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1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
 Posted - 07/17/2007 : 06:40:32
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I want to say the live discs are very enjoyable and sound great! Thanks Ben M for the mix.
I have the key to #902 |
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 08:22:33
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Originally posted by 1965
I want to say the live discs are very enjoyable and sound great! Thanks Ben M for the mix.
I have the key to #902
I'll second that. I enjoyed them very much on my ride to work this morning. They were superbly recorded and mixed.
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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *
1079 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 11:51:00
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I bought the "terrible best of" with the scary cardboard package and this awfull song about sex change... br.... (sorry)
So, I guess i have the right to know were I could download for free the American and Japanese live compilation.
Thank You.
Vive la consommation et l'argent facile.
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J-Dogg
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 07/20/2007 : 14:26:16
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Wow, you guys weren't kidding about the packaging. It's pretty horrific. The man deserves much, much better. This Best Of should have hit with a splash to bring back the people who lost track of Frank Black when the Pixies broke up but it won't do it with this packaging. The print is really bad and it feels so small, like a free cd or something.
Still... great selection of tracks. Actually, it could have had Calistan and just a load of static and I'd hve said it was a great selection.
New kid by the way (to registering and posting, not to Frank, the website or even lurking at the boards). |
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2007 : 15:28:32
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Welcome to the forum, J-Dogg.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2007 : 14:40:59
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i got the us edition for ten bucks including shipping off e-bay. crappy packaging versus paying for a download, don't know which is worse. i like having something to hold, touch, put away sort of thing, instead of holding up my ipod and saying "this is worth ten more dollars now." don't get me wrong, i've got lots of stuff in my ipod idon't own, but most were borrowed from the library and a lot i would purchase if and when i get lots and lots of disposable income or saw at a really low price.
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
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ccuadros
* Dog in the Sand *
Chile
1315 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 07:36:41
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Today I got my copy that I bought in CD Universe, I´m agree with the package, it´s a crap, the same than frank black francis, I enjoyed a lot the Live CD, great recording. The man deserves a hard package.
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2463 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 07:57:59
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"The man deserves a hard package"
I've heard of uberfans, but that's taking things a bit too far, don't you think? |
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7443 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 08:15:12
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Wow wow wow. You're starting to sound like OldManInACoffeeCan, ccuadros.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 11:02:27
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Originally posted by NimrodsSon
I give a shit because it's **supposed** to be a comprehensive ten year best of CD. That's a BIG deal! You don't just throw something like that into a cardboard sleeve with NO LINER NOTES or photographs whatsoever. Not to mention those god-damned sleeves scratch your CDs to hell every time you take them out or put them back in. I KNOW Cooking Vinyl can do better than that. Hell, Christmass was packaged better than this (which isn't saying much...), and that was a shitty release targeted at nothing more than uber-hardcore fans. This is a comprehensive best of designed to introduce people to Frank's music. The live disc is just a little bonus. The packaging is inexcusable.
I'm not sure I quite understand your position. Why would the newcomers have interest in reading liner notes? They probably haven't heard all of the songs yet; wouldn't they be more interested in the music itself? The purpose of liner notes or new photographs, as I see it, would be to woo fans into buying a disc that contains no new songs. But instead of liner notes, Cooking Vinyl gave us a live disc. |
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
2002 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 11:19:13
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I see where your coming from, IceCream. But it's almost priority to supply liner notes with any 'Best Of', especially for newcomers who may be interested in historical info or even time-line that may be unavailable to them otherwise. For the oltimers, it's always fun to read while listening. DEATH TO THE PIXIES had an interesting essay with it, which gave a small nutshell to the importance and impact (non) they had during their first incarnation. Even PIXIES B-SIDES had cool recollections in the form of quotes from the Man himself...and ODDBALLS had quick musings as well. So why not FRANK BLACK BEST OF 93-03? Pictures aren't as important...but until we are downloading music as consumers TOTALLY and CD's cease to exist as store-sold things, liner notes/essays/etc. should be married to discs such as this.
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His name is Dalton. He's got a degree in philosophy.
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ccuadros
* Dog in the Sand *
Chile
1315 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 12:16:26
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hehehe, i´m agree with transmarine, i like a lot the art of the cd´s, obviusly the music is the most important, but really my biggest complain with the package is that you could scratch the CD every time that you extract of the package.
