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Eat Your Paisley!

The Dead Milkmen

Initial release : 1986

Restless

This album includes a song that refers to the Grateful Dead.

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Tracks

  • Where the Tarantula Lives
  • Air Crash Museum
  • Kksuck2
  • Fifty Things
  • Happy Is
  • Beach Party Vietnam
  • I Hear Your Name
  • Two Feet off the Ground
  • Thing That Only Eats Hippies
  • Six Days
  • Swampland of Desire
  • Take Me Apart
  • Earwig
  • Moron
  • The Fez
  • Vince Lombardi Service Center
Musicians

Musicians include;

  • Joe Jack Talcum - guitar, vocals
  • Dave Blood - bass
  • Dean Clean - drums
Notes

The song The Thing That Only Eats Hippies includes the following lyrics;

Wendel brought it to life in his guest room bath tub
It was a special project for his 4-H club
But it broke loose out in the middle of the night
And now it's eatin' flower children left and right

All the punks are gonna scream yippee
'Cause it's the thing that only eats hippies

First it cruised on out to Malibu
And ate a couple a' surfers who where too tough to chew
So it slithered it's way out to old Irvine
And ate a couple a' hippies and they tasted just fine

Now its got a sweet tooth for long hair
So Bob and Greg and Grant you should beware

Followin' the Dead is how it gets it's kicks
Shame it wasn't born in 1966
Listens to the music and begins to sway
Dreamin' acid dreams of a hippie souffle, hey hey hey

What do they taste like some kind a' treat?
How many hippies can this monster eat?
It ate Stills and Nash before they could shout
And then it chewed on David Crosby but it spit him out

All the punks are gonna scream yippee
'Cause it's the thing that only eats hippies

There it goes
Gonna send 'em all to that big Folk Festival in the sky
So long suckers!
Related releases

The Thing That Only Eats Hippies has been included on a number of compilations;

A live version of the song has also been released on;

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