Solo work by the former Pixies frontman.
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- Los Angeles
- I Heard Ramona Sing
- Hang On To Your Ego
- Fu Manchu
- Places Named After Numbers
- Czar
- Old Black Dawning
- Ten Percenter
- Brackish Boy
- Two Spaces
- Tossed (Instrumental Version)
- Parry the Wind High, Low
- Adda Lee
- Every Time I Go Around Here
- Don't Ya Rile 'Em
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Good stuff. I like just about every song.
Guitarist Joey Santiago, also formerly of the Pixies, plays
on most of the tracks.
John Linnell of They Might Be Giants is one of the sax
players on "Tossed".
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Teenager of the Year
(1994)
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- Whatever Happened to Pong?
- Thassalocracy
- Abstract Plain
- Calistan
- The Vanishing Spies
- Speedy Marie
- Headache
- Sir Rockaby
- Freedom Rock
- Two Reelers
- Fiddle Riddle
- Ole' Mulholland
- Fazer Eyes
- I Could Stay Here Forever
- The Hostess with the Mostest
- Superabound
- Big Red
- Space Is Gonna Do Me Good
- White Noise Maker
- Pure Denizen of the Citizens' Band
- Bad, Wicked World
- Pie in the Sky
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Kind of hit-and-miss for me. The first seven are great, but only
a few of the rest are better than tolerable. It's not that they're
bad, but I've heard them more than enough times, which still isn't
very many.
Joey Santiago is back for a few tracks.
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The Cult of Ray
(1995)
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- The Marsist
- Men in Black
- Punk Rock City
- You Ain't Me
- Jesus Was Right
- I Don't Want To Hurt You
- Mosh, Don't Pass the Guy
- Kicked in the Taco
- The Creature Crawling
- The Adventure and the Resolution
- Dance War
- The Cult of Ray
- The Last Stand of Shazeb Andleeb
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I basically like this one, but it must not have sold well, as
it seems to be either out of print or not very widely available
at all.
The drumming is frustratingly simple on many of the tracks. I
keep waiting for a fill or even an extra little bit of oomph,
but it never comes.
Fortunately, "Mosh" doesn't suffer from the drumming problem.
That one's fun.
The Ray of the title is Ray Bradbury.
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Frank Black and the Catholics
(1998)
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- All My Ghosts
- Back to Rome
- Do You Feel Bad About It?
- Dog Gone
- I Gotta Move
- I Need Peace
- King and Queen of Siam
- Six-Sixty-Six
- Solid Gold
- Steak 'n' Sabre
- Suffering
- The Man Who Was Too Loud
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I had trouble getting into this at first, and it sat for about three
years after the first couple times I listened to it. Now it's one of
my favourite albums by anyone. I like all the songs, but my
favourites are 1, 4, and 8-10.
"You get the medal for gettin' so down!"
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