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 Posted - 04/02/2010 : 04:33:39
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Is it just me or Charles sings very much in high tones on that record?
Also, there are a LOT of growers, just like the orange album. I really didnt get lake of sin at first listen, it's a courageous way to begin the record, where does that jazzy funky hard rock come from??? The OBVIOUS choice would have been a song more immediate like Dead Man's Curve or 6legged man.
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 04:56:27
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Originally posted by vilainde
I love WIGDOY.
New review, by MusicOMH. It's generally positive and well written. I like it.
http://www.musicomh.com/albums/black-francis-2_0310.htm
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
1. that's possibly the best post pixies album review of charles i've ever read.
2. been listening to nonstop erotik nonstop. lol. last night o tidy sum finally got me. i had it louder than normal and finally heard the wonderfully fresh percussion sound. it's my new fave on the album.
3. the ones i usually skip (only sometimes) are (and mainly just to get to the next track that i love more):
Wheels
WIGDOU
nonstoperotik
yes i know i will give it time.
4. definitely alot of high end on charles vocals, also fresh, and awesome.
5. wild son is one of the few post pixies tracks that i think wouldn't be better just acoustic. don't hate.
6. (oh, and I still dream of the vomit squad album. original pixies. slightly new wave sounding. it would be vomit squad covering frank black and the breeders, with some new songs. not cannonball or divine hammer. and eric drew feldman must be involved. and it should be a double album. only on vinyl.
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johnnyribcage
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 05:28:26
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Ohhhhhh-kaaay... I am now firmly in the can't-handle-the-vocals-on-lake-of-sin camp. I've listened several times to the whole album now and I like the chorus of lake less every time - it's officially a skipper for the ole' ribcage (well, maybe after the first 20 seconds, that part is killer. Wish the whole song had that menacing vibe). It makes me wince.
Other than that, NSE is a top-notch, Five Star Affair. IMO.
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 05:34:47
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Well I didn't understand a single word of #6 except "vinyl". And it reminds me that we should start a petition to get NSE released on vinyl. It soooooo deserves it.
SIDE 1
Lake of Sin
O My Tidy Sum
Rabbits
Wheels
Dead Man's Curve
Corrina
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Six-Legged Man
Wild Son
When I Go Down On You
Non Stop Erotik
Cinema Star
Denis
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johnnyribcage
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 05:45:05
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Originally posted by vilainde
I love WIGDOY.
New review, by MusicOMH. It's generally positive and well written. I like it.
http://www.musicomh.com/albums/black-francis-2_0310.htm
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
1. that's possibly the best post pixies album review of charles i've ever read.
That is a great review! It's damn well written, and I couldn't stop laughing (alone) at the paragraph about When I Go Down On You. The line about face-time is absolutely hilarious.  Awesome review.
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johnnyribcage
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 05:46:43
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Originally posted by vilainde
Well I didn't understand a single word of #6 except "vinyl". And it reminds me that we should start a petition to get NSE released on vinyl. It soooooo deserves it.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
I wish they'd release everything back to Honeycomb on vinyl. Especially Bluefinger. WTF. With a name like Cooking Vinyl, you'd think they'd get their shit together! I'll sign that petition.
ed: I actually sent an email to them about this back when Honeycomb came out. They replied that they had no plans for vinyl releases. And that was that.
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 05:59:13
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Do I hear percussion in Wheels? Tabla or whatever it's called. I only have the leaked version so the sound isn't perfect. It sounds like the same instrument as in Space (I Believe In). I love it (even though it seems I'm the only one who does)
Denis
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 06:20:05
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1. cooking vinyl should have vinyl. wtf. bluefinger and svn fngers should be on vinyl for sure. (I have a vinyl of compilation of frank doing "i'm going down" (on you). isn't that cooking vinyl?
2. who doesn't love facetime.
3. it's funny how i never came to appreciate dead man's curve until this album (and because of this album evn tho i listend to christmas all of the time) but i still prefer the live and even more so the acoustic version.
4. speaking of number 1. a question that i always had was why after the pixies did he change record labels so much. was that his or their decision or both?
