Declaring themselves leaders of the “Gay Supremacist” movement, the Flemings/Frogs caused a lot of ruckus with their (presumably) tongue in cheek lyrical thrust. Then, according to rumor, the Frogs began to send around cassettes of a similarly appointed second LP, backed with some examples of the pair “goofing around.” The latter caught the ear of Gerard Cosloy, then head of Homestead Records, and some of the songs were issued as the Frogs’ second LP. That few people noted its release is no great surprise. The self-titled first album is a curiously out-of-time blend of Anglo-clever pop-clichés, heavily referential to Roy Wood and Sparks but with some unusual Christian/smut lyrics tossed into the stew. Since then, the duo has done a lot of home recording. Brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion were first noted on the “thank you” list for Die Kreuzen’s Cows and Beer EP back in ’82. There is very little, uh, “hard” information available regarding the Frogs. Nirvana and Pearl Jam had it played over PA systems before performances the Blake Babies named their EP Rosy Jack World after a song on it, and were known to cover “I Don’t Care If You Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me)” as an encore the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and James Iha have joined the Frogs on stage at their rare, mind-blowing live appearances. The duo’s insane 1989 faux- gay-power-folk album It’s Only Right and Natural became something of a cult classic. Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Frogs are about as important as an alternative band could be.
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