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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)

Thanks Mr. Chato!
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
CBC Records LM484

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.

Trivia About the 1st Album

Boot to the Head - 1986

Boot to the Head
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

Attic Records ACBD 1232

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:

Trivia About the 2nd Album


Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Collection Dr. Demento's 30th Anniversary Collection

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:

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:


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.