People thought that "the Dead Milkmen aren’t as stupid as they’d like to be. On Bucky Fellini, the Dead Milkmen avoid the trap, expanding their basic sound with touches of violin, lap steel guitar and dobro." Trouser Press wrote that "the relatively expansive Bucky Fellini - with guest musicians, improved songwriting and such dementedly parodic cultural concepts as 'Nitro Burning Funny Cars', 'Going to Graceland', '(Theme from) Blood Orgy of the Atomic Fern' - coughed up the clever 'Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance to Anything)'." The Chicago Tribune wrote that the album "weaves touches of country and surf music into a brand of rock that is heavily influenced by punk but is less intense than the usual hammering hard-core assault." The Orlando Sentinel wrote: "Unfortunately, a comic bent leads to the labeling of bands as novelty acts, a commercial death trap. It contains a cover of Daniel Johnston's "Rocketship". The album was produced by Brian "Mud Lounge" Beattie. "Watching Scotty Die" was covered by Mischief Brew in 2008 on their split with the Milkmen's Joe Jack Talcum. "I Am The Walrus" is not a cover version of The Beatles song. That track and two others from Bucky Fellini appeared on the 1997 compilation Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection two were included on the 1998 compilation Cream of the Crop. An EP was released containing the single and multiple remixes, as well as previously unreleased tracks. The album produced one single, "Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything)". The band reunited in 2008 and released a new album (The King In Yellow) in 2011.MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guideīucky Fellini is the third studio album by The Dead Milkmen. Proceeds were donated to a variety of mental health organizations and to a Serbian monastery that Schulthise supported. The Dead Milkmen took the stage again for two consecutive nights in November 2004 at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia to play a show in memory of Dave Schulthise. Schulthise left music in the early 1990s after developing tendonitis, preventing him from playing bass, and committed suicide in 2004. Linderman was in a band called Burn Witch Burn. Genaro was in a band called Touch Me Zoo. Sabatino was also in the punk rock bands Narthex, Big Mess Orchestra, and Hunger Artists. However, this genre was somewhat abandoned with the 1992 release of Soul Rotation, a much more subtle album.Īfter the Dead Milkmen went on indefinite hiatus in 1994, Genaro and Sabatino formed a new band, Butterfly Joe. Irreverent absurdity fueled their initial popularity, particularly among college DJs. Topics for their music include satire on the 1980s music scene, toxic waste, jellyfish afterlifes, UFOs, conspiracy theories, and cover bands. Videos, notably Punk Rock Girl, even found their way onto MTV in the late 1980s. The Dead Milkmen's songs found moderate success on alternative and college radio stations. The original version of the band formed in 1980 around Genaro's songwriting (a predominantly acoustic and often satirical take on New Wave Punk Rock) when he was seventeen Genaro produced several home tapes as The Dead Milkmen. The band's best known lineup consisted of Joe Jack Talcum (Joe Genaro guitar, vocals), Dave Blood (Dave Schulthise bass), Dean Clean (Dean Sabatino drums), and Rodney Anonymous (Rodney Linderman vocals, synth). The Dead Milkmen are a satirical punk rock band that formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.