Beelzebubba cover

Beelzebubba

The Dead Milkmen

Released

1988

Following the fluke impact of their “Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance to Anything)” single, the Dead Milkmen got as close to mainstream success as they ever would with their fourth full-length album, 1988’s Beelzebubba. The title and various songs on it such as “My Many Smells” and “Smokin’ Banana Peels” show that the thoroughly unrepentant silliness that defined the band had hardly gone anywhere, but they ended up with a random MTV hit, both silly and heartfelt, with “Punk Rock Girl,” a not-quite-power ballad standard for an underground audience happy to shout out Mojo Nixon too.