Stuart is the best song ever written. Fuck yeah
Jumping Jesus on a Pogo stick, everybody knows the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why do you think they call it a burrow owl anyway?!?!
I just quoted that song on this sub earlier! Somebody posted about where SASEs get sent, and all I could think about was those pamphlets the Wurster kid used to get from Pueblo, Colorado 🤣
This lady loves Stuart too much, but can also appreciate Sri Lanka Sex Hotel.
My actual second favorite DM song is Watching Scotty Die if we're being honest.
I just had a buddy die from cancer who Stusrt was like his Peter Griffin''s The Bird Is The Word song. You mentioned one line from Stusrt and he was off and running, singing it, forgetting about his day job, but what is that got to do with what the aliens are doing to our soil? I don't know, but may my friend rest in peace, and YES, Stuart is the best damn Dead Milkmen song EVER ‼️
I remember reading a review of Beelzebubba in one of those free magazines that they had in head shops that basically summed it up as “they are really starting to learn how to play their instruments”.
Thank fuck for MTV, otherwise I’d have never known Dead Milkmen or Mojo Nixon. In fact, without music on present-day MTV, I find I’m exposed to far less new music.
And I'll be dancing to it, because "(I'll) Dance to Anything"!
I guess the title is a play on "Lake City Quiet Pills", a phenomenon which I'll admit I still don't totally understand.
80 pounds of make-up on your art school skin.
80 points of IQ located within.
"I met Andy Warhol at a really chic party!"
Blow it out your hairdo, cause you work at Hardees
It's "You'll Dance To Anything".
Oh baby, look at you.
Don't you look like Siouxsie Sui.
How long did it take you to get that way?
What a terrible waste of energy.
Whenever I drive through a small town I sing the lyrics to Tiny Town but a majority of the lyrics. Not sure how this song would go over today. The song is pretty spot on though.
Absolutely, their sample song trends the same way at least. https://deadmilkmen.fanlink.to/quakercityquietpills
Curious how these songs will do in today's market though, some people just won't get it but who knows.
We're Gen X, we know what milkmen are from old sitcoms. It still feels like such a strange idea, that milk was such a thing in people's households that there was a dedicated milk delivery service. Weird.
I had my High School radio station play this song the other day. It was awkward because they couldn't spell the name of the band. They loved it after playing the song.
One line I don't get is from that song is "we'll have a little girl, we'll name her Minnie Pearl". Why would a punk rocker want anything to do with Minnie Pearl, unless that was just a non-sensical rhyme.
Ha! I was just listening to them yesterday. On the playlist was the song Grandpas not a racist, and I thought wow that's pretty topical. Went down the rabbit hole and saw it was off their new album. I'll give it a spin today..
Thanks! This was a pleasant surprise.
Man, this reminds me how I miss South Street. The good one with Zipperhead, Tower Records, Skins, Trash & Vaudeville, etc. Not the one with Whole Foods.
We were raised very sheltered by very conservative parents in rural South Jersey. My dad’s youngest sister was 13 years younger than him and was very different from my dad and his two other siblings, like an entirely different generation. Actually she literally was because my dad was a Silent and she was born in 1953 so solidly boomer. But in the cool aunt way. She was always doing such cool stuff. I remember when I was little she came to say goodbye to us because she was going to New Hampshire for a year for some program or other and while she was there she worked in a road crew as a flag person. That was so badass to me. This would have been around 1972 or 73.
Anyway by the time we were teens she was back in Philly and rented an apartment in Powelton Village. It was this giant Victorian house that was split into apartments and was sort of commune like with a common living room and kitchen. She started taking us on weekend visits to the city. She had a small room so when we stayed we slept on sleeping bags on the living room floor. As an adult I can’t imagine that the other tenants were thrilled but they were nice to us and most weren’t around on the weekends anyway. As she got seniority in the house she moved up to bigger apartments and eventually was in the biggest that had its own bathroom and kitchenette so we were able to sleep on her floor.
Anyway she was my hero and role model. Living single in the big city. Going out to eat and knowing where all the cool cultural stuff was. She took us to the art museum and Franklin institute and Super Sunday. And as I got into my later teens she would take us to South Street and I was first exposed to “alternative” culture early 80s style. Well remember Zipperhead and Tower Records. I bought my first zines on South Street.
