| Author |
 Topic  |
|
Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
 Posted - 05/05/2006 : 07:50:28
|
<deadpan> True.
 "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
 |
|
|
rickeepoo
- FB Fan -
4 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 09:55:51
|
It's a double disc. The track list is as follows:
CD 1
1. If Your Poison Gets You
2. Johnny Barleycorn
3. Fast Man
4. You Can't Crucify Yourself
5. Dirty Old Town
6. Wanderlust
7. Seven Days
8. Raider Man
9. End of Summer
10. Dog Sleep
11. When The Paint Grows Darker Still
12. I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh)
13. Golden Shore
CD 2
1. In The Time Of My Ruin
2. Down To You
3. Highway To Lowdown
4. Kiss My Ring
5. My Terrible Ways
6. Fitzgerald
7. Elija
8. It's Just Not Your Moment
9. The Real El Rey
10. Where The Wind Is Going
11. Holland Town
12. Sad Old World
13. Don't Cry That Way
14. Fare Thee Well |
|
|
|
rickeepoo
- FB Fan -
4 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 09:58:57
|
And here is Fastman Raiderman's Biog:
FRANK BLACK
“Fastman Raiderman” (COOKCD376)
released 19th June 2006
Nobody is as fast as Frank Black. His work with the Pixies was like a string of firecrackers: tiny songs, most of them just over a couple of minutes long, that pop against the cold stone surface of pop music, each one leaving its mark on the landscape.
Nobody raids the pop music trove like Frank Black. From the formative years as a punk rock innovator through, on last year’s Honeycomb, Americana, he grabs every treat within his reach, rolls it around, and hands it back, Frank Blackened to the core.
Thus, the title of his new, most ambitious record: a sprawl of music on two discs, recorded over nearly two years with unlikely accomplices – veterans from immortal rhythm sections (Motown, Stax, Muscle Shoals, Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew), guys you’d never expect to find working together (Levon Helm from the Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Buddy Miller, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown, songwriting enigma P. F. Sloan), plus a former Catholic or two.
Fastman Raiderman picks up where Black’s Honeycomb album left off. Paired again with producer Jon Tiven (B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, Graham Parker), he offers 27 songs, from the somewhat bizarre (“Kiss My Ring”) to reflections on the dark sides of recent history (“Raiderman”) and the almost hallucinogenic (“Dog Sleep”) and the overlay of the lyrically obscure and the body-punch, visceral groove (“In The Time Of My Ruin”).
What’s interesting is that each of these four particular songs stem from a different recording session, each one exposing a distinctive shade of Black. The more you listen, the clearer their nuances become – and, paradoxically, the more the big picture comes together.
Here’s the breakdown.
The Honeycomb Session, April 2004
Stranded in post-divorce in Portland, Oregon, Black decides to stir up some music with Tiven. They had collaborated previously on the Headache EPs of 1994. Since then, Tiven had left New York for Nashville. He sets the stage, lines up an Olympian assembly of musicians, books time at Dan Penn’s studio, and as Black tries to relax in the presence of players he had idolized since childhood – Steve Cropper, Reggie Young, Spooner Oldham – starts rolling tape.
The results are thoughtful, reflective, and quietly soulful, except for a few cuts that slam a bit harder. “Songs Like ‘Kiss My Ring, ‘Highway to Lowdown’, ‘Sad Man’s Song’ and ‘Where The Wind Is Going’ didn’t have that laid-back feeling of Honeycomb,” Black says. “I was sad to see those songs go, but we decided to set them aside.”
And so four songs go into hibernation and wait for the right moment to spring back to life. That moment would come eventually, but first …
|
|
|
|
Jontiven
= Cult of Ray =
USA
347 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2006 : 08:09:18
|
If you're going to post the bio, let's do it in it's entirety.
FRANK BLACK
“Fastman Raiderman”
released 19th June 2006
Nobody is as fast as Frank Black. His work with the Pixies was like a string of firecrackers: tiny songs, most of them just over a couple of minutes long, that pop against the cold stone surface of pop music, each one leaving its mark on the landscape.
