I was 14 when this aired and thought it the strangest booking ever. "They're finally going mainstream, and that's REALLY important to these guys!" BWAHAHA.
B. Jason Ouellette yea, its super strange. I'm just seeing this for the first time and was thinking "clubMTV???". I thought for sure they were going to play Instant Club Hit (you'll dance to anything).
+Joe Aschebrock Haha no kidding. We used to see them live (they played all-ages shows in Boston regularly in the late 80's), GREAT shows. I remember seeing them at the Paradise, which was tiny; the center of the club had a couple of steps down into a literal pit. Such great crowds - mad, fun slam dancing where people watched out for each other, and would pull you up if you got knocked down. Saw Danzig (@ the Citi club - we were all Misfits fans), Slapshot (@ the Rat) - and the crowds had some mean mofos. So different. Hitting girls (=90 lb me) for no reason, I didn't want to tell my boyfriend & our friends because I knew there would be a huge fight. Pulling security guards (who were just standing at the perimeter, not causing any trouble) into the pit and beating them up. That crap just didn't happen the 4-5 times I saw the Dead Milkmen it was mayhem, but FUN where people watched out for each other. Good band, good vibes, good crowd :).
@@leeloolab Thank you so much, Emily! I was trying to remember the name of clubs we used to frequent back then and I forgot all about the Rat! My favorite was the Middle East, but I'll never forget seeing my first concert ever at the Channel, the Minutemen and The Meatmen. My friend Justin got stabbed in the pit that day...he didn't even care. Goodtimes. 😂
Saw the Dead Milkmen last at the Bossanova 2019 in Portland, Oregon. They sounded fantastic, put on a fantastic performance, and went into some fantastically deep cuts. Hand on my heart, that was a tie for best show of the year for me. Went up to Joe after the show and told him he was my favorite guitar soloist. He sorta paused, said "I don't hear that... often." Ha ha!
"Don't try this guitar solo at home....that man is a trained professional." ( My brother wailing "that's a LIE ! God I doubt he's ever had ONE lesson!!" Aaaagh!!!! It's like they're DEAF!!!🔊🎶🤬🎵🎸🎶
I hope they weren't doing that intentionally to look like they were singing for real.Jesus,it's fucking ridiculous that MTV requested for the dead milkmen for an appearance.I hope they didn't choose to.
This is what I love about music back in this day and age. It's not that it was "better" because old folks are always going to complain about how music stopped sounding the way it did when they were kids. It's because there wasn't so much target marketing. The executives still had to throw shit at the walls and see what would stick. There was a lot of pre packaging, but there was still a lot of risk involved. People were still allowed to be ugly and weird.
Well said. There was still the attempt but they had not yet succeeded in total mind kontrol. I witnessed it too. We’d watch everything on tv that had live bands, just for the chance at catching some subversion. Those days are dead and gone.
Julie Brown was pissed over getting handcuffed. “They came out on stage and handcuffed me. I freaked out,” said Brown, who tried squirming away from the pranksters. Producers cut to a commercial and, added Brown, “somebody came on stage and got me unlocked. I was upset to have gotten into that situation … and they weren’t on the show again.”
This is so perplexing.. and that introduction, "going mainstream is really important to them" ..weird. They should of played, "you'll dance to anything"
mainstream or not.they always had integrity and if they went mainstream all of a sudden for a payday.i wouldn't blame them.they have a great catalog of uncompromising tunes.do a retirement money record under a big deal and turn the tables and do the record they want.i know it doesn't work like that but it'd be nice for them
i wonder if they actually said that, but as a joke, in a per-appearance interview... oh, hey, look at you! don't you look like julie brown? how long d'it take to you to get that way? what a terrible waste of energy. surrounded by danceateria types and art fggs.
