This is a very weird one. My apologies for any embarrassment it causes Dave. It really only makes sense when you realize it is a parody of a strange song on a Korean rock compilation CD Dave had in college. The line “Go back to germany” and the song structure are from that song. The rest of the song was in Korean, and Dave has made up new lyrics here.

This was recorded on Sept 20, 1996. I had just gotten the machine over the summer, and this may be the earliest 4 track recording I made of Dave – although we recorded some stuff to a cheap memo recorder the previous year. This is before we were called The Ottomen. We toyed with names like The James and the Giant Peaches and The Alexander the Grapes. But nothing was sticking at that point.

But here it is. Strange as it is. Cleaned up so sparkly, that maybe I shouldn’t have. Maybe it was better all muffled with lo-fi tape hiss.

Click here to play, or right-click or control-click to download: Froggy Go Back to Germany