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The Dead Milkmen - Pretty Music For Pretty People !

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11/13/2017 01:45PM

The Dead Milkmen - Pretty Music For Pretty People

Quid Ergo Records 2014 Digipack CD
01. Pretty Music For Pretty People
02. Big Words Make The Baby Jesus Cry
03. Welcome To Undertown
04. Now I Wanna Hold Your Dog
05. Make It Witchy
06. Mary Ann Cotton (The Poisoner's Song)
07. I've Got To Get My Numbers Up
08. Anthropology Days
09. Somewhere Over Antarctica
10. Dark Clouds Gather Over Middlemarch
11. Streetlamps - Walking To Work
12. The Sun Turns Our Patio Into A Lifeless Hell
13. The Great Boston Molasses Flood
14. All You Need Is Nothing
15. Ronald Reagan Killed The Black Dahlia
16. Hipster Beard
17. Sanitary Times


The Dead Milkmen still sound like The Dead Milkmen. It's almost like they didn't go away, they were just paused for a decade or so before coming back. Somehow they still seem just as angry as ever. It could be because so many of the same issues they sang about 25 years ago are still relevant.

A song like "Right Wing Pigeons" from 1985's Big Lizard in My Backyard still has some of the same themes as "Welcome to Undertown," 29 years later. They even still get to take shots at Ronald Reagan in "Ronald Reagan Killed the Black Dahlia".

It's not all politics that The Dead Milkmen rage against on their new album. "Pretty Music For Pretty People" criticizes today's pop (and rock) stars who don't seem capable or interested in making music that stands for anything besides being something for the pretty people to mindlessly enjoy. "The Great Boston Molasses Flood" remembers one of the more obscure but important historical events from last century and also name checks The Dresden Dolls.
"Now I Wanna Hold Your Dog" might be the heaviest thing they've ever recorded. And it wouldn't be a true Dead Milkmen album without truly bizarre songs like "The Sun Turns Our Patio Into a Lifeless Hell."
For anyone worried Pretty Music For Pretty People will tarnish the legacy of The Dead Milkmen, don't be. This could have come out anytime during their entire first run. I can't wait to see what comes next. (~Ken @IfItsTooLoud)



Album Review by John Garratt @PopMatters

Album Review by Mark Little @PunkNews

Album Review by Tony Shrum @NewNoiseMagazine



Comme ils l'ont démontré lors de leur grand retour en 2011 avec 'The King In Yellow', les Dead Milkmen trouvent toujours de quoi tourner nos travers en dérision, et la satyre n'en semble que plus acerbe aujourd'hui où tout est surclassé... à commencer par la connerie.
Musicalement, avec Rodney qui est plus présent aux synthés qu'en gueulant, le Milkmen actuel gagne en étrangeté ce qu'il a perdu en cowpunk. Flûte contre cloche? D'où certains moments épars surprenants car déviant vers une ambiance sombre qu'on ne leur connaissait pas, trop habitués à leur jangle-pop-punk foutraque et jubilatoire.
Mais Joe chante encore de sa façon mélancolico-humoristique unique, c'est toujours aussi agréable et renforce comme à chaque fois l’homogénéité de l'album.
Là où ils auraient pu jouer la facilité, les Dead Milkmen ont préféré prendre leur temps et nous délivrer un album dense, inspiré.
La photo de couverture faussement candide parfait le tout, sarcasme d'une jeunesse dorée de futilité, abrutie de musique insipide et de drogues récréatives?
A noter que la version CD comprend les morceaux des quatre singles parus en 2012-13.
Bref, 51 minutes au poil, mais à rebrousse.



Same Rip specs as usual, now remember big words make the baby jesus cry!

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