Disregard stupid people. Why couldnt u have all their albums burned on cd. I dont have their original vinyl. First i had em on cassette and later burned em on cd's.
they cut the best part out, hand cuffing downtown whats her name, then she freaks out , they threaten to bring the cops .. classic punk " dont give a fuck" stuff there!!
I'm reading the book "I want my Mtv" for the 3rd time, they mention this performance and Julie Brown throwing a tantrum behind the scenes. I had to check it out. Please read that book!
Also check out the book "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave" -- it's an oral history of the early MTV years, and was written by the original VJs themselves (Martha, Nina, Mark, and Alan, with some posthumous quotes from JJ). It's a really fun and great read-- you really feel like you're there. They also mention the Milkmen being on the show and it's freakin' hilarious.
I remember seeing Club MTV, but I certainly would never have imagined The Dead Milkmen performing there! I'd dance along like the crowd, except my vanilla booty doesn't have any rhythm.
Downtown Julie Brown. I was just wondering what ever became of her. Gee, it sounds exactly like the album version of the song. I remember that the Punk Rock Girl video was on heavy rotation on Mtv when Beelzebubba was released. Thanks for uploading this.
Yeah definitely the album version, I think they were just trolling but it might have been the way they always did it on Club MTV if they had bands which wasn't very often
So, at the end Julie Brown asked if they were on-tour and was told that they're next gig was in "Washington". Assuming that he meant D.C., I wonder if the venue might've been the 9:30 Club. I've lived in Maryland most of my life and have gone to many shows at the 9:30 Club but never one featuring the Dead Milkmen. I've seen them at other local/regional venues, though -- just not 9:30 Club
LOL @ the dancers doing insane spazz-out dances to them. X D It's like watching a japanese showcase show where they have some western celebrity but ZERO understanding of the different cultural attitude attached to them lol.
All the young people commenting about "spazzy dancers" apparently weren't around in the 80s. This is normal. Any old Dead Milkmen show, or Furnace face, or old chili peppers (pre blood sugar sex magic) was like this.
Yeah and also every teenage dude in America graciously rocked a mullet also depending on where your where who ever looked the most like a bitch got all the women. Chapelle was right about that. Folks we are talking about a time period when it wouldn't uncommon for a man to use hair spray.
I love how the bass player is barely pretending to play and the keyboard guy is fake playing a tuba. This was back when people where too dumb to know when a band was lip syncing to their album.
HOW did I live through this and not catch this appearance? My mind has exploded. P.S. You'd think they would pick a Dead Milkmen song that had been a little, I dunno, more "remixed"? ua-cam.com/video/UNwFeh50scE/v-deo.html
hahahahahaha the lone punk in the yellow t-shirt is pretty fucking awesome, that, right there is what makes this great (lip-syncing be damned hahahaha)
This was almost as subversive as when Fear played their infamous 1983/'84 Halloween gig on Saturday Night Live, and (w. the help of 7-second delay) the producers of the show immediately pulled the plug and banned them from ever playing there again!!
The singer looks like every hipster walking around “sauth street” Today in “feeeely” in that stupid accent. Yes I know their from Philly it’s way to obvious guy was prob born on a fixed gear bike with a Pabst in his hand
Club MTV wanted everyone's favorite Doors cover band Crystal Shit, but The Dead Milkmen showed up instead.
And nobody bought t-shirts to bail the lead singer out of jail.
Wow
They drove up from the Bahamas.. they had to let em play
@@MiBurnout You're kidding!
@@0okamino of course I'm kidding.. the bahamas are islands
I was 14 when this aired and thought it the strangest booking ever. "They're finally going mainstream, and that's REALLY important to these guys!" BWAHAHA.
B. Jason Ouellette yea, its super strange. I'm just seeing this for the first time and was thinking "clubMTV???". I thought for sure they were going to play Instant Club Hit (you'll dance to anything).
