28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You

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28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You
Studio album by Francine
Released 2003
Genre Rock music
Indie
Label Q Division Records
Professional reviews
Francine chronology
Forty on a Fall Day
(2000)
28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You
(2003)
Airshow
(2006)

28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You is the second LP by Boston band Francine. It was released on February 4th, 2003 by Q Division Records. The album's subdued and personal tone is a departure from Francine's debut album Forty on a Fall Day, which is something that lead singer and songwriter Clayton Scoble admitted to in an interview with The Boston Phoenix:

I don’t think I ever cared much about break-up records before, even when I was listening to them, I was always too much of a curmudgeon about it — I thought it was megalomaniacal to write those kinds of songs, and I used to make fun of people who wrote them. But lately I’ve been listening to things like Beck’s new album [Sea Change] — yeah, it’s pedestrian and prosaic, but it’s so plainspoken that it just killed me. The problem is that most break-up albums have a common theme running through them: someone’s feeling angry because they’ve been used. I didn’t have that. I had something worse, which is coming out of a relationship feeling that the other person had no use for you at all. I was feeling like I’d pay money to have been used. "

Francine played scattered shows in the northeast after the album's release but did not tour.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Technical Books
  2. Inside Joke
  3. Fake Fireplace Things
  4. This Sunday's Revival
  5. NASCAR
  6. Albany Brownout
  7. Silver Plated 606
  8. Oxygenated
  9. Ratmobile
  10. Novelty
  11. Uninstall
  12. Chlorine
  13. 13 Years