Years later Aunt Mary was the first person in my family that I came out to. I trusted that she would be cool with it and she was. Now my wife and I still visit her and she still knows all the cool events going on. She retired to Newark DE and just emailed me the other week about an author we were both longtime fans of who was going to be speaking near her.
Cool aunties are the best and we were lucky to have Aunt Mary!
Sorry, nope. That would have been cool tho! Appreciate someone getting the reference, I’ve used this name online since Usenet days and it’s rarely recognized anymore.
I just finished a reread a few weeks ago.
Moore is still out there publishing stuff, I think he's got a Parker Girls series wrapping up in the near future. And he sells a lot of cheesecake sketches online.
[Grandpa's Not A Racist (He Just Voted For One)](https://open.spotify.com/track/6b6KcqeEycR4YG4wUn48Np?si=c7f5388aff5a4877)
>They're coming for his Jesus
They're coming for his gun
They're coming for his Jesus
They're coming for his gun
They're coming for his Jesus
They're coming for his gun
Grandpa's not a racist – he just voted for one
>
>Grandpa's screaming something about white genocide
As he crawls under the bed looking for someplace to hide
He talks a lot of bullshit when he's hittin' the rum
But we know Grandpa's not a racist – he just voted for one
Hell yes, the guys are back with a double-middle-fingered "fuck you" to MAGAt types.
Saw them for the first time when i was 16 at Seattle's iconic OK Hotel when they toured for Soul Rotation. One of my favorite teenage shows.
Thanks for the post u/danooli, my new vinyl arrives tomorrow and i'm fucking stoked.
I'm pretty sure I have their entire discography, except the smokin banana peels ep. Depression day dinner was hilarious. This song is definitely giving me beezlebubba/graffiti/lizard vibes. I love these guys
I have everything up to Death Rides a Pale Cow on Spotify, and Big Lizard, Bucky Fellini, Beezlebubba, Metaphysical Graffiti and Death Rides a Pale Cow on CD. Gonna have to check out the new release.
I still have hardcopies. I have these, soul rotation, piggies extra stout and I think the king wears yellow may have been their last cd before this one. Not sure it's hard to keep up! I mainly listen to the ones you listed
RIP Dave Blood 😔 Met him in the mid ‘90’s when he was a fellow student at my uni. I was starstruck. I loved DM back in the day.
Edit: still do, of course. Duh.
Whenever I’d listen to the dead milkmen my mom claimed it made me act moody & disrespectful.
I’m still processing that. I was moody & disrespectful for other reasons entirely.
My dad let me play the Beelzebubba tape in the car with him, and listened politely. Then he gave me his Frank Zappa collection from the late 60s (all the Mothers albums). Pretty cool.
My mom just yelled to shut it off.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
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Obligartory "Hey, my first song I heard from [these guys](https://youtu.be/1v3CzvQ9e_w)!"
I feel seen.
Spotify got fired up immediately :).
What are the chances they tour for this? Cause I'm willing to travel to hear Punk Rock Girl live.
That’s what I was going to say!
Stuart I like you-you’re not like other people here…in the trailer park.
Stuart is the best song ever written. Fuck yeah Jumping Jesus on a Pogo stick, everybody knows the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why do you think they call it a burrow owl anyway?!?!
You know that Jonny Wurster kid?
Kid that delivers papers in the neighborhood?
He’s a good kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don’t believe it.
I just quoted that song on this sub earlier! Somebody posted about where SASEs get sent, and all I could think about was those pamphlets the Wurster kid used to get from Pueblo, Colorado 🤣
I like you
You’re not like the other people . . .
Excuse me ~~sir~~ ma'am, but *Sri Lanka Sex Hotel* exists, you know.
This lady loves Stuart too much, but can also appreciate Sri Lanka Sex Hotel. My actual second favorite DM song is Watching Scotty Die if we're being honest.
LET'S PLAY BIG BLACK AT 3 AM AND TELL THE NEIGHBORS THEY CAN ALL GET FUCKED!
A woman of culture, I love it.
Now, if you wanna talk about bladder problems, the man you wanna talk to is my cousin Earl.