+Joe Aschebrock Haha no kidding. We used to see them live (they played all-ages shows in Boston regularly in the late 80's), GREAT shows. I remember seeing them at the Paradise, which was tiny; the center of the club had a couple of steps down into a literal pit. Such great crowds - mad, fun slam dancing where people watched out for each other, and would pull you up if you got knocked down.
Saw Danzig (@ the Citi club - we were all Misfits fans), Slapshot (@ the Rat) - and the crowds had some mean mofos. So different. Hitting girls (=90 lb me) for no reason, I didn't want to tell my boyfriend & our friends because I knew there would be a huge fight. Pulling security guards (who were just standing at the perimeter, not causing any trouble) into the pit and beating them up.
That crap just didn't happen the 4-5 times I saw the Dead Milkmen it was mayhem, but FUN where people watched out for each other. Good band, good vibes, good crowd :).
@@leeloolab Thank you so much, Emily! I was trying to remember the name of clubs we used to frequent back then and I forgot all about the Rat! My favorite was the Middle East, but I'll never forget seeing my first concert ever at the Channel, the Minutemen and The Meatmen. My friend Justin got stabbed in the pit that day...he didn't even care. Goodtimes. 😂
They look pretty surprised to be there, too.🤣 How did they get slam dancers at club MTV??🤣
@@TM-np5lq Ian McKaye snuck em in like it was SNL
Saw the Dead Milkmen last at the Bossanova 2019 in Portland, Oregon. They sounded fantastic, put on a fantastic performance, and went into some fantastically deep cuts. Hand on my heart, that was a tie for best show of the year for me.
Went up to Joe after the show and told him he was my favorite guitar soloist. He sorta paused, said "I don't hear that... often."
Ha ha!
Joe is one of the most under-rated rock guitarists. I agree he writes brilliant solos.
"Don't try this guitar solo at home....that man is a trained professional." ( My brother wailing "that's a LIE ! God I doubt he's ever had ONE lesson!!" Aaaagh!!!! It's like they're DEAF!!!🔊🎶🤬🎵🎸🎶
I drove down from Seattle for that show, hoping to score some scalped tickets.
All I got was a $100 parking ticket.
Love the DM.
Rip Dave.its hysterical that he is making it so obvious they're not playing for real
I hope they weren't doing that intentionally to look like they were singing for real.Jesus,it's fucking ridiculous that MTV requested for the dead milkmen for an appearance.I hope they didn't choose to.
as beavis and butthead said about these guys: "they're not trying hard".
I don't know why this is the way MTV chose to do business for the whole 80s and 90s. i.e. Beck MTV VMAs
Yeah not to mention Rodney is playing a.. trombone? on stage lmao
This is what I love about music back in this day and age. It's not that it was "better" because old folks are always going to complain about how music stopped sounding the way it did when they were kids. It's because there wasn't so much target marketing. The executives still had to throw shit at the walls and see what would stick. There was a lot of pre packaging, but there was still a lot of risk involved. People were still allowed to be ugly and weird.
Well said. There was still the attempt but they had not yet succeeded in total mind kontrol. I witnessed it too. We’d watch everything on tv that had live bands, just for the chance at catching some subversion. Those days are dead and gone.
and now music executives figured out the formula and it is pretty boring. The lowest common denominator rules.
it was better....
Julie Brown was pissed over getting handcuffed.
“They came out on stage and handcuffed me. I freaked out,” said Brown, who tried squirming away from the pranksters. Producers cut to a commercial and, added Brown, “somebody came on stage and got me unlocked. I was upset to have gotten into that situation … and they weren’t on the show again.”
probably because she said they were trying to become mainstream.
"they weren't on the show again" i bet they were sooooooo disappointed.
I love at about 2:21 or 2:22 the bass player is holding his bass with one hand showing they are not playing live. LoL. True legends.
This is so perplexing.. and that introduction, "going mainstream is really important to them" ..weird.
