Frank Black and the Catholics (album)

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Frank Black and the Catholics
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 9, 1998
RecordedMarch 20, 1997 –
March 22, 1997
Studio Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre Alternative rock
Length41:19
Label SpinART
Producer Frank Black and the Catholics
Frank Black chronology
The Cult of Ray
(1996)
Frank Black and the Catholics
(1998)
Pistolero
(1999)

Frank Black and the Catholics is the debut album from Frank Black and the Catholics, released in 1998. The backing group on this album performed on Black's previous album, The Cult of Ray , but the group name was first adopted on this release. The album was recorded live to two-track tape over the course of three days in 1997, but a protracted dispute with Black's label American Recordings, [1] reportedly over the "raw" sound of the recordings, [2] delayed its release for 18 months. The album was released in June 1998 in the MP3 format on GoodNoise.com (precursor to eMusic) and was the first album by a major artist to be commercially released on the Internet. The album was then released in the fall of 1998 by SpinART records in the US. During the interim, Lyle Workman left the group and was replaced by Rich Gilbert, and Black prepared the follow-up, Pistolero .

Contents

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SourceRating
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NME 6/10 [5]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [6]
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Track listing

The track listing is sequenced in alphabetical order.

All tracks are written by Frank Black, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All My Ghosts" 3:32
2."Back to Rome" 3:25
3."Do You Feel Bad About It?" 2:07
4."Dog Gone" 3:00
5."I Gotta Move" 3:37
6."I Need Peace" 5:12
7."King & Queen of Siam" 2:51
8."Six-Sixty-Six" Larry Norman 3:03
9."Solid Gold" 4:18
10."Steak 'n' Sabre" 3:47
11."Suffering" 2:58
12."The Man Who Was Too Loud" 3:31

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [9]

Frank Black and the Catholics
Technical

References

  1. "A Frank Black internet radio show!?!?".
  2. "Pixies/Frank Black".
  3. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Frank Black and the Catholics: Frank Black and the Catholics". Allmusic . Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8.
  5. "Frank Black and the Catholics: Frank Black and the Catholics (Play It Again Sam)". NME . Archived from the original on June 15, 2000. Retrieved October 6, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. "Frank Black and the Catholics: Frank Black and the Catholics [spinART; 1998]". Archived from the original on August 5, 2004. Retrieved October 6, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. "Frank Black and the Catholics: Frank Black and the Catholics". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on August 21, 2003. Retrieved October 6, 2017.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Frank Black and the Catholics". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp.  74. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
  9. Frank Black and the Catholics (Liner notes). Frank Black and the Catholics. SpinART. 1998.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)