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Media Type: CD
Artist: BLACK,FRANK
Title: TEENAGER OF THE YEAR
Street Release Date: 05/24/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Track Listing

1. Whatever Happened to Pong?
2. Thalassocracy
3. (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain
4. Calistan
5. Vanishing Spies
6. Speedy Marie
7. Headache
8. Sir Rockaby
9. Freedom Rock
10. Two Reelers
11. Fiddle Riddle
12. Ole Mulholland
13. Fazer Eyes
14. I Could Stay Here Forever
15. Hostess With the Mostest - Frank Black, Frank Black
16. Superabound
17. Big Red
18. Space Is Gonna Do Me Good
19. White Noise Maker
20. Pure Denizen of the Citizens Band
21. Bad, Wicked World
22. Pie in the Sky

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12467 in Music
• Brand: BLACK,FRANK
• Released on: 1994-05-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Customer Reviews

Without abusing superlatives, it's the Best Rock Album Ever
My friend Joe just called from his car as he's driving across Ohio tonight just to thank me for making him buy this. Another friend left it in his duffel and his Dad became severely addicted to it. I once cranked it out the top of a decapitated VW Bug and the neighbors thought about calling the cops until they heard the music. When aliens come and we have to make a case as to why they shouldn't eat us, we should just hit play. This is all you need to make it through this sordid and gilded life. Play it loud, play it proud. Too bad it can't get a Nobel.

ahhhh my guilty pleasure.
My wife hates Frank Black. And I really have to ask myself sometimes why I like him....random,smug,obscure,obtuse,lyrics from the far range of sanity and sense. But here is the truth. I love this album...love it. It is long and spotty,like a dachsund dalmatian mix,but when it rocks it rocks. Obscure yes, but who else would write a punk song about the three stooges. I am not sure there is anything close to a consistent Frank Black album....he seems to be a guy set to break rules, explore, confuse and ultimately rock. But you may want to find it on a listening station, and check it out. It isn't for my wife....it may not be for you.

sickeningly underrated ARTIST
There are two true rock and roll geniuses in history. Besides Ian Anderson, there is Frank Black. I am convinced everything Black touches turns to gold. Before the likes pf Green Day and Rancid, truly inferior bands, Black created and perfected the neo-punk attitude with gems like Thalossacracy, Hostess With the Mostest, and Bad, Wicked World on 1993's Teenager of the Year. But bludgeoning hard rock assaults are only one weapon in Black's truly amazing arsenal. Calistan, Speedy Marie, and Superabound are just excellently written, purely original, and deeply powerful pop rock tunes that are easily likable for all tastes. Black is the 90's premier wordsmith, too. "If all you see /is violence/then I make a plea/ yeah-in their defense/don't you know they speak/ vaudevillian?" in which Black defends the Three Stooges phenomenon in Two Reelers. "My brother and me used to play it down at the bar/taking money from guys more used to the playing of cards" opens Whatever Happened To Pong?, and the album itself. I am a tremendous Pixies fan, and when I heard they were breaking up, I was truly disappointed. But what the music industry, and more importantly, his devoted fans, would have missed without that fortunate divorce would be immeasurable. Frank Black is the 90's answer to Bowie. But how Bowie had more success in redefining and influencing his generation's music befuddles me. Frank Black IS the 90's most underrated artist, and Teenager of the Year is one of the ten best rock albums EVER. Buy the CD, and the rest of your top 40 "alternative" rock collection will quickly be collecting dust...guaranteed.