Nobody raids the pop music trove like Frank Black. From the formative years as a punk rock innovator through, on last year’s Honeycomb, Americana, he grabs every treat within his reach, rolls it around, and hands it back, Frank Blackened to the core.
Thus, the title of his new, most ambitious record: a sprawl of music on two discs, recorded over nearly two years with unlikely accomplices – veterans from immortal rhythm sections (Motown, Stax, Muscle Shoals, Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew), guys you’d never expect to find working together (Levon Helm from the Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Buddy Miller, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown, songwriting enigma P. F. Sloan), plus a former Catholic or two.
Fastman Raiderman picks up where Black’s Honeycomb album left off. Paired again with producer Jon Tiven (B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, Graham Parker), he offers 27 songs, from the somewhat bizarre (“Kiss My Ring”) to reflections on the dark sides of recent history (“Raiderman”) and the almost hallucinogenic (“Dog Sleep”) and the overlay of the lyrically obscure and the body-punch, visceral groove (“In The Time Of My Ruin”).
What’s interesting is that each of these four particular songs stem from a different recording session, each one exposing a distinctive shade of Black. The more you listen, the clearer their nuances become – and, paradoxically, the more the big picture comes together.
Here’s the breakdown.
The Honeycomb Session, April 2004
Stranded in post-divorce in Portland, Oregon, Black decides to stir up some music with Tiven. They had collaborated previously on the Headache EPs of 1994. Since then, Tiven had left New York for Nashville. He sets the stage, lines up an Olympian assembly of musicians, books time at Dan Penn’s studio, and as Black tries to relax in the presence of players he had idolized since childhood – Steve Cropper, Reggie Young, Spooner Oldham – starts rolling tape.
The results are thoughtful, reflective, and quietly soulful, except for a few cuts that slam a bit harder. “Songs Like ‘Kiss My Ring, ‘Highway to Lowdown’, ‘Sad Man’s Song’ and ‘Where The Wind Is Going’ didn’t have that laid-back feeling of Honeycomb,” Black says. “I was sad to see those songs go, but we decided to set them aside.”
And so four songs go into hibernation and wait for the right moment to spring back to life. That moment would come eventually, but first …
All-Nighter at Cowboy Jack’s, October 2004
Maybe six months after wrapping up Honeycomb, Black finds one empty day on his calendar, between Pixies concerts at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and in Tampa. Rather than spend the day crashed on a hotel bed, he calls Tiven again to see if he could get a few of the guys together for another round.
Some are free, including Cropper and drummer Billy Block. Others aren’t. And Penn’s studio isn’t available. So Tiven summons a strange combination of players to Cowboy Jack Clement’s studio. Motown’s Bob Babbitt, Cheap Trick’s Petersson and drummer Simon Kirke from Free show up ready to play, and Levon Helm actually drives in from New York to make this date. Black calls on guitarist Lyle Workman, who goes back with Black to Teenager Of The Year and has just finished scoring a new film about to be released, The 40 Year Old Virgin.
In the end, so many players want in that Black crams them all in a single 24-hour session, with musicians coming and going in three shifts and only one two hour break for some shuteye.
“I just wanted to do a session,” Black explains. “But it doesn’t take long before I start thinking like, ‘Hey there’s going to be a bunch of guys there. If I show up with 15 songs, we might get a record out of this.’ I wasn’t sure about it when we finished though, because everything had turned into a bit of blur.”
“We gutted it out on sheer adrenalin,” Tiven remembers. “By the end things were surreal and we were just going with the untamed forces of the universe. If you’re halfway between waking and sleeping, you can do things with a song that might not normally seem possible.”
Another Nashville Dance, October 2005
A year passes. Black comes back to Nashville for the Americana Festival. Once again he calls Tiven, this time with a little more slack in his schedule. By now it’s like homecoming. Cropper, Reggie Young, Buddy Miller, everybody says hi to Black as if they’d just run into him yesterday. Black, too, is relaxed: “On Honeycomb I was walking on eggshells,” he admits. “They’re still legends, but now that we’d hung around a bit, I was more at ease.”
