Frogstomp

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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 all the songs having been created since 1992.

Frogstomp's Title is from a Song from the 60's by Floyd Newman. Daniel was the one who found the name.

Silverchair orignally wanted Nick Launay to produce Frogstomp but he was unavailable.

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 . 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

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.

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 limited to 3000 copies worldwide. There is also a limited cassette edition of the album.

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1995	Australian ARIA Albums Chart	1

Personnel

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