Show Me Your Tears
| Show Me Your Tears | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 9, 2003 | |||
| Genre | Alternative country | |||
| Length | 41:31 | |||
| Label | SpinART, Cooking Vinyl | |||
| Producer | Nick Vincent, Ben Mumphrey, Stan Ridgway, Frank Black and the Catholics | |||
| Frank Black and the Catholics chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Alternative Press | 6/10[3] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| Mojo | [5] |
| Pitchfork | 5.4/10[6] |
| Q | [7] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
| Stylus Magazine | B[9] |
| Uncut | [10] |
| Under the Radar |   [11] |
Show Me Your Tears is the final album to be released to date by Frank Black and the Catholics. The album employs a wide range of guests, including piano and an arrangement by maverick composer Van Dyke Parks on the final track. Within months of the album's release, it was announced that Black would be participating in a Pixies reunion, and since that time, the Catholics have effectively been defunct.
Recording
Black said, "We’d been playing together a long time, ten years of hard touring and loading our own gear and not making a lotta money out of it, and we’re hittin’ the mid-life crisis. And they’re all getting mad at me ‘cause I’m forcing them to record live to two-track for the umpteenth time."[12]
Track listing
All tracks written by Frank Black.
- "Nadine" – 3:05
- "Everything Is New" – 3:51
- "My Favorite Kiss" – 2:06
- "Jaina Blues" – 3:51
- "New House of the Pope" – 3:15
- "Horrible Day" – 3:37
- "Massif Centrale" – 4:52
- "When Will Happiness Find Me Again?" – 2:19
- "Goodbye Lorraine" – 2:37
- "This Old Heartache" – 3:27
- "The Snake" – 2:01
- "Coastline" – 1:57
- "Manitoba" – 4:33
Personnel
Frank Black and the Catholics
- Frank Black – vocals, guitar
- Scott Boutier – drums, bells
- Rich Gilbert – guitar, piano, pedal steel guitar, vocals
- David McCaffrey – bass, vocals
- David Philips – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals
Additional musicians
- Joey Santiago, Keith Moliné – guitar
- Stan Ridgway – harmonica, melodica, banjo, percussion, vocals
- Eric Drew Feldman – organ
- Van Dyke Parks – piano, accordion
- Rob Laufer – piano, vocals
- Jack Kidney – saxophone, harmonica
- Andy J. Perkins – trumpet
- Cynthia Haagens, Eric Potter, Jean Black, Pietra Wexstun – vocals
References
- ^ "Show Me Your Tears by Frank Black & The Catholics". Metacritic. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
- ^ Heather, Phares. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Allmusic. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
- ^ "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Alternative Press: 108. November 2003.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
- ^ "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Mojo: 113. September 2003.
- ^ Carr, Eric (September 23, 2003). "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
- ^ "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Q: 98. September 2003.
- ^ Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Frank Black and the Catholics". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 74. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics – Show Me Your Tears – Review – Stylus Magazine". archive.org. July 9, 2007. Archived from the original on July 9, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Frank Black And The Catholics – Show Me Your Tears – Review – Uncut.co.uk". archive.org. May 19, 2011. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Under the Radar (4): 98.
- ^ Barney Hoskyns. "The Backpages Interview: Frank Black". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)
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