Los Angeles (Frank Black song)

"Los Angeles" is a single written and performed by Black Francis, it was the first track on his solo debut album Frank Black, released in 1992.^[1] It served as the main theme song for the short lived but cult phenomenon VH1 talk show Late World with Zach. It was also featured in the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland as well as being featured in Yeah Right, a skateboarding video directed by Spike Jonze with professional skateboarder Eric Koston skating to this song. Also, a music video was made for this song featuring Black himself. The music video was featured on an episode of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head.

Composition

The song starts off with an acoustic guitar introduction. An electric guitar riff is heard after that. With an interlude back into acoustic guitar music, it ends with helicopter noises.

References

↑ Phares, Heather (1993-03-09). "Frank Black - Frank Black". AllMusic. Retrieved 2010-10-14.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Black Francis (Frank Black)

Pixies

Studio albums	Surfer Rosa (1988) Doolittle (1989) Bossanova (1990) Trompe le Monde (1991) Indie Cindy (2014)

Extended plays	Come On Pilgrim (1987) Pixies (2002) EP1 (2013) EP2 (2014) EP3 (2014)

Compilations	Death to the Pixies (1997) Pixies at the BBC (1997) Complete 'B' Sides (2001) Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies (2004) Minotaur (2009)

Singles	"Gigantic" (1988) "Monkey Gone to Heaven" (1989) "Here Comes Your Man" (1989) "Velouria" (1990) "Dig for Fire" (1990) "Planet of Sound" (1991) "Alec Eiffel" (1992) "Head On" (1992) "Debaser" (1997) "Bam Thwok" (2004) "Bagboy" (2013)

As Frank Black

Studio albums	Frank Black (1993) Teenager of the Year (1994) The Cult of Ray (1996) Frank Black Francis (2004) Honeycomb (2005) Fast Man Raider Man (2006)

Compilations	Oddballs (2000) Christmass (2006) Frank Black 93–03 (2007)

Singles	"Los Angeles" (1993) "Hang On to Your Ego" (1993) "Headache" (1994) "Men in Black" (1995) "The Marsist" (1995) "I Don't Want to Hurt You" (1996)

As Frank Black and
the Catholics

Studio albums	Frank Black and the Catholics (1998) Pistolero (1999) Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day (2000, unreleased) Dog in the Sand (2001) Black Letter Days (2002) Devil's Workshop (2002) Show Me Your Tears (2003)

Compilations	One More Road for the Hit (2006) Snake Oil (2006)

Singles	"All My Ghosts" (1998) "I Gotta Move" (1999) "Robert Onion" (2000) "St. Francis Dam Disaster" (2001) "Everything Is New" (2003) "Nadine" (2003)

Members	Scott Boutier Rich Gilbert David McCaffery Dave Philips Lyle Workman

As Black Francis

Studio albums	Bluefinger (2007) Svn Fngrs (2008) The Golem (2010) NonStopErotik (2010) Paley & Francis (2011) (with Reid Paley)

Compilations	Abbabubba (2011)

Singles	"Threshold Apprehension" (2007)

Grand Duchy

Petits Fours (2009)
Lovesick (2009)
Let the People Speak (2012)

Discography

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