Augmented once again by some of Black’s old friends, including Rich Gilbert and saxophonist Jack Kidney, whom he had met through David Thomas of Pere Ubu, this lineup cut the last of the Nashville tracks for Fastman Raiderman. Some of them – “Fitzgerald”, “Elijah” – look back to when Black and the Pixies were just beginning to turn rock music inside out from their home base in Boston. Others ponder more recent events – a true, tragic story of heroism in Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of Southern Mississippi on “My Terrible Ways”. The musicians play with an easy familiarity; their communion, and their understanding of this material, elevate Black’s artistry.
But there’s electricity here too, especially in an unplanned final session. After three days of recording Black ambles back to Cowboy Jack’s to hang out as Tiven adds a couple of overdubs. The producer has brought a friend, Marty Brown, to do some backup harmony. As members of the band from the previous day’s session strip down their gear, the two singers talk. Brown, raised in Kentucky’s wild hills and know throughout Nashville for his raw, down-home delivery, has only a vague idea of who Black is – and vice versa. Yet soon none of that matters.
“We were playing songs back and forth, trying to get to know each other,” Black recalls. “I said something about divorce songs, and he said, ‘Yeah, I got me one of those.’ And he picks up his guitar, and I swear, as he was sitting in this chair his legs kept moving towards the floor until he was basically on bended knee. His eyes closed, as if in prayer. And he performed this song like he was at the Grammies or on the Super Bowl halftime show. It was like ‘Whoa! I’ve got to work with you right now!””
Black doesn’t have any more of his own songs ready, so he suggests covering Ewan MacColl’s “Dirty Old Town”. Brown is game, and Black asks the band to set up and join them on one more track. When Black spells out the arrangement he’d dreamed up that morning, and Buddy Miller finds a rumbling low riff on guitar, and Billy Block punches it up with a swaggering drum groove, the two singers nail it, as if they’d been singing about grimy factory life together for years.
Idyll at Tiven’s, September 2005
There was just one track cut on this lazy, late summer night at the producer’s house, but Black singles it out as his favourite in this collection. It captures him with Duane Jarvis on acoustic guitars, doing “Raiderman” with accompaniment from a chorus of cicadas chirping in the backyard and Tiven’s dog Sammy, who makes himself heard right before he second verse. “That provides a nice backdrop to this tale of a Polish coal miner who lost his legs to the coal train,” Black says. “He ends up being a security man after he gets fired by the coal company, chasing the Raiderman away …”
West Coast Wrap, January 2006
A birthday party for Black in L.A. triggers the last four tracks. Tiven shows up with a friend: P.F. Sloan, whose “Eve of Destruction” flared out of radio speakers throughout the world in the mid-sixties, as if to herald his arrival and departure at the same moment. The producer is just beginning to work with Sloan on a new album; Black has already contributed some duet vocals, which he’d mailed from Japan. But it’s soon obvious that Fastman Raiderman requires a denouement – one more session, this time in L.A.
And so a new cast gathers a few months later, as Black comes to the coast to guest on Henry Rollins’ TV show: drummers Jim Keltner and Steve Ferrone, bassist Carol Kaye, Dave Phillips on steel guitar, Duane Jarvis – who had played at some of the Nashville dates – on guitar, and Sloan on piano. Black, inspired, starts getting up at five in the morning to write for this new configuration of energies and talents. There’s a lot to do, in a ridiculously short amount of time. So when the studio date arrives, Black leaves his hotel, feeling unprepared, feeling as if there was no way he can pull off one more time what he’d done on Nashville …
…. Feeling, to tell the truth, pretty damn good.
“There’s a high that comes from not being ready,” he says. “It’s like gambling. I knew I’d bitten off more than I could chew, but there’s something great about saying ‘Just do it, man!’ And of course it all worked out.”
These tracks hit with a harder rock feel that the stuff Black had laid down in Nashville. “Maybe it’s because I’m from L.A. and I felt like I was back in my ‘hood,” he muses. “But I felt like I was pulling this music up from my past. P. F. Sloan was a big influence, especially on ‘It’s Just Not Your Moment.’ I was soaking up whatever information I could get from him about L.A. and the sixties, and a lot of that went into what we did together.”
The Meaning Of It All
Black is already moving past this milestone double CD. Feelers are out to put a band together that can support this material on the road – not an easy assignment, but considering the caliber of the players he’s connected with over these past couple of years, hardly impossible.
