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
@@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.
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 !!
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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.
I love the way that she just spoke the lyrics, as if she's just serious about wanting money. No messing around come on just give me money. Had me laughing for hours.
@@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.😁
Deborah Evans-Stickland, is sooooooo effortlessly cool and elegant in this video!! I remember being 12, when I saw them perform on an obscure type of late, late, late-night music tv show. I was mesmerized.
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!”
That beeping effect from 2:14 to the end of the video sounds like a timer that was used on Goodson-Todman game shows such as Password Plus and Blockbusters.
Never understood why some people think this is cold and emotionless. It's two people having sardonic, gleeful Fun and barely controlling their laughter.
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 17 when this hit the air waves. At first I was like "what the ????" But after the initial shock wore off I found myself guffawing thinking about what a hilarious parody it was. I don't remember seeing the video until much later. That was the icing on the cake. The entire production is absolutely GENIUS...
Just heard this song on public radio. I could have sworn this singer was Asian. it will take me a long time to acclimate to this music style. Kind of like it.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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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.
I highly doubt the (unrelated) part :'D
Yeah. This version was super popular when it dropped. I remember hearing it daily on R&B stations in Chicago back then.
why do all the oldies have default profile pictures
It's the definitive version for me
Yes... it's timeless! ✌️☮️✌️
Did she ever get her money?
Good question.
no
44😢@@Yahyia-cv3sx😮😮😮 0:00 0:00
Yes. She's Jewish.
Not yet…but she will. 😂
Nothing beats 1:14 where she briefly floats about for absolutely no reason at all!
+Spillage66 new movement.....your idea....i'm just running with it.....watch it grow.....FLYING LIZs forever. Grandiose idea......hah......watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luvs......sox
+Spillage66 i know, riiiiiiite?? :)
She got some money, she so happy she levitates....
I think LSD
Is their a religion based on this video?
It's overdoo.
I once thought LSD.
You can sense the influence this version had on groups like the B-52s. A truly wonderful one hit wonder.
Not sure, both band started in 1976 lol
@@xtrinsicdesign you think they were in separate universes?
@@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.
Or the other way around
B-52's came 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 !!
lol
I love that cacophony of noise, combining instruments and banging inanimate objects. It really hits my groove bone
What they did was through junk on the strings of a piano so it pressed on the strings.
One of my favorite songs of all time! When I was a teenager I even went to get the vinyl record and it's still in my collection.
I bought the 45 too but I don't have it. I had over 2,000 45's, I needed to unload some.
@Ski-DooSafarioriginally The Beatles song.
That was a great movie!
NPC
@@JessJoanneThe Beatles was a cover song of a US artist.
I still have my 33.
The late 70's and early 80's was an amazing period !
Best times of my life, I'm 60 now and weep for my grandbabies.
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.
+Jose Schmoe That's so sad. Sorry to here that, man. :/
+Jose Schmoe sorry to hear this. I would have liked Alan because he loved this song
Wow, I'm sorry.
Respect
Jose Schmoe holysh** I thought it was gonna be a fun story, it went dark in a second, respect.
R.I.P Alan
One of my favourite songs. Brings back so many memories of 1979
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!
First Motown, then The Beatles now this...Wow! It's so good!
@@petrajaureque7658 Barrett Strong did this first in 1963
@@petrajaureque7658 it was actually a white guy who wrote it
Berry Gordy & Janie Bradford wrote this song
@@blackpapiii2845 yeah, whypepo
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
I'm amazed no rap group has used this as a backbeat for their song.
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
Lol. That's what you have to bring to the table? 'It's a beatles song? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu offff
That is what I like!
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.
Great awesome video and song!!!!!!
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.
Yes prepared piano and Deborah! A killer combination.
Her accent is amazing. It's like posh London with a German twist.
Abaddon Interitus Marlene Dietrich meets Princess Margaret
Love it
European with British
There's nothing German about it, it's just posh English, although she's putting it on a bit thick I think.
seeing this video for the first time today.. before that I Always thought she was Chinese...
We were sophomores in high school , can still see my sweet friend mouthing this version , with her braces. Brings tears and a smile.
