Show Me Your Tears

Show Me Your Tears is the sixth and final studio album to be released to date by Frank Black and the Catholics. Released in September 2003 by SpinART in the US and Cooking Vinyl in the UK,[12] 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.

Show Me Your Tears
Studio album by
Frank Black and the Catholics
ReleasedSeptember 8, 2003 (UK)
September 9, 2003 (US)
StudioFrank Black and the Catholics' mobile studio, Los Angeles, California
GenreAlternative country
Length41:31
Label
Producer
Frank Black and the Catholics chronology
Devil's Workshop
(2002)		 Show Me Your Tears
(2003)		 Frank Black Francis
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press6/10[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Mojo[5]
Pitchfork5.4/10[6]
Q[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]
Stylus MagazineB[9]
Uncut [10]
Under the Radar[11]

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."[13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Frank Black.

  1. "Nadine" – 3:05
  2. "Everything Is New" – 3:51
  3. "My Favorite Kiss" – 2:06
  4. "Jaina Blues" – 3:51
  5. "New House of the Pope" – 3:15
  6. "Horrible Day" – 3:37
  7. "Massif Centrale" – 4:52
  8. "When Will Happiness Find Me Again?" – 2:19
  9. "Goodbye Lorraine" – 2:37
  10. "This Old Heartache" – 3:27
  11. "The Snake" – 2:01
  12. "Coastline" – 1:57
  13. "Manitoba" – 4:33

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[14]

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

Technical

  • Nick Vincent – producer (tracks 1, 2, 5–8, 11)
  • Stan Ridgway – producer (tracks 3, 9, 10, 12, 13), cover and booklet photos
  • Ben Mumphrey – producer (track 4), engineer
  • Frank Black and the Catholics – producer (track 4)
  • Miles Wilson – assistant engineer
  • Paul Figueroa – assistant engineer
  • Phillip Broussard – assistant engineer
  • Eddy Schreyer – mastering
  • Jean Black – cover design
  • Mark Husmann – band photos

References
  1. "Show Me Your Tears by Frank Black & The Catholics". Metacritic. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  2. Heather, Phares. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Allmusic. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  3. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Alternative Press: 108. November 2003.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  5. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Mojo: 113. September 2003.
  6. Carr, Eric (September 23, 2003). "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  7. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Q: 98. September 2003.
  8. 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.
  9. "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.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. "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.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Under the Radar (4): 98.
  12. Gilstrap, Andrew (October 8, 2003). "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". PopMatters. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  13. Barney Hoskyns. "The Backpages Interview: Frank Black". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)
  14. Show Me Your Tears (Liner notes). Frank Black and the Catholics. Cooking Vinyl / SpinART. 2003.CS1 maint: others (link)



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