After putting a lot of serious time into it, it’s no wonder Flemion decided it was time to release it rather than let it sit on the shelf. The album confronts bigotry and racism from an artistically inspired viewpoint. The band also released the compilation “My Daughter the Broad,” 1999’s “Bananimals,” and more recently “Racially Yours,” an album containing material from 1993 and earlier that is very different from the band’s previous material. After only 45 songs, Fleming says Corgan had to quit listening because the music was “beginning to get in his head and started showing up in his work.” Eventually, working under the pseudonym “Johnny Goat,” Corgan produced the Frogs’ EP “Starjob.” Having more mainstream connections didn’t gain the Frogs the audience they were looking for, but the songs did not stop flowing. “D’arcy just didn’t want to be under his thumb anymore,” he adds, referring to her departure before the band began touring in support of “Machina/ the Machines of God.” While touring with the Smashing Pumpkins during the “Siamese Dream” tour, Flemion, who claims to have written over 2,000 songs with his brother, gave Corgan a tape of 333 songs to sift through. They’re very family-like, but unless it’s actual family, things eventually break,” Flemion says. It just cries, it’s just beautiful sadness.” Flemion also shares his thoughts on Corgan’s decision to end the Smashing Pumpkins earlier this year. I can’t say there’s any other guy that writes sadder songs than Billy in the business other than me, which nobody’s heard my sad shit,” Flemion adds. I haven’t heard one,” Flemion says, before reminding himself of his longtime musician friend and former Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. Try to find a sad song, a good one that makes you cry. “What about the sadness? It’s virtually been blotted out of the airwaves. The irony is Flemion disagrees that all rock music should be joyous and fun. This was also when Jimmy debuted his own stage gimmick – a six foot pair of bat wings – the joke being that all their songs were about death at the time. During the early years, the Frogs honed their live show, which included fog and flashpots to make fun of the typical rock show gimmicks of their youth. It was later followed by the jokingly homoerotic “It’s Only Right and Natural,” a pseudo-gay album that earned them a larger cult following. Unfortunately, not everything fell into place in the so-called “calculated” way, and the band’s debut self-titled album wasn’t released until 1988. Formed 20 years ago by brothers Dennis and Jimmy Flemion (guitar), the Frogs had aspirations of playing great music like their rock `n’ roll heroes. That’s where we come in.” Enter the Frogs, a virtually unknown underground rock band to the common person, but a household name to fans of bands such as Pearl Jam, the Smashing Pumpkins or the late Nirvana. “They bastardize it, and no one will do anything to take it back. “They killed it because the mainstream owns it now,” Flemion says from his Milwaukee home. Marilyn Manson once sang it, but Dennis Flemion, drummer for the Frogs, lives by it.
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