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Skatealex1
* Dog in the Sand *
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 Posted - 09/17/2025 : 13:05:01
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Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
This definitely has been said a few times but do we know what that even means? My assumption (and JUST an assumption) is Tom engineered the recording of those but didn't "produce" in the way we hear on the Pixies Podcast where he's basically acting like a 5th member of the band?
I can understand liking BTE more than the demos. Like I said, it's a very handsome album. And it's genuinely difficult for me to pinpoint if it's the SONGWRITING or just the SOUND of the demos that is so appealing to me, and even emotional for me. If the BTE songs were presented in the way the demos were presented, would I be going crazy for those?
But I could totally see somebody thinking If Frank had put out that 9 song album as an actual album, Catholics or Pixies or whatever, I'd not question it at all (maybe add one or two more songs for normal album length.)
I suspect this album is a bit of both. A bit more raw/unhinged Frank Black songwriting and not over cooking and producing things...
I think that was one of the fun things about FB's solo/Catholics stuff in his prolific days. Even with the not top tier stuff it still had a sense of fun to it and maybe more of a raw feel at times.
I also agree it would be a solid album if it was released that way- interesting to think with another producer this could've been the main release maybe with Graveyard Hill on there as a single and Daniel Boone or something else added on. If I was ranking things I could see it even ranking somewhat top tier for late era FB releases before Pixies besides maybe Bluefinger. |
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