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Nervous Gender
While the band Nervous Gender did record, that was after Phranc left the group to join Catholic Discipline. See the excellent sites dedicated to Nervous Gender and Catholic Discipline |
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Catholic
Discipline
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Oct/Nov
1979: Hong Kong Cafe 1 Barbee Doll Lust 2 Everyone Dies Laughing 3 Hypocrite, 4 Culture Sluts 5 Underground Babylon 6 European Son Winter 1979: Anti-Club 7 Take It Away, 8 Whip Them, Lord! 9 Fast Rhythm, 10 In a Dungeon January 19, 1980: Hong Kong Cafe 11 Everyone Dies Laughing 12 Whip Them, Lord! 13 Soul Testing 14 Shooting Up With Mother 15 I'm Choking... , 16 Yes, We Do... Oct/Nov 1979: Hong Kong Cafe 17 Tripmaker, 18 Take It Away Jan 19, 1980: KPFK-FM 19 Pablo Picasso (with Phranc on vocals) |
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"Underground
Babylon," a collection of the 1979-1980 recordings of Catholic
Discipline was just released in 2004 by Artifix
Records, and features Phranc playing bass on most of the tracks,
including her doing lead vocals on "Pablo Picasso," (the Jonathan
Richman song) which she transformed later into "Gertrude Stein."
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"Folksinger," first released as an LP on Rhino 856 in 1985, and reissued on CD in 1990 on Island 422-846-358-2, with the bonus track, "Everywhere I Go (I Hear the Go Go's). All songs written by Phranc except track 7, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" (Bob Dylan). Produced by Phranc, Ethan James and Craig Lee. |
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Above are two
foreign released 45 rpm 7" records and are listed because Phranc - Amazons
/ El Salvador (Stiff Records 6.14522,
1985, Germany) |
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"Best of
the Radio Tokyo Tapes," (Chameleon 8608, 1987) |
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"I Enjoy Being a Girl," released on LP as Island 91259 and on CD as Island 791259, 1989. All songs written by Phranc except Track 2, "I Enjoy Being a Girl" (Rogers-Hammerstein) and Track 12, "Moonlight Becomes You" (Burke-Van Heusen). Those two tracks were arranged by Mrs. Fun (Connie Grauer and Kim Zick). Produced by Victor DeLorenzo, Mixed by Warren Bruleigh. |
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"Positively Phranc," released as LP, CS and CD on Island 422-848-282, in 1991. All songs written by Phranc except Track 8, "Gertrude Stein," which was based on the song "Pablo Picasso," by Jonathan Richman; and Track 9, "Surfer Girl" by Brian Wilson (which included harmony vocals by Sid Straw of the Golden Palaminos). Track 3, "Hitchcock," was co-written by Phranc and Dave Alvin. Two Nice Girls added guest vocals on "I'm Not Romantic" and "'64 Ford." Produced and Engineered by Warren Bruleigh. |
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The "Positively Phranc" album yielded several special releases. Above left is the CD single of "'64 Ford," coupled with "Surfer Girl," (Island PRCD 6675-2, 1991) and, even cooler, the only "remix" I know of for one of Phranc's songs, the "Aqua & Pink Mixmaster Mix" of "Surfer Girl." It was also released on 12" vinyl. "I'm Not Romantic" (upper left, Island PRCD 6656, 1991) also came out by itself as a CD single.
And above, as a 7" 45 from the UK (Island 501/868666-7, 1991) came one of the neatest picture sleeves ever, with Phranc posing wearing nothing but a satin sheet and combat boots (which she describes during the interview). The songs were "I'm Not Romantic" and, from the album of the same name, "I Enjoy Being a Girl." Island also released in the UK a CD with the same pic cover, with "I'm Not Romantic," "I Enjoy Being a Girl," and "Outta Here." Phranc told me this was also released as a US CD single, and I've seen it for sale as a UK 12" record. |
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Some guest vocals for gay artists by Phranc: in 1991 she, Holly Near and Alix Dobkin provided backups for Romanovaky & Phillips on their powerful AIDS song "No False Hope," which appeared on their "Be Political, Not Polite" album. And, in 1993 Phranc provided backups for Kristian Hoffman (of the Mumps) on his album "I Don't Love My Guru Anymore," on the title track and on "Odd Man Out." |
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1994 brought the 7" 45 rpm record on the Kill Rock Stars label of "Bulldagger Swagger" and "Hillary's Eyebrows." The flip side has never appeared on an album by Phranc and its only CD appearance has been on the KRS various artists compilation "Some Songs." During our interview Phranc told me that as a kid she loved the colorful vinyl 45s she had, so she delighted that this 45 came out on red vinyl. Produced by Warren Bruleigh. |
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"Goofyfoot," another Warren Bruleigh production, was released in 1995 on the Kill Rock Stars label (KRS 233) with instrumental help from Donna Dresch, Patty Schemel and (on the title track) by Satan's Pilgrims. Cover songs were written by others: "Mrs Brown" (Trevor Peacock) and "Ode to Billy Joe" (Bobbie Gentry). This 5-song EP was also released on 10" vinyl...Click Here to see an enlargement of that. |
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Phranc did sort of a guest appearance on the Team Dresch album "Captain My Captain" (Chainsaw/Candy Ass 18, 1995). Their song "Uncle Phranc" is dedicated to her, and starts with a short clip of Phranc on the phone. |
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"Milkman" was released in 1998 on her own label, as Phancy Records 1, produced by Warren Bruleigh, with all songs written by Phranc except "Tzena, Tzena" and "The Handsome Cabin Boy," which are considered traditional. |
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Phranc
Songs on Various Artist Compilations
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"Radio
Tokyo Tapes, Vol. 3" (Chamelion, 1985) "Say
What You Want" (Artists for Rock the Vote) (Mercury 731451522727,
1992) "Some Songs"
(Kill Rock Stars 276, 1997) "Lesbian
Favorites: Women Like Us" (Rhino R2-72915, 1997) "Milkshake: A
CD to Benefit the Harvey Milk Institute" (Timmi-Kat 005, 1998)
"Hang
10" (American Pop Project, 1998) "Hot Rods
& Custom Classics" (Rhino, four CD set, 1999)
"Show Stoppers"
(Cinevu, 2003) DVD
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"Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventure's In Plastic" Phranc's first year as a Tupperware salesman was documented in a film that did well in numerous film festivals but is still, as they say, awaiting distribution on DVD. It contains the song "Tupperware Lady," and below is a short film description I found on the net.
LIFETIME
GUARANTEE: PHRANC'S ADVENTURES IN PLASTIC - 58 minutes 2001 USA |
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