Eat Your Paisley is the second studio album by the The Dead Milkmen, released on Restless Records in 1986.

The album yielded one single, "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies"/"Beach Party Vietnam," released one year later in 1987. Those two tracks were featured on the 1997 compilation 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...

, and "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies" appeared on the 1998 compilation Cream of the Crop.

Track listing

All tracks by Dead Milkmen

Dead Milkmen

The Dead Milkmen is an American satirical punk rock band formed in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Rodney Linderman , guitarist and vocalist Joe Genaro , bassist Dave Schulthise and drummer Dean Sabatino .Beginning within the local underground...

1. "Where the Tarantula Lives" – 2:38
2. "Air Crash Museum" – 1:38
3. "KKSuck2" – 1:48
4. "Fifty Things" – 1:45
5. "Happy Is" – 2:27
6. "Beach Party Vietnam" – 1:45
7. "I Hear Your Name" – 2:31
8. "Two Feet Off the Ground" – 4:30
9. "The Thing that Only Eats Hippies" – 2:43
10. "Six Days" – 1:45
11. "Swampland of Desire" – 2:00
12. "Take Me Apart" – 2:07
13. "Earwig" – 2:48
14. "Moron" – 1:53
15. "The Fez" – 5:12
16. "Vince Lombardi Service Center" (CD bonus track) – 2:41

Personnel

• Rodney Anonymous
  Rodney Anonymous
  Rodney Linderman, also known by his stage name Rodney Anonymous , is an American musician, journalist and humorist currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
  
   - vocals
• Dave Blood
  Dave Blood
  David Schulthise , otherwise known as Dave Blood, was the bass guitarist for the punk band Dead Milkmen. He helped form the band in 1983 along with fellow pseudonymous musicians Joe Jack Talcum, Dean Clean, and Rodney Anonymous. Prior to this he was a Ph.D...
  
   – bass
• Dean Clean – drums
• Dave Reckner – producer
• Joe Jack Talcum
  Joe Jack Talcum
  Anthony Joseph "Joe" Genaro is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the punk rock group The Dead Milkmen. Currently residing in Philadelphia, Genaro has performed with a number of punk and indie rock groups, most recently including The Low...
  
   – guitar, vocals
• John Wicks – producer

Trivia

In the song, "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies", the band states that "Bob and Greg and Grant you should beware". This is a reference to the band Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü was an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....

, a punk trio from Minneapolis that featured Bob Mould

Bob Mould

Robert Arthur "Bob" Mould is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.-Early life:...

 on guitar and vocals, Greg Norton on bass and Grant Hart

Grant Hart

Grant Hart is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the influential alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü. After the band's breakup in 1987, Hart formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar...

on drums and vocals.

The cover to the album was designed a year prior to the release by a friend of the band and Drexel University art student Brooke Heiser.