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| glacial906 |
Posted - 05/30/2006 : 19:49:17
Is there anyone important to any of you who don't like Frank Black?
Unfortunately for me this person is my wife. Generally she and I share a lot of the same tastes in music, but she has a particular dislike for Frank Black and there isn't one FB song I can play for her that changes her opinion. I've just given up. Fortunately, she's not the kind of person to have a problem with me monopolizing the CD player in the car to spin Frank Black and Pixies albums all the time.
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/13/2006 : 01:11:07
give her a spank
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 06/12/2006 : 13:36:33
My sister heard Superabound and said "Why do you listen to old people?"
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| Carl |
Posted - 06/04/2006 : 07:00:33
Yeah, the guitar screeches near the beginning of CHOS are like some the guitar work on NY's Everybody Knows This Nowhere album.
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| Frog in the Sand |
Posted - 06/04/2006 : 00:31:47
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Originally posted by VoVat
I was once playing BLD in my dad's presence, and he said it sounded like Neil Young.
Your father's probably right. In fact I've always thought BLD was an homage to Neil Young.
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| glacial906 |
Posted - 06/04/2006 : 00:05:50
Well, me and my wife have long since moved beyond the phase in our relationship where, if one of us doesn't like the other's choice of music, we refrain from playing it in the presence of the other. Now, whenever either of us has the urge, we feel free to blare our anthems with next to no consideration for the other. For a long time now I've accepted the fact that she doesn't share my affinity for Frank Black in ANY capacity (although I think she can tolerate the later Pixies stuff to an extent...) and that's totally okay; it's not had an impact on our relationship to speak of. Quite the contrary, it's good to keep elements of individuality, even in marriage, and I'm glad that we can both appreciate and dislike different things respectively. Marriage would be pretty boring if you were married to an opposite-sex version of yourself.We are different people; sometimes it is hard to recall that we were such before we got married and had kids. And, being parents sometimes makes you feel like one cohesive entity for the purpose of raising the children and sometimes you can forget your individuality.
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| Holy Fingers |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 20:27:51
My wife loves Frank, but I have a lot of friends who don't. Maybe i'll make them my enemies, those assholes.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 10:49:23
My girlfriend and I have a lot of overlap in our musical tastes, but she's not a big fan of Frank. She has mentioned liking "Oddball" (the song), though.
I was once playing BLD in my dad's presence, and he said it sounded like Neil Young.
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| PeterD |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 04:37:24
I am not a fan of frank black but who can resist I dont want to hurt you? |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 21:04:24
quote:
Originally posted by IceCream
Weren't Nietzsche and Schopenhauer associated more with the 19th century?
Yes, very. I intended Wittgenstein as their next-century heir, as a logical successor to them, having internalized their message, as opposed to the parallel track of Hegel-Marx, those misguided bastards. Froth. Froth.
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| IceCream |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 20:45:39
Weren't Nietzsche and Schopenhauer associated more with the 19th century?
All of my friends hate Brainiac. My brother and I have almost the exact same musical tastes. |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 04:14:56
quote:
Originally posted by cassandra is
How can it be?! I can't imagine living with somebody who doesn't share my musical and "artistic" tastes (and she does love the Pixies and FB and other things that I like -but not everything of course...).
Nancy the scientist, the second of the two true loves of my life, quite rightly found Wittgenstein intellectually creepy. The woman knew a snake in the grass when she saw it.
Meanwhile, I liked Wittgenstein, to the point of considering him THE figure of the twentieth century, proper heir to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 01:05:03
 ah ah ah!
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| Frog in the Sand |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 01:01:38
quote:
Originally posted by cassandra is
How can it be?!
Maybe I don't beat her enough...
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 00:39:06
How can it be?! I can't imagine living with somebody who doesn't share my musical and "artistic" tastes (and she does love the Pixies and FB and other things that I like -but not everything of course...). I mean these things are so important to me, I'd feel very frustrated if I wasn't able to share it with her (and vice versa). We went together to almost all the FB and Pixies gigs I went to.
In fact to be honest, the only thing that irritates me with these things is when she asks me: "be honest with me: you really overestimate FB when you say he's God, don't you?"
