Frantics Discography

The Frantics released two comedy albums: "The Frantics" in 1984 (vinyl only, and long out of print), and "Boot to the Head" in 1986 (still available on CD from Attic Records). Both of these albums get regular airplay on the Dr. Demento show.

Dr. Demento has also released selected tracks from these two albums in a couple of his compilation albums. These few tracks are how most people (especially those in the States) have ever heard of The Frantics.

Here is a track listing of these albums:

The Frantics - Frantic Times (1984)
Side One Car Noises Ed's Perfume The Human Race Mrs. Sarnicky's Soap Heaven is for Presbyterians Butcher's Heart Odd Things Clean Up Your Room Last Will and Temperment Going Home Alone	Side Two Yugoslavia Reach for the Top Canadian Wildlife: Dead Animal Roman Numerals Sidewalk Jerry You Were Speeding Mrs. Sarnicky's Toilet Paper Lonely Guy in a Room How to Write a Song Outgrossing Quennel's Mom
The Funk of Betty Cooking with Advance Military Hardware Anson Williams Peace Initiative How to Tell a Male from a Chair What if There's a God, and He's Busy Porpoise Overboard Judas Mother Apologizes Ghandi -- The Music Man What's a Home Without Eddie Don't Talk With Your Pants Full Regina, No I Said Regina Gardening with Mr. Dirtpoker Make Money Selling Your Expensive Possessions Cotton Panels -- Who Breathes Through Them? The Fluid that Follows Eric Has No Forehead How to Make Love to a Hooker Tora, Tora, Tora, Okay That's Enough Tora Captain Crunch Discovered America Cured Bacon, Was it Sick in the First Place? G Spot, G Spot Run Undulating Roads Kinky Pants Flip Top Atom Bombs It Wasn't for Parker Nanny Death Trout Bums Eighteen Bored Nuns	If I Had a Haircut Like That The Cheese Stand Alone Brown Nuggets Itchy Teeth! Everyone Into the Salad You Can't Tie a Good Burger Down Scab Face Magazines Not For Sale Panties, Gateway to Gloria The Surgeon Says Wah, Hey, Oh Come On Statutory Foreplay War Wound Lint Horses Ogling Senoritas Chess Banter Fill 'er Up or Be Tongued Lost in the Wilderness with Food Shelter and Civilization Why We're Better than Foreigners Peat: Soil or Ground? Yes We Have No Roast Sluggo and Henry Defile Marmaduke Abbott and Costello Meet their Lawyers Vietnamese Private Jet People Beyond Grapes: A Look at Raisins Lapsed Atheists Wet Trousers, White Death Short and Curly and Moe The Pope in Primal Therapy Dusty Soup They Came to Study

Though hard to find, this album is well worth picking up if you somehow find a copy. It depicts the Frantics at their mid-career best, with plenty of classic skits, all derived from the radio show, and captures the feel for the radio show better than "Boot to the Head" does. For example, "The Human Race" provides a play-by-play by "Chuck" Darwin of evolution from the primeval ooze on up. The two "Mrs. Sarnicky's" skits are ads containing a character who loves every new product given to her to try out. "Heaven is for Presbyterians" reveals the awful truth about exactly who God favours and why. "Last Will and Temperment" is a classic skit where a man bequeaths "boots to the head" to all of his heirs.

Boot to the Head - 1986
1. A Piece Of Pie 2. I Shot Bambi's Mother 3. Driving Chicks Mad 4. A Poem 5. Game Show, Game Show 6. Bill From Bala 7. Poem 8. Architecture Today 9. Mrs. G	10. Worshippers 'R' Us 11. You People Are Fat 12. Making Love 13. A Poem 14. Make Up Dirty Words 15. You Scare The **** Out Of Me 16. Ti Kwan Leep 17. Boot To The Head

This is the second album the Frantics did, recorded over a period of three days in front of a live audience at the Toronto Free Theatre. All of the songs and sketches (with the exceptions of "A Piece of Pie" and "Architecture Today") are derived from sketches first performed on their radio show. This is the album which is played most often on the Dr. Demento show, particularly "Ti Kwan Leep/Boot To The Head". While this is a good skit/song, "Driving Chicks Mad", "Bill from Bala" (featuring a long-time staple character from the radio show) and "Make Up Dirty Words" are also classic Frantics material, which ought to be played more often than they currently are.

This second album is still in produced by Attic Records here in Canada. It can also be found for sale online at:

• Amazon.com
• Chapters.ca

Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Collection - 1990 Disc 2: 16. Ti Kwan Leep/Boot To The Head - The Frantics You can buy this album online at: Amazon.com	Dr. Demento's 30th Anniversary Collection - 2000 Disc 1: Track 21. Last Will And Temperment - The Frantics Disc 2: Track 8. You Were Speeding - The Frantics You can buy this album online at: Amazon.com

Some Trivia About the 1st Album So what's all of these skit titles on the silver background? They are all fake titles for would-be skits. This is exactly the way they were presented on the album. So why the silver background? Apparently the powers-that-be at the CBC decided that all of the fake titles would screw up DJs, so they added the background, effectively killing the joke. Unfortunately this album got next to no promotion by the CBC, and never appeared in their Radio Guide -- though comedy and spoken word records by others often appeared in it. Unfortunately this album is long out of print and can only likely to be found in second-hand record shops. The cover design is pretty much what it looks like: photocopies of the member's heads arranged on the cover. Not exactly a great cover design, and apparently not what the Frantics had in mind. They hired a graphic designer to do the cover for their second album -- which was not released on CBC Records...

Some Trivia About the 2nd Album Given the rather uninspired cover for their first album, when it came to their second album The Frantics hired a graphic designer to do the cover. Paul Chato suggested that the cover depict a generic nerd getting booted in the head. The picture is not Paul Chato. Really.