Show Me Your Tears

Frank Black, Frank Black And the Catholics | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spin Art
• ASIN: B0000AKY64
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,315 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nadine

2. Everything Is New

3. My Favorite Kiss

4. Jaina Blues

5. New House of the Pope

6. Horrible Day

7. Massif Central

8. When Will Happiness Find Me Again?

9. Goodbye Lorraine

10. This Old Heartache

11. The Snake

12. Coastline

13. Manitoba

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shine on you Crazy Pill, December 14, 2004

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T. Verre (On the Road) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Show Me Your Tears (Audio CD)

I think there is something to be said for Frank on his journey vs. Frank having reached his destination. I love the earliest Frank Black albums because he is searching high and low and the range shown on those albums is amazing. In subject, form and instrumentation they're a wild ride. Now we've settled in with Frank for a drink and a smoke and I think it's true...this bar, although well loved, can seem a bit overly familiar. I like it, but sometimes I really miss Speedy Marie.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars frank in fine form - best of the catholic years?, September 14, 2003

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[e-mail] (swarthmore pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Show Me Your Tears (Audio CD)

Ironically, since the inception of the Catholics, Frank Black has effectively narrowed his musical scope. He's been maturing (even as his cover art grows increasingly infantine), which thankfully in this case generally means he's becoming more confident, not less interesting. It may just be because he's exercising more selectivity about what he releases, but the new album is a few shades more solid than the generous duology that came out around this time last year. Tears, which offers the same bar band rock Black has been churning out for years, is perhaps more akin to the poppy bluster of Devil's Workshop than the twangier Black Letter Days (though both tacks are evident), but the most successful cuts here are those which take their strongest stylistic cues from the blues, such as the opening 12-bar strut of "Nadine," which is pure barroom bravado and Jagger swagger. Elsewhere, as the title suggests, things get more melancholy, even downright poignant (the simple "Coastline"), but overall it's a sense Black's gritty, sometimes menacing, and slightly surreal machismo (often more evident in his guitar solos than his lyrics) that infuses this album and makes it so subtly intoxicating.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy of a Soul-Crushing Weep..., September 10, 2003

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N. Volpato "Louis C." (Australia) - See all my reviews
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While there are hints of Frank Black & The Catholics more recent works: Dog In The Sand, Black Letter Days, etc. on S.M.Y.T. an edgier feel prevails throughout the record, and while most of the songs reflect the title's broken-hearted theme, every track unwinds with conviction. This album travels a path few records ever go. S.M.Y.T. is as good as anything FB has done to date, a great record indeed...