Beelzebubba is the fourth full-length studio album by the punk

Punk rock

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 band The Dead Milkmen, released in 1988. The album featured their best-known song "Punk Rock Girl." The song's video

Music video

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 won rotation on MTV

MTV

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. While their music was still lively, some saw this album as more musically sophisticated than previous work (using trumpets in "RC's Mom", organ in "Bad Party", accordion in "Punk Rock Girl", violins in "Born to Love Volcanos," etc.)

In 1989, the Dead Milkmen released the Smokin' Banana Peels EP, which contained several remix

Remix

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es of the song Smokin' Banana Peels, originally featured on Beelzebubba. It also featured several previously unreleased songs.

Five tracks from this album (I Walk The Thinnest Line, Stuart, Punk Rock Girl, Smokin' Banana Peels, and Life Is Shit) were selected for their 1997 compilation album Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection

Death Rides a Pale Cow (A Collection)

Death Rides a Pale Cow is a greatest hits release by Philadelphia based punk rock band The Dead Milkmen in 1997. It contains the two previously unreleased songs "Milkmen Stomp," and "Labor Day," along with 21 others songs including the band's close brush with the mainstream "Punk Rock Girl." The...

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The album cover features Rodney Linderman's father, also named Rodney.

Track listing

1. "Brat in the Frat" - 1:06
2. "Rc's Mom" - 2:27
3. "Stuart" - 2:22
4. "I Walk the Thinnest Line" - 2:11
5. "Sri Lanka Sex Hotel" - 3:41
6. "Bad Party" - 1:53
7. "Punk Rock Girl" - 2:40
8. "Bleach Boys" - 3:49
9. "My Many Smells" - 2:21
10. "Smokin' Banana Peels" - 3:49
11. "The Guitar Song" - 3:31
12. "Born to Love Volcanos" - 3:13
13. "Everybody's Got Nice Stuff But Me" - 2:51
14. "I Against Osbourne" - 1:56
15. "Howard Beware" - 2:30
16. "Ringo Buys a Rifle" - 2:21
17. "Life Is Shit" - 3:19

Appearances

The song "Punk Rock Girl" is featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Project 8

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and is covered by MxPx

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MxPx is a pop punk band from Bremerton, Washington with connections to the Christian punk scene. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four EPs, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....

 in On the Cover II

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. It was also covered by Streetlight Manifesto

Streetlight Manifesto

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 in their cover-project 99 Songs of Revolution

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. The music video was shown on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head

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. The song was also briefly heard in the pilot episode to the Fox series Raising Hope

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