For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we revisit The Dead Milkmen’s notorious 1988 “performance” of their improbable hit “Punk Rock Girl” on “Club MTV” — which was decidedly not the usual cable-television outlet for such unkempt college radio faves.
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The band members famously had little interest in properly miming their performance, and after much goofing around, and some stage diving, the ramshackle run-through ends with Rodney Anonymous handcuffing host Downtown Julie Brown — an episode that made it into the oral history “I Want My MTV” (“The Dead Milkmen handcuffed me,” Brown recalled. “I got a bit pissed about that.”)
Check the whole thing out below via VideoPiratesPhilly.
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