so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

mp3: frank black – los angeles
i’ve been playing catch up recently on the ever-growing mounds of new content on beck’s website. the excerpt below is from the first part of a conversation beck had with tom waits a little while ago… and well, i beg to differ with mr. waits and mr. hansen.
TW: …Actually, Sinatra [...]

mp3: frank black – ten percenter
whenever i’m on the train and notice someone looking at me funny, i imagine they are an alien being, identical to a human in every way, except for the ability to see farts in all of their glory. then i understand. i’ve been putting on quite a show for them, [...]

mp3: frank black – hate memp3: frank black – this is where i belongmp3: frank black – amnesia
seeing that “headache” video the other day reminded me of these songs from the headache single released back in 1994. i like putting up old singles & eps like these since they usually can only be found in [...]

man, these are so good! i like how black alludes to his pong obsession in the “hang on to your ego” video and then a year later, of course, he lays it on thick with “whatever happened to pong?”. also seeing the “fu manchu” that black didn’t want to lose in the “los angeles” video [...]

mp3: frank black – freedom rock
they tried to give me advicedown at the record shopi said “sit down boys, this may come as a shock!what’s all i listen to?it’s all freedom rock”
video: freedom rock commercial (1987)

mp3: frank black- whatever happened to pong? [link expired] [buy]
after watching part of the discovery channel’s mini-series rise of the videogame, i had to put this song on. a good portion of the first episode is devoted to pong and it amazes me that they failed to include this ode to the game from 1994’s [...]