At their peak, both commercially and creatively, the Milkmen broke through the mainstream with \u201cPunk Rock Girl,\u201d a giddy, gleeful, accordion-driven little number that became their most identifiable track and has gone on to be covered by dozens of punk bands since. But that\u2019s just one of the many standouts present here.<\/p>\n
Kicking off with one of my personal favorites, the little mandolin ditty \u201cBrat In The Frat,\u201d the band takes apart all sorts of idiots, from morons in fraternities to rednecks in the classic \u201cStuart\u201d and druggies on \u201cBleach Boys.\u201d The band also covets things that others have on \u201cEverybody\u2019s Got Nice Stuff But Me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The musicianship is the best one will ever hear on a Milkmen record, from the mandolins and accordions to the fast punk fury of \u201cI Against Osbourne,\u201d another personal favorite. The band slows things down a bit on album closer \u201cLife Is Shit.\u201d They get very reflective and almost melancholic about life and what it all means, featuring of Bob Crane and little Baptist girls holding their pretty hands. It\u2019s all very deep stuff.<\/p>\n
The band also tackles that heady subject: The Beatles. \u201cRingo Buys A Rifle\u201d gives the idea of Ringo Starr losing his mind and attacking the rest of the band over his lack of anything to do in in the group. Clearly one is dealing with a band that finds it incredibly difficult to take themselves too seriously. Fortunately, what you get here is a collection of songs that still stands up 30 years later and helped to cement the Milkmen as one of the essential punk bands of the \u201880s post-hardcore era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5826],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45227","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-dead-milkmen","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45227","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=45227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45227"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45227"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}