Beelzebubba

Following the fluke impact of their “Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance to Anything)” single, the Dead Mlikmen got as close to mainstream success as they ever would with their fourth full-length album, 1988’s Beelzebubba. The title and various songs on it such as “My Many Smells” and “Smokin’ Banana Peels” shows that the thoroughly unrepentant silliness that defined the band had hardly gone anywhere, but they ended up with a random MTV hit, both silly and heartfelt, with “Punk Rock Girl,” a not-quite-power ballad standard for an underground audience happy to shout out Mojo Nixon too.