The Frogs
“Swamp Broad” from the album Death Songs
self-released, 1982
[submitted by GrefeMogul]
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“And as I was stabbing her, she began to sing…” Ok - wow - this tune will alienate … uh.. everyone? Lol. Back in the Minneapolis college radio day, this was part of the wacky songs from 82 that made it on the airwaves, along with the Frogs “I Come Out at Night to Ride My Dragon” (although I remember a heavier version than I could find on Youtube. I actually remember another version of Swamp Broad too - maybe it was a live version, who knows ) As for Swamp Broad… despite its strange other-inner-world dementia and retarded offensiveness, it still manages to contain an seeming random, underlying depth charge of spine-shaking, chain-jerk punk rock and roll and deep doomy jungle beats as felt at various points in the irritating “story” such as the 1, 3 and 4 minute marks. You gotta love lines like “..she wrapped her legs around my back… I found a piece of seaweed in my mouth.. stuck between my teeth..” sung by what sounds like King Arthur’s denture-less, 80 year-old inbred cousin prone to anger management issues. This album just recently surfaced on youtube and had apparently been lost - at least to me - for over 30 odd years. Perhaps some things should remain that way, yuk, yuk, yuk.
“Swamp broad… don’t die on me, baby!”