I used to play this frequently on College radio when co-DJing back in the early 80s - until I got booted for inciting a protest outside a play (unrelated). But, this cover was everywhere back then - probably very early 80s for me. Can't recall it in 1979. The deadpan delivery and rough sound plus truly funky video all over MTV or whatever it was we had back then guaranteed this a certain immortality.
+Spillage66 new movement.....your idea....i'm just running with it.....watch it grow.....FLYING LIZs forever. Grandiose idea......hah......watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luvs......sox
You are the dickhead. The Beatles version is a cover of the original by Barrett Strong put out by Berry Gordy's Tamla Motown label in 1960' Money was later recorded by a number of acts, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kingsmen, Richard Wylie and His Band, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Searchers, the Flying Lizards, the Sonics and Buddy Guy
You apparently don't understand authorship and copyright ownership. When you wear your sisters panties they still belong to her. As for "being kind enough to mention" that is a matter of law not optional. In most places (the US for sure) the author and publisher's name is placed on the record label along with other pertinent information. Asserting your "point" is demonstrating your lack of education and probably low intelligence.
FYI: " The Flying Lizards are remembered by most listeners as new wave one-hit wonders thanks to their deliberately eccentric cover of Barrett Strong's "Money," which became a surprise chart success in 1979. But the Flying Lizards were in fact the brainchild of David Cunningham, a well-respected avant-garde composer, producer, and visual artist, and it became one of the first salvos in a long and fascinating career. Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954, and once told a reporter he first took up music in school as a way of avoiding playing rugby with his schoolmates. Cunningham later developed a keen interest in both music and visual art, and he left Ireland when he was accepted at the Maidstone College of Art in Canterbury, Kent, where he studied film and video installation. While in school, Cunningham began doing live sound for rock bands playing on campus, which led to an interest in recording and music production. In 1975, Cunningham self-released an album of minimalist music, Grey Scale, and using borrowed gear he recorded a deliberately harsh and minimal version of the old Eddie Cochran hit "Summertime Blues," with art school chum Deborah Evans contributing flat, tuneless vocals. Cunningham claims the low-tech single cost just 20 pounds to make, and after it was turned down by a number of labels, Virgin Records picked it up for release in 1978, under the assumption that it was inexpensive enough to recoup its costs quickly..." play.google.com/store/music/artist/The_Flying_Lizards?id=Avi4e2mi4a3xvmbomfrrhuehl2i
Will always remind me of my childhood friend, Alan. He and I met in 7th grade, remained friends through HS, and we attended our first year of university together here in Chicago. It was during this year that this song came out and he loved it. He would sing it. He moved to another U, we kept in touch and afterwards he moved to Hawaii where my 1st wife and I met him there at his place. He prepared us dinner. Over the years I lost touch with Alan and just a few short years ago I found out he had died of a brain tumor. I had no idea. Alan, wherever you are - this one's for you.
@@xtrinsicdesign You can still be influenced by what is going on at the time, Joe Strummer of the Clash started making music as early as 1972, but when Sex Pistols started getting traction in '76 he started switching his sound to punk.
I love all versions of this song including this one. The person or people who wrote the lyrics, the hook, the melody etc. for this song decades ago really knew how to create and structure a hit song. I'll always love this song!
@@BeerDad69 yeah,as 80's videos go this isn't bizarre at all. But I love the entirely detached delivery! Oh and apparently it was 79. But that's basically the 80's.😁
I recently bought this on vinyl for a completely different reason. I recognized the song from Buler's Day Off I think. Rest of the album super good too though. Top 10 for me for sure
One of the songs that provided the soundtrack to my childhood. If anything, it has got better with age. The use of prepared piano is genius and the vocals by Deborah Evans-Stickland are unforgettable.
Never understood why some people think this is cold and emotionless. It's two people having sardonic, gleeful Fun and barely controlling their laughter.
This was among my very first 'new wave' acquisitions. I had the 12" single, but soon after bought the album. The Flying Lizards were a great part of that new breath of life rock and pop music needed at the time.
Oh lord. I remember when this came out-a couple of us stood around in the campus radio station and listened to it: “This is insane.” “It’s crazy.” “I’M PLAYING IT FIRST!”
1981 When i got to my first air force barracks in Grand Forks I bought this album at the mall and played it loud. Everyone in the barracks wanted to kill me !!
I so like this song. It's funny to me. Especially when she says "money can't buy everything it's true - but what don't get I can't use I WANT MONEY!!" Love it!!!
I never knew there was a video. Absolutely Brilliant! Love, The Posh Mumble @ 1:48 In a later live performance, I realised that she is saying, " vast amount of money " The perfect song that took us from the 70's to the 80's
Love this song, quirky and just a weird, infectious sound. Maybe it is nostalgia, heard this first in 1979 in a bar called Johnny O's in Newburgh, NY, a favorite hangout during college. Kind of speaks to the era of materialism then.
Wow, this song popped into my head the other day, forgot all about it for years, wild song loved it when I first heard it and turned my friends on to to it many years ago they luved it also. Brings back a lot of memories...
I was in art school in Cleveland during the 1980s, and every band on tour would always play at the old Arcadia Hall. We saw great performances from the likes of Devo, The Ramones, The B52s, Talking Heads and Trio! A golden era of fun, original music!
A strangely iconic song, it seems to pop up in every doco I watch about MONEY. "Blessed is the man that finds true love" Perhaps I would if I won the lotto.
I think I was around 13 or 14 when I first heard this song on the radio. I thought it was the weirdest song. Decades later, and 52-year-old me still thinks it is.
Mitzi the evil ferret she is a Lady. She controls her emotions, balancing temperance and intelligence with pure femeninity. Most women are lightyears from this state of mind. It's a great shame.
+Mitzi the evil ferret this version is Brilliant, her deadpan demeanor is on purpose...in fact Viviven Goldman is also an accomplished documentarian and adjunct professor of punk and reggae at New York University's (NYU) Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. She is also an adjunct professor of musical cultures and industry at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (Rutgers University).
+The Fantasy Clinic Vivien Goldman did sing with the Flying Lizards, but the lead singer on this song was Deborah Evans-Stickland, who is every bit as posh as her name suggests. I just saw her in a BBC documentary about cover versions. She explained why she spoke the lyrics rather than singing them: 'It's really very simple. Singing is more difficult.'
Love this video,never seen it before. I remember the song when it was a hit, and I remember seeing them on Top of the Pops. I later discovered that the song had previously been recorded by the Beatles, and later learned that their version had also been a cover. This is the version I know best though.
