Show Me Your Tears

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Show Me Your Tears
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 8, 2003 (UK)
September 9, 2003 (US)
StudioFrank Black and the Catholics' mobile studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre Alternative country
Length41:31
Label
Producer
Frank Black and the Catholics chronology
Devil's Workshop
(2002)
Show Me Your Tears
(2003)
Frank Black Francis
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [1]
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press 6/10 [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 5.4/10 [6]
Q Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Stylus Magazine B [9]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Under the Radar Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Show Me Your Tears is the sixth and final studio album to be released to date by Frank Black and the Catholics. Released in September 2003 by SpinART in the US and Cooking Vinyl in the UK, [12] the album employs a wide range of guests, including piano and an arrangement by Van Dyke Parks on the final track, "Manitoba". Within months of the album's release, it was announced that Black would be participating in a Pixies reunion, and since that time, the Catholics have effectively been defunct.

Contents

Recording

Black said, "We’d been playing together a long time, ten years of hard touring and loading our own gear and not making a lotta money out of it, and we’re hittin’ the mid-life crisis. And they’re all getting mad at me ‘cause I’m forcing them to record live to two-track for the umpteenth time." [13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Frank Black.

  1. "Nadine" – 3:05
  2. "Everything Is New" – 3:51
  3. "My Favorite Kiss" – 2:06
  4. "Jaina Blues" – 3:51
  5. "New House of the Pope" – 3:15
  6. "Horrible Day" – 3:37
  7. "Massif Centrale" – 4:52
  8. "When Will Happiness Find Me Again?" – 2:19
  9. "Goodbye Lorraine" – 2:37
  10. "This Old Heartache" – 3:27
  11. "The Snake" – 2:01
  12. "Coastline" – 1:57
  13. "Manitoba" – 4:33

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [14]

Frank Black and the Catholics

Additional musicians

Technical

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