Frogstomp

Frogstomp
Studio album by Silverchair
Released	27 March 1995
Recorded	Throughout Tuesday, 27 December 1994 - Tuesday 17 January 1995 (All together in 9 Days) at Festival Studios in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia.
Genre	Grunge
Length	44:51
Label	Murmur/Epic Records
Producer	Kevin "Caveman" Shirley
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Rolling Stone (not rated) link Robert Christgau (C) link
Silverchair chronology
Frogstomp (1995) Freak Show (1997) Singles from Frogstomp "Tomorrow" Released: Friday, September 16th, 1994 "Pure Massacre" Released: Monday, 16 January 1995 "Israel's Son" Released: 1995 "Shade" Released: 1995 "Findaway" Released: 1995

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

Album history

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The album's recording process went quickly due to all the songs having been created since 1992. Silverchair originally wanted Nick Launay to produce Frogstomp but he was unavailable. They revealed in a January 1995 interview with Smash Hits Magazine that their debut was to be named Llama's Revenge.^[1]This title was dropped in favor of the album's finalized name Frogstomp, in a homage to a Floyd Newman song from the 1960s. Daniel was familiar with the song.

The liner notes state that "no llamas were harmed in the making of this album" and "apologies to Toad The Wet Sprocket." The booklet contains pictures of the frog on the album cover in different colors to represent the band members.

Musical style

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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 post-grunge album from an Australian group.

Due to the album's status as a monument to their grunge-influenced 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 the anger seen on those two albums is not how he wants to write anymore because of the lack of anger at his age.

Track listing

All songs by Daniel Johns unless otherwise noted.

1. "Israel's Son" – 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" – 3:12
8. "Madman" – 2:43
9. "Undecided" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:36
10. "Cicada" (Johns, Gillies) – 5:10
11. "Findaway" – 2:56

• The LP version of the album comes in a green vinyl with Blind as bonus track limited to 3000 copies worldwide. There is also a limited cassette edition of the album.

Chart positions

Personnel

• Daniel Johns – guitar, vocals
• Chris Joannou – bass
• Ben Gillies – drums

References

1. ^ Silverchair news archives - January 1995
2. ^ "Silverchair: skeletons in the closet". fasterlouder.com.au. 2007-03-27. http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/8451/.