Anyway I liked a lot the compilation and the live cd |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6214 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2007 : 15:17:00
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Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
I see where your coming from, IceCream. But it's almost priority to supply liner notes with any 'Best Of', especially for newcomers who may be interested in historical info or even time-line that may be unavailable to them otherwise. For the oltimers, it's always fun to read while listening. DEATH TO THE PIXIES had an interesting essay with it, which gave a small nutshell to the importance and impact (non) they had during their first incarnation. Even PIXIES B-SIDES had cool recollections in the form of quotes from the Man himself...and ODDBALLS had quick musings as well. So why not FRANK BLACK BEST OF 93-03? Pictures aren't as important...but until we are downloading music as consumers TOTALLY and CD's cease to exist as store-sold things, liner notes/essays/etc. should be married to discs such as this.
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he's right you know. Linernotes are a must, especially for new fans. I like what Frank had written for it, I believe it was in the press release. Would have been great if it was in the booklett.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2007 : 15:06:04
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yeah my first introduction to the pixies was the death to the pixies cd. i was on holiday in spain when i first listened to it so the liner notes were very interesting - for 6 weeks those liner notes contained all i knew about the pixies.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2007 : 15:39:23
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Bought it today, haven't listened to it yet!
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus. |
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blarg007
= Cult of Ray =
USA
493 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2007 : 20:43:18
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CV should have put out a double disc of greatest hits
as one package (w/decent packaging..)
and released a separate package with ALL the live
cuts for the uhber fans.
That way with the live package they could have used their
by now famous weeny B.S. packaging and licensed it
worldwide saving the U.S. fans from spending $40+ bucks
for a handful of live tracks and not taken so much heat.
Of course a double or single greatest hits would be
more compelling to the newbie with some pics and notes.
Ultimately I guess an import switch up on tracks seems
like a cool thing (Marketing-wise) and I've gone out of my way
to get them before, without mail-order etc.
But fer cryin' out loud I won't find this
Japanese or Euro release at the record stores
even in Chicago with the way the music business is these days.
..I found a cool mint copy of Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers
LP Birth at the thrift store the other day for 60 cents though! |
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2564 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 11:41:49
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I still haven't bought this on CD yet. I just don't really have any motivation for doing so. I got it from iTunes (with all the live tracks) and have put them on a disc.
I probably will buy it, just to have it in my collection. That's the only reason though.
"The arc of triumph" |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2007 : 18:34:43
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Just listened to the live disc (Euro version) today, good stuff, like sax and harmonica!
You know, it's a pity they left of Ramona, and some of the choices were perhaps a little surprizing-Calistan, You Ain't Me, I Gotta Move, for example. And no St. Francis Dam Disaster! I would've stuck Big Red on there too, myself.
"A little bit of this, and a little bit of that....trade secrets!" |
Edited by - Carl on 10/22/2007 18:35:08 |
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 08:10:43
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Originally posted by vilainde
... and I didn't even mention the great new pictures!
http://www.cookingvinyl.com/press/frankblack/
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
this pic and the other one of him smiling is so awesome. he is so photogenic.
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my band: www.myspace.com/mollybang
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 08:11:48
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Originally posted by jackruby
Honeycomb and Fast Man Raider Man will be on the 2004-2014 best of. Release date: 3rd Quarter, 2017!
haha. nice.
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my band: www.myspace.com/mollybang
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 08:25:10
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Originally posted by coastline
It's the only FB song I refuse to listen to. Like Grotesque says, it's a "skip key song." Anybody wanna stick up for that song and tell me why it's worth listening to?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs.
i love hermaphraditos. should be on the best of imho.
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my band: www.myspace.com/mollybang
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MissMaceo
= Cult of Ray =
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 08:59:06
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wow
the man's really got a pulse on the probable upcoming demise of the ability to make a living off of record sales and is getting in under the wire, eh?
guess he's got kids to send to college and a mind for business and pleasure
can't say I blame him, not a bit |
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MissMaceo
= Cult of Ray =
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 09:03:57
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oops your comment about the 2017 was a joke.
my comment still holds true :) |
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 09:26:22
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Originally posted by vilainde
Now we know what track #23 is...
http://www.cdon.com/main.phtml?navroot=902&page=product#8719;=730504&tduid=5a95c7b2703b720261721f3eea598c65
01: Los Angeles
02: Ten Percenter
03: Czar
04: Old Black Dawning
05: Abstract Plain
06: Calistan
07: Speedy Marie
08: Headache
09: Freedom Rock
10: Men In Black
11: You Ain't Me
12: I Don't Want To Hurt You
13: All My Ghosts
14: I Gotta Move
15: Bad Harmony
16: Western Star
17: Robert Onion
18: Hermaphroditos
19: Velvety
20: California Bound
21: Massif Centrale
22: Manitoba
23: Threshold Apprehension (hidden track)
24: Bonus Album of Live Tracks/Demos
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
i don't tihnk my copy has T.A. (no, not tits and a$$...)
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my band: www.myspace.com/mollybang
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The Best Of Frank Black (1993-2003) - June 4th!
