Frogstomp is the first/debut Studio album from Australian rock band, Silverchair. It was first released in Australia in early 1995, while the members were only 15 years of age, by a subsidiary of Sony Records and hit number one on the album charts. On June 20, 1995, Frogstomp was released by Epic Records in the U.S. and went Platinum by November.
Within in the liner notes it says there were No Llama's killed durning the making of Frogstomp. This was an obvious joke but was mentioned because it was Daniel's favorite Animal due to it looking so dumb to him. The booklet contains pictures of the frog with different colors.
The record stands as a testament to Silverchair's initial post-grunge musical style, and the vast, striking difference between the rock music of Frogstomp and the orchestral fusion experimentalism of later works such as 2002's Diorama divides fans. However Frogstomp, both as a lone work and in the context of Silverchair's career, remains to be one of Australia's most nationally successful albums, and arguably the most popular grunge album from an Australian group.
Due to the album's status as a monument to their grunge-oriented teenage years, the band choose to mostly ignore this album during recent live sets in favour of the more original and stylistically diverse music written later in their career. Frontman Daniel Johns has admitted to disowning Frogstomp and its successor Freak Show, claiming that they were not written by Silverchair, but by "their high school band".
At an awards show in 2007, Joel Madden of Good Charlotte claimed to have lost his virginity while listening to Frogstomp..
Hit Parader named Frogstomp in a list of 200 albums you must own.
