The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards
| Comments: | Lose "Money" and "Summertime Blues" and this would be a great album. |
| Artist: | The Flying Lizards |
| Rating: | |
| Genres: | Experimental Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk Art Punk, Minimal Synth, Zolo |
| Released: | 1979 |
| Type: | Album |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Link: | Spotify |
The Flying Lizards is the 1979 self-titled debut album by The Flying Lizards and was released on the Virgin Records label....
Preceded by two surprise hit singles, the album reached No. 60 in the UK Album Chart. Following the unexpected success of the group's 1979 singles—covers of "Summertime Blues" and "Money"—David Cunningham and Deborah Evans were offered a deal with Virgin Records. New material for the album featured improvisational musicians Steve Beresford and David Toop.
The album encompasses "dub-style audio experiments" and "bent interpretations of pop music constructs." Critic Simon Reynolds called it "an exercise in pop absurdism" which included "a Brecht-Weill cover, Sanskrit chants, found sounds, and unlikely instrumental textures" alongside "Cunningham's penchant for excessive studio processing and daft effects."
Preceded by two surprise hit singles, the album reached No. 60 in the UK Album Chart. Following the unexpected success of the group's 1979 singles—covers of "Summertime Blues" and "Money"—David Cunningham and Deborah Evans were offered a deal with Virgin Records. New material for the album featured improvisational musicians Steve Beresford and David Toop.
The album encompasses "dub-style audio experiments" and "bent interpretations of pop music constructs." Critic Simon Reynolds called it "an exercise in pop absurdism" which included "a Brecht-Weill cover, Sanskrit chants, found sounds, and unlikely instrumental textures" alongside "Cunningham's penchant for excessive studio processing and daft effects."
Editions:
1979
Original Release
Virgin
| VA 13137
| Vinyl, LP
| Side A: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| A1. | Der Song von Mandelay | (2:27) | |
| A2. | Her Story | (4:37) | |
| A3. | TV | (3:51) | |
| A4. | Russia | (6:11) | |
| A5. | Summertime Blues | (3:09) | |
| Side B: | |||
| B1. | Money (That's What I Want) | (5:52) | |
| B2. | The Flood | (4:57) | |
| B3. | Trouble | (2:46) | |
| B4. | Events During Flood | (3:25) | |
| B5. | The Window | (4:52) | |