ALBUMS: The Flying Lizards (1979)
Oh Yoko.
There’s some funny bang-up experimental work going on here .
The bangs are like a hammer hitting a table. And they usually come in triplets throughout the song “Money.”I
The air traveling reptiles deliver an awesome, deconstructive, take on Barrett Strong’s original, a song covered by many, including the Beatles.
“Money that’s what I want,” the robotic voiced female lead sings. The robotic voice’s accent by Deborah Evans-Stickland is decidedly English.
Then it’s bang, bang, bang. In the video it’s gunshots but it sounds more like hammer-on-table to me.
But lest one thinks this and their cover of ‘Summertime Blues’ are just simple novelty tunes, the deeper cuts suggest something, well, deeper..
I can’t say this electronically chic groove is accessible. But it’s ambitious.
It’s got a little Yoko in it. Yoko with sense of humor.