The Frogs - My Daughter the Broad (CD)

All Music Guide

After Racially Yours couldn't be released in 1992, the Frogs spent several years recording away happily by themselves, creating a series of "Made-Up Songs" tapes that they sold and circulated to fans in between finding themselves feted by the alternative rock empire of the early nineties. A slew of selections from these tapes ended up forming My Daughter the Broad, a nicely rough counterpoint to the slicker, near-contemporaneous Starjob EP. To say that My Daughter the Broad is clearly a Frogs album and nobody else's is like saying the Pope is Catholic -- there's no question about it, it simply is. Some of the more insane song titles will confirm that much: "Which One of You Gave My Daughter the Dope?," "April Fools (He Had the Change Done at the Shop)," "Children Run Away (The Man With the Candy)," and the immortal wrongness of "Who's Sucking on Grandpa's Balls Since Grandma Ain't Home Tonight?" As before, the split between the two singers -- Dennis Flemion's rasping multiple character...s and Jimmy Flemion's sweetly vile troubadour -- makes for even more entertainment. When they both try out on an occasional duet, the results are even more disturbing -- "Where's Jerry Lewis?" tears down that particular icon and more in a mere one and a half minutes. Musically the duo still know how to make astoundingly epic rock and roll, fractured folk, and heaven knows what else out of their particular stew, and as seems to be their preferred style, they're at their most outrageous when creating the most accessible music. "The Boys With the Boys" rides its gently strummed melody along to rather disturbing ends, while "God Is Gay" is calmly sung and softly performed, yet will never fit into any Christian church's hymnal. And who could knock the weepy piano ballad "I'm Sad the Goat Just Died Today"? - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide Read more Less