Metaphysical Graffiti
Metaphysical Graffiti is the fifth studio album by the Dead Milkmen, released by Enigma Records in 1990. The album title and cover art parody the 1975 album "Physical Graffiti", by Led Zeppelin. Two tracks ("Do the Brown Nose" and "If You Love Somebody, Set Them on Fire") appear on "Death Rides a Pale Cow". The album peaked at No. 164 on the "Billboard" 200. Production. Like "Bucky Fellini" and "Beelzebubba", "Metaphysical Graffiti" was recorded in Austin, Texas, and was produced by Brian Beattie. Gibby Haynes, of Butthole Surfers, appears on "Anderson, Walkman, Buttholes and How!" The video for  Methodist Coloring Book had to be reedited before MTV would agree to play it, due to imagery the network was worried may be offensive. Enigma printed and mailed coloring books to promote the track. Critical reception. "People" wrote: "When the Milkmen played their first punk parodies in the mid-1980s, they sounded appropriately fresh. Now they sometimes seem to be as dated as the music they ridicule." The "Chicago Tribune" deemed the album "more screaming, more production and less melody." The "Ottawa Citizen" called it "funny, loud, fast and violent." The "Los Angeles Times" wrote that "parody is in safe hands  with the Dead Milkmen." The "Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph" called "Metaphysical Graffiti" "a savagely sarcastic collection of commentaries on greed and religion." "The Washington Post" thought that "Milkmen albums usually turn on the existence of a single standout tune-'Bitchin' Camaro', for example, or 'Punk Rock Girl'-and this outing doesn't seem to have one." Track listing. All songs written by The Dead Milkmen