{"id":25672,"date":"2024-11-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25672"},"modified":"2024-11-26T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:38:14","slug":"frank-black-teenager-of-the-year-reissue-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25672","title":{"rendered":"Frank Black &#8211; Teenager Of The Year Reissue &amp; Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1-1024x945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1-1024x945.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1-768x708.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1-1140x1052.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/frankblack_michaelhalsband_pr1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frankblack.ffm.to\/teenageroftheyear30\">https:\/\/frankblack.ffm.to\/teenageroftheyear30<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate&nbsp;<strong>Frank Black<\/strong>\u2019s landmark solo album,&nbsp;<strong>Teenager Of The Year<\/strong>&nbsp;turning 30,&nbsp;<strong>4AD<\/strong>&nbsp;release a one-time vinyl pressing on 17<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;January, to accompany a tour of North America plus Paris and London, where Frank Black and the original band will be performing the album in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This special vinyl tour edition of Teenager Of The Year, has been remastered for the first time from its original analogue studio tapes. Sounding as essential as the day it was released, the limited 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; Anniversary Tour Edition is cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback and is being pressed on double gold vinyl. The album also comes in a gatefold sleeve with liner notes by both Frank Black and producer Eric Drew Feldman. A 24-bit digital version is being released on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Frank Black&nbsp;<\/strong>tells all about the making of Teenager Of The Year in a unique podcast with Mark Beaumount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Welcome to my 30th anniversary Teenager Of The Year podcast, where you may hear me pontificate on the mysteries and swim among the faded memories of my 2nd solo effort from 1994.<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frank Black on Teenager of the Year\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEzFNlhjPbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally recorded amid a rich songwriting vein, just as the Pixies had been placed on hold, Frank Black\u2019s ambitious double album Teenager Of The Year came out in May 1994, just one year after his fantastic self-titled solo debut. Recorded with scene legend Eric Drew Feldman (Captain Beefheart\u2019s Magic Band, Pere Ubu, The Residents), Teenager Of The Year, is now widely regarded as the defining statement of his solo career and the best album the Pixies never made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Sometime in the early 80s, I&#8217;d have to look up the date, I matriculated high school. This school held an awards banquet for some of the departing students at the school. I received an award called the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR award; my brother received the same award the following year. Our award was a 50 dollar credit for textbooks, a TEENAGER OF THE YEAR medallion (my mother still has this), and also the banquet hall dinner, soup to nuts. My brother and I had no complaint about the award (it was given for being all-around-good-guy as best as we could determine). But for such a grand title to be given as TEENAGER OF THE YEAR, I felt the glory had not been amplified enough.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In 1993, I was doing \u201csolo recording\u201d sessions with Eric Drew Feldman in Los Angeles. We had settled on a core band with Nick Vincent and Lyle Workman, occasionally augmented by Joey Santiago and Moris Tepper. Though we had to change studios numerous times for actual forest fires and earthquakes, the whole process was such an addictive musical buffet that Eric and I couldn&#8217;t stop. We did some vocals at a studio rumored to be owned by Sergio Mendes; in the control room was a wall of television screens broadcasting the brush fire which crept toward us. We eventually evacuated to someplace else. We never met Sergio but we saw him perform a few weeks later when we vacated to Las Vegas after the Northridge earthquake, which had trapped the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR tapes in a studio vault for some time.&nbsp; Our zeal plus empathy from our financiers, they safely observing our travails from London, was enough to keep the money flowing until Eric and I relented and declared \u201cConsummatum est\u201d.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We tried to make it grand. 22 in 62. I called it TEENAGER OF THE YEAR. It is 30 years old now, and the original band will perform the record at various venues in early 2025. 4AD has remastered the LP for a fresh printing. Enjoy<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Black Francis 2024 Meredith, New Hampshire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pitchfork placed Teenager Of The Year in their Top 100 albums of the 90\u2019s saying \u201c<em>beneath its veneer lie the moments brilliant enough to rival any of the Pixies\u2019 1990\u2019s work, and Black\u2019s greatest lyrical achievement<\/em>.