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| gotmeamovie |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 01:25:33
hey id love to know
its his voice 4 me that is the main attraction to his songs
that and the unusual time signatures..
it is so hard ot some up with one
right now it is hang on to your ego!
"If all you've seen, is violence!" |
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| awestruck |
Posted - 05/05/2007 : 16:36:39
Speedy Marie would have to be my all time favorite, so far b/c I have not heard everything. But everyday I am hooked on a different song. TOTY is the CD I am hooked on right now. BLD was last week. Next week, who knows...
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
| bumblebeeboy2 |
Posted - 05/05/2007 : 01:46:36
I'm really liking...
"Don't get me wrong, I'm only stuck in this song for so long, don't wait too long, I'm only nailed to this wall for so long, don't wait too long, I'm only nailed to this cross for so long, for so long..."
...at the moment. Beautiful.
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 05/04/2007 : 14:37:34
Thanks for the reminder IceCream. If he wasn't so effortlessly grand I wouldn't need one.
Men In Black yes and The Man Who Was Too Loud stands out for me that way too.
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| IceCream |
Posted - 05/03/2007 : 23:33:37
"Men In Black" from Cult of Ray. Flawless performance. I could never pull that off. |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 04/28/2007 : 04:41:53
Frank's most unattractive vocal and I still love it - Hate Me
"My shirt is shitty. Combed my hair, it still ain't pretty".
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| rocknfire |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 14:46:26
I too had a similar experience with FB&C's. I clearly remember the excitement I felt when I first bought Pistolero. The first track, Bad Harmony said it all. This is what I suspect the band must have been going through, eventually arriving in a place where the sound got better after time. The song says it all.
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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 14:24:56
quote:
Originally posted by rocknfire
I agree transmarine. Solid Gold was my head soundtrack for some time when it first came to us.
"I slept all night in my plastic car".
Wow. Off topic, but I remember when FB&C ST first came out. I got it a few days before the release date, and was walking home holding the CD in my hands, memorizing all the track titles before I got home...delighted by the obscure and slightly cheap looking presentation of the artwork, but loving it all the same. I rushed upstairs to my bedroom, broke into a 12 pack of Newcastle, and spun the cd. SOLID GOLD grabbed me by the balls (or maybe I did, and thought it was the song because of all the beer by that point in the album). It is still my favorite Frank Black album. This album marks the point where he really began, I think, to experiment with his voice, and has since displayed so much more power, range, and characteristic than anything previous to FB&C's ST. NOT to say he was bad before that point...he just got different with his 4th album.
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| rocknfire |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 13:23:57
I agree transmarine. Solid Gold was my head soundtrack for some time when it first came to us.
"I slept all night in my plastic car". |
| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 12:09:00
SOLID GOLD. One of my all-time top favorites, and his performance is so beautifully strange and scary.
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| rocknfire |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 11:43:27
I am much obliged FBC. |
| fbc |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 10:01:52
"I have always emphasized to fellow fans how important Workman was for that time in Black's career."
here be a message worth preaching |
| rocknfire |
Posted - 04/26/2007 : 09:58:50
Thanks for the kind words Velvety. Lyle Workman sure is something else,especially when he was a Catholic. I have always emphasized
to fellow fans how important Workman was for that time in Black's career.Another favorite vocal would be His Kingly Cave. "yes,very nice". |
| coastline |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 23:16:52
quote:
Originally posted by stymie
85 weeks
That's a damn good song. It's one of the ones on a playlist I made a couple weeks ago for listening to at bedtime. It's a bunch of FB's mellower tunes. Brian listed a couple others earlier today -- "Fast Man" and "I'll Be Blue." I've been having trouble sleeping lately, so I made this playlist, and I play it every night at bedtime, and again when I wake up at 3 a.m. I find myself listening very closely to The Man's vocals, which is nearly hypnotizing, and that usually does the trick. It's not that the music is boring, but it grabs me in such a way that I forget to think about all those things that are keeping me awake.
