the album. I know I probably shouldn't, but sometimes I just get a bit worried about where our boy is going with this 'Grand Ol' Opry' trip. Still, at least it's not as disturbing as Bowie's brief dalliance with drum n' bass.
...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are. |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 13:34:14
quote:
Originally posted by Devils Islander
Regarding the musicians that play with FB on Honeycomb.. others might see them as a bunch of dinosaurs that have managed to reduce SSMVGD to bland supermarket muzak, completely bereft of any soul whatsoever.
with the approval of FB himself.
SSMVGD, okay, but they've done a great job with Sing for Joy
and Honeycomb to name the obvious two.
though i don't agree with everything this guy says,
he hit the nail on the head with this one:
quote:
This record is for Frank, not us.
And now he wants to share it with as many as possible,
and personally, i'm glad he has
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| Devils Islander |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 13:28:17
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
Wow, I didn't know dinosaurs could play instruments! I would have thought, for instance, that the tryannosaur's undeveloped arms would have been unable to hold a guitar.
I believe that this problem was overcome by giving them ukeleles - an instrument altogether more suited to the vestigial upper limb.
...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 05:10:13
he couldn't stand up when I fell down
so it's safe to say a T.Rex (not the band)
couldn't play guitar
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God save the Noisies |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 10:22:44
Wow, I didn't know dinosaurs could play instruments! I would have thought, for instance, that the tryannosaur's undeveloped arms would have been unable to hold a guitar.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Devils Islander |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 09:50:19
Regarding the musicians that play with FB on Honeycomb; some may perceive them to be Nashville recording legends, whereas others might see them as a bunch of dinosaurs that have managed to reduce SSMVGD to bland supermarket muzak, completely bereft of any soul whatsoever. The Catholics rocked - and so did these guys (forty-odd years ago with dead people).
...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 08:25:58
quote:
Originally posted by misterwoe
quote:
Originally posted by fbc
what's a short-bus?
It's a drug reference.
No no no. There are no drug references to anything related to my pig-tailed, pink-clad small child.quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
[quote]
Perhaps I miss a joke, but "short-bus" refers to a possibly politically incorrect practice of transporting "special education", i.e. developmentally challenged public school students, by separate conveyance, as opposed to transport by the more usual, longer bus for more nearly average students.
That is exactly correct (and politically incorrect). Bad mom making bad joke.
Shortie can't stand Honeycomb. Loves the Pixies. What can I say.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Erebus |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 08:13:14
quote:
Originally posted by misterwoe
quote:
Originally posted by fbc
what's a short-bus?
It's a drug reference. We should write a song about this.
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.
Perhaps I miss a joke, but "short-bus" refers to a possibly politically incorrect practice of transporting "special education", i.e. developmentally challenged public school students, by separate conveyance, as opposed to transport by the more usual, longer bus for more nearly average students.
Footnote: the disc "Short Bus" by the band Filter. |
| misterwoe |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 07:48:07
quote:
Originally posted by fbc
what's a short-bus?
It's a drug reference. We should write a song about this.
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole. |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 04:25:06
what's a short-bus? |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 04:24:27
quote:
Originally posted by freedom rocker
Honeycomb is, dare I say it, beautifull.
he who dares, wins.
I think it is good Frank's music maybe reaching out to a wider audience, even some who would turn their noses up and volume down on that noisy TOTY.
From what i've read, honeycomb is something Frank's always wanted to do. Through all those Catholic records, he's probably had it in his thoughts Nashville is one place he'd love to record an album.
This record is for Frank, not us. And now he wants to share it with as many as possible, and personally, i'm glad he has. |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 04:20:44
Frank Black...bringing the generations together. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 19:30:28
Short-bus gifted, you mean?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| floop |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 18:54:03
sounds like you might have a gifted child |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 18:43:49
For what it's worth, my kid loves Pixies Frank but dislikes Honeycomb.
I'm not sure what any of this means. But there you go.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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