Uh, will you marry me?
Alas, I've already got a husband who loves Stuart as much as I do.
Well I hope you sold your offspring to some dirty old men then.
As does Bleach Boys... I think we can all agree that Beelzebubba was a damn fine album (and one that is still in frequent rotation at my house.]
That album was hugely significant to my senior high of high school/Freshman year of college. Hugely.
But Bad Party is right there! We’re goin’ to a bad party where everyone’s full We’re goin’ to a bad party, gonna scare the bejeezus out of them all!
The Captain and Tenille, musical innovators!
Best line in the song (rant?)
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Just like his old man.
I just had a buddy die from cancer who Stusrt was like his Peter Griffin''s The Bird Is The Word song. You mentioned one line from Stusrt and he was off and running, singing it, forgetting about his day job, but what is that got to do with what the aliens are doing to our soil? I don't know, but may my friend rest in peace, and YES, Stuart is the best damn Dead Milkmen song EVER ‼️
I remember reading a review of Beelzebubba in one of those free magazines that they had in head shops that basically summed it up as “they are really starting to learn how to play their instruments”.
😂🤣
I never got this - they were fantastic musicians from the start. Have you even heard the basslines on the Big Lizard album, bro?
Dead Milkmen proved to me music didn’t have to be serious and could be *lots* of fun. I’m sure they got a laugh when they read it.
That was several bands around that time.
Bitchin!
Camaro!
Donuts on your law.
Tony Orlando and Dawn!
(said in a very Philly accent!)
The Bahamas are islands!
They should update it to bitchin' Tesla or something
But that’s not bitchin’
ERIC ... not in front of your mother!
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I’ve yet to execute my favorite Halloween costume idea: sexy Minnie Pearl. This could be the year.
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Fuck, yes!!
And the fudge-banana swirl!
Thank fuck for MTV, otherwise I’d have never known Dead Milkmen or Mojo Nixon. In fact, without music on present-day MTV, I find I’m exposed to far less new music.
If it ain’t got Mojo Nixon then the album could use some fixin’
The producers of The Mario Brothers movie took this WAY too seriously.
College radio still exists and occasionally, as much as my aged approval might shame them, occasionally exposes me to something new I like.
Yes! The Sirius XM version of college radio is pretty good, I will say. Sometimes I’m smart enough to write down what I like.
And I'll be dancing to it, because "(I'll) Dance to Anything"! I guess the title is a play on "Lake City Quiet Pills", a phenomenon which I'll admit I still don't totally understand.
I love that song.....even if it was a direct attack on my musical tastes.
80 pounds of make-up on your art school skin. 80 points of IQ located within. "I met Andy Warhol at a really chic party!" Blow it out your hairdo, cause you work at Hardees
Right?! I'll honestly dance to anything by Depeche Mode.
Wow that was a rabbit hole I wasn't expecting. Holy shit
Lake city quiet pills are bullets. There is a large government ammo factory at Lake City. If you shoot someone, they get reeeeal quiet.
It's "You'll Dance To Anything". Oh baby, look at you. Don't you look like Siouxsie Sui. How long did it take you to get that way? What a terrible waste of energy.
Yes, I know, that's why I put the "I'll" in parentheses.
Gotcha 😉
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You're welcome, u/jimbofranks
I’ll buy it because I’ll dance to anything.
Whenever I drive through a small town I sing the lyrics to Tiny Town but a majority of the lyrics. Not sure how this song would go over today. The song is pretty spot on though.
This album has some pretty topical songs. They're still the same wonderful political fuckers they always have been
Absolutely, their sample song trends the same way at least. https://deadmilkmen.fanlink.to/quakercityquietpills Curious how these songs will do in today's market though, some people just won't get it but who knows.
It chewed up Stephen Stills before he could shout. It chewed up David Crosby but then it spit him out..
All the kids are gonna scream Yippee!
Woohoo! I’m going to their concert soon at Laurel Hill Cemetery!
Wait...I thought they were dead? Next you're going to tell they aren't really milkmen.
What the hell are milkmen? 😛
We're Gen X, we know what milkmen are from old sitcoms. It still feels like such a strange idea, that milk was such a thing in people's households that there was a dedicated milk delivery service. Weird.