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| stymie |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 20:31:40
85 weeks |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 20:30:25
She's like jelly roll, like sculptcha
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 16:40:03
Tame
Fast Man
Don't Get Me Wrong (unconventional but affecting)
I'll Be Blue
Oddball
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com |
| 2Strings |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 15:21:47
This is way too hard! |
| velvety |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 14:47:49
Hey there, Rocknfire. Kind and Queen of Siam is a great choice, althought that amazing guitar work by Lyle Workman in the begining and ending of that song is what first comes to mind when I think about it.
Favourite fb vocal. Steak 'n sabre for me. |
| rocknfire |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 14:17:13
ALL OF YOU GUYS REALLY KNOW YOUR FRANK BLACK. I AM IMPRESSED. I AM NEW HERE SO BEAR WITH ME. ALL OF FRANKS VOCALS ARE VERY GOOD, BUT IF I HAD TO PICK ONE IT WOULD BE KING AND QUEEN OF SIAM.
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| Carl |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 08:29:25
Pixies-wise, I love Frank's vocals on the chorus of No.13 Baby, and Hangwire. |
| cptnpasty |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 07:55:22
I think i'd go with Stupid Me |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 19:25:05
That's all gonna change. stamekitten's gonna 'star me, Kitten'. As in f***
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| coastline |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:54:48
Flipped? Like in your top ten thread subject name?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:52:52
quote:
Originally posted by kfs
My choice (today) is 'Pan American Highway.'
Every time I hear it I am stunned at how beautiful it is.
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I've seen blue you've never seen
I just put it on a comp and my friend Jim flipped. Good call.
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| beckett trance |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:24:09
Steak 'n' Sabre: "Right down in the shallo-o-o-o-o-o-ows!"
Dog Gone: "That's to carry me OOOOOO----onnnnnnn!"
Pie in the Sky: "THAT'S AN ORDER!!!"
Adda Lee: "The lake sings.... and the dogs don't... they are QUIET... for Adda Lee"
Shazeb Andleeb: "This is the LAST STAAAAAAAAAAAAND!"
There's a start.
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| kfs |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:12:06
My choice (today) is 'Pan American Highway.'
Every time I hear it I am stunned at how beautiful it is.
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| MHokkane |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:04:42
TEN PERCENTER! |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 04/21/2007 : 04:50:55
Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| OLDMANOTY |
Posted - 04/21/2007 : 03:43:24
Good choice, Awestruck, with 'Stupid Me'. Not a song that's often mentioned here, maybe because it's atypical for FB and, I suppose, a bit of a pastiche. But the vocals are great, really heartfelt, and sometimes brings tears to my eyes. What a wuss!!
Godspeed |
| awestruck |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 13:54:39
I still have not heard all of his songs,but I recently heard BLD, TOTY, and Bossavona. I am just "awestruck" by his voice. As far as the Pixies go, Tame and the grunt in Hey gets me every time I hear it. I like to hear him sing so softly it seems like a whisper in Tame.
There are so many songs to choose from but the song I listen to just to sit back and concentrate on his voice is Stupid Me. He doesn't even need music behind that one. Fast Man is another song I love to just hear his voice. It is just so smooth.
But I agree there are songs that are not as favorable as others, but the poetry of the song is too lovely to just overlook.
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
| zippermouth |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 13:25:18
Lately I've been lovin' the verses on "You Aint Me". (Cult of Ray) |
| mrgrieves1971 |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 13:20:24
quote:
Originally posted by pixiestu
If it Takes All Night ("I got to go and see my baby!")
That's mine. Just classic. |
| coastline |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 04:57:00
quote:
Originally posted by JefreyAlso - "He played piano really fuckin' good" sums up just about everything. Who else can sing "fuckin'" like Frank?
I found that word jarring the first few times I heard it in that song, but you're right, he sings it so well. My other favorite vocal part of that song is where he sings "Whispering the name that rhymes with dead." Listen to how his voice cracks on "dead." It's as if his own heart is "broke in two."
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| two reelers |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 03:47:11
California bound - still unbelievable to me:
"don't let your mind chase you like a hooouuuuuund..."
in the last chorus, when he smoothly transforms the high voice into the raw voice during "hoooouuuuund". with all that odd timing.
and the screaming on marsist. and the mixture of the laid back/hysterical voices in los angeles.
I joined the cult of Souled American / 'cause they are a damn' fine band |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 03:29:59
I agree with all choices made so far.
especially Heloise
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