“The fifteen-year-old mall rats who recorded Silverchair’s mid-Nineties debut, Frogstomp, got plenty of flak from folks who couldn’t get beyond the band’s preoccupation with Pearl Jam, Nirvana and, later, Radiohead. But behind the loud-soft dynamics of the music and frontman Daniel Johns’ warbled, Eddie Vedder vocals, the songs sounded earnest if not all that original. […]”
