After much delay, it was released in 2000 on Four Alarm Records with an additional 13 tracks, and a tongue-in-cheek sticker proclaiming it "the most controversial album of all time". At this point the album only consisted of the first 12 songs. The album was originally presented to Homestead Records in 1991, but they refused to release it because of its controversial subject matter. Racially Yours is an album recorded by the band The Frogs. This could be pretty offensive.if you are an idiot. Highlights include "Darkmeat 4 Sale" ("There's a fork around my neck/Forks are for food/It was only a joke/to lighten the mood"), "Massa" ("Massa Massa/I ain't your friend/I ain't your fool no more"), and "Whitefully Dead" ("Now that the white man's dead and gone/ we can sing a happy song"). The same geniuses that created the cult hit "Grandma Sitting in the Corner with a Penis in Her Hand Going No, No, No" turn their attentions to the history of racial tension in the United States. He won’t see the Frogs get their due in time, but the more people that hear the Flemions’ music, the better.For those not yet familiar with the Frogs, this is a good place to begin. It’s horribly sad and absurd the way Dennis Flemion died. Sometimes the circumstances of an artist’s death intrigue the public, and make them seek to re-evaluate the work in hindsight, catching up on what they missed out on, looking for clues. Most of their albums are still out of print, they never headlined a big tour, and their fans were devoted but few. Racially Yours is Chappelle-level social criticism, and far more than a bunch of joke songs.īut the most ridiculous part of the Frogs’ 32-year legacy is how obscenely unknown they are. Matador imprint Homestead refused to put out Racially Yours when it was completed in 1991 because of the potential fallout, a huge missed opportunity.
Their sense of humor is tar black, confrontational, and aggressive. Few people heard them but to their fans they were better than the Beatles. But it’s easier to imagine a world where the Flemions headline theaters and play Coachella to thousands of people. Perhaps it’s easy to see why the brothers Frog never broke through to the mainstream, even with leg-ups from Cobain, Corgan, Beck, Bach (Sebastien), and Vedder. Although they were a comedy rock band, their music was not a joke and far more subversive than anything Ween, TMBG, or Weird Al ever pulled off. Their two most well-known albums, It’s Only Right and Natural and Racially Yours, are concept records about homosexuality and race relations, respectively. They insulted and verbally eviscerated hecklers and random, unlucky members of their audience. They wanted to be huge and they let you know it. The Frogs were viciously funny and the most uncompromising rock act in recent memory. Their widest exposure came through opening slots for Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Pearl Jam in the mid-90s, and a short documentary piece called Meet the Frogs that was included on the Pumpkins’ 1994 video tape Vieuphoria.
Formed in 1980 by Dennis and his younger brother Jimmy, The Frogs preceded similar “funny” bands like Ween and They Might Be Giants, but never managed to gain a wide following, even on a cult level. Over the weekend, Dennis Flemion of the Milwaukee rock institution The Frogs drowned while swimming with friends and family in Wisconsin’s Wind Lake.
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