Released September 9, 1998 Release date 9 September 1998 Label PIAS Recordings | Length 41:19 Producer Black Francis Genre Alternative rock | |
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Recorded March 20, 1997 –
March 22, 1997 Artist Frank Black and the Catholics Similar Pistolero, The Cult of Ray, Dog in the Sand, Teenager of the Year, Black Letter Days | ||
Frank Black and the Catholics was the eponymous debut album from Frank Black and the Catholics. The backing group on this album performed on Black's previous album, The Cult of Ray, but the group name was first adopted on this release. The album was recorded live to two-track tape over the course of two days in 1997, but a protracted dispute with Black's label American Recordings, reportedly over the "raw" sound of the recordings, delayed its release for 18 months. The album was released in June 1998 in the MP3 format on GoodNoise.com (precursor to eMusic) and was the first album by a major artist to be commercially released on the Internet. The album was then released in the fall of 1998 by SpinART records in the US. During the interim, Lyle Workman left the group and was replaced by Rich Gilbert, and Black prepared the follow-up, Pistolero.
Contents
Track listing
The track listing is sequenced in alphabetical order.
All tracks written by Frank Black, except where noted.
Track #8, "Six-Sixty-Six", is a cover of a song by Larry Norman that originally appeared on the 1976 album In Another Land. Frank Black had long admired Norman, naming the first Pixies album, Come On Pilgrim, after a line in a Norman song. The two were introduced by Bono at a U2 concert and developed a relationship.
Musicians
Songs
1All My Ghosts3:32
2Back to Rome3:26
3Do You Feel Bad About It?2:08