“But I would never do anything as hokey as to tie the title of this album to me,” Black insists, “even though I worked on all these tracks in fast, intense bursts, with the fastest guys and gals out there. And I’ve been able to raid all kinds of mojos in rock and country that I’d never been able to dip into before because I didn’t have the credentials. But now I feel like I can record with anybody because I know the guy at the door who can get us in, you know what I mean?”
Black laughs, like a kid who knows how to finagle his way backstage at a Pixies reunion when he shares with his friends how it all came down. That’s Fastman Raiderman too: It’s rock & roll and something deeper, it’s country and something more urgent, all at the same time.
It’s Frank Black, and that’s all that really needs to be said.
bye,
JT
|
|
|
|
fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2006 : 14:42:49
|
quote:
Abbr. “Fastman Raiderman”. It’s Frank Black, and that’s all that really needs to be said.
Jon. Do not delete that post. I repeat....ah..better not
What a way to remind me the record's on it's way (like i forgot!) Thanks for the teaser, rickeepoo, and it's totality, Jon. A great read. |
|
|
|
vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7442 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 08:24:28
|
I wonder why Reid Paley isn't mentioned once in the bio. Didn't he co-write like 5 or 6 songs from the album?
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
|
|
|
Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 08:34:51
|
Because Reid is so cool he doesn't need any more press.
That's a lie - Reid is really cool and could probably use the good press. I know last time i spoke to him he said he was having a hard time finding a label to release his latest album.
-Brian
|
|
|
|
vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7442 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 08:43:49
|
Looks like the bio was written by Tiven. Maybe he and Reid don't get along.
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
|
|
|
billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6213 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 09:30:08
|
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
Looks like the bio was written by Tiven. Maybe he and Reid don't get along.
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath!
ohh boy! Speculation!
---------------------------
God save the Noisies |
|
|
|
fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 09:49:28
|
Neh, just recycling the rubbish.
"You wouldn't let it lie!" |
|
|
|
Jontiven
= Cult of Ray =
USA
347 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 17:29:23
|
I'm very friendly with Reid and I didn't write the bio.
No axes to grind......but for the record, songwriters and cowriters often do not get mentioned in bios. I should know, with over 300 of my songs covered by artists as notable as Huey Lewis & the News, Robert Cray, B.B. King, etc. and nary a bio mention as a songwriter. As a producer, plenty. Songwriters have the luxury of being able to sit home while the record is made and collect their checks without having to tour. Not a bad trade off for lack of fame if fame is what you seek, and if it isn't, you can fly under the radar all you like and not raise a peep.
The bio was written by a local Nashville writer and I don't know if I'm supposed to name him or not so I'll refrain, but I think he was more interested in the Nashville angle of the record and the famous names participating than anything else. Neglecting Reid was merely an oversight. And until I hear from him, I'm not going to conjecture on how he feels about it, and he'll make a nice check for his work on the record so at the very least it's quite the consolation prize.
bye,
Jon Tiven |
|
|
|
Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2006 : 17:29:35
|
http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/175/9/
Pixies Frank Black To Release New Solo
Album
Written by Stereoboard.com
Monday, 08 May 2006
Following the critical success of 2005s
Honeycomb, Pixies icon Frank Black will see the
release of his ambitious new double-CD,
Fastman/Raiderman, on Monday 19th June.
Paired again with producer Jon Tiven, the 27-
song CD was recorded over a two-year period at
studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, and slams a
bit harder than the laid-back Honeycomb.
Fastman/Raiderman features some of the most
celebrated players in music, including Levon
Helm from The Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap
Trick, Heartbreaker drummer Steve Ferrone, the
legendary Al Kooper, honky-tonk hero Marty
Brown, songwriting enigma P.F. Sloan, and Simon
Kirke from Bad Company and Free, as well as Honeycomb returnees Steve Cropper,
Reggie Young, Buddy Miller, Spooner Oldman and Chester Thompson, to name just a few.
For Black, the recording of Fastman/Raiderman was a bit of a homecoming. On
Honeycomb I was walking on eggshells, he admits about his renowned back-up band.