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OLDMANOTY
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 07:00:43
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I've only heard 3 tracks so far myself, but here's a great review from the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/9vzb
Surely set to be one of the Pixies main man’s strongest solo albums.
Martin Longley 2010-04-01
.As the Pixies tour still wends its gradual way around the globe, their main man releases what is surely set to be one of his strongest Black Francis albums. Or, indeed, one of his strongest Frank Black albums.
Co-producer Eric Drew Feldman had been holding on to an old black guitar that a fan had given Francis at a San Francisco club. Black finally took hold of it, polishing it up with red wine in his dressing room. Each time he played it a pleasing chord emerged. On a whim, Black instructed his tour manager to book studio time, and he began laying down tracks après-gig, at 4am in LA. Further songs were captured in London, at a studio that Francis believed to be haunted. This comes as no surprise, given the disc's shimmering sonic aura.
Black continues to refine his pop sensibilities, loading each song with heavy hooks and often hitting a chorus before 30 seconds have elapsed. He can drawl with a deeply threatening gruffness, then switch psychotically to a sweetly falsetto howl. At his heart lies saccharine 1950s balladry, but this purity can't survive intact once Francis soils it with his deranged yowling vocals and broken guitar distortion. Velvet-peach melodies are covered with elephantiasis skin.
Vocals emerge from a churning barrage of axes, with Feldman adding to the wall of sound with his antique keyboard crankiness. He floods the background with string ensemble impersonations, cheesy retro settings that sound like they're being forced through a cheap, malfunctioning amplifier. Black's guitar solos are never overlong, but he fills them with undiluted urgency. His sound is reminiscent of Marc Bolan's: choogling and chopping, talking and weeping. Francis is also sounding increasingly similar to Ian Hunter and Alice Cooper, though Wheels, which recalls the latter, is actually a Flying Burrito Brothers cover. It's a grubby rocker, topped by a mammoth guitar solo.
As it happens, most of these songs are rockers, and even the ballads possess a toughened core of energy. Two or three event-crammed minutes are the norm. The entire album barely hits 37. O My Tidy Sum has acoustic guitar strumming to the fore, then Rabbits turns towards nasty psychedelia, coloured by Black's sinister playfulness. When I Go Down On You is the most romantic number in the album's supposed handling of matters sexual, though Francis prefers to keep his words largely abstract in nature.
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johnnyribcage
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 08:35:25
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Originally posted by vilainde
Do I hear percussion in Wheels? Tabla or whatever it's called. I only have the leaked version so the sound isn't perfect. It sounds like the same instrument as in Space (I Believe In). I love it (even though it seems I'm the only one who does)
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
I don't hear any extra percussion beyond the drum kit. I think what you're hearing are the floor tom (sounds like floor tom) rolls between the snare hits in lieu of a hi hat. So no tabla that I can hear.
And I personally love tabla and eastern music in general. If you dig tabla, check into Zakir Hussain - one of the absolute best there is. He has played with too many people to list (of course Ravi Shankar and Shakti W/ John Mclaughlin), but look him up on you tube for a taste.
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fbc
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 10:02:14
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Originally posted by joe FITZ of molly BANG
4. speaking of number 1. a question that i always had was why after the pixies did he change record labels so much. was that his or their decision or both?
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...Toronto published, nationaly distributed rag Exclaim! (Nov. issue) provided these choice Frank Black quotes:
[snip] ...regarding Frank's present crumbling record deal:
"It's the usual record company baloney. I'm staring into the trickle down of American Recording's troubles. I've been talking to Rick Rubin through my lawyer."
"We've started breach of contract action. Everyone who wasn't dropped from his label, including myself, the Jayhawks and others, are attempting to extricate themselves from their contracts and get whatever might be owed."
It's about as bad as this type of situation can get. The people at American don't return phone calls. Apparently, they've been in a meeting since March."
catholics
Ex-Pixie claims American Recordings refused to release his latest album.
Addicted To Noise New Jersey correspondent Jon Vena reports : Though 4AD Records will release a retrospective Pixies collection in October, it seems that former lead singer Frank Black has become the Rodney Dangerfield of rock 'n' roll of late.