\u201d The album is also included in the book \u201c 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die\u201d, while The Quietus in 2014 said \u201c<em>Teenager Of The Year<\/em>&nbsp;feels like a lost Pixies album in the way&nbsp;<em>Ram<\/em>&nbsp;feels like a lost Beatles album. It\u2019s colossal, it teems with innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frank Black - Headache\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ytQhL0-3FtM?list=OLAK5uy_mvpaoFO7q5gJqXNN4uSnDfi7_MvcWZIMU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Initially it was a 14-song album. It was mixed. Eric Idle was staying nearby. He kept telling me to change the songs around. Al (Clay)had to run off and go to his next project. We weren\u2019t completely happy with what we had. The solution: record more songs. Eight more were born. Whole shebang was remixed by David Bianco. The day before we were to start the remix, the 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred. Charles, Jean (Charles\u2019 first wife) and I escaped to Las Vegas, ate many shrimp cocktails, and we saw Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Sergio Mendes and Brazil \u201999 perform. Sergio was especially good. After about five days we returned to the mixing studio and the deed was done.<\/em>\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Eric Drew Feldman<\/strong>.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To pre-order the limited Teenager Of The Year 30th Anniversary Tour Edition go to:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frankblack.ffm.to\/teenageroftheyear30\">https:\/\/frankblack.ffm.to\/teenageroftheyear30<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FrankBlack_twitter_LeTrianon.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Teenager Of The Year Tour<\/strong>&nbsp;starts on 15<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;January at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco and includes 11 US and Canadian shows before going over to perform in Paris on Tuesday 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;February and the iconic London Palladium on Thursday 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December Acoustic Solo Shows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3r<sup>d<\/sup>&nbsp;&#8211; Brattleboro, VT &#8211;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.venuepilot.com\/e\/frank-black-solo-a1829a\">The Stone Church<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&#8211; Portsmouth, NH &#8211;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/frank-black-tickets-1061799624259\">3S Artspace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&#8211; Newport, RI &#8211;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etix.com\/ticket\/p\/44025184\/frank-black-solo-acoustic-newport-jpt-film-event-center\">Jane Pickens Theater<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pastedGraphic_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pastedGraphic_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pastedGraphic_2.png 482w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pastedGraphic_2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pastedGraphic_2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pastedGraphic_2-65x65.png 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The full 2025 Teenager Of The Year Tour Dates are:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>January&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; San Francisco, CA &nbsp; &nbsp; The Fillmore&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; San Francisco, CA &nbsp; &nbsp; The Fillmore&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; LA, CA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The Orpheum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&nbsp; El Cajon, CA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Magnolia&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Denver, CO&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Paramount<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Minneapolis, MN&nbsp; &nbsp; First Avenue&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Chicago, IL &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Metro&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Chicago, IL &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Metro&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Detroit, MI&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; St Andrews Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Toronto, ON&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; History&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Boston, MA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Citizens House Of Blues&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Brooklyn, NY &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Brooklyn Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>04<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; Paris, France&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Trianon&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>06<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; &nbsp; London, UK &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The Palladium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feast you eye here on a&nbsp;Frank Black tour cartoon&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yMlB2fBnLX8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yMlB2fBnLX8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the Teenager Of The Year shows are available from here:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackfranc.is\/\">https:\/\/blackfranc.is<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/frankblack.ffm.to\/teenageroftheyear30 To celebrate&nbsp;Frank Black\u2019s landmark solo album,&nbsp;Teenager Of The Year&nbsp;turning 30,&nbsp;4AD&nbsp;release a one-time vinyl pressing on 17th&nbsp;January, to accompany a tour of North America plus Paris and London, where Frank Black and the original band will be performing the album in its entirety. 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