Teenager of the Year

Frank Black | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 1994)
• Original Release Date: May 24, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HF0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,011 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Whatever Happened to Pong?

2. Thalassocracy

3. (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain

4. Calistan

5. The Vanishing Spies

6. Speedy Marie

7. Headache

8. Sir Rockaby

9. Freedom Rock

10. Two Reelers

11. Fiddle Riddle

12. Ole Mulholland

13. Fazer Eyes

14. I Could Stay Here Forever

15. The Hostess With the Mostest

16. Superabound

17. Big Red

18. Space Is Gonna Do Me Good

19. White Noise Maker

20. Pure Denizen of the Citizens Band

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: BLACK,FRANK
Title: TEENAGER OF THE YEAR
Street Release Date: 05/24/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Without abusing superlatives, it's the Best Rock Album Ever, March 22, 2003

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Toby Barlow (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teenager of the Year (Audio CD)

My friend Joe just called from his car as he's driving across Ohio tonight just to thank me for making him buy this. Another friend left it in his duffel and his Dad became severely addicted to it. I once cranked it out the top of a decapitated VW Bug and the neighbors thought about calling the cops until they heard the music. When aliens come and we have to make a case as to why they shouldn't eat us, we should just hit play. This is all you need to make it through this sordid and gilded life. Play it loud, play it proud. Too bad it can't get a Nobel.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ahhhh my guilty pleasure., January 24, 2002

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David G. Smith (Fairfax, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teenager of the Year (Audio CD)

My wife hates Frank Black. And I really have to ask myself sometimes why I like him....random,smug,obscure,obtuse,lyrics from the far range of sanity and sense. But here is the truth. I love this album...love it. It is long and spotty,like a dachsund dalmatian mix,but when it rocks it rocks. Obscure yes, but who else would write a punk song about the three stooges. I am not sure there is anything close to a consistent Frank Black album....he seems to be a guy set to break rules, explore, confuse and ultimately rock. But you may want to find it on a listening station, and check it out. It isn't for my wife....it may not be for you.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If I could take an HG Wells/ I'd be on the first flight..., December 3, 2005

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Steve (By DUNDEE Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teenager of the Year (Audio CD)

There's no doubt that this is FB's best album, his only solo effort to compare favourably with the output of his former alias Mr Francis (that's not to say that his other solo albums aren't worth checking out). Its a sprawling, protean effort- an eclectic and defiantly odd-ball collection. At times it sounds like The Fall (Whatever Happened To Pong?), at other moments more like Dire Straits (Calistan, Speedie Marie), but it NEVER sounds much like the Pixies. The sound is cleaner and poppier, smoothing off the edges of the Pixies' abrasiveness, but the weirdness, the bug-eyed humour (and the sheer quality) remains.

Despite its sprawling nature, this is nonetheless a very accessible and remarkably consistent album. I don't agree at all with people who consider it uneven. Only the cod-reggae of "Fiddle Riddle" has me reaching for the skip button. But its true that Frank Black's taste occasionally fails him- Lyle Workman's awful guitar solos on the otherwise excellent Two Reelers and Ole Mulholland stray too far into tasteless rock territory for my liking. But that's what makes the guy interesting- he clearly doesn't give a monkey's about being cool or fashionable, and its this refreshing eclecticism which makes this singularly odd collection one of the most under-rated albums of the 1990s.