Cream of the Crop: Best of

Dead Milkmen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bmg Special Product
• ASIN: B00000DCXI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #330,896 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bitchin' Camaro

2. Punk Rock Girl

3. The Thing That Only Eats Hippies

4. Surfin' Cow

5. Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance To Anything)

6. Smokin' Banana Peels

7. Stuart

8. Beach Song

9. Dean's Dream

10. Laundromat Song

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The best, but missing a lot, May 27, 2000

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M. Alberts (seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cream of the Crop: Best of (Audio CD)

Too bad "Big Lizard in my Backyard" isn't available anymore. Although this disc does contain "Bitchin' Camaro" ("my parents drove it up from the Bahamas"), "Laundromat Song", and "Beach Song", it misses some of the greatest from this older album. Where is "Tiny Town", a song about inbreeding in an isolated town? Where is "Takin' Retards to the Zoo", as politically incorrect and cruel a song as punk rock every created. Where is "Violent School", with it's almost prescient description of sex, drugs and violence in high schools that we hear so much about these days?

Granted, this disc is only about $7, and it does have catchy songs such as "Punk Rock Girl", which do describe the essence of this Philadelphia group, but this collection will not make me miss "Big Lizard".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not A Good Idea..., August 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cream of the Crop: Best of (Audio CD)

The price is tempting, but this is a poor selection and the arrangement isn't very well thought out. I don't even see the need for a compilation, as their early albums were consistant from start to finish. If you want the Milkmen's career summed up concisely, see 'Death Rides a Pale Cow'. As for their most solid album, my pick would be 'Big Lizard'.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not really the best, July 11, 2001

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Cullan L Springstead (Farmington, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cream of the Crop: Best of (Audio CD)

Death Rides a Pale Cow is definately a better way to get a wide sampling of the various styles that the Dead Milkmen used.If you can't own all of the albums they made, go with that one.