Headache (song)

"Headache" is a single written and performed by Frank Black. It was the sole released single 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 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 Adam Bernstein, who later often worked with They Might Be Giants.^[6]

Personnel

Frank Black - vocals and guitar
Eric Drew Feldman - bass and keyboards
Nick Vincent - drums^[7]

References

↑ "Chart Log UK". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
↑ "Teenager of the Year". allmusic. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ Tangari, Joe. "Frank Black 93-03". Pitchfork. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ Sean, O'Neal (17 March 2015). "Frank Black discusses and performs "Headache"". The AV Club. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ Turner, Luke (12 June 2014). "Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year Revisited". The Quietus. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ "Adam Bernstein". mvdbase.com. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ "Frank Black – Headache". Discogs. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Black Francis (Frank Black)

Pixies

Studio albums	Surfer Rosa (1988) Doolittle (1989) Bossanova (1990) Trompe le Monde (1991) Indie Cindy (2014)

Extended plays	Come On Pilgrim (1987) Pixies (2002) EP1 (2013) EP2 (2014) EP3 (2014)

Compilations	Death to the Pixies (1997) Pixies at the BBC (1997) Complete 'B' Sides (2001) Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies (2004) Minotaur (2009)

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) "Bagboy" (2013)

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)

Compilations	Oddballs (2000) Christmass (2006) Frank Black 93–03 (2007)

Singles	"Los Angeles" (1993) "Hang On to Your Ego" (1993) "Headache" (1994) "Men in Black" (1995) "The Marsist" (1995) "I Don't Want to Hurt You" (1996)

As Frank Black and
the Catholics

Studio albums	Frank Black and the Catholics (1998) Pistolero (1999) Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day (2000, unreleased) Dog in the Sand (2001) Black Letter Days (2002) Devil's Workshop (2002) Show Me Your Tears (2003)

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

As Black Francis

Studio albums	Bluefinger (2007) Svn Fngrs (2008) The Golem (2010) NonStopErotik (2010) Paley & Francis (2011) (with Reid Paley)

Compilations	Abbabubba (2011)

Singles	"Threshold Apprehension" (2007)

Grand Duchy

Petits Fours (2009)
Lovesick (2009)
Let the People Speak (2012)

Discography

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