And like the comedian, these days, he says, he gets no respect.
Black, who recently exercised an escape clause in his contract with the UK label Dragnet, could be on his way out of his contract with his current U. S. label, American Recordings, according to his manager, Ken Goes. In fact, Goes calls recent dealings with the Rick Rubin-founded label "the most uncoordinated and ridiculous" negotiations he's ever been involved with.
"It's the classic situation," Black said, calling from his home in California. "The A&R guy [Marc Geiger] who signed us left the label. And it seemed at first like the new guys wanted to work with us. But I had doubts about that just based on their performance with my last record [The Cult Of Ray]." As it turns out, Black said the situation got so bad, he "could see them hiding in the bushes waiting to shoot."
The problem began when Black submitted his latest recording, Frank Black And The Catholics to Rubin in June. The album, recorded live on a two-track within the span of three days, is, in Black's words, "very raw."
According to Goes, Rubin refused to release the record, but gave Black verbal permission to license the album to another label. However, Rubin has since reneged on that agreement, Goes said.
Heidi Robinson, a publicist for Rubin and the American Recordings label, said that "The label has no comment" on the Black situation. Marc Geiger could not be reached for comment.
"Rick had a history of allowing artists to license certain projects," Black said. "So we didn't think it would be a problem. But he changed his mind. [The agreement] was reneged in the sense that American wanted to renegotiate my contract. Thus, my career is basically on hold."
Black's manager contends that American's tactics forced him to reevaluate his relationship with the label.
"We were negotiating to leave the label," Goes said, "but then it looked like they wanted to put it out. And then everything changed. At this point, it's hard for me to speak about it, because I really don't know what's going on.
"So we're in limbo with American Recordings," he added. "It could eventually be released, it might not be eventually released. The situation has changed from week to week."
Black said the new recordings met with skepticism in the UK as well, which forced him to drop his contract with Sony Records. (Ironically, Sony subsidiary Epic Records distributes Black's former UK label, Dragnet Records, in England. Until recently, Dragnet owned the rights to Black's distribution outside North America.)
"I mean, I didn't give them Metal Machine Music," joked Black, referring to an unlistenable Lou Reed album from the '70s. "But their argument was that they couldn't get it on the radio. I was like, 'no shit, Sherlock, I've never been able to get on the radio in Europe.' "
But there's no hard feelings, Black said. "It's all business. Obviously, the suits are running everything now. I got that quote from Paul McCartney."
Rocktropolis, the slowest god damn site on the web:
"I have severed my relationship with American Recordings. I am now a free man." So states Mr. Frank Black, solo artist and former leader of the influential Pixies, in a manner as succinct as possible about his present status as free agent. There's no animosity, no drama, no rage.
Black, whose 1995 album The Cult of Ray was his only disc released on Rick Rubin's label, is now semi-actively seeking stateside record companies. "I'm all set with Europe and Australia," says the singer from his Los Angeles home. "I'm going with Play It Again Sam, which is a Belgian company, and Shock, which is based in Australia -- they're more of a licensee than anything else, but that's cool."
Black has already recorded a new set of songs, titled Frank Black and the Catholics, that's ready to go. "The Catholics tape was what precipitated my battles with American," he says. "They're obligated under my contract to put it out, but because I opted for a rougher, liver sound, they balked."
The album was done live to two-track in a Burbank studio favored by Tom Petty, among others. "I got tired of slicked-up, lifeless-sounding music," Black adds, "and wanted to go to a no-bullshit approach, but anything that isn't glossy freaks the record companies out, so out I went.
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trobrianders
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 10:47:22
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Originally posted by OLDMANOTY
Martin Longley 2010-04-01
At his heart lies saccharine 1950s balladry,
That's a telling observation seeing as how Charles picked out nearly all ballads from mid-50s to mid-60s when he guest DJ'd on KCRW.
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joe FITZ of molly BANG
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 10:51:25
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so that's why there's seem to be some dislike of rick rubin on the best of.
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MajorKey
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 13:33:14
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= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 04/02/2010 : 19:06:14
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This cracked me up. Saw it on VC's Facebook page.