These guys are still legends, but now that wed hung around a bit, I was more at ease.
Songs on Fastman/Raiderman include the somewhat bizarre Kiss My Ring, the almost
hallucinogenic Dog Sleep, and the overlay of the lyrically obscure and the body-punch,
visceral groove of In the Time of My Ruin. Highway to Lowdown, Sad Mans Song, and
Where the Wind Is Going were originally recorded for Honeycomb but didnt match that
albums laid-back feel so have been in hibernation until now. Fitzgerald and Elijah look
back to when Black and the Pixies were just beginning to turn rock music inside out from
their home base in Boston, and My Terrible Ways is a true, tragic story of heroism in the
devastation in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina.
One of Blacks favorites is the track Raiderman which was recorded one lazy summer
night at Tivens house in Nashville. It boasts an accompaniment from a chorus of cicadas
chirping in the backyard and Tivens dog Sammy, who made himself heard right before
the second verse. That provides a nice backdrop to this tale of a Polish coal miner who
lost his legs to the coal train, Black says. He ends up being a security man after he gets
fired by the coal company, chasing the Raiderman away.
As Black is fond of doing, some of the new songs were recorded in a single 24-hour
marathon session with musicians coming and going in three shifts and only one two-
hour break for some shuteye.
We gutted it out on sheer adrenaline, Tiven remembers. By the end things were getting
surreal and we were just going with the untamed forces of the universe. If youre halfway
between waking and sleeping, you can do things with a song that might not normally
seem possible.
Black plans to put together a band that can support the songs on Fastman/Raiderman
and hit the road later this year. First, he'll join his Pixies bandmates on a European
summer tour. |
Edited by - Carl on 05/09/2006 17:57:48 |
|
|
|
Grotesque
= Cult of Ray =
France
777 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2006 : 00:39:12
|
| Poison classy classy classy |
|
|
|
Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2006 : 06:45:31
|
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds32704.html
Frank Black records new solo album
Wednesday, May 10 2006, 09:21 BST - by Susanna Regan
Pixies frontman Frank Black is to release a new solo album called Fastman/Raiderman.
The album will include a massive twenty-seven tracks, and reportedly has a harder
sound than his 2005 release Honeycomb.
Black attributes the change to feeling more comfortable with his back-up band. He told
Stereoboard: "These guys are still legends, but now that we'd hung around a bit, I was
more at ease."
Recorded over a two-year period, some of the songs were recorded in an intensive 24-
hour session with musicians playing in three shifts, and only a two-hour sleep break.
The singer plans to assemble a supporting band and take the record on tour later this
year, following the Pixies' European tour dates this summer. |
Edited by - Carl on 05/10/2006 06:48:10 |
|
|
|
s_wrenn
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1851 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2006 : 12:12:14
|
AMG (www.allmusic.com) has created a FM/RM page. It's very sparse now (no album cover or track list) but keep an eye out over the next week or so. They'll surely slap a review on there soon.
Truck Driver: Man, I could really go for some poon tang right now.
Butters: Yeah, I could sure go for some pudding right now, too.
TOMKAT From The Black Lodge at:
http://myspace.com/seanwrenn |
|
|
|
Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2006 : 12:51:54
|
OK, seriously. Posting the same thing in multiple places is against forum rules. Please stop.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
|
|
|
Spartacus
- FB Fan -
Australia
84 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2006 : 23:15:47
|
I think everyone should be pretty excited by this album. Its a typical Frank album, that is, its a grower. Ive listened to it a large number of times in the last week or so.
A couple of songs were instant faves for mine...johnny barleycorn and end of the summer. But after repeated listens the magic is clear...In The Time Of My Ruin, Poison, Elijah, Seven Days are classics in my opinion among others. Theres a couple that dont really do much for me but that is expected over 26 songs!
I liked Honeycomb but I love the sound of this double album...cant wait to get it in my hands. Just need Frank to tour down under now.
'I thought that I would stay just for a while' |
|
|
|
chickenwithtwoheads
= Cult of Ray =
Netherlands
391 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 04:36:18
|
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
quote:
Originally posted by billgoodman
the second disc of TOTY, I have seen that in Holland (not an french import)
Yeah, I got that in Den Bosch a few years ago.
