I don't have Dog in the Sand so I can't comment on that. I like "Callistan" off of TotY. It's not the greatest song in the world but it was good to see him play it live the other year.

And off Cult of Ray, all I really like is "Men in Black." I don't own Pistolero but what I heard off of it, I didn't like so much and that's why I haven't really bought anything since then. I'll have to get DitS sometime.

[quote="Roody_Yogurt"]I think Frank Black- Frank Black is one of those albums that I think is an absolute pleasure to listen to from beginning to end.

And some of those songs off 'Frank Black and the Catholics' (All My Ghosts and Back to Rome, specifically) are undeniably fantastic.[/quote]

I should point out that I really only own Dog in the Sand and Teenager of the Year. Those were the only two that seemed to review well with anyone, so I bought them first. I didn't like Teenager at all (too many songs and too many bad songs without a single song I really loved), and I did like Dog in the Sand quite a bit (it's one of those discs where you start out really liking one or two songs off it, and by the time you're sick of those two you've found another two songs that have grown on you, and so on), but not enough that I wanted to hear a bunch of discs from the same band doing the same basic sound (and, I understand that whole rootsy thing is pretty much the post-Catholics schtick), especially when the one I [i]did[/i] have was largely regarded as the best of the lot.

I think Frank Black- Frank Black is one of those albums that I think is an absolute pleasure to listen to from beginning to end.

And some of those songs off 'Frank Black and the Catholics' (All My Ghosts and Back to Rome, specifically) are undeniably fantastic.

[quote="Vitriola"]They any good live?[/quote]

Well, they broke up circa 1994, and I didn't even know they existed until circa 2000, so I couldn't say with any certainty. I'll tell you in November.

[quote]I had Trompe le Monde until somebody stole it, and it's one of my favorite alternative albums ever. Never heard much of the others, but the little I did hear didn't sound nearly as rockin' as that one did. They do anything since then? I've completely lost track of them.[/quote]

Trompe was their last release (not counting B-Sides and "Best of" stuff), put out during their later, "not as good" period. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle are probably their best efforts, with Doolittle being far and away the more accessible of those two.

After they broke up, their frontman and main songwriter Black Francis changed his name to Frank Black and has churned out a bunch of fairly mediocre discs, though I've got a certain fondness for Dog in the Sand.

Kim Deal, the Pixies bassist, secondary vocalist, and occasional songwriter was also the mastermind behind the Breeders, who only put out three discs in the 10+ years they've existed, but whose work you've probably heard even if only because they used to play Cannonball during Skittles commercials all the time. Pretty much anyone alive in America in the early-to-mid nineties can instantly recognize the baseline from that one.

I'm seeing them in the last Chicago show, I think. Unfortunately, at the time we bought tickets, we didn't know there was going to be a Milwaukee show which would have saved some driving.

They any good live?

I had Trompe le Monde until somebody stole it, and it's one of my favorite alternative albums ever. Never heard much of the others, but the little I did hear didn't sound nearly as rockin' as that one did. They do anything since then? I've completely lost track of them.

[url=http://www.pixiesmusic.com/live_04.php]If you care, you probably already know.[/url] But still. Fuckin' Pixies.