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Teenager of the Year | 
| Artist: Frank Black
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $8.99
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 11746
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 61618
UPC: 075596161824
EAN: 0075596161824
ASIN: B000002HF0
Release Date: May 24, 1994
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Whatever Happened to Pong? | | • | Thalassocracy | | • | (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain | | • | Calistan | | • | The Vanishing Spies | | • | Speedy Marie | | • | Headache - Frank Black, Black, Frank | | • | Sir Rockaby | | • | Freedom Rock | | • | Two Reelers | | • | Fiddle Riddle | | • | Ole Mulholland | | • | Fazer Eyes | | • | I Could Stay Here Forever | | • | The Hostess With the Mostest - Frank Black, Black, Frank [Rock] | | • | 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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| Customer Reviews: Read 73 more reviews...
 Juvinielle finesse October 10, 2008
OneLove (so fla)
Black might have been a little oversold on songwriting brilliance when glancing this cited solo work. An indulgent offering of alt-rock, the Pixie frontman delivers many solidly off-kilter numbers but hardly creates worthwhile songs capable of the replay value of some of his more noteworthy co-creations, littered with occasional gems and standout passages but adding up to little more then outtakes for the fanbase.
 Deal vs black June 30, 2008
Michael Mccarthy (Athens, OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this album. Not all of it. Enough of it.
There are some great songs on here. Some of the more negative reviews complained about "filler" and inevitably mentioned the Pixies (one of my favorite bands of all time).
Rather than go on and on about why I love this, I will instead pose this question: ya ever notice how Breeders album's have a few good songs and the rest is crap? I would volunteer the same for Frank Black -- excluding this album, perhaps, as it is the best he's put out on his own. One guy, for instance, said there was enough material for two albums here, one half being good. Well, for the price of one album, wouldn't that be a good album? It's not like you'd have to assemble the songs by pressing record on a tape from a CD. It's 2008. This is hardly a waste of money...even though, yes, that guy was right ... but I still don't know why he gave it one star. How often to you buy a CD where 50% of the songs are awesome?
Best songs:
What Ever Happened to Pong?
Thallassocracy
I Want to Live (Abstract Plain)
Calistan
Speedy Marie
Freedom Rock
Headache
White Noise Maker
Pure Denizen of the Citizens Band
Bad, Wicked World
They should start recording again, instead of just swiping their chops in the Pixies ATM. Just sayin'.
Buy it December 23, 2007
Danika T. Lugo (SoCal)
This is a great cd. I like to listen while I'm at the gym because it keeps me going. My boyfriend liked it so much, I gave it to him for Christmas. An all-around winner.
this guy July 26, 2007
plk01 (oklahoma)
he should be a billionaire his music is so good this cd is very good
pure ear candy May 1, 2007
Moose78 (Palo Alto, CA USA)
teenager of the year is a hallucinogenic sci-fi inspired daydream that captures a still freshly emancipated frank black at the pinnacle of his prolific 17+ album career. the record finds a blissful, if not idyllic, balance between the post punk alt rock sound black established with the pixies and the straight-ahead rockers coloring the latter years of his solo catalog.
teenager jam-packs 22 tracks into 60 minutes. fear not, black is ambitious here; never self-indulgent. Each of the 22 tracks stands on its own. teenager's lyrics are as sharp and as abstruse as any in black's catalog. consider calistan, black's depiction of a futuristic california:
went in from the weather when i got wheezy
i play some pachinko i play parchisi
and st. anne is still making it breezy
in the valley of tar that once was l.a.
and my best friend he's the king of karaoke
he struck up a chord and he took it away
out of the pan
and into japan
'round there, calistan way
the album offers plenty more zany verses soulfully belted by our antihero, often with a more tempered and melodic quality than in prior efforts. this is a good thing!
black also experiments with a range of styles spanning punk, new wave, reggae and the straightforward rock ballad, always with his own twist and always distinguished by his signature lyricism.
teenager easily earns a place on my list of the top 10 albums of the nineties. i recall the day this sweet rock candy invaded my ears and rotted my brain in 1998. i realizing how much time i'd wasted listening to the over-produced, shallow sludge polluting the airwaves at the time. teenager of the year helped to inspire a newfound passion in my appreciation and exploration of music. if you dig alternative rock, chances are you'll love this album. let me know what you think.
if you like teenager of the year, also check out frank black and the catholics - dog in the sand (2001) and frank black - black letter days (2002)
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