The Frogs
My Daughter, The Broad
[Matador]
Rating: 6.5
The Frogs burst onto the scene a few years ago with the shockingly funny album,
It's Only Right and Natural. Imagine listening to a twelve-track disc where
the first song was about drugs and the other eleven were semi-improvised tunes about
twisted homosexual scenarios. Their follow-up release, Racially Yours,
has been held up in limbo for some time, so now we have a collection of old songs
from their indie cassette days, My Daughter The Broad. It's very much a
hit and miss affair.
The first time I heard "Where's Jerry Lewis?", the third
track on MDTB, I nearly shit my pants. It's a hysterical song about the
children of the Labor Day telethon, sung from the viewpoint of a man who may or
may not be a pedophile. "I see the children and then I give some more / Here's a
fiver for you son / I love you / You lovely crippled boy."
There are other big
stomach turning laughs on here in the forms of "I'm Hungry" (sung from the point
of view of a starving man) and the brilliantly titled "Grandma Sitting in the
Corner With a Penis In Her Hand Going 'No, No, No, No, No.'" On the other hand,
there's also lukewarm crap like "God Is Gay" and "Banjo Bonnie." It's still
worlds better than Ween's
12 Golden Country Greats and works as a great anathema to those who
were disappointed by it. Find it used.
-Jason Josephes