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
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This was the most interesting and original cover of this song. I never tire of hearing it.
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.
This is bonkers and plain bloody brilliant a real mind twister
Was one of the early new wave records to come out of disco, certainly was a hit on the dance floors here.
Props for playing the Synthi and the oven at the same time.
My first single
Love it xxxx
Sounds great played loud with that thumping baseline xx
The vocals sound like they lifted them from an early 1960s movie. Love it.
The original Barrett version of the song is from the late 50s early 60s. Then the Beatles ran with it.
Campy and brilliant.One of my all time faves.
I love the way that she just spoke the lyrics, as if she's just serious about wanting money. No messing around come on just give me money.
Had me laughing for hours.
I remember when this came out and loved it,quirky tune for 1979,good ole days 😉
I love how she sings it!
She’s not singing. In fact, she said that she couldn’t sing.
She's barely even singing this---she's just speaking it, lol.
1979 My High School Grad Year! All time crazy classic of our music era! Cannot be beat!
One of the most bizzare rock videos of the 1980s
+Eric 12374 1979 but darn right otherwise.
I always thought David Bowie and Mick Jagger duet was weird.
Look up rock it by herbie Hancock. And then land of confusion by genesis. Those are pretty bizarre. This video to me is more eccentric
This was made in 1979 not the 80s
@@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.😁
The Sweeney film sampled! Wonderful tune, thank you the Flying Lizards 🙂
Ah, the 80's. What a wonderfully weird, wacky time. But some of the greatest music!
This is from the summer of 1979.
Wrong decade, bub
You can thank cocaine
summer of 1979: close enough to be the 80s.
@@collarelbow5183 same, you see Ice Ice Baby is also called a 90s song but it's actually a 80s single
Deborah Evans-Stickland, is sooooooo effortlessly cool and elegant in this video!! I remember being 12, when I saw them perform on an obscure type of late, late, late-night music tv show. I was mesmerized.
NASA should send this video to the aliens. It would confuse the fuck out of them.
+Tim Krauk One word: YES.
+Tim Krauk yes yes and yes
+Tim Krauk Very
+Tim Krauk these are the aliens
It confuses everyone and everything...
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!”
Such a brilliant performance!
Thank you so much for promoting it here -- and for giving it a reasonably hifi bitrate.
Cheers
Always loved the backing vocals on this version!
I still got this on vinyl when i bought it in 1979. where have the years gone ?
That beeping effect from 2:14 to the end of the video sounds like a timer that was used on Goodson-Todman game shows such as Password Plus and Blockbusters.
Such an iconic song!!
Gif I love a deconstructed pop song. Devo’s “Satisfaction” is another great example.
Never understood why some people think this is cold and emotionless. It's two people having sardonic, gleeful Fun and barely controlling their laughter.
Deborah is undoubtedly brilliant in this
Total and utter genius.
I used to listen to this all the times when I was 77 years old back in the 50’s, 1954 if I remember well, such an epoque !!!!
I like it! I have always liked the Flying Lizards' version of "Money (That's What I Want)".
I really love this & this Era of music, she's lovely to.is Deborah still alive? Heard she was single a while ago?.
what a delightfully unhinged cover and video
I remember seeing this clip on Simon Townsend’s Wonder World and Simon kept giggling about the name of the band! Memories!
I thought that I first saw it on ABC Countdown? I remember Wonder World though.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
this song is awesome speaking the truth you can't survive without it
This video is definitely a classic !
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...
What a great piece of minimal new wave! Flying Lizards were quite unique with their experimental style.
Strange and brilliant loved flying lizzards deborah was so hot and classy love the pinball machine sound on it
I was 17 when this hit the air waves. At first I was like "what the ????" But after the initial shock wore off I found myself guffawing thinking about what a hilarious parody it was. I don't remember seeing the video until much later. That was the icing on the cake. The entire production is absolutely GENIUS...
2:31 ❤
I would love to have heard a version of this featuring either Zsa Zsa or Eva Gabor on lead vocals
They could have got their little dogs to do the chorus
This is THE SONG and THE GROUP that ushered in the New Wave