Today's Song: Punk Rock Girl by The Dead Milkmen

Today I decided to do punk rock.  I have a few friends that like punk rock and I am not above pandering.  (I'll be doing a lot of it in the next twelve months.)  My process is a little random.  Generally I will just go to YouTube and pick a song and then look at the bar on the right.  I will click on the right bar until I find something that strikes my fancy.  Sometime I start with a song and end up abandoning it because it just doesn't work for some reason.
Today I started with just entering the word "Song" into the Google search bar.  Interestingly the song it suggested was Let It Go.  I considered Let It Go.  I liked the movie.  I like the song, I even play it at work from time to time.  But then I thought, "What would happen if I entered 'Song" into a Private Window?"  Private Windows don't stay in your History and strip out most of the personal information, demographics, and cookies that are used to make your search results personalized.

When I did the Private Window search, Let It Go still was the top video result.  But I also got this odd selection.  This wasn't leading me anywhere productive so I decided to go back to tried and true methods, the right bar on Youtube.

I started with Anything, Anything because I have been listening to it a lot since discovering the song.  I then scrolled down on the right bar and found The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl.  When I find a song, I'll often look for any other versions to see if there is a better option.  The Link at the top is a high definition version.

The Dead Milkmen is one of those bands that you hear about more than you actually hear so I needed to do some research.  As always I started with the Wikipedia.  I then did some random searching on Google.  From this process I learned two interesting facts about the bassist Dave Blood.  Dave, real name Dave Schulthise, attended Indiana University where he studied Serbo-Croatian studies.  The second interesting fact was that Dave was a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Purdue University.  I made the mistake that Facebook always makes and assumed that the Ph.D. studies followed the Serbo-Croatian studies.  This assumption was incorrect.  Dave was studying Economics at Purdue when and left those studies to become a full time musician.  Dave went to IU after the band broke up.

As an IU alum, Dave's studies at IU intrigued me.  Trying to pin down the time he spent there and what degree, if any he earned was difficult.  In the end I decided to abandon the effort because I had enough material for a post.  I am a blog writer not a music historian, some mysteries can remain unsolved.
 
Later

Bob

O.K.  how was this related to Punk?  The essence of Punk is the subverting of expectations.  You expected me to write about punk rock and I wrote about how I wrote the post.  Of course, by explaining myself, I am no longer Punk.  Then again I never was Punk, I have always aspired to be The Man.