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freedom rocker
- FB Fan -

USA
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Posted - 08/12/2005 :  18:27:15  Show Profile  Visit freedom rocker's Homepage  Reply with Quote
ok, i'll try to explain this.

My mother and I do not even remotely have the same taste in music but I let her listen to honeycomb and she loved it and wants to buy her own copy, I am freaked out. Am I getting old is frank getting too old. I know the answer is no but It seems so strange to finally hear a Frank Black album that is so far reaching musically. This is probably my second favorite FB album and I feel guilty(sort of).
The sound makes relevant all the musical forms that I have never claimed (officialy) to like. I think frank has trancended some boundary and still kept his trademark sound. Honeycomb is, dare I say it, beautifull. He doesn't employ many of his trademark quirks that seem unnapealing to the untrained ear but this is definitely Frank Black, Bravo! So I now set out on a quest to let people, who would not normally take to Frank, taste the sweet Honeycomb.

Has anyone else noticed this?


the blues isn't an art-form, it's a product-- not unlike computer chips and tampons.
--dead milkmen

Edited by - freedom rocker on 08/12/2005 18:28:50

kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 08/12/2005 :  18:43:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
For what it's worth, my kid loves Pixies Frank but dislikes Honeycomb.

I'm not sure what any of this means. But there you go.


Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =

Mexico
15297 Posts

Posted - 08/12/2005 :  18:54:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
sounds like you might have a gifted child
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 08/12/2005 :  19:30:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Short-bus gifted, you mean?


Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  04:20:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Frank Black...bringing the generations together.
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fbc
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United Kingdom
4903 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  04:24:27  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by freedom rocker

Honeycomb is, dare I say it, beautifull.

he who dares, wins.

I think it is good Frank's music maybe reaching out to a wider audience, even some who would turn their noses up and volume down on that noisy TOTY.

From what i've read, honeycomb is something Frank's always wanted to do. Through all those Catholic records, he's probably had it in his thoughts Nashville is one place he'd love to record an album.
This record is for Frank, not us. And now he wants to share it with as many as possible, and personally, i'm glad he has.
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fbc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/13/2005 :  04:25:06  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
what's a short-bus?
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misterwoe
= Cult of Ray =

Greece
675 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  07:48:07  Show Profile  Visit misterwoe's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by fbc

what's a short-bus?



It's a drug reference. We should write a song about this.

Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1834 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  08:13:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by misterwoe

quote:
Originally posted by fbc

what's a short-bus?



It's a drug reference. We should write a song about this.

Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.

Perhaps I miss a joke, but "short-bus" refers to a possibly politically incorrect practice of transporting "special education", i.e. developmentally challenged public school students, by separate conveyance, as opposed to transport by the more usual, longer bus for more nearly average students.

Footnote: the disc "Short Bus" by the band Filter.

Edited by - Erebus on 08/13/2005 08:15:55
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kathryn
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Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  08:25:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

quote:
Originally posted by misterwoe

quote:
Originally posted by fbc

what's a short-bus?



It's a drug reference.


No no no. There are no drug references to anything related to my pig-tailed, pink-clad small child.
quote:


Originally posted by Erebus

[quote]

Perhaps I miss a joke, but "short-bus" refers to a possibly politically incorrect practice of transporting "special education", i.e. developmentally challenged public school students, by separate conveyance, as opposed to transport by the more usual, longer bus for more nearly average students.




That is exactly correct (and politically incorrect). Bad mom making bad joke.

Shortie can't stand Honeycomb. Loves the Pixies. What can I say.


Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Devils Islander
- FB Fan -

United Kingdom
101 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  09:50:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Regarding the musicians that play with FB on Honeycomb; some may perceive them to be Nashville recording legends, whereas others might see them as a bunch of dinosaurs that have managed to reduce SSMVGD to bland supermarket muzak, completely bereft of any soul whatsoever. The Catholics rocked - and so did these guys (forty-odd years ago with dead people).


...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

USA
9168 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2005 :  10:22:44  Show Profile  Visit VoVat's Homepage  Click to see VoVat's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Wow, I didn't know dinosaurs could play instruments! I would have thought, for instance, that the tryannosaur's undeveloped arms would have been unable to hold a guitar.



I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied.
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Netherlands
6214 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  05:10:13  Show Profile  Click to see billgoodman's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
he couldn't stand up when I fell down
so it's safe to say a T.Rex (not the band)
couldn't play guitar



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God save the Noisies
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Devils Islander
- FB Fan -

United Kingdom
101 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  13:28:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat

Wow, I didn't know dinosaurs could play instruments! I would have thought, for instance, that the tryannosaur's undeveloped arms would have been unable to hold a guitar.



I believe that this problem was overcome by giving them ukeleles - an instrument altogether more suited to the vestigial upper limb.


...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are.
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fbc
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United Kingdom
4903 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  13:34:14  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Devils Islander

Regarding the musicians that play with FB on Honeycomb.. others might see them as a bunch of dinosaurs that have managed to reduce SSMVGD to bland supermarket muzak, completely bereft of any soul whatsoever.



with the approval of FB himself.
SSMVGD, okay, but they've done a great job with Sing for Joy
and Honeycomb to name the obvious two.

though i don't agree with everything this guy says,
he hit the nail on the head with this one:

quote:
This record is for Frank, not us.
And now he wants to share it with as many as possible,
and personally, i'm glad he has

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Devils Islander
- FB Fan -

United Kingdom
101 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  13:50:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
...yeah, Violet excepted, I love the rest of the album. I know I probably shouldn't, but sometimes I just get a bit worried about where our boy is going with this 'Grand Ol' Opry' trip. Still, at least it's not as disturbing as Bowie's brief dalliance with drum n' bass.


...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are.
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fbc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/14/2005 :  14:01:41  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
i share the same thoughts

between me and you, d'ya think he'll find a way back to his quirky little numbers that made Frank Black so different to the rest?

Edited by - fbc on 08/14/2005 14:02:44
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Devils Islander
- FB Fan -

United Kingdom
101 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  14:14:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by fbc
between me and you, d'ya think he'll find a way back to his quirky little numbers that made Frank Black so different to the rest?


You never can tell, which is probably why we all love him so much.


...where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons are.
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fbc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/14/2005 :  14:16:41  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
yep! fingers crossed.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =

Mexico
15297 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  15:43:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn

Short-bus gifted, you mean?


Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank




do you really think i would insult someone's toddler?

don't answer that
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  20:13:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by floop

quote:
Originally posted by kathryn

Short-bus gifted, you mean?


Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank




do you really think i would insult someone's toddler?

don't answer that



Floopie, you know I'd be disappointed and hurt if you didn't.


Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
5305 Posts

Posted - 08/15/2005 :  19:05:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have tried and in the process of turning on as many people to Frank. I think this is a great album to share with others due the fact that it's not written for a niche of fans ... but has a very cool, broad appeal.

So yeah I have bought ppl copies as gifts... and what is a better gift than the gift of Honeycomb...

So I have told everyone that has a pulse in my life about this album... and I have gotten some converts... am in the process of gettting more!

Heck... we even have a radio show to do a mass conversion in a month or so!!!!

So get on the Honeycomb bus... or step back people!

"I ain't goin to be what I ain't"
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