"Headache" | ||||
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Single by Frank Black | ||||
from the album Teenager of the Year | ||||
A-side | "Headache" | |||
B-side |
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Released | 1994 | |||
Studio | The Clubhouse (Burbank), American (Calabasas) | |||
Length | 2:56 | |||
Label | 4AD/Elektra | |||
Songwriter(s) | Frank Black | |||
Producer(s) | Eric Drew Feldman, Frank Black | |||
Frank Black singles chronology | ||||
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"Headache" is a single written and performed by Frank Black. It was the sole single released from his second solo album, Teenager of the Year , released in 1994. It reached number 53 on the UK charts [1] and number 10 on Billboard 's Modern Rock Tracks. [2]
Co-produced by Black and Eric Drew Feldman (who had contributed to the Pixies' Trompe le Monde ), the "blissfully anthemic" song would later appear on greatest hits compilations for Black. [3]
The A.V. Club said the song "embodies all of the off-kilter charm and undeniable catchiness that's made Thompson's work so timeless." Interviewer Sean O'Neal described it as, "one of the greatest pop songs ever written." [4] The Quietus said, "The tune is as deliciously catchy and Orbinsonesque [sic] as anything he'd previously written, but underlaid throughout the verse with a bassline that keeps ascending to denote pressure, it culminates in a remarkable chorus that sounds like pop's most mellifluous migraine." [5]
The black and white video for the song was directed by Adam Bernstein, [6] famous at the time for his work with They Might Be Giants.