Frank Black
Frank Black
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Los Angeles is the first track on Frank Blank’s solo debut, Frank Black. It was released as a single on March 9, 1993 and went on to become one of the greatest hits of Frank Black’s post-Pixies career.
Frank has stated more than once that he’s not sure what the lyrics are about. In 1996 he said whi...
I met a man
He was a good man
Sailing and shoring
Dancing the beta can-can
Making me foreign
Oh yeah
I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
No, not the one in South California
They got one in South Patagonia
I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
They got a bunch down in Moleville
They got a bunch more still
I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
They got one in twenty-five two five
Works just like a beehive
I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
Counting helicopters on Saturday night
The symphony of the fair light
I hear them saying Los Angeles
In all the black and white movies
And if you think they star-spangled us
How come we say Los Angeles?
I'll wait in Los Angeles
I'll wait in the pouring sun
No way
For not anyone
No way
I met a man
He was a good man
Sailing and shoring
He got a betatron, man
Talking that foreign
Oh yeah
I'll wait in Los Angeles
I'll wait in the pouring sun
No way, for not anyone
No way
Los Angeles was written by Frank Black.
Los Angeles was produced by Frank Black & Eric Drew Feldman.
Frank Black released Los Angeles on Mon Mar 08 1993.
Back in 1993 Frank said the song was about there being multiple places called Los Angeles in the world.
In a 2002 interview, Frank Black said that he doesn’t remember what Los Angeles is about, and that the lyrics were always supposed to be abstract.
In a 2015 interview, he stated that “it’s loose...