The Frogs / Bananimals
Artist The Frogs
Album Title: Bananimals
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Primary Genre Rock: General Rock
Format CD
Released 10/12/1999
Label 4 Alarm Records
Catalog No FAR446CD
Bar Code No 6 63816 44462 0
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Pay (1:47)
2. La Da Da Da, La Da Da Dee, La Da Da Dum Dum (2:30)
3. Love Me Or Die Bitch (1:10)
4. Evil Arnold (W/The Ugly Name) (1:46)
5. Is It Right To Kiss The Boys (When You're A Girl And Not A Boy?) (3:24)
6. One Of Them Wore Wings, The Other Did The Painting (2:20)
7. Golden Showers (2:01)
8. Dead Pussy In The Road W/Mother's Name On Top (1:24)
9. U Bastards (1:49)
10. (Try Out My New) Sex Doll Baby!!! (2:30)
11. Love In The Sand (2:54)
12. Für Z Muzik Biz (10 Years To Waste) (2:54)
13. Blonde & Beautiful, Beat-Up (& The Bitch Was Young) (1:09)
14. I'm Back To Women (1:32)
15. My Show Business Days (1:58)
16. Sailors Board Me Now (3:18)
Date Acquired 04/04/2000
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 13.00

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Notes

SLASH RECORDS
1/23/87
Dear Frogs
   Thanks for sending in the tape.Iwish I
could be more helpful, more positive, but
there isn't anything we can do with this
material.  I hope that you're having fun.  
Well, that's about it

       <scribble>

SLASH RECORDS
6/9/87
frogs-
  again there isn't anything we
can do with this material.  Good luck.
I doubt I'll reply to any more
tapes sent to Slash.  It just
isn't whatwe're about.
       good luck
       <scribble>

thanx to: brian t. komar, damianstrigens,
bobby brabant, scott laberge, jay t,
nathan and everyone @ 4alarm records

mixed by trey fratt @ taotog
mastered by jason rau @ monsterdisc
chicago, illinois

produced by the frogs

4 alarm records
660 W. Lake St. Chicago, IL 60661
www.fouralarmrecords.com

far446cd
foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-01-20 19:13:50

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Analyzed: The Frogs / Bananimals
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -0.04 dB   -11.51 dB      1:48 01-Pay
DR12      -0.06 dB   -16.87 dB      2:30 02-La da Da Da, la da Da Dee, la da Da Dum Dum
DR9       -0.03 dB   -11.93 dB      1:11 03-Love Me or Die Bitch
DR12       0.00 dB   -14.13 dB      1:46 04-Evil Arnold (W/ the Ugly Name)
DR11      -0.07 dB   -15.45 dB      3:24 05-Is It Right to Kiss the Boys (When You're a Girl and Not a Boy?)
DR11      -0.57 dB   -16.02 dB      2:20 06-One of Them Wore Wings, the Other Did the Painting
DR14       0.00 dB   -17.03 dB      2:01 07-Golden Showers
DR12      -0.03 dB   -14.76 dB      1:25 08-Dead Pussy in the Road W/ Mother's Name on Top
DR14       0.00 dB   -18.15 dB      1:49 09-U Bastards
DR12       0.00 dB   -15.53 dB      2:31 10-(Try Out My New) Sex Doll Baby!!!
DR13       0.00 dB   -17.38 dB      2:54 11-Love in the Sand
DR10       0.00 dB   -14.28 dB      2:54 12-Fur Z Muzik Biz (10 Years to Waste)
DR11      -0.02 dB   -14.78 dB      1:09 13-Blonde & Beautiful, Beat-Up (& the Bitch Was Young)
DR12      -0.11 dB   -17.09 dB      1:32 14-I'm Back to Women
DR12       0.00 dB   -15.60 dB      1:58 15-My Show Business Days
DR10      -0.26 dB   -13.42 dB      3:19 16-Sailors Board Me Now
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Number of tracks:  16
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           894 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Ned Raggett
Once again unexpectedly emerging with an official album after a long silence, the Frogs stepped back from the smooth sounds of Starjob with a new collection of often rough, perversely charming, and always entertainingly offensive tracks. A fair number of songs could easily constitute a part two of It's Only Right and Natural, mixing the same elements of sweet folkiness and gay-themed lyrics. "La Da Da Da, La Da Da Dee, La Da Da Dum Dum" -- indeed the title as well as the chorus -- talks about French kissing some guy and not minding his dentures. Meanwhile, "Love in the Sand" lazily describes a scenario with another fellow where he "blew me...a kiss." Not everything is quite so focused -- thus, of course, "Love Me or Die, Bitch" ("make up your mind which!"), with alternately beautiful and stomped piano. An even more perversely pretty example is "Golden Showers," where the music and tender singing are quite lovely, even if the water sports being celebrated aren't swimming and water polo. The hints of melancholia and distress which underpin a lot of the band's best work crop up more than once, sometimes in the simplest of ways, as they do in the lead piano on "One of Them Wore Wings, the Other Did the Painting." Dennis Flemion is still in fine, scraggly voice -- alternately breathy, aggressively camp, or just plain screwed up (refer to "Evil Arnold [With the Ugly Name]" for a good example of the latter). When he gets to slamming down some of the morons of the world -- thus, "U Bastards" ("you should be sent to hell/you rotten motherf*ckers") -- his singing is at its sweetest. "Fur z Musik Biz (10 Years to Waste)" is perhaps the perfect epitome of such an approach -- a sickly sweet, tenderly arranged "up yours" to the industry that is simply mind-blowing.
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