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The Frogs are often dismissed by "serious" music fans. These people do not have the slightest idea. If I bothered to dissect their career (all 16-18 years of it) for those of you who don't already get it, it would take me a  thousand words just to get to the part where we start talking about music. These two guys are so matter-of-fact brilliant that they rifle through and exhaust ideas faster than you or I or anybody else could even recognize them. The Frogs have hours of their spontaneous songwriting (their "Made-Up Songs" tapes) to play for you as evidence that their off-the-cuff output could take any five "songsmiths" and make a hood ornament out of them. They have the unspoken immediacy of communication that the great song-writing teams of history had. Ideas, themes, tangents and lyrical perspectives don't need to be explained and dissected the way they are in conventional "bands". Dennis or Jimmy will just go off, and the other immediately knows when to change, for example, into T. Rex mode, or prison a cappella mode, or vaudeville Christian sing-a-long mode, or death-obsessed teen tragedy (with puberty-conscious references to peer pressure) mode, or sexual incompatibility of Greek gods and mortals mode, or so-self-conscious-it-makes-you-cringe-that-you're-actually-tapping-your-foot-to-a-song-about-a-guy-who-only-fucks-babies-and-that-this-particular-baby-is-really-getting-into-it mode. In short, anybody who thinks the Frogs are "simple," "shallow," or "limited," in scope, well, that fella don't know shit from fat meat. Steve Albini -- every bit as choice as three-month-old Baby Greaser George foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2013-10-22 05:18:53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: The Frogs / The Frogs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR14      -3.04 dB   -18.90 dB      1:49 01-And So You're The King DR14      -1.55 dB   -19.16 dB      1:44 02-C-R-Y DR14      -0.39 dB   -17.73 dB      2:07 03-Layin' Down My Love 4 U DR13      -2.02 dB   -17.54 dB      1:49 04-Ocean Tide DR13      -0.55 dB   -16.39 dB      2:12 05-She Was A Mortal DR12      -2.60 dB   -18.61 dB      1:48 06-I'm A Jesus Child DR14      -3.50 dB   -21.72 dB      2:01 07-What The Trouble Was DR14      -1.87 dB   -18.48 dB      2:08 08-Funhouse DR12      -4.24 dB   -20.27 dB      1:40 09-Buried Me Alive DR14      -0.87 dB   -17.92 dB      1:47 10-Smile DR13      -1.69 dB   -16.96 dB      2:10 11-Persian Cat DR13      -0.70 dB   -16.93 dB      2:34 12-F'D Over Jesus DR13      -0.71 dB   -17.59 dB      2:03 13-Hades High School DR14      -2.00 dB   -20.24 dB      2:37 14-Don't B Afraid DR14      -3.68 dB   -22.22 dB      1:57 15-I Can't Remember DR13      -3.55 dB   -20.30 dB      2:55 16-Whether U Like It Or Not I Love U -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks:  16 Official DR value: DR13 Samplerate:        44100 Hz Channels:          2 Bits per sample:   16 Bitrate:           748 kbps Codec:             FLAC ================================================================================