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Title: 2 ex-Dead Milkmen emerge from cocoon as Butterfly Joe
Review: According to Joe Genaro, lead singer of Butterfly Joe (aka: Joe Jack Talcum, ex-Dead Milkmen) his dad smokes PCP and tells him that he's ugly. This line from "Fancy Walls," like so many other quirky lines, should trigger the fact that the lyricist behind the epic "Punk Rock Girl" has returned with his sardonic pen in tow. While this album is a no-brainer for all us Dead Milkmen fans (drummer Dean "Clean" Sabotino returns as well), it actually treads new territory with Big Mess Orchestra's multi-instrumentalist Andy Bresnan in the bunch. You never heard a Milkmen song with an accordion fill. Sounding more like Ween than Mojo Nixon this time around, anything goes. From the Herman Melvillesque romantic "Whale in the Sea" to the youthful invincibility of "Seventeen," and from the folksy "Autumn Leaves" to the Oompa-loompa sounding "Honey Jar" finding Bresnan on tuba, this album should NOT go unheard.
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