Whatever Happened to Pong? by Frank Black
“In the span of about a week, I turned 18, finished high school, got my first car, and picked up the newly released Teenager of the Year. If you said that I have projected my memories of that summer onto the opening strains of track 1, "Whatever Happened to Pong?", just because that is what happened to be playing as I was pulling out of my driveway all those days and nights, well, I'd be hard-pressed to disagree with you. Frank Black's 1994 album is scattered (next to other rock offerings of the year) and frustratingly pop-headed (compared to his Pixies work), but like very few albums, it's never stopped hitting the spot for me. Frank never came back to this (or any) formula, and traces of the soaring reach of TOTY have been tougher to find in his post-2000 work, but we'll always have Coon Rapids. Er, I mean, we'll always have Teenager of the Year.”
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In the span of about a week, I turned 18, finished high school, got my first car, and picked up the newly released Teenager of the Year. If you said that I have projected my memories of that summer onto the opening strains of track 1, "Whatever Happened to Pong?", just because that is what happened to be playing as I was pulling out of my driveway all those days and nights, well, I'd be hard-pressed to disagree with you. Frank Black's 1994 album is scattered (next to other rock offerings of the year) and frustratingly pop-headed (compared to his Pixies work), but like very few albums, it's never stopped hitting the spot for me. Frank never came back to this (or any) formula, and traces of the soaring reach of TOTY have been tougher to find in his post-2000 work, but we'll always have Coon Rapids. Er, I mean, we'll always have Teenager of the Year.
Easily as good as the Pixies' output. Can't believe I've been neglecting Frank Black's solo stuff for so long!
