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hms
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Denmark
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 Posted - 10/10/2003 : 15:06:00
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Hi.
I´m from Denmark, and have most of the Frank Black records.
Think it,s like the style is changed from the start of Frank Black & the Chatocics unlil now.More soft and Country.
I like very much the first "Chatolic record", and "Pistolero" ,but what is happen the last time (Show Me your Tears)? Are we going back to "Teenager of the year" or what? Probably the time will show, but hope the real sound will be back.
Best Regards:
Henrik Schack (DK)
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Pete Egress
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2003 : 18:59:18
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I know what you mean.
I bought SMYT and I like it, but not nearly as much as the earlier albums. But I still listen to my Pixies Cds, so what do I know? Guess I'm stuck in the past.
Massif Centrale is my favorite--because it reflects that old punk-pop sensibility so prevalent in the Pixies and early FB.
I miss the UFOs alien love affairs, and odes to Mars. |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 10/11/2003 : 14:17:45
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I like the space-themed stuff, too, but I can see why Frank has steered away from it in recent years. I get the idea that, at one point, the critics were viewing him as a one-trick space pony, so to speak. There haven't been as many space songs since CoR, but we got "Billy Radcliffe" on Pistolero and "Blast Off" and "Robert Onion" on DitS, so it's quite possible that we'll see more of this kind of stuff in the future. It really wouldn't have been that appropriate on SMYT, although, when you get right down to it, the desire to go to Mars in songs like "Lovely Day" and "The Marsist" is pretty similar to the desire to go to central France in "Massif Centrale." One is more reachable, true, but they're both fairly remote and distant, and seem to be viewed by Frank as places of escape from everyday life. If there's a theme I think Frank covers more often than most others, it's travel, be it down the Pan-American Highway or the Milky Way.
-Nathan
And how does lemur's skin reflect the sea?
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