Best "Review" Ever:
BLACK FRANCIS - NONSTOPEROTIK
"We must confess we have not had the opportunity to listen to this album of Black Francis, Nonstoperotik. For lack of time or simply because we do not have it. We can't therefore afford to make any decision against him.
Nevertheless, like every album on this site, we think it deserves more attention from you. Black Francis has probably spent much energy and time to conceive it. It would be a mistake to let this album of Black Francis, Nonstoperotik, aside..."
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trobrianders
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 00:50:48
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Worst thing about the album: I can't hit the back button after the awesome Six Legged Man cos it's followed by the equally awesome Wild Son.
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Jose Jones
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 03:42:25
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Originally posted by trobrianders
Worst thing about the album: I can't hit the back button after the awesome Six Legged Man cos it's followed by the equally awesome Wild Son.
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after giving but ONE listen through, those two are my favorites so far.
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Brank_Flack
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 06:09:05
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After many many listens I'm really into O My Tidy Sum.
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Golem Survivor Round 2 http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20079
It's a nice song. Even the falsetto is growing on me, especially in the chorus! |
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vilainde
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 06:10:38
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Took me years to get used to this song. Definitely not among my FB faves but I like it.
Denis
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Jose Jones
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 09:36:28
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hmm. sort of a bizarre album, this one. plenty of room to grow, which is better in a way. i may not be blown away right now, but i'll be coming back to it over and over, each time growing fonder and fonder.
funny how the golem and i were instantly in love, and then next month's album... i'd tap it, for sure, but...
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johnnyribcage
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 16:15:09
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After many many listens I'm really into O My Tidy Sum.
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I think Sum is my favorite right now... It's got a great vibe.
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trobrianders
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 16:53:44
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Originally posted by Jose Jones
hmm. sort of a bizarre album, this one. plenty of room to grow, which is better in a way. i may not be blown away right now, but i'll be coming back to it over and over, each time growing fonder and fonder.
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I had my doubts at first. Feels like there's a ceremonial veil around this album. I'm a month into it now and I keep coming back to it every day like I'm drawing the curtain on it.
Sex as religion and just a little death. A curtain seems fitting.
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 18:21:18
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indeed. though nothing screams inside of me "dislike!," i'm sort of baffled at parts. i like it a lot, but then... huh? still, i keep wanting to hit play and do it again. i'm in it for the whole ride, and i'm stoked, rewarded, and again baffled. i've always pretty much instantly loved every release, so this is a new experience for me.
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 22:09:36
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I'm beginning to think Cinema Star might actually be about a star of "adult" cinema.
I'm just a kind of a cinema star
Just not the kind you think
And though my scenes deliver
Now my ship is beginning to sink
I put my love into every part
And have you ever seen
The arrows from my quiver
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Ten Percenter
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 22:20:16
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Another mostly positive review:
http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/albums/black-francis-nonstoperotik
Listening to Black Francis' new album 'NonStopErotik' is like sneaking a peak at the pages of a secret diary he’s foolishly left lying around, with the revelations contained within both shocking and compelling. The almost unbearable intimacy is heightened by the sensual black and white artwork of a beautiful lady lying in crumpled sheets, compounded by none-too-subtle song titles (‘When I Go Down On You’). As for accompanying the press release – written by the man itself, no less – it clearly sets the tone for what’s to come: “…I am Man Ray and I want you and to be all the way inside you, the cameras whirring as we put some elbow grease into the scene, the audience watching us in the dark.” Not exactly the kind of thing you’d be happy for your gran to catch you doing, eh, Black Francis?
The thing is, Black Francis is a more than willing co-conspirator in this spilling the beans tell all of an album – it’s clear that he has left his diary open, and is actively encouraging you to read it, engage with it and frankly get your rocks off to it. All this should by rights leave you feeling pretty smutty but in fact the end result is a charming album, racing through pleasing extremes of gentle folkish swaying and raw rock outs we’ve come to expect from the erstwhile Pixies frontman and formidable solo artist.