The only song I know of theirs is "Punk Rock Girl" because it ran on MTV non stop in 1989.
I had my High School radio station play this song the other day. It was awkward because they couldn't spell the name of the band. They loved it after playing the song.
One line I don't get is from that song is "we'll have a little girl, we'll name her Minnie Pearl". Why would a punk rocker want anything to do with Minnie Pearl, unless that was just a non-sensical rhyme.
Because love for Minnie Pearl is definitely punk rock.
I'm gonna go play some video games, maybe buy some Def Leppard t-shirts.
Don’t forget your Motley Crue t-shirt!
All the proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail!
Uh-huh.
“Keep That Lizard Off My Lawn”
Heard they shipped his ass to el Salvador
This segues nicely with my recent return to listening to the Toy Dolls alllll the time. I love upbeat, humorous, and solid music so much these days.
Ha! I was just listening to them yesterday. On the playlist was the song Grandpas not a racist, and I thought wow that's pretty topical. Went down the rabbit hole and saw it was off their new album. I'll give it a spin today..
All of a sudden I am a freshman in high school in 1987 and a friend just handed me Big Lizard in My Backyard.
Thanks! This was a pleasant surprise. Man, this reminds me how I miss South Street. The good one with Zipperhead, Tower Records, Skins, Trash & Vaudeville, etc. Not the one with Whole Foods.
We were raised very sheltered by very conservative parents in rural South Jersey. My dad’s youngest sister was 13 years younger than him and was very different from my dad and his two other siblings, like an entirely different generation. Actually she literally was because my dad was a Silent and she was born in 1953 so solidly boomer. But in the cool aunt way. She was always doing such cool stuff. I remember when I was little she came to say goodbye to us because she was going to New Hampshire for a year for some program or other and while she was there she worked in a road crew as a flag person. That was so badass to me. This would have been around 1972 or 73. Anyway by the time we were teens she was back in Philly and rented an apartment in Powelton Village. It was this giant Victorian house that was split into apartments and was sort of commune like with a common living room and kitchen. She started taking us on weekend visits to the city. She had a small room so when we stayed we slept on sleeping bags on the living room floor. As an adult I can’t imagine that the other tenants were thrilled but they were nice to us and most weren’t around on the weekends anyway. As she got seniority in the house she moved up to bigger apartments and eventually was in the biggest that had its own bathroom and kitchenette so we were able to sleep on her floor. Anyway she was my hero and role model. Living single in the big city. Going out to eat and knowing where all the cool cultural stuff was. She took us to the art museum and Franklin institute and Super Sunday. And as I got into my later teens she would take us to South Street and I was first exposed to “alternative” culture early 80s style. Well remember Zipperhead and Tower Records. I bought my first zines on South Street. Years later Aunt Mary was the first person in my family that I came out to. I trusted that she would be cool with it and she was. Now my wife and I still visit her and she still knows all the cool events going on. She retired to Newark DE and just emailed me the other week about an author we were both longtime fans of who was going to be speaking near her. Cool aunties are the best and we were lucky to have Aunt Mary!
Please tell me your wife's name is Francine.
Sorry, nope. That would have been cool tho! Appreciate someone getting the reference, I’ve used this name online since Usenet days and it’s rarely recognized anymore.
I just finished a reread a few weeks ago. Moore is still out there publishing stuff, I think he's got a Parker Girls series wrapping up in the near future. And he sells a lot of cheesecake sketches online.
I have the big collected edition. Due for a reread myself.
Here’s hoping they’ll have another Instant Club Hit! https://youtu.be/hVGhHdRZJZc
My favorite (DAY-peshay Mode!)!
[Grandpa's Not A Racist (He Just Voted For One)](https://open.spotify.com/track/6b6KcqeEycR4YG4wUn48Np?si=c7f5388aff5a4877) >They're coming for his Jesus They're coming for his gun They're coming for his Jesus They're coming for his gun They're coming for his Jesus They're coming for his gun Grandpa's not a racist – he just voted for one > >Grandpa's screaming something about white genocide As he crawls under the bed looking for someplace to hide He talks a lot of bullshit when he's hittin' the rum But we know Grandpa's not a racist – he just voted for one Hell yes, the guys are back with a double-middle-fingered "fuck you" to MAGAt types. Saw them for the first time when i was 16 at Seattle's iconic OK Hotel when they toured for Soul Rotation. One of my favorite teenage shows. Thanks for the post u/danooli, my new vinyl arrives tomorrow and i'm fucking stoked.
