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Frog stomp3/30/2023 This song was actually named in a murder trial in the US as an inspiration for the deed. “Hate is what I feel for you / And I want you to know that I want you dead / You’re late for the execution… / If you’re not here soon, I’ll kill your friend instead.” Daniel John’s surprisingly raspy vocals lay down a lyric intensity that hardly lets up. This is not Backstreet Boys.Ĭhris Joannou’s chubby bass intros Frogstomp and sets the grunge-goth mood to come. Silverchair were something else: they were authentic and raw, they were political and dark, they were solid and powerful. The mainstream music public had only encountered manufactured boy or girl bands and precocious family talents driven by dollars-in-their-eyes parents like the Osmonds or the Jackson Five. But garage band kids aren’t supposed to be this good. Their proximity to their childhood was reflected in their name: The Silver Chair is a fairly harrowing tale from the Narnia series by C.S.Lewis. Then known as Innocent Criminals, the song they won for, Tomorrow, got high rotation on Triple J and generated a bidding war for their names on a recording contract.įrogstomp emerged in March 1995. The balls of the fresh faced trio of Ben Gillies (Drums), Daniel Johns (Guitar, Vocals) and Chris Joannou (Bass) had hardly dropped when they won a national new music competition on SBS. As Silverchair they released Frogstomp, their debut album, in 1995 and never looked back. A band called Innocent Criminals made that garage band dream come true. But the vast majority find themselves wondering about what could have been on their accountant lunch breaks or at dawn tradie breakfasts. An even smaller number hang around long enough to make a living and maybe even hit that dreamed of big time years later. It’s almost a rite of passage.Ī few get some gigs, maybe a party or even a pub somewhere. Teenagers hitting postures and clanging half-arsed chords, pretending to be big time. There’s a band of kids in every hall in the country.
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