A Rant: Do I sound like a total babbling fanboy? If so, good; because I always hope I’ll be floored when I get to meet someone who makes great music - or a great artist, or a great writer, for that matter. Oh, and few things in life make me as happy as meeting someone whose music I respect and hearing “The teenage me is flipping out.” When you’re a musician, particularity a musician in an obscure punk band, you often wonder if any of those people who grew up on your music went on to make music themselves. And finding out that they made music you love makes a decade of riding in a smelly van and sleeping on sticky floors worth it. And when you meet a musician whose work you respect and they turn out to be a really decent human being, well…it reminds me to make an effort to be less of a dick.
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The Dead Milkmen “Big Time Operator”
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Dead Milkmen “Rastabilly”
My baby’s got two hands
My baby’s got two feet
My baby’s got a forehead
And all the chicken you can eat
My baby’s got two elbows
My baby sure has a nose
My baby she’s got ten toes
And my baby’s got a couple a’ those
My baby drives a truck
My baby sure is good luck
My baby has a pet duck
And my baby is a heck of a fffffriend
Yeah, that’s right
Somebody kicked my dog Mavis and I’m gonna find out just who the hell it was
I’m all messed up on cough syrup now, so just like nevermind
AMAZING poster for the upcoming Dead Milkmen show at Slim’s in San Francisco.
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The Dead Milkmen “Lucky”
Little Billy drunk on beer
Plops down behind the steering wheel
His prom date pukes on her brand new dress
He wonders who’ll clean up the mess
His car skids goes off the road
Hits a tree and then explodes
His death was quick painless they say
Hope when I die I go that way
But, you may not be so lucky
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The Dead Milkmen “Epic Tales of Adventure”
Should people with leprosy and a past history of psychosis be allowed to teach our children? Your calls, after this.
The Dead Milkmen
Big Lizard In My Backyard
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Band Shirt Of The Day: The Dead Milkmen Metaphysical Graffiti
Surprise, surprise, another Dead Milkmen shirt. I wasn’t lying when I told you I have close to 3,000 of them. They’ve been my favorite band since I was about 12 years old, so I’ve been buying their shirts for a long time.
This is one of two Metaphysical Graffiti shirts I own. The other one is really small, and has shrunk up weird over the years, so unfortunately I’m unable to wear it anymore. The one pictured above was purchased from JJ’s Ear Candy (the local record shop in the town I grew up in) in 1990, which means this shirt is older than a lot of my followers, I reckon.
I kind of rediscovered this shirt in the back of my closet today. I had to stop wearing it for a while because I was getting a little thick in the midsection, so I stashed it away. I’ve lost a considerable amount of weight in the past few months though, so I figured I’d dig it out and try it on. And lo and behold, it fits again (yeah, yeah I know it’s still a bit small, but whatever).
With the exception of 2 Soul Rotation shirts, which I can’t seem to find, I still have every Dead Milkmen shirt I’ve ever purchased. Some of them don’t fit anymore, or are falling apart so badly that to wear them would destroy them, but I will never get rid of them.
Dean Sabatino (aka Dean Clean of The Dead Milkmen) has recorded and album of instrumental songs and posted them on his Bandcamp page. Head over to listen to the record, or download it for free.
Thanks to quarecords for alerting me to this.
(via Dean Sabatino)
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Touch Me Zoo “Murder”
If you like The Dead Milkmen, you will like this. “Murder” is from Touch Me Zoo’s cassette, Lawn King, which you can download here.
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The Dead Milkmen “Jason’s Head”
And I think it’s obvious
Jason got real pissed
About all the guys she kissed
We’re going down down down to the ditch
Where she said she hid
what’s left of Jason’s head.
Just testing out this new Tumblr/Spotify deal. Let’s see if this actually works…
