Black Francis discography

The discography of Black Francis, an American rock musician, includes thirteen studio albums, one live album, twelve singles and five compilations as of November 2007. This list does not include material performed with the Pixies or Grand Duchy.

Contents

Studio Albums

Year Albums as Frank Black UK US Label Notes
1993 Frank Black 9 117 4AD Debut album
1994 Teenager of the Year 21 131 4AD -
1996 The Cult of Ray 39 127 American Recordings The title refers to Ray Bradbury
2004 Frank Black Francis - - SpinART/Cooking Vinyl roughly coinciding with the Pixies reunion tour
2005 Honeycomb - - Back Porch/Cooking Vinyl Charted 11# Top Heatseekers
2006 Fast Man Raider Man - - Back Porch/Cooking Vinyl Charted 27# Top Heatseekers
2006 Christmass - - Cooking Vinyl -
Year Albums as Frank Black and the Catholics UK US Label Notes
1998 Frank Black and the Catholics 61 - SpinART -
1999 Pistolero - - What Are Records? -
2000 Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day - - - Never released[1]
2001 Dog in the Sand - - What Are Records? -
2002 Black Letter Days - - SpinART/Cooking Vinyl -
2002 Devil's Workshop - - SpinART/Cooking Vinyl -
2003 Show Me Your Tears - - SpinART/Cooking Vinyl -
Year Albums as Black Francis UK US Label Notes
2007 Bluefinger - - Cooking Vinyl Charted 42# Top Heatseekers
2008 Svn FngrsEP - - Cooking Vinyl Charted 35# Top Heatseekers
2010 The Golem - - Cooking Vinyl -
2010 NonStopErotik - - Cooking Vinyl -
2011 Abbabubba - - The Bureau -

Singles

Year Title Label Chart positions Album
US US Mod
Rock [2]		 UK[3]
1993 Los Angeles 4AD Records - 4 - Frank Black
1993 Hang On To Your Ego 4AD Records - 8 -
1993 Frank Black Hello Recording Club - - -
1994 Headache Badd - 10 53 Teenager of the Year
1995 Men In Black American Recordings - - 37 The Cult of Ray
1995 The Marsist/Better Things Dragnet - - -
1996 I Don't Want to Hurt You Sony - - 63
1998 All My Ghosts Play It Again Sam - - 97 Frank Black and the Catholics
1999 I Gotta Move Cortex - - Pistolero
2000 Robert Onion Cooking Vinyl - - 130 Dog in the Sand
2001 St. Francis Dam Disaster Cooking Vinyl - - 162
2003 Everything Is New Cooking Vinyl - - 92 Show Me Your Tears
2003 Nadine Cooking Vinyl - - -
2007 Threshold Apprehension Cooking Vinyl - - - Bluefinger

Compilations

Year Title Label
2000 Oddballs EMusic
2003 Wig in a Box Off Records
2005 High School Reunion American Laundromat Records / Face Down Records
2006 One More Road for the Hit spinART
2006 Snake Oil spinART
2007 Frank Black 93-03 Cooking Vinyl

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day". Archived from the original on 2006-10-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20061014105348/http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db.asp?mode=release-details&ReleaseID=601. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 
  2. ^ "Music News, Reviews, Articles, Information, News Online & Free Music". Billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=23452&model.vnuAlbumId=1111718. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  3. ^ "Chart Log UK: Darren B - David Byrne". Zobbel.de. http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_B.HTM. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
Black Francis (Frank Black)
As Frank Black
Studio albums
Frank Black (1993) · Teenager of the Year (1994) · The Cult of Ray (1996) · Frank Black Francis (2004) · Honeycomb (2005) · Fast Man Raider Man (2006) · Christmass (2006)
Compilations
Oddballs (2000) · Frank Black 93–03 (2007)
Singles
Los Angeles (1993) · Hang On to Your Ego (1993) · Frank Black (1993) · Headache (1994) · Men in Black (1995) · The Marsist (1995) · I Don't Want to Hurt You (1996)
As Black Francis
Studio albums
Bluefinger (2007) · Svn Fngrs (2008) · The Golem (2010) · NonStopErotik (2010)
Singles
Threshold Apprehension (2007)
Pixies
Studio albums
Surfer Rosa (1988) · Doolittle (1989) · Bossanova (1990) · Trompe le Monde (1991)
Extended plays
Come On Pilgrim (1987) · Pixies (2002)
Other albums
Singles
Gigantic (1988) · Monkey Gone to Heaven (1989) · Here Comes Your Man (1989) · Velouria (1990) · Dig for Fire (1990) · Planet of Sound (1991) · Alec Eiffel (1992) · Head On (1992) · Debaser (1997) · Bam Thwok (2004)
Frank Black and
the Catholics
Studio albums
Compilations
One More Road for the Hit (2006) · Snake Oil (2006)
Singles
All My Ghosts (1998) · I Gotta Move (1999) · Robert Onion (2000) · St. Francis Dam Disaster (2001) · Everything Is New (2003) · Nadine (2003)
Members
Scott Boutier · Rich Gilbert · David McCaffery · Dave Philips · Lyle Workman
Grand Duchy
Petits Fours (2009) · Lovesick (2009)
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