Biography

No one did snotty sarcasm like the Dead Milkmen, a four-piece formed in Philadelphia in the early 1980s. Though their music was authentically punky--four chords and the truth--they took the cartoonish quality of their punk influences and went full throttle with its comedic aspects, tunefully conveying sharply satirical lyrics that made fun of their own audience as much as they skewered mainstream society. After several self-released cassettes, the band put out their first album for a label in 1985, and steadily saw their following grow. They had some minor hits with "Instant Club Hit," "Bitchin' Camaro," and "Punk Rock Girl," and each successive album revealed more musical ability, but the band called it quits after 1995. Sadly, bassist Dave Schulthise committed suicide in 2004.

Top Tracks

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• Air Crash Museum

• Beach Party Vietnam

• Big Lizard

• Bitchin' Camaro

• Do The Brown Nose

• Filet Of Sole

• If I Had A Gun

• If You Love Someone, Set Them On Fire

• Instant Club Hit (you'll Dance To Anything)

• Now Everybody's Me

• Punk Rock Girl

• Silly Dreams

• Smokin' Banana Peels

• Stuart

• Take Me To The Specialist

• Takin' Retards To The Zoo

• The Conspiracy Song

• Thing That Only Eats Hippies

• Tiny Town

• Watching Scotty Die

Discography

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• Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig)

  Restless Records

  1995

• Not Richard But Dick

  Hollywood

  1993

• Metaphysical Graffiti

  Enigma/Restless

  1993

• Soul Rotation

  Hollywood

  1992

• Bucky Fellini

  Enigma/Restless

  1987

• Eat Your Paisley!

  Enigma/Restless

  1986