Our Songs

We recently released a very extremely limited edition CD (there are two copies) called Frantic Dogpaddle's Greatest Hits Volume 2. We'll eventually get everything up here. If you're really incredibly interested in owning genuine FDP issue music on CD or Tape, mail Mike, Nikolai or Matt and plead your case.

All the songs you can download are MP3 files. If you're mystified by such things, go read our brief technical blurb.

• Fuckem
  "A string of samples, forming a collage of sound that is approaching art. In its closing moments, the fundamental dichotomy of the song is revealed and the listener is left with a profound insight into their own true self-nature. Disturbingly self-referential." - Time Magazine
  Download (330Kb)

• Omar the Dipshit
  Matt; bass, backing harmonised vocal things and pressing buttons on the drum machine. Nikolai; guitar and vocals. This is as close to commercial as we get, so "Lick it up, baby. Lick. It. Up."
  Download (1Mb) - Lyrics

• Mars Buys Lycra
  Six minutes of Blues and Cheesy Organ(tm). A good mellow jam session, this was. One of the rare songs that Mike wrote. If you like unspeakable atrocities, download this song.
  Download (1Mb) - Lyrics

• Koyaanisqatsi
  Our cover of Phillip Glass' tub-thumpin', shit-kickin' hay-burnin' yeeee-HAW DANG that's good tune. Matt played drums, the melodica, and did vocals; nikolai played bass and guitar and did other vocals. Suffice to say, we 4-tracked it. We're good, but we're not THAT good.
  Download (741Kb)

• Moon
  Moon is, quite simply, fucking great. Matt sings through a great deal of distortion with Nikolai on guitar.
  Download (783Kb) - Lyrics

• Strunk and White
  Hard rock with a grammatical chip on its shoulder. Mike rants, Nikolai plays guitar and Matt does that Bass thing we love him for. Nikolai wrote this as a punctuation flame message. It was embellished and performed by FDP and is now one of our favorite songs. We really hate bad spelling and punctuation.
  Download (1.3Mb) - Lyrics

• Tintinara
  Tintinara is a small town in South Australia we passed through during our 1996 World Tour of Adelaide. It inspired this little ballad dedicated to a really dull place. Mike does that thing that is almost like singing, Matt plays the guitar for a change and Nikolai whacks that Bass.
  Download (1.6Mb) - Lyrics

• Nick Cave's Smokes
  Conceived, written and recorded inside of thirty minutes, this is one of our favorite songs. Matt sings in his best Nick Cave voice while accompanying himself on the Melodica, Mike actually plays Bass in a historic debut and Nikolai gets stuck in to the guitar.
  Download (989Kb) - Lyrics

• Andre the Giant has a Posse (Part Two)
  Just a bunch of messing about with instruments that got out of hand and onto a tape. Every time we sit down and play it, we just give it another part number. We're on part 38 or so now. Among the lyrics are such things as 'Posse', 'Andre' and 'Nobody's recording this, are they?'
  
  Aside from the usual guitars and the drum machine, a trumpet makes an appearance, as well as the Vax purcussion assembly.
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