Rodney wrote:***rodney's thoughts on the matter***
Yes, I get it now. It's not going to happen. I'm not going to try to refute anything here, because at this point it will just be futile, and would waste your time as much as it would waste mine. If it's a unanimous choice on the part of the Dead Milkmen, I guess that's how it's going to be.
Rodney wrote:So, how do you like the new songs?
The new songs are damn good. I feel as if this album is more on par with Not Richard than anything else. The sound is unmistakably Dead Milkmen. Your voice, as well as Joe's, sound like they've always sounded on your albums, there is really not much sign, if any, that it's been so many years since the last album. The band also sounds like they're all happy to be doing this, and had a great time. Basically, this sounds like a Dead Milkmen album, not a "reunion album."
At the same time, there is also a lot of influence from your time with Burn Witch Burn on multiple songs, which is very good. While on the last few DM albums in the 90's, you could start to hear a lot of Touch Me Zoo in Joe's songs, you're showing ideas and styles that you've picked up during time years that the DM were on hiatus (I feel that hiatus is a better term than "broken up," because to say "broken up" would lead to the term "reunion," because douchebags like The Eagles do "reunion" tours, the Dead fucking Milkmen just fucking play when they want to play, because they're not a bunch of douchebags who hate each other).
I don't know yet if this will become my favorite Dead Milkmen album or not, although I can't really say that I have a fixed favorite either. Every album is special, and with exception of Stoney's, every album has been a favorite at one point or another. Some albums do it for me better at various points in my life than others.
So, the album is good. Damn good. While there will never be another Dave Blood, Dandrew is a great bassist, and he fits in perfectly with the Milkmen family. The album sounds like a Dead Milkmen album, but the lyrical content, as well as the music itself does not sound like a band who is "stuck in the 80's/90's," but it sounds like a group of guys who kept up with the times, and the music sounds like the band had no problem picking up where they last were.