They shouldn’t really, because they are either too good for rock and roll, or too politically incorrect to matter. These days being in a band means as much about perception as calculation, but there is little manipulation in this group because you see, The Frogs just are point is they exist. And The Frogs, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just a short shot north of America’s Midwest, are a fine group. There are bands, and then there are groups. "Once you got over the crudeness of the lyrics, the songs themselves were beautiful pop music.” "The music was so good because it wasn’t really just conceptual, it was pop," says Korine. The album's explicit lyrics, though, angered others like conservative Christian leader Pat Robertson who denounced them on The 700 Club. Beck sampled "That was a good drum break" from the album's “I Don’t Care If U Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me)” for "Where It's At" and The Blake Babies named their Rosy Jack World EP after a song on Right and Natural. Other fans: Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan & James Iha, who used to play with The Frogs, as well as Andy Richter, Harmony Korine, Sebastian Bach, and Jim O'Rourke, to name a few. Kurt Cobain was a fan - it was at #15 on his list of Top 50 Albums - and he often used it as Nirvana pre-show music, as did Pearl Jam. Jimmy and Dennis Flemion's band The Frogs were one of the of the most wonderfully strange underground bands of the '80s and '90s and their 1989 album It's Only Right And Natural became an instant, if controversial, weirdo music cult classic.
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