89. Dead Milkmen – Big Lizard in My Backyard
Like most people, the first song I heard off this album was Bitchin’ Camaro. As soon as I listened to the intro and heard them 
make fun of Crystal Ship – a Doors cover band I was once fond of seeing – I was hooked. I love music with a sense of humor. Especially stupid humor. Well, when the actual music part of Bitchin’ Camaro kicked I knew I had to give the rest of the album a try and see if these guys were anything more than a novelty act.
I discovered there’s really more to the Milkmen than irreverent lyrics and haphazard songs like Camaro and Swordfish; they manage to get some pretty good lines off and make sense in tunes like Spit Sink and V.F.W. Big Lizard is a pretty well rounded album. If a band can make me laugh out loud and nod my head to the music at the same time, that’s a plus in my book. That I ended buying – and enjoying – all their subsequent albums takes the “novelty” out of their act.
Plus, all these years later, I still get a kick out of Bitchin’ Camaro, Bitchin’ Camaro, Tony Orlando an Dawn!
Favorite song: Bitchin’ Camaro, of course
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March 4th, 2009
Joe Jack Talcum is the closest thing to a famous person that I have ever met. He was friends with my friend Gregg and played at Goucher College when we went there in 1993. Gregg had to remind Joe how to play Punk Rock Girl b/c it had been so long since he’d played it. He was small and cute and pretty quiet. Or maybe he just thought we college kids were annoying. We probably were. Anyway, that’s my story. Amen. Love Nicole.