Eat Your Paisley! Explained

Eat Your Paisley!
Type:Album
Artist:The Dead Milkmen
Cover:Eat_Your_Paisley!.jpg
Released:1986
Recorded:1986
Genre:Punk rock, alternative rock
Length:41:22
Label:Restless
Producer:Dave Reckner, The Dead Milkmen, John Wicks
Prev Title:Big Lizard in My Backyard
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:Bucky Fellini
Next Year:1987

Eat Your Paisley! is the second studio album by The Dead Milkmen, released on Restless Records in 1986.[1] [2]

"The Thing That Only Eats Hippies" and "Beach Party Vietnam" were included on the 1997 compilation Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection; "Hippies" appeared on the 1998 compilation Cream of the Crop.

Production

The album was produced by John Wicks, Dave Reckner, and the band. A video was shot for the single, "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies"; it was the band's first video.[3]

In "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies", the band chides "Bob and Greg and Grant, you should beware," a reference to Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould, Greg Norton, and Grant Hart.[4]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the group’s wacky observations of stereotypes and artifacts are vague but astute; the music is expendable but never less than presentable."[5] The Globe and Mail wrote that the band "play okay" but "sing execrably."[6] People wrote that the band "produces rough, ragged rock ‘n’ roll with lyrics that express disdain for anything the adult world holds sacred and with music that purposefully negates the slickly produced synthesizer sounds of pretty boys such as Duran Duran and Howard Jones."[7]

The Ottawa Citizen called the album "an intentionally tasteless, and occasionally funny, attack on the love generation of the '60s."[8] The Philadelphia Inquirer called "the funny songs" funnier than the ones on the debut, and wrote that "the semi-serious songs evince a delirious surrealism that makes them truly powerful rock-and-roll."[9] The Toronto Star deemed Eat Your Paisley! "nearly brilliant."[10] The Chicago Tribune called it "more punky, brash, snotty and frequently funny rock."[11]

Track listing

All tracks by Dead Milkmen

  1. "Where the Tarantula Lives" – 2:38
  2. "Air Crash Museum" – 1:38
  3. "KKSuck2" – 1:48
  4. "Fifty Things" – 1:45
  5. "Happy Is" – 2:27
  6. "Beach Party Vietnam" – 1:45
  7. "I Hear Your Name" – 2:31
  8. "Two Feet Off the Ground" – 4:30
  9. "The Thing that Only Eats Hippies" – 2:43
  10. "Six Days" – 1:45
  11. "Swampland of Desire" – 2:00
  12. "Take Me Apart" – 2:07
  13. "Earwig" – 2:48
  14. "Moron" – 1:53
  15. "The Fez" – 5:12
  16. "Vince Lombardi Service Center" (CD bonus track) – 2:41

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dead Milkmen | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Popkin . Helen . SOME MILK AND KOOKIES . St. Petersburg Times . 14 Sep 1990 . 25.
  3. Web site: Spilled Milkmen. SPIN. June 28, 1990. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.
  4. Web site: Husker Du: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock. Andrew. Earles. November 15, 2010. Voyageur Press. Google Books.
  5. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Dead Milkmen. www.trouserpress.com.
  6. Lacey . Liam . INSIDE THE SLEEVE POP . The Globe and Mail . 30 Apr 1987 . C3.
  7. Web site: Picks and Pans Review: Eat Your Paisley. PEOPLE.com.
  8. Erskine . Evelyn . Rock . Ottawa Citizen . 5 June 1987 . D5.
  9. Tucker . Ken . FINDS ON THE HOME FRONT . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 10 Aug 1986 . H1.
  10. MacInnis . Craig . Milkmen udderly funny about sacred cows . Toronto Star . 17 July 1987 . E4.
  11. Van Matre . Lynn . Eat Your Paisley! . Chicago Tribune . 2 Sep 1986 . Sports 3.

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