Frogstomp

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Frogstomp
Frogstomp cover
Studio album by Silverchair
Released March 27, 1995
Recorded Spring 1994
Genre Post-Grunge
Length 44:51
Label Murmur/Epic Records
Producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley
Professional reviews
Silverchair chronology
Frogstomp
(1995)		 Freak Show
(1997)
Singles from Frogstomp
  1. "Tomorrow"
    Released: September 1994
  2. "Pure Massacre"
    Released: Monday, January 16, 1995
  3. "Israel's Son"
    Released: 1995
  4. "Shade"
    Released: 1995
  5. "Findaway"
    Released: 1995

Frogstomp is the debut Studio album from Australian rock band, Silverchair. It was first released in Australia in early 1995, while the members were only 15 years of age, by a subsidiary of Sony Records and hit number one on the album charts. On June 20, 1995, Frogstomp was released by Epic Records in the U.S. and went platinum by November.

The album's recording process went quickly due to the songs "Israel's Son", "Tomorrow", "Faultline", "Pure Massacre", and "Cicada" having been created before studio time.

The liner notes state that "No llamas were harmed in the making of this album". This was an obvious joke but was mentioned because it was Daniel's favorite animal due to it looking so dumb to him[citation needed]. The booklet contains pictures of the frog on the album cover with different colors.

The record stands as a testament to Silverchair's initial post-grunge musical style, and the vast, striking difference between the rock music of Frogstomp and the orchestral fusion experimentalism of later works such as 2002's Diorama divides fans. However Frogstomp, both as a lone work and in the context of Silverchair's career, remains to be one of Australia's most nationally successful albums, and arguably the most popular grunge album from an Australian group.

Due to the album's status as a monument to their grunge-oriented teenage years, the band choose to mostly ignore this album during recent live sets in favour of the more original and stylistically diverse music written later in their career. Frontman Daniel Johns has admitted to disowning Frogstomp and its successor Freak Show, claiming that they were not written by Silverchair, but by "their high school band". He has also admitted that those 2 albums he does not want to write any more because he feels no need to be angry because he is getting older.

“ I don't feel like our first two albums were Silverchair: that's our teenage high school band. I don't like them at all. I listen to them and go 'That's cute', especially the first one, because Frogstomp we were 14. But the second one we're like 16, I'm like 'You're getting older. You're running out of chances'.

Everyone in any band, no matter how good or how cool they're believed to be, has got some kind of dark, high school band skeleton in their closet [laughs]. I fucking guarantee you! It's just that ours sold five million records [laughs]. It's supposed to be a secret - fucking hell!

 „

—Daniel Johns, fasterlouder.com.au[1]

At an awards show in 2007, Joel Madden of Good Charlotte claimed to have lost his virginity while listening to Frogstomp. Hit Parader named the album in a list of 200 you must own.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Israel's Son" (Daniel Johns) – 5:18
  2. "Tomorrow" (Johns, Ben Gillies) – 4:26
  3. "Faultline" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:19
  4. "Pure Massacre" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:58
  5. "Shade" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:01
  6. "Leave Me Out" (Johns, Gillies) – 3:03
  7. "Suicidal Dream" (Johns) – 3:12
  8. "Madman" (Johns) – 2:43
  9. "Undecided" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:36
  10. "Cicada" (Johns, Gillies) – 5:10
  11. "Findaway" (Johns) – 2:56
  • The LP version of the album comes in a green vinyl with Blind as bonus track. There is also a limited cassette edition of the album.

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1995 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Silverchair: skeletons in the closet. fasterlouder.com.au (2007-03-27).
Preceded by
Dookie by Green Day		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
April 9 - April 29, 1995		 Succeeded by
Three Legged Dog by The Cruel Sea
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Daniel Johns · Chris Joannou · Ben Gillies
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