They should of played, "you'll dance to anything"
mainstream or not.they always had integrity and if they went mainstream all of a sudden for a payday.i wouldn't blame them.they have a great catalog of uncompromising tunes.do a retirement money record under a big deal and turn the tables and do the record they want.i know it doesn't work like that but it'd be nice for them
i wonder if they actually said that, but as a joke, in a per-appearance interview...
oh, hey, look at you! don't you look like julie brown? how long d'it take to you to get that way? what a terrible waste of energy. surrounded by danceateria types and art fggs.
This is you'll dance to anything, personified
They did it in praise of Sha Na Na.
I wasn't even alive, but I love the Dead Milkmen! I have all their albums on cd in my car :)
all their albums on a CD in your car...? huh
Disregard stupid people. Why couldnt u have all their albums burned on cd. I dont have their original vinyl. First i had em on cassette and later burned em on cd's.
@@jonlesliehaynes and? i guess maybe you don't know how digital music works.
they cut the best part out, hand cuffing downtown whats her name, then she freaks out , they threaten to bring the cops .. classic punk " dont give a fuck" stuff there!!
I always heard they handcuffed Downtown Julie Brown to a tuba on the show and she got pissed off. Thanks for posting this.
Sharon Blevins I really hope that’s true. They’re such geniuses of comedy
I saw them in D.C. the next night, they told the crowd about this appearance, was funny as shit.
They made fun of MTV. Which is totally understandable, but at least back then they actually played MUSIC VIDEOS...
"We went to Club MTV and laughed at all the dancers" should've been their lyrics in this case,lol
I'm reading the book "I want my Mtv" for the 3rd time, they mention this performance and Julie Brown throwing a tantrum behind the scenes. I had to check it out. Please read that book!
Also check out the book "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave" -- it's an oral history of the early MTV years, and was written by the original VJs themselves (Martha, Nina, Mark, and Alan, with some posthumous quotes from JJ). It's a really fun and great read-- you really feel like you're there. They also mention the Milkmen being on the show and it's freakin' hilarious.
Jill Knapp YES! Thank you!!
Best music book ever!
So. Much. Irony.
I remember seeing Club MTV, but I certainly would never have imagined The Dead Milkmen performing there! I'd dance along like the crowd, except my vanilla booty doesn't have any rhythm.
You'll dance to anything
@@somethingsomething9008 Or at least I would if my vanilla booty had any rhythm!
the original MTV UNPLUGGED....
🤣🤣
I love the Dead Milkmen.
CHOREOGRAPHED SLAMDANCING & STAGE DIVING
Probably where Nirvana got their Lip synch abilities from🤣🤣🤣
21 people do not like their tea hot.
I remember seeing this when it first aired. I was like 9 years old and a huge fan.
This song pretty much sets the standard for all Green Day songs.
Punk Rock Girl One Of The Best songs Of The 90's
except that every other song they ever make was better but can't deny them the cash cow.
Jim Walewander's favorite band
Downtown Julie Brown. I was just wondering what ever became of her. Gee, it sounds exactly like the album version of the song. I remember that the Punk Rock Girl video was on heavy rotation on Mtv when Beelzebubba was released. Thanks for uploading this.
It was the album version. They weren't playing instruments and lip synched.
was it common for them to cut to the music video so much? it looked like they were trying to show as little of the "performance" as possible
Yeah definitely the album version, I think they were just trolling but it might have been the way they always did it on Club MTV if they had bands which wasn't very often
So, at the end Julie Brown asked if they were on-tour and was told that they're next gig was in "Washington". Assuming that he meant D.C., I wonder if the venue might've been the 9:30 Club. I've lived in Maryland most of my life and have gone to many shows at the 9:30 Club but never one featuring the Dead Milkmen. I've seen them at other local/regional venues, though -- just not 9:30 Club
i think the dancers were planted
Brilliant. Reminds of XTC "Making Plans for Nigel". If they make lip synch, might as well have fun doing it.
