Frank Black and the Catholics was the eponymous debut album from Frank Black and the Catholics. The backing group on this album performed on Black's previous album, The Cult of Ray

The Cult of Ray

The Cult of Ray is the third Frank Black solo album. The title refers to Ray Bradbury. The core musicians employed on this album would eventually be dubbed The Catholics, and would continue as Black's backing group for the following seven years...

, but the group name was first adopted on this release. The album was recorded live to two-track tape over the course of two days in 1997, but a protracted dispute with Black's label American Recordings http://quimby.gnus.org/html/interview/BlackFrank.article.battle.html, reportedly over the "raw" sound of the recordings http://quimby.gnus.org/html/interview/BlackFrank.article.rocktropolis.html, delayed its release for 18 months. The album was released in June 1998 in the MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 format on GoodNoise.com (precursor to eMusic

EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....

) and was the first album by a major artist to be commercially released on the Internet. The album was then released in the fall of 1998 by SpinART records in the US. During the interim, Lyle Workman left the group and was replaced by Rich Gilbert, and Black prepared the follow-up, "Pistolero

Pistolero (album)

Pistolero is the second album by Frank Black and the Catholics, produced by Nick Vincent and released via spinART Records on March 9, 1999.-Track listing:#"Bad Harmony" – 3:19#"I Switched You" – 5:21#"Western Star" – 3:12#"Tiny Heart" – 3:32...

". The track listing is notable for having been sequenced in alphabetical order.

Track listing

All songs written by Frank Black, except "Six-Sixty-Six", written by Larry Norman

Larry Norman

Larry David Norman was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer, who worked with Christian rock music...

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1. "All My Ghosts
   All My Ghosts
   "All My Ghosts" is a single from Frank Black & the Catholics, released in 1998. It is the first track on the group's self-titled first album.-Single track listing:All songs written by Frank Black except where noted.# "All My Ghosts" – 3:14...
   
   " - 3:32
2. "Back to Rome" - 3:25
3. "Do You Feel Bad About It?" - 2:07
4. "Dog Gone" - 3:00
5. "I Gotta Move" - 3:37
6. "I Need Peace" - 5:12
7. "King & Queen of Siam" - 2:51
8. "Six-Sixty-Six" - 3:03
9. "Solid Gold" - 4:18
10. "Steak 'n' Sabre" - 3:47
11. "Suffering" - 2:58
12. "The Man Who Was Too Loud" - 3:31

Musicians

• Frank Black
  Frank Black
  Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...
  
  : guitar, vocals
• Scott Boutier: drums
• David McCaffery: bass, vocals
• Lyle Workman
  Lyle Workman
  Lyle Workman is an American guitarist, composer, session musician and music producer. His music has been widely distributed since his debut on the eponymous Bourgeois Tagg album in 1986, and is currently best known for his work as composer and bandleader for the Superbad soundtrack.Workman is also...
  
  : lead guitar
• Billy Bowers: recording engineer