Frogstomp

Infobox Album
Name = Frogstomp
Type = studio
Artist = Silverchair


Released = March 27, 1995
Written = 1992
Recorded = Different times within Tuesday, December 27th 1994 - Tuesday January 17, 1995 (All together in 9 Days) at Festival Studios in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia.
Genre = Post-grunge
Grunge
Length = 44:51
Label = Murmur/Epic Records
Producer = Kevin "Caveman" Shirley
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Ad9fqxquhldae link]
*"Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/silverchair/albums/album/129990/review/5941363/frogstomp link]
*Robert Christgau (C) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=3714&name=Silverchair link]
Last album =
This album = "Frogstomp" (1995)
Next album = "Freak Show" (1997)Singles
Name = Frogstomp
Type = studio
single 1 = Tomorrow
single 1 date = Friday, September 16th, 1994
single 2 = Pure Massacre
single 2 date = Monday, January 16, 1995
single 3 = Israel's Son
single 3 date = 1995
single 4 = Shade
single 4 date = 1995
single 5 = Findaway
single 5 date = 1995Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Inside Cover
Lower caption =
Type = Album

"Frogstomp" (sometimes typeset as "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 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 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" [http://web.archive.org/web/20030213170055/www.chairpage.com/timeline/1995/01/sc9501.html ] . This title was dropped in favor of the album's finalized name "Frogstomp", which is 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.

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 the anger seen on those two albums is not how he wants to write anymore because of the lack of anger at his age.

cquotetxt|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 [cite web
url = http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/8451/
title = Silverchair: skeletons in the closet
publisher = fasterlouder.com.au
date = 2007-03-27] |color=silver|size=360%

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 ownfact|date=July 2008.

Track listing

# "Israel's Son" (Daniel Johns) – 5:18
# "Tomorrow" (Johns, Ben Gillies) – 4:26
# "Faultline" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:19
# "Pure Massacre" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:58
# "Shade" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:01
# "Leave Me Out" (Johns, Gillies) – 3:03
# "Suicidal Dream" (Johns) – 3:12
# "Madman" (Johns) – 2:43
# "Undecided" (Johns, Gillies) – 4:36
# "Cicada" (Johns, Gillies) – 5:10
# "Findaway" (Johns) – 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

succession box
before = "Dookie" by Green Day
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = April 9 1995 - April 29 1995
after = "Three Legged Dog" by The Cruel Sea