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Since "the Pixies are my all-time favorite band," Miller says, he's most excited about Frank Black's participation. "He wasn't an easy man to find," Miller says. "But he was number one on my list because he's a very big TMBG advocate. He's in the Gigantic documentary, and he was obsessed with the Flood record." The Pixies also figure into Miller's unlikely selection of Reel Big Fish. "They were on the Pixies tribute and did 'Gigantic'. I was like, 'I don't want to hear a ska version of 'Gigantic', but they did a weird house-techno version, so based on that alone I wanted them on this."

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I know, i know... this has been a long time coming, but here are the details.

Yes- the street date is set for July 11th. But, what's really exciting is that Bar/None Records is the distribution label. It seems fitting since they were responable for TMBG's first 3 albums. Ultimately, their involvement means getting the album out into stores, on iTunes, etc.

Here's the FINAL tracklist:

sElf- ana ng
The Long Winters- pet name
David Miller- narrow your eyes
Charles Douglas- she's an angel
FRANK BLACK- road movie to berlin
The Wrens- they'll need a crane
Steve Burns- dead
OK Go- letterbox
Recepter- boat of car
This Radiant Boy- don't let's start
Jason Trachtenburg- doctor worm
Fluid Ounces- it's not my birthday
Brett Kull- another first kiss
Hotel Lights- the end of the tour

Frank's version of Road Movie is nothing short of kickass. It's live, it's strong, and really really serves the song well.

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McGuire got the chance to play bass on a Frank Black track slated for Hello Radio: The Songs of They Might Be Giants. She found out about the gig when a session bassist called in sick, and since Black was her teenage hero, she not only jumped, she practically pole-vaulted to the studio. To her dismay, Black had selected the tricky-to-play “Road Movie to Berlin,” a song full of musical changes.

“But he stripped it down to three chords,” says McGuire. “I plunked it out on the bass with a country swing. Then he asked, ‘Do you sing?’ I said ‘yeah,’ and we ended up singing the entire song together in the vocal booth. He left before it was mixed, so I got to sit in the control room and flip out, listening to our voices together on the playback.”

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2005.11.01 A new album will be recorded at Hormone Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Recording will begin around 2005.11.02, and continue throughout November. 14 songs are planned to be recorded. 10 of these are new:
Violence (ahimsa) (Sloan)
Whatever God Wants (Sloan)
Love is Forgiving (Sloan-Tiven)
Diamond Dust (All That Words Allow) (Sloan)
Matthews World (Sloan)
Wild Strawberries (Sloan)
Across The Night (Sloan)
The Soul Of The Woman (Sloan-Kalinich)
Sailover (Sloan-Tiven)
P.K. And The Evil Dr. Z (Sloan)

4 of these are "favorites":
Sins of A Family
From A Distance
Eve of Destruction
Where Were You When I Needed You

This is to be a guitar-based album, hence the absence of piano-based songs, such as the opus-in-progress "My Beethoven".

Staff:
Jon Tiven: Producer.

Additional Musicians:
Garry W. Tallent (of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band): Bass on 4 songs.
Tom Peterson (of Cheap Trick): Bass on 4 songs.
Bruce Boughton (of Garth Brooks' band): Steel pedal on 2 songs.
Frank Black (of The Pixies): Backing vocals / harmonies on 2 songs.
Felix Cavaliere (of The Rascals): Organ on "Soul of the Woman"; Top background vocal on "Where Were You When I Needed You".
Billy Block: Guested on 2005.12.03 and/or 2005.12.04.

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With regards to the Graham Parker Tribute record (PISS & VINEGAR) there's a track I produced of "Local Girls" with Frank alongside Pat Dinizio (Smithereens) and Gary Lucas (Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart). We also cut a version of "Discovering Japan" by Frank Black backed by my group (Jon Tiven's Ego Trip) which for some reason was not used on the album---don't ask me why, no one tells me anything---but eventually it might find its way onto some future FB release.

Also.....when we did the Arthur Alexander Tribute which has "Old John Amos" and the duet with Gary U.S. Bonds of "Go Home Girl," I cut a version of "I Love You So" (a previously unreleased song Arthur and I wrote the day after his legendary Bottom Line gig) with Frank, Ronnie Spector and Felix Cavaliere, but the label (Razor & Tie) thought we already had enough Frank on the album and left it as a duet with Ronnie and Felix. Again, perhaps some time that will see the light of day because it's very good.

http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13621&whichpage=2

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AD: On your excellent “Hitting The Ground” album, you have worked with a glut of outstanding performers that would make other artists green with envy. If you had to pick one standout track, which would it be and why? Also, did you give each artist a guideline for how you wanted the tracks to come out, or is it totally their own interpretation?

GG: Thank you for enjoying ‘Hitting The Ground’. There isn’t one track that’s most special to me. I could make an argument for each one. For example ‘Run’. When I heard Frank Black sing this I thought, and still do, that this is one of my favourite lead vocals of all time. With some artists we discussed how to approach the song and with others nothing was discussed except here’s the song and do you want to do it. Anyone that likes any of these artists I believe will really like what they do on this record. In sports lingo: they are all “on top of their game” or “in the zone”.

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Originally posted by fbc
Piss & Vinegar: The Songs Of Graham Parker
'Local Girls' with The Smithereens' Pat Dinizio

Live Cuts From Somewhere
It's a track called 'Sheena is a Punk Rocker'.

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Originally posted by 1965

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA, V/A O.S.T. (2000)
Track 2. Bullet (instrumental) ~ FB & The Catholics.

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Originally posted by beckett trance

I'm probably missing the point of this thread, but Man of Steel, from Oddballs, is also on the X-Files inspired Songs in the Key of X.

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Originally posted by 1965

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA, V/A O.S.T. (2000)
Track 2. Bullet (instrumental) ~ FB & The Catholics.

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It's actually listed under "Frank Black".

Denis

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