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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Ten Percenter[/i] [br]A review by David Cheal, potato-headed loon anyone??: Frank Black Honeycomb Cooking Vinyl, £11.99 Shortly before last year's triumphant Pixies reunion tour, the band's big cheese Frank Black headed to a studio in Nashville run by producer Jon Tiven, where he brought to fruition a project on which he had been ruminating for a decade: an album of covers and original songs with a rootsy, countrified, old-time rock and roll flavour, performed by legendary session figures such as Steve Cropper, Spooner Oldham (whose old Memphis partner Dan Penn engineered the sessions) and Reggie Young. The result is this collection of 14 toe-tapping songs which explore a hitherto neglected side of the potato-headed loon who gave us crunching alt-rock classics such as I Bleed and Where Is My Mind. And while there's nothing here to suggest that Black has suddenly found his true métier, this is a decent, listenable album: original songs such as Sing for Joy and Go Find Your Saint are warm and thrummy, while he makes a fair fist of old standards such as Dark End of the Street. Black's voice is rich and mellow, though not always entirely accurate, and there are some lovely guitar flourishes from Steve Cropper. It's unlikely to trouble the charts for long, but this is more than a mere vanity project. David Cheal "Fried food, cigarettes, no exercise, chest pain..." (Excerpt from the Angina Monologues) [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.