You mean you actually were here in Den Bosch? That's where I live (and lived for the past five years or so).
What the hell makes this shitty town so interesting for foreign people/tourists?
If you're planning to come here again, let me know. I'll show you my wooden shoes and my tulips in the garden.
... |
|
|
|
Zsolt G.
- FB Fan -
117 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 07:15:59
|
| What, no windmill? |
|
|
|
JoshIAm
- FB Fan -
Australia
68 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2006 : 01:29:58
|
| Amen Spartacus |
|
|
|
Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2006 : 11:51:40
|
quote:
Originally posted by chickenwithtwoheads
You mean you actually were here in Den Bosch?
I sure was, a few times-I didn't know you lived there, chicken! I worked in Holland, on and off for about a year-y'know, doing that let's-go-over-and-work-in-tulip-factories thing with my friends a few years ago! And we got other work through the uitzenbureaus. I have a photo of that gold dragon statue that was vandalised, is it still there?
http://www.filter-mag.com/news/interior.3198.html
Frank Black To Release New Solo Album
by Staff | 05.11.2006
Cuddly Pixies front-man Frank
Black has a new double album of
goodness for us. Fast Man Raider
Man will be released on 19th of
June on Cooking Vinyl.
After pairing up with the cream
of Nashville's session for his
previous release, Honeycomb,
Black is enlisting more unusual
cohorts including Levon Helm
from The Band, Tom Petersson
from Cheap Trick, Heartbreaker
drummer Steve Ferrone, the
legendary Al Kooper, honky-tonk
hero Marty Brown, songwriting
enigma P.F. Sloan, and Simon Kirke from Bad Company and Free,
as well as Honeycomb returnees Steve Cropper, Reggie Young,
Buddy Miller, Spooner Oldman and Chester Thompson.
If you’d like to hear a little, Frank has a stream of “If Your Poison
Gets You” available on his Myspace
 |
Edited by - Carl on 05/12/2006 12:06:19 |
|
|
|
crippe
- FB Fan -
Sweden
64 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2006 : 13:33:09
|
"Clear the way for Johnny Barleycorn. This is the day that surely he will be reborn."
DAMN! that's an awesome song.
One thing though, what happened to Kiss My Ring? This new mix (or version) of it sounds really bad, there's absolutely no GO in it at all  |
Edited by - crippe on 05/12/2006 14:36:02 |
|
|
|
Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2006 : 23:25:43
|
quote:
Originally posted by crippe
"Clear the way for Johnny Barleycorn. This is the day that surely he will be reborn."
DAMN! that's an awesome song.
color me among those who will wait five more weeks while thinking of Traffic with every mention of that song title: another Barleycorn classic after thirty years? only from the man o' course! |
|
|
|
velvety
= Cult of Ray =
Portugal
536 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2006 : 07:16:32
|
Is Johnny Barleycorn a figure of U.S.' common immagination/history? What's it about?
Everyone who has heard the album is keeping so quiet about it. Strange.
Anyway, my first impression of the album is that it is fantastic. I would say that my enthusiasm for it equals the enthusiasm that I had for Dog in the Sand when it came out, with the advantage that FM/RM has more brilliant songs overall, so much so that songs like "If your poison gets you" seem to get lost in the shuffle, when I'm trying to remember FM/RM highlights.
I think it was MMD that pointed it out to me, but disc 2 does remind me a little of the second half of TOTY, a.i. breathtaking gems in between the usual great quirky frank tunes. Even with this latest alt-country style that Frank has been writting in, which some find more predictable or "safe", the whole album still sounds very interesting and creative to me, lots of ideas and hooks, with maybe two or three songs being the exception. The lyrics don't seem as interesting as they usually do, but I haven't paid them the deserved attention and Frank's lyrics are usually a collective effort to figure out and take much more time to decipher, it just seems like they had less effort put into them, less hidden content, more straightforward and personal stuff. Maybe more people can relate to these types of lyrics, I don't. It doesn't hurt FM/RM quality, though, I guess I'm just that kind of Space and mythological tales geek.
