Milk 'N' Cookies were a band in the wrong place at the wrong time. If they'd shown up a few years later, they could have been part of the poppy end of the late-'70s/early-'80s punk/new wave explosion. If they'd made their name a year or two earlier, they could have been part of the glam explosion that inspired them. And if they'd been from Los Angeles or the U.K., they'd probably have found friendlier press. But it was their fate to emerge in Long Island, New York in 1974, where they didn't fit in with the sound of the day. They had to settle for being an influential and rever...