We shouldn’t be too surprised at Black Francis’ fixation on the erotic side of things, though – after all this is the man who once wrote the immortal lines "Oh dance with me / Oh don’t be shy / Oh kiss me c**t / Oh kiss me cock" (Pixies - 'U-Mass'). It’s good to see that the years haven’t dampened his wicked ardour, or indeed the directness of his lyrics (“I want to be inside / That’s my intention / Inside of you” from the album’s title track), although sometimes you can’t help but think perhaps some of these ideas are best left for the ears of his loved one only.
Putting our squeamishness aside, the music is solid, if not always totally gripping; but as you’d expect there are flashes of musical loveliness scattergunned throughout the album – as when Black Francis’ falsetto blends beautifully and falteringly over the top of barely there acoustic track ‘Rabbits’, juxtaposed with finesse with a rabidly energetic cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' foot stomper ‘Wheels’. Given the intimate tone of the record, you’ve got to ask yourself if ‘Six Legged Man’ could be a euphemism for something salacious? We’re too innocent to know, of course, but what it is, is a fabulous stomp-a-thon designed to raise the roof with its hurricane blast of fuzzed up guitars and blustery drums. ‘Dead Man’s Curve’ is another highlight, proving that he can still deliver crashingly good rock tracks, even if they are a teeny bit more middle of the road than the sparklingly surreal indie pop of his youth.
You never quite lose the initial feeling that this is more like a personal record of an especially passionate relationship than an album for public consumption – and in this sense it veers into the murky territory of that much maligned beast, the concept album – but ultimately 'NonStopErotik' contains too many joyful wig outs to take itself too seriously. Black Francis is on a one-way trip straight to the saucier side of love, and he’s just itching to take you along for the ride, too.
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Ten Percenter
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 22:23:15
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Don't think this one has been posted yet - rated 7 out of 10 if you care!:
http://panicdots.com/2010/03/album-review-black-francis-nonstoperotik/
Black Francis – NONSTOPEROTIK Cooking Vinyl (2010)
“This wrinkle in time can’t give it no credit”
NONSTOPEROTIK is Black Francis’ best album since 1994’s sprawling “Teenager of The Year” the record widely praised by both critics and fans as his strongest post-Pixies moment. NONSTOPEROTIK, put together to coincide with a film by Judy Jacobs, alternates, maneuvers and ploys the listener. Songs fluctuate from sheer, tenacious raw rock, to sweet synth-string melodies, and culminate in the unrestricted crushing menace reminiscent of Pixies classics.
NonStopErotik is almost entirely and unreservedly about sex, exploring frenzied associations to sensuality and love, all accomplished with relative ease. Black recruits former collaborator Eric Drew Feldman (Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu) with the resulting interplay between Feldman’s sparse instrumentation and Black’s punctuated voice and guitar combining into a dense, enveloping sound.
There are no immediate stand out tracks, though whatever the creative impulse behind it all, as a whole it works.
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Ten Percenter
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 22:27:55
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A 4 out of 5 review - mostly related to the press release though!:
http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/reviews/album-reviews/7411/album-review:-black-francis
If any other musician presented an album entitled ‘NonStopErotik’, explaining it had been recorded in a haunted studio after a quasi-spiritual songwriting session and that its central emblem was the fern as code for the vagina, our eyeballs would be rolling so far back we could practically see 360°; when Black Francis says it, you nod inquisitively and head straight to the CD player. The Pixies’ accursed preacher and his rasping abstracts on sex and death are inevitably, for originality and sheer visceral power, a cut above and ‘NonStop…’ is no exception so, whilst there may be an unexpected lightness of touch, Black’s howling riddles ensure that at the centre is far more than merely a catchy melody.
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Ten Percenter
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 22:32:38
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Did Dinosaur Jr not cover a Flying Burrito Brothers' track?:
http://www.mxdwn.com/2010/04/01/reviews/black-francis-nonstoperotik/
Where Is My Solo Act Mind?
Black Francis has always handled heavy pop tunes with a fine balance of ’90s Gen X aggression and noise, but with a little less chaos than his Pixies conditioning. With the advent of Nonstoperotik, Francis delivers a softer approach to his otherwise angsty portrayal of alternative rock.
