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Track Listings
| 1. Bring On The Loser |
| 2. Metal Detector |
| 3. Here We Go |
| 4. Put Down |
| 5. Superstar In France |
| 6. Keep All Your Windows Tight Tonight |
| 7. Ah Dictaphone |
| 8. Walking The Dog |
| 9. Marty |
| 10. Crawl Away |
| 11. Hey Where's Your Girl |
| 12. Powerful Man |
| 13. When The Ground Walks Away |
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Originally released on Sarah Records shortly before the label folded in 1995, POOR FRICKY was quickly reissued by MergeRecords, also home to Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields. Like Merritt, East River Pipe (F.M. Cornog) is a one-man band.Recorded and mixed at home on a portable cassette machine, POOR FRICKY shares Merritt's taste for low-budget solo reinterpretations of soul-stirring '60s pop archetypes, but the comparison breaks down after that.
Cornog uses more guitars in one song than Merritt might employ over the course of afull album, and his obvious hero is Brian Wilson, not Phil Spector. More importantly, where Merritt's often jaundiced and cynical lyrics are laced with dry irony and goofy similes, Cornog's emotionally direct songs are often genuinely dark, with depressive lyrics that belie his sometimes-sunny music. It's satisfyingly ironic that POOR FRICKY's most uplifting tune is called "Bring On The Loser".
Originally released on Sarah Records shortly before the label folded in 1995, POOR FRICKY was quickly reissued by MergeRecords, also home to Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields. Like Merritt, East River Pipe (F.M. Cornog) is a one-man band.Recorded and mixed at home on a portable cassette machine, POOR FRICKY shares Merritt's taste for low-budget solo reinterpretations of soul-stirring '60s pop archetypes, but the comparison breaks down after that.
Cornog uses more guitars in one song than Merritt might employ over the course of afull album, and his obvious hero is Brian Wilson, not Phil Spector. More importantly, where Merritt's often jaundiced and cynical lyrics are laced with dry irony and goofy similes, Cornog's emotionally direct songs are often genuinely dark, with depressive lyrics that belie his sometimes-sunny music. It's satisfyingly ironic that POOR FRICKY's most uplifting tune is called "Bring On The Loser".
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