To call the impact seismic would be an understatement I’ve yet to recover! Legend has it they fell into the hands of my friends and I due to the patronage of one or two midwestern underground rock luminaries but I prefer to believe it was an otherworldly intervention that first brought “Out Of The Mist” to my basement boom box (albeit on the flilpside of a live Die Kreuzen recording). Long before Dennis and Jimmy Flemion found themselves adopted by avatars as far flung as Jim O’Rourke and Sebastian Bach, before their Cause célèbre lead to a near-boycott (of a record label no one was buying records from anyway) and certainly before Beck Hansen had the bright idea to sample, “that was a good drum break” from “I Don’t Care If U Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me)”, there were the songs. The music was so good because it wasn’t really just conceptual, it was pop once you got over the crudeness of the lyrics, the songs themselves were beautiful pop music.” – Harmony Korine One of the brothers would play a huge kettle drum and almost do these quasi-surrealist minstrels. They were these brothers from Milwaukee who used to dress up in fairy costumes. It was this weird gay concept record, but they weren’t gay. “I would walk into Kim’s Video on Bleecker Street or Other Music and ask for things, and they would go, “Oh, have you heard of the Frogs?” The Frogs’ album It’s Only Right and Natural totally blew me away. “The insane secret of the record is it’s perfect”-AllMusic (read the full review here.) It was #14 on Kurt’s infamous listof Top 50 albums. The album was one of Kurt Cobain’s favorites. ALL PREORDERS WILL GET A FREE FROGS BUTTON AND WILL BE ENTERED TO WIN A TEST PRESSING OF THE ALBUM. The vinyl reissue features remixed and remastered audio ( the original album was accidentally pressed in mono when released in 1989) and comes housed in a gatefold sleeve with newly added artwork ( same classic cover!) plus track-by-track liner notes and intro by Jimmy Flemion. The record hits finer record stores everywhere on August 16th. We’re pleased to announce the release of the 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue of The Frogs cult classic, It’s Only Right and Natural.The record was originally released in 1989 on Homestead Records.
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