I don't think they're actually playing I think it's just a background track
LOL @ the dancers doing insane spazz-out dances to them. X D
It's like watching a japanese showcase show where they have some western celebrity but ZERO understanding of the different cultural attitude attached to them lol.
All the young people commenting about "spazzy dancers" apparently weren't around in the 80s. This is normal. Any old Dead Milkmen show, or Furnace face, or old chili peppers (pre blood sugar sex magic) was like this.
Yeah and also every teenage dude in America graciously rocked a mullet also depending on where your where who ever looked the most like a bitch got all the women. Chapelle was right about that. Folks we are talking about a time period when it wouldn't uncommon for a man to use hair spray.
I used to work with Ron Sr. He's on the first album in the overhauls
I want his hat...
Youll Dance to Anything
You'll dance to anything...
If your store don't have MOJO Nixon it sure could use some fixing!!!
This is awesome! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Saw them with my best friend at the Troc... One of the best nights of my life!
Thanks for posting! I've got this on video somewhere but haven't seen it forever.
I love how the bass player is barely pretending to play and the keyboard guy is fake playing a tuba. This was back when people where too dumb to know when a band was lip syncing to their album.
Julie Brown had absolutely no idea how to deal with the band :)
Nice Country tune !
i love this song
one of the best bands we played on-air. totally love the gir's hairdo and outfit! the video was hilarious!
This Mtv - they used to be involved with music? Huh.
Clearly the album version of the song playing.
"I'm standing up here on this scaffolding cuz that's what this program's all about - Shock!"
HOW did I live through this and not catch this appearance? My mind has exploded. P.S. You'd think they would pick a Dead Milkmen song that had been a little, I dunno, more "remixed"? ua-cam.com/video/UNwFeh50scE/v-deo.html
I just saw them yesterday and it was full of old people just standing around. My friend and i started our own little pit though
Cool video, might see em at the troc soon
Greg Correa ya me too
I always thought Downtown Julie Brown looked very Beautiful ❤️
hahahahahaha the lone punk in the yellow t-shirt is pretty fucking awesome, that, right there is what makes this great (lip-syncing be damned hahahaha)
I feel like they should have played Instant Club Hit -You'll Dance To Anything
theyre crazy theyre wild theyre fun
how cute is joe he’s just having the time of his life
he looks so small there awe
Dean Clean brought me here =D THE REAL DEAN....XD how cool is that??
This was almost as subversive as when Fear played their infamous 1983/'84 Halloween gig on Saturday Night Live, and (w. the help of 7-second delay) the producers of the show immediately pulled the plug and banned them from ever playing there again!!
How good is the Joe Jack hat!!!
wow this is so cool.
This is hilarious.
Did this show become the grind?
" punk rock girl " is their quirkiest song.
Finally!
You know after wrap Julie Brown is demanding to know who cleared these guys.
Wuuba Wuuba Wuuba
Downtown Julie Brown
those back up dancers were intense. sheesh
I thought there was a part where they threw gummy worms into her hair..I guess my memory is wrong.
❤️
Wuba wuba wuba..
Nice Milli Vanilli lip sync...
I'm surprised they didn't just play "Life Is Shit", since they had to lip sync anyway. Obviously, they were never planning on coming back!
00:26
This was hard to watch.
Lol.. fake moshin.
The Cro-Mags did not like this band
how in the fuck do people even mosh to this i love this song but i cant mosh to it
I hated when punk rock girl made it to mainstream. I was a fan for years by that time.
The singer looks like every hipster walking around “sauth street”
Today in “feeeely” in that stupid accent. Yes I know their from Philly it’s way to obvious guy was prob born on a fixed gear bike with a Pabst in his hand
wow this was when MTV still mattered way before they went woke and stopped mattering
Went woke? Lol. More like quit playing music videos and ran with nothing but garbage "reality" shows.
@666Magelin do you live in a different reality
Club MTV sucked