Frogs, The

Frogs, The

My Daughter The Broad - 30th Anniversary Edition

Foreign Leisure

***Originally released by Matador Records in 1996, The Frogs’ opus My Daughter The Broad is returning to vinyl after nearly 30 long years away—and it’s now expanded to a double LP with a whopping eight bonus tracks of Frogs mania. It’s “one of the funniest albums ever made” according to Magnet.Formed in Milwaukee in 1980 by brothers Dennis and Jimmy Flemion, The Frogs lit up the underground with their fearless sense of absurdism. On one hand, they composed pop-centric masterpieces inspired by glam and classic British pop. On the other, they maniacally created what they called “Made-Up Songs,” fully improvised bits of largely acoustic pop jingles that were, more often than not, accompanied by lyrics that would make your mother blush.Some of those “Made-Up Songs” were collected for 1989’s classic It’s Only Right and Natural, which led The Frogs to the vaunted halls next door to fame: They were beloved by Kurt Cobain, taken on tour by Pearl Jam, produced by Billy Corgan, sampled by Beck. It was a whole thing. A feature-length documentary on the band has been in the works for nearly a decade, and will see the light of day soon.So it was decreed in 1996 that another set of “Made-Up Songs” would be collected—the Flemion brothers had more than a thousand of them at this point—and the chosen 22 became My Daughter The Broad, named as a nod to their admirers in Mudhoney, who had recently released My Brother The Cow.My Daughter gathers some of the...

Frogs, The

1st

The End of All Music

***The Frogs re-emerge with their unreleased 1st album. More than a vast departure from The Frogs previous works, it’s an arrival at the beginning. It’s the “1st” original debut album. Recorded within the realms of time stamped January 1986, presents 12 songs and 8 unreleased bonus tracks. Understanding correctly, 1st aka Pat’s Session was intended to be the initial release by brothers Dennis & Jimmy Flemion prior to The Frogs 1988 self-titled debut. Minneapolis based Twin/Tone Records (Soul Asylum, The Replacements label at the time) approached The Frogs and expressed fawning interest, extending an invitation to record the band after their 1985, 7th Street Entry live performance (First Avenue’s sister club).  It was at this point, the famous fork in the road, where The Frogs opted to record closer to home, thus the path deviated a few weeks later to Nexus Recording Studio in Waukesha, Wisconsin. 12 rapid fire songs emerged and were captured on reel to reel, one night, recorded live, first take, no overdubs. Upon playback review, the late Dennis Flemion (d.7/7/2012), opted not to release due to the overabundance of reverb. Throughout the years the discussion would persist from other sources on pursuing to fix the reverb on 1st. Thirty-two years later, in 2018 Jimmy would take the recordings to a Portland, Oregon recording studio to remaster. The studio engineer successfully cleaned-up & removed the excess reverb. As a result, David Swider from End of All Music Records, expressed further interest in a follow up to...