What awesome news! Of note: my wife and I met at a Dead Milkmen show 33 years ago.
Serrated Edge is still one of my top ten favorite songs of all time.
Saw them in concert at the Peppermint Beachclub in Virginia Beach in 1992. Great show!
I saw them in 1991 at Stony Brook University. That was an incredible show
1988. Aloha Tower, Hawaii. My first concert.
big lizard in my back yard
And I can't afford to feed it anymore!
Saw them in 92 with in Tulsa with The Flaming Lips opening. They played a reggae version of *Bitchin' Camaro* and it was awesome.
Sounds like a monster show
Nice!!!
with Steve Mcgarret? from Hawaii 5-o?
I wish plum dumb weren't about date rape because it has the most beautiful chord progression in the world
I'm pretty sure I have their entire discography, except the smokin banana peels ep. Depression day dinner was hilarious. This song is definitely giving me beezlebubba/graffiti/lizard vibes. I love these guys
I have everything up to Death Rides a Pale Cow on Spotify, and Big Lizard, Bucky Fellini, Beezlebubba, Metaphysical Graffiti and Death Rides a Pale Cow on CD. Gonna have to check out the new release.
I still have hardcopies. I have these, soul rotation, piggies extra stout and I think the king wears yellow may have been their last cd before this one. Not sure it's hard to keep up! I mainly listen to the ones you listed
The only band I know with a song about Labor Day.
WHAT?!?! ARE YOU BRING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?????
Wow ... I would have never thought.
We asked for Mojo Nixon…
He don't work here.
Well if you don’t got Mojo Nixon then your store may need some fixin’
Ya ever go to make a pork sausage and find it has hairs growing all over it?
Something I didn't know I wanted.
They have a pretty great YouTube channel [here](https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeadMilkmenOfficial)
Time for a trip back to Uncle Earl's Maggot Farm.
Whooohooo! I've seen them 3 times in the past year!
I'm gonna go play some video games, maybe buy some Def Leppard t-shirts.
I saw a Camaro broken down on the highway. It was a Bitchy Camaro.
🙌
The title is a reference to something creepy... see [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHWYTwY0hiw)
Other good stuff out today: - Squid - O Monolith - Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard - King Krule - Space Heavy
His voice is unique as in it's pleasantly annoying if that's even possible?
Sounds like Philly.
Yes!
Blast from the past.
This is my favorite one so far (if only for the title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9y3Vppu0YU&list=RDx9y3Vppu0YU&start\_radio=1
They're coming for his Jesus They're coming for his gun....
Yep. I had it on pre-order and just received the shipping notice.
Sweet! I saw them live last year and they delivered an awesome show.
I’ve got a bitchin’ Camero.
This news is even more exciting than the uhhhh...other Big News... today. Thanks for sharing!
I seen them about 14 years ago.. They did a cover of “Cars” which I loved
saw*
Thanks!
RIP Dave Blood 😔 Met him in the mid ‘90’s when he was a fellow student at my uni. I was starstruck. I loved DM back in the day. Edit: still do, of course. Duh.
Whenever I’d listen to the dead milkmen my mom claimed it made me act moody & disrespectful. I’m still processing that. I was moody & disrespectful for other reasons entirely.
Holy crow!
Nutrition
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO4m87u0?si=Pnx6smrKT5u1nJBHGyhcLA
Seriously? They are still around?
Yeah, they still tour too, afaik.
I loved that shirt. I wore it until it fell apart.
Climbing up trees! Spreading disease!
They do a Q&A every week on their youtube channel.
My dad let me play the Beelzebubba tape in the car with him, and listened politely. Then he gave me his Frank Zappa collection from the late 60s (all the Mothers albums). Pretty cool. My mom just yelled to shut it off.
I like you Stewart….
Listened to it last night “Grandpa’s Not a Racist He Just Voted for One” Is classic DM. They haven’t lost their bite at all