Tracks like “O My Tidy Sum” and “Rabbits” feature a slightly tired Francis, a la The Band, singing over twinkly vibraphone and strings, providing a slight orchestration. “Rabbits” is played off by just the tiniest bit of low brass that brings a not-too-sweet conclusion to the piece.
Francis’ cover of The Flying Burrito Brothers’ “Wheels” almost sounds like if Dinosaur Jr. decided to play country. Despite this, Francis’ background in roots music provides an understanding of how to not turn a Southern lullaby into a corny, hokey slice of irony. Sincerity is key in this track and the album; melodies aren’t forced.
“Corrina” might as well provide insight as to what’s in store for the next Pixies release with Francis sing-shouting over thickly distorted guitars. The sparsely played Rhodes piano gives a slight taste of that ’90s dissonance hiding under the gain. The title track comes off like a cinematic version of “Wonderful Tonight,” down to the twangy guitar solo; finally, a slowdance song for aging indie kids.
Francis has indeed come to terms with his own musicianship within and beyond The Pixies. Nonstoperotik blends bits of pop sensibility with a more-than-matured alt rocker at heart.
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Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/03/2010 : 22:35:47
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Originally posted by MajorKey
I'm beginning to think Cinema Star might actually be about a star of "adult" cinema.
I'm just a kind of a cinema star
Just not the kind you think
And though my scenes deliver
Now my ship is beginning to sink
I put my love into every part
And have you ever seen
The arrows from my quiver
Piercing the golden queen
I think you may well be right!
"I thought that I had reached bedrock, but I had yet to reach Birmingham..." |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 10:45:31
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musicOMH - Black Francis - Nonstoperotik.
NJ.com - Unlikely muses but exceptional music.
Nonstoperotik
Black Francis
(Cooking Vinyl)
Charles Thompson, a k a Frank Black, has resuscitated his Pixies nom-de-
rock, Black Francis, on recent solo occasions, with the familiar alias having
heralded his finer latter-day output (2007’s “Bluefinger,” 2004’s “Frank
Black Francis”). Not this time. Though it finds the artist in a promisingly
randy, romantic mood, “Nonstoperotik” is closer to the maddeningly
underwhelming music he turned out by the yard after his first few years as
Frank Black. The track to cherry-pick here is the grungy, Pixies-ish opener,
“Lake of Sin.” Then it’s “Wild Son,” with barroom piano tinkling in the
background of the track’s nice half-chilly, half-sexy Iggy/Bowie vibe. But too
many songs sound half-written; once again, Thompson has confused swift
execution (good) with tossed-off conception (bad).
— Bradley Bambarger |
Edited by - Carl on 04/04/2010 10:51:11 |
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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1758 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 16:13:06
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quote:
Originally posted by Carl
musicOMH - Black Francis - Nonstoperotik.
NJ.com - Unlikely muses but exceptional music.
Nonstoperotik
Black Francis
(Cooking Vinyl)
the maddeningly
underwhelming music he turned out by the yard after his first few years as
Frank Black.
— Bradley Bambarger
so obviously nothing this guy says matters. if you don't like the "first few years of frank black" then you don't fucking like frank black so fuck off with your bullshit opinion, bradley. he's like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to-...
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 17:23:18
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Lots of good songs on this album, especially O My Tidy Sum. My only issue is it still doesn't quite work for me as an album. I don't see what ties all these songs together.
What's the official tracklist? Is it the same as the leaked version?
And all of this for nuthin', after all my huffin' and puffin'. |
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1965
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
799 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 18:32:41
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Originally posted by moksha23x
Lovin' both 'The Golem' and 'NonStopErotik'........I just read this on Blackfrancis.net :
"B-sides for NSE to include four covers, including the tunes "Grindsman", "Lost Me Love", & "Rocket USA". "
Anyone have any clue where to get these?
12. Lost Mi Love [iTunes]
13. Taint No Use [Japan CD version]
14. Rocket USA [Japan CD version]
15. The Grindsman [Japan CD version + iTunes]
I have the key to #902 |
Edited by - 1965 on 04/04/2010 18:48:37 |
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Non-Stop Erotik
