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01. THE BIG OAKS - Cooee
02. THE BIG OAKS - John the Rat
03. THE BIG OAKS - Pimp on Patrol
04. THE BIG OAKS - Nicholas Lyndhurst
05. THE BIG OAKS - Tight T-Shirt
06. THE BIG OAKS - Big Boned
07. THE BIG OAKS - Pancakes vs. Omelettes
08. THE BIG OAKS - Something Goes Something
09. THE BIG OAKS - Professor Wheeto
10. THE BIG OAKS - Eric Cantona Is a Genius
11. THE BIG OAKS - By the Road
12. THE BIG OAKS - Reno
13. THE BIG OAKS - It's Clobbering Time
14. THE BIG OAKS - Fiends Outside Your House
15. THE BIG OAKS - Interlude
16. THE BIG OAKS - What's the Shit? Blues
17. THE BIG OAKS - Babylon 5
18. THE BIG OAKS - Biscuit Fever
19. THE BIG OAKS - Cock Like Lipstick
20. THE BIG OAKS - Crotchless Pasties
21. THE BIG OAKS - Electrical Clippers
22. THE BIG OAKS - I Hate You, My Friend Doesn't Like You Either
23. THE BIG OAKS - Me and Jim Dishing Out Justice
24. THE BIG OAKS - Meat Cleaver Attack Probe
25. THE BIG OAKS - Monsters, Zombies, Spectres
26. THE BIG OAKS - Point Blank Refusal to Talk
27. THE BIG OAKS - Watersports
28. THE BIG OAKS - Al-Qa'eda Nonce
ARTIST
TITLE
Monster Turd
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
DIST 020LP DIST 020LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/29/2013

From their beginnings in 1994 to their final show in March 2011, The Big Oaks certainly divided opinion. They were described as "the sort of cripplingly unfunny comedy music which could only be appreciated by the friends of the cretins involved, or Red Dwarf t-shirt wearing bell-ends who live with their mams," but for those of us who were around in the northeast underground music scene that loved them, it was a whole different story. In fifteen years they only played twenty shows, but nonetheless much deserved cult status in the northeast. At once troubled and bitter yet soul-reflecting, their sharply-observed, biting lyrics and fuzzed up instrumentation recalled many of the great British indie bands that used to pepper the Peel Festive '50s in the '80s. Their music encapsulates alienation, confusion, anger, loneliness, and (especially) belligerent humor. This music is an incredibly British deconstruction of punk-pop in a post-corporate, globalised, mass-media saturated world, mired in the tea-time and early evening TV of yesteryear, presumably as reference either to chief singer/songwriter Simon "John the Rat" Windsor's feelings of the past trauma or past fondness of his younger days. It's also fucking hilariously funny. Think The Shaggs, Ween, and Truman's Water. Simon passed away on 26 May 2011. Besides a bunch of cassettes that were made in the 90s, this album represents his life's work. The lion's share of Monster Turd was recorded in 2008, with the intention of a CD release on Distraction Records. We never did have the funds to release it, and with his family's blessing, and help from a very generous bunch of folk who have crowd-funded this release, we are so, so pleased to go all out on this one with a gatefold vinyl release and give the man, and the music, the respect that it deserves. He's John the Rat. His legacy lives on, an' that. Comes on brown colored vinyl in a double gatefold sleeve.