Song · Peter Gabriel
“Kiss That Frog” by Peter Gabriel
From the album Us (1992)
“Kiss That Frog” by Peter Gabriel appears on 15 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1992 and 2014. It was first released in 1992 on the album Us. Its best result is #45 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #156 alternative song of 1992 and #1,101 alternative song of all time.
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"Kiss That Frog" is the friskiest thing on Us, Peter Gabriel's sixth album, from 1992. Gabriel wrote it on his own and produced it with Daniel Lanois, and David Bottrill recorded and mixed it; together they give it a slippery, rubbery groove and a grin you can practically hear.
As a single it slipped past the Hot 100 but reached number 18 on both Billboard's Modern Rock and Album Rock charts, and in Britain it arrived in 1993 on Real World and stalled just short of the top 40. Every edition carried the "Mindblender Mix", which Gabriel produced with William Orbit. In the album's liner notes, Bili Bidjocka's artwork for the song sets a frog in an aquarium beside a blowup doll in a box.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 45 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 897 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 948 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 953 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 953 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 938 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 938 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 936 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 555 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 577 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 592 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 613 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 632 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 657 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 687 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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