Okay, so we all know The Dead Milkmen was one of the more eclectic bands of the whole \u201880s punk revival, but as they entered the \u201890s, they decided to be as eclectic as humanly possible. The result ended up being their strangest and one of the most entertaining records of their career.<\/p>\n
Kicking things off with \u201cBeige Sunshine,\u201d a song that starts off with a full-on children\u2019s choir talking about everything from Bambi to God knows what, the album begins on an interesting note before the band kicks in with a typical high energy track.<\/p>\n
Throughout the record, you can tell the band was feeling itchy, so they decided to dick around, not just with the fans but the record company as well. Scattered throughout the disc are little snippets of stories about random redneck scum dreamed up by none other than Rodney Anonymous. These things are about as weird and scattershot as could be and served as one of the strangest things ever released by a major label.<\/p>\n
The band\u2019s irreverent sense of humor reigns supreme on this disc. Listen to tracks like \u201cIn Praise Of Sha Na Na,\u201d the Gibby Haynes guesting \u201cAnderson, Walkman, Buttholes And How!,\u201d \u201cIf You Love Somebody, Set Them On Fire,\u201d and the classic \u201cI Tripped Over The Ottoman\u201d which talks about Dick Van Dyke killing the whole family after stumbling over their beloved furniture just a tad too many times. There\u2019s also a Zeppelin reference at the beginning of \u201cMethodist Coloring Book.\u201d See if you can figure out what it is!<\/p>\n
But the coup de grace comes at the very end. The hidden track, now universally known as \u201cCousin Earl,\u201d talks about a really screwed up redneck family and their screwed up adventures with 1-900 sex numbers, pork sausage, and toxic waste distilleries \u2013 really screwed up, awful stuff that really needs to be heard to be believed.<\/p>\n
In the end, this was the album that brought an end to The Dead Milkmen\u2019s popularity. After it died a quick death, the band\u2019s label shut down completely and the band was left homeless. After getting a lifeline from Hollywood Records, the band continued on for five more years. But this is the beginning of the end of the Dead Milkmen as we knew them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5826],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44482","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-dead-milkmen","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44482"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44482"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}