Big Lizard in My Backyard [Original recording reissued]

Dead Milkmen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Restless Records
• ASIN: B000003BFJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,569 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tiny Town

2. Beach Song

3. Plum Dumb

4. Swordfish

5. V.F.W.

6. Rastabilly

7. Serrated Edge

8. Lucky

9. Big Lizard

10. Gorilla Girl

11. Bitchin' Camaro

12. Filet Of Sole

13. Spit Sink

14. Violent School

15. Takin' Retards To The Zoo

16. Junkie

17. Right Wing Pigeons

18. Dean's Dream

19. Laundromat Song

20. Nutrition

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For christsakes why isn't Bob Hope dead yet?, October 30, 1999

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Eric Hicks ([e-mail]) (Lima, O-freakin-hio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Lizard in My Backyard (Audio CD)

This is one of those albums that I wish I could buy over and over again. I own it on record, tape and Cd. Whenever I see this in a used bin it angers me that someone discarded it for a couple bucks, then I buy it and give it as a gift. This album is up there with Raw Power, Young Loud and Snotty, London Calling, and Exile on Main Street. Oh, and if you like this then you should do yourself a favor and buy the Dictators - Go Girl Crazy.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ...hows we make a livin', June 10, 1998

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[e-mail] (Philly, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Lizard in My Backyard (Audio CD)

Garage punk meets Weird Al Yankovic. And it could have only happened in Philly.

You got that man? What are you wastin' your cash on? If you don't got Mojo Nixon, your store could use some fixin'.

There isn't a band that achieved that perfect mix of almost-tongue-in-cheek punk like the DM did. And there sn't a band that changed their names more often either.

But this isn't as hard-edged or as goofy as it sounds. Oh, sure...it STARTED as a prank, as a hoax. But then again...the songs are just too good, too musical, too much fun. Ok, maybe at times its goofy, but goofy is good, goofy is fun. Other times its pure satire, and more witty than anything any "serious" band ever did.

You think you're clever? Uh-uh. The Dead Milkmen are clever. You think you're talented or important? Uh-uh. You take yourself WAY too seriously my friends. The Dead Milkmen were making fun of people like you before you were cutting teeth.

They will be copied, they will be ripped-off. But their cult will never be breached. There will always be someone who tries too hard, or takes themselves too seriously, or not seriously enough. And it won't be fun. It won't be fun 'cause it won't be original. And anywhoos...no band will ever be better to listen to at full volume with the top down while drivin' down to the Jersey shore.

I bought a big lizard for only a dollar fifty, well, that's pretty neat, yeah thats...well, you know...nifty.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have Classic, February 17, 2005

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M. Jones (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Lizard in My Backyard (Audio CD)

I bought this in 1985 on vinyl and just bought it again on CD (can you believe it's been 20 years?!), and I'm just amazed at how fresh it sounds, like a funny fun-loving Green Day, but tighter. It could have been put out yesterday. I can't believe how every song is about two minutes or less and brilliant, funny, inspired and perfect... no one else could write lyrics like these. One listen and you'll be singing "Friday night cooking show with a horsemeat dish...I had to stay in the freezer" at the top of your lungs.