This is one of the source of our quarrels.
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| Frog in the Sand |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 00:37:15
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Originally posted by Llamadance
My wife hates, hates HATES the Pixies, which makes it a bit difficult at times. I don't play them as much as I'd like. She doesn't mind FB, and quite likes Horrible Day, Goodbye Lorraine which is good.
Same with Madame Frog.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 18:01:38
I got them "heavy metal horseshit blues": could be a Nashville classic via Memphis. Actually, and/or rather, I envy anybody who actually shares their musical preferences with a parent, all the while admitting I owe much of my musical "sense" to my father's addiction to Hank Williams.
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| ScottP |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 17:50:43
I misunderstood completely as usual. I thought she was trading swamp music. You know, like Cajun jump beats or the like. |
| a guy in a rover |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 17:06:40
quote:
Originally posted by mosleyk
A co-worker and I have been swamping music
Sounds interesting, I would love to try this new method of trading music.
Do I need my own swamp?
A pig or a goat well, they wouldn’t let you be mistreated
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| mosleyk |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 17:03:05
You guys and my husband are the only people I know who like Frank Black, so far. A co-worker and I have been swapping music, but I have been saving giving her anything Pixies/Frank Black....I just don't want to deal with the possible rejection....you know what i mean?
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| Carl |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 16:43:14
If you play FB&TC records backwards, it sounds like Britney Spears.
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| ScottP |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 14:53:55
I had to go rescue my dad after his truck broke down one day. I had FB&TC playing just loud enough to hear it. He asked me if I could spare him from having to listen to this "heavy metal horse shit". My dad refers to ANY music I listen to as, "That heavy metal horse shit", "That devil backwards shit" (his exact words), or "that acid rock shit". I haven't found a pattern that would identify why he choses these different labels for classic, hard, and/or heavy metal rock music. I think he just rotates them equally. I appreciate that, at least.
At least I got him to say "heavy metal".
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| Carl |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 14:34:00
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Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
KID: Why are you buying that? (referring to Surfer Rosa CD his friend was about to purchase)
FRIEND: Dude, this album is awesome!
KID: Oh yeah...the guy doesn't even know how to sing right!
My Mother likes The Pixies, too!
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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 14:25:42
A long time ago I was working in a music shop and some kid (well, 19 or 20 year old) was with his friend, and I overheard the following:
KID: Why are you buying that? (referring to Surfer Rosa CD his friend was about to purchase)
FRIEND: Dude, this album is awesome!
KID: Oh yeah...the guy doesn't even know how to sing right!
That cracked me up.
Just a couple weeks back I was painting my moms house, and she sorta helped. Anyway, I made her listen to all of FASTMAN/RAIDERMAN...I was nervous, because she HATES any sort of rock and roll, other than the Beatles and the Animals (go figure), and she really let on that she liked it. She laughed at his weird lyrics and bizarre chord progressions, admitting Frank was very unique. This was making me happy...she's musically very snobby as she got her masters in music and studied opera. Then I thought, okay. I'm going to play parts of DOOLITTLE for her, explaining that it's pretty much as important to rock music today as Revolver was in it's day. I cringed as I played for her Debaser, Tame, Monkey, Hey, and Gouge Away. To my amazement, she was very intrigued by them, and said they were great songs! My MOM said this! Very cool!
Oh, and my dad liked DITS when I made him listen to it on a drive to Nevada a few years back.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 14:01:42
Well, we're hoping to accomplish that with a podcast on June 15, the hand held intro to FB, but that will depend on whether anyone actually gives a link/copy/etc to their friends to check it out. Maybe it'll be successful because we had so much input on which tracks that personal preferences were hopefully removed. There are songs I'd never have chosen on there and songs I would have chosen that are missing, but that's not to say it's not a good intro.
Anyone willing to experiment with foisting a podcast on unbelievers? And yes, Erebus. It definitely shouldn't be so much work.
 "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 12:48:01
This thread reminds of CoF's about Frank compilations, with an eye to converting the ear of a savage, pagan, or heathen. One wants to hold their hands during the audition, pausing before each and every track for a few words of encouragement. I tend to mix Frank and Pixies for such things. I've gotten my best results with Where is My Mind, Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf), La La Love You, Mr. Grieves, U-Mass, Alec Eiffel, Two Spaces, Speedy Marie, Dog Gone, Saint Francis Dam Disaster, and Pan American Highway. Played Surf Epic for a musically erudite ex-friend who described it as sounding like something by "a guy who had completely internalized the Beatles", which I suppose constituted praise, at least from him. But it really shouldn't be such work, should it?
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| a guy in a rover |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 11:07:13
I dont know anyone who likes Frank except for my brother, who got me into him by buying me the orange album.
I've tried getting people into him so many times, but usually with limited success.
I played one mate Dog in the Sand and he was really impressed, bought it, but hasn't got round to buying anymore. More recently I lent my housemate 'Frank Black and the Catholics' and he lent me the Broken Social Scene album in an attempt to get one another to like each others music. He didn't dig Frank, claiming it was 'too country', and I couldn't get into BSS. Eventually we came to the conclusion that we both cream our horns over different music, and thats just the way of the world. No matter how hard you want someone to like something, if they dont like it, well thats just tough shit.
A pig or a goat well, they wouldn’t let you be mistreated
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 09:23:53
quote:
Originally posted by Broken Face
I bought my mom Honeycomb (i always buy an extra FB album and give it away) thinking she'd dig it, because she likse a lot of mellower stuff. She hasn't mentioned it since then, so i guess that experiment didn't work...
-Brian
Take it back and give it to someone else.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 07:12:15
My grandma likes the more country era FB (DITS on), my mom likes some of the more poppy songs like Headache and Speedy Marie (my youngest sister used to listen to Headache on repeat as well), my one sister I could only hook on Man of Steel, and the other sister, no success. My dad once looked at me when I was playing FB and said "This is what you like?"
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 06:58:56
I bought my mom Honeycomb (i always buy an extra FB album and give it away) thinking she'd dig it, because she likse a lot of mellower stuff. She hasn't mentioned it since then, so i guess that experiment didn't work...
-Brian
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| benji |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 06:12:17
my wife isn't interested in music at all. but she doesn't mind me listening to my music at all. very little she flatly hates, and i do avoid that stuff, but neither frank nor the pixies are included in that list.
as others have said, it once seemed important to me to find someone who was a fan of the same music as me, but then i realised that i was instantly removing about 95% of possible "life partners" by doing this, so i soon abandoned that line of thinking.
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
| glacial906 |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 05:38:05
Well, my brother-in-law was the one who introduced me to the Pixies in the first place, and later Frank Black, so obviously he liked FB. However, he hasn't bought any FB albums since the Cult of Ray, so he's not really familiar with the later stuff, although I did burn him copies of Black Letter Days and Devil's Workshop a few years back and he really dug them.
I've never tried to get my dad to listen to FB; I don't really think it would be his cup of tea.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 05:29:12
My dad likes Frank Black, not in any huge way but he called me just after honeycomb was released to see if I'd heard it because he thought it was ok. My mum however really digs Frank. She visited me in Sheffield and I was listening to Frank while writing an essay and she asked if she could have a copy, it was weird. Most of my friends do too I've only ever had to introduce one person to Frank and it was taken well.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 04:30:29
Looks like he doesn't go down too well with dads. Mine has never heard him, but I think he would quite like him.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/31/2006 : 20:11:19
The only people I know who like FB are those to whom I've introduced him (my mom, a few friends).
For the most part though, when I put him on around my friends, they are pretty receptive. He seems to get a good response among my teenage friends. The only person that seems to have a negative reaction seems to be my dad.
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| danjersey |
Posted - 05/31/2006 : 20:01:35
quote:
Originally posted by Suicide_Samurai
I put TOTY on in the car one time and upon hearing Abstract Plain my sister said "can he sing?!" and then by the time Headache came on my dad said "let's put the radio on for a bit now, I started listening to it but now it's just noise." It was actually beyond my understanding!
thats it "can he sing"? i asked myself that when i heard those songs and theres the lesson, anyone can sing if they think they can, think they can, think they can. |