A couple of comments I've read seem to indicate that people find disc 1 more consistent or more "serious" or whatever, but disc 2 is so over the place and just so fun to listen to, that I'm enjoying it more than the first one. It's not a b-side collection at all, something that I feared when all the tracks that were left out of Honeycomb ended up on disc 2.
This will probably sound like fan-boy hype, but I'm really happy Frank decided to release the songs in this format, and not have them reduced into a single album. I'm not really a fan of double albums or "the more Frank songs, the merrier" mentallity, but IMO, this one works so well it's actually surprising, considering the good, not great albums that followed Dog in the Sand.
|
Edited by - velvety on 05/13/2006 08:03:21 |
|
|
|
crippe
- FB Fan -
Sweden
64 Posts |
|
|
1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2006 : 19:24:56
|
There are 4 more FMRM tracks streamimg on this site-
http://www.loudersoft.com/?p=3108
(( I'm a Snake... cut in half 'cause I'm not the one you needed. )) |
|
|
|
Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2462 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 03:23:34
|
| Ah, 'Elijah' is magnificent. Can't wait to hear the rest. Thanks for letting us know. |
Edited by - Ziggy on 05/15/2006 03:25:22 |
|
|
|
Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 04:16:54
|
Good find, 1965. Must check that out.
|
|
|
|
1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 07:16:45
|
No Worries guys ~ I'm here to help.. Elijah, Poison & Hwy To L sound stellar, while the others will be growers. Hard to tell on just a few listens.
(( I'm a Snake... cut in half 'cause I'm not the one you needed. )) |
Edited by - 1965 on 05/16/2006 02:04:27 |
|
|
|
billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6213 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 09:10:44
|
just heard Highway (the remix, heard if before on the boot of course)
and I think it's a song that is in the rank of St. Francis or End of Miles
or Everything is New. Perfect!
it reminds me an awful lot of Pan American Highway
I think the verses are almost the same
---------------------------
God save the Noisies |
|
|
|
PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2006 : 09:26:10
|
i had a dream the other day, probably my frist frank black one, i can't quite remember the first bit, but someone mentioned johnny barleycorn, or someone played it, or something like that. and frank black was there, and i went up to him and said, hey did you know johnny barleycorn is on your next album, fast man raider man? and then i realised how silly what i said was, and we both had a laugh about it.
.... i sound like old man in a coffee can :(
FAST_MAN RAIDER_MAN - June 19th |
Edited by - PixieSteve on 05/15/2006 09:29:02 |
|
|
|
fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2006 : 03:51:01
|
| Who? |
|
|
|
Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2006 : 09:48:39
|
You know....old man...lives in a coffee can...
http://www.earvolution.com/2006/05/new-track-from-frank-black.asp
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
New track from Frank Black
The Pixies' Frank Black is putting finishing
touches on his new solo record: Faster Man
Raider Man. The new release will be a double
disc with a reported 27 tracks recorded in
Nashville and LA and hits stores on June 19th.
But, you can check out two of the new tracks
here: "If Your Poison Gets You" -a bouncy little
diddy with some Van Morrison influence - and a
brand new track uploaded today called
"Fitzgerald."
The new record also features guest
appearances by Levon Helm from The Band,
Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Heartbreaker drummer Steve Ferrone, the
legendary Al Kooper, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown, songwriting enigma
P.F. Sloan, and Simon Kirke from Bad Company and Free.
// posted by JD @ 9:05 AM
 |
Edited by - Carl on 05/16/2006 10:35:35 |
|
|
|
1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2006 : 15:34:50
|
What is the correct title?
The CD cover looks like FAST MAN RAIDER MAN
but I have also seen:
FASTMAN-RAIDERMAN
FASTMAN/RAIDERMAN
FASTMAN.RAIDERMAN
& FASTMANRAIDERMAN
Confused... I'm going for FMRM.
(( I'm a Snake... cut in half 'cause I'm not the one you needed. )) |
|
|
|
1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2006 : 07:52:37
|
Alt FMRM cover ~ wisely rejected...
(( I'm a Snake... cut in half 'cause I'm not the one you needed. )) |
|
|
|
Topic |
|
|
|
Fastman Raiderman
