Artist: Liars
Label: Mute
Producer: David Sitek, Liars
Cover art: Beate Schlingelhoff-Gross
Length: 40:42
Tag: This Heat
THE FLYING LIZARDS (1980)
Artist: The Flying Lizards
Label: Virgin Records
Producer: David Cunningham
Cover art: Laurie Rae Chamberlain
Length: 44:05
RECORDED FOR THE princely sum of £6.50, The Flying Lizards’ breakthrough single “Money” may not prove that the ‘the best things in life are free’, but it suggests that they need not be expensive. The modest production values and absurd humour of this insanely catchy song and its predecessor “Summertime Blues” set the tone for the group’s debut album, which finds homespun fun in the avant-garde.
THE FLYING LIZARDS
… I’ve always toyed with the idea that the Flying Lizards represented rock and roll from some sort of alternative universe.
David Cunningham, Zigzag magazine, 1984
Formed: England, 1976
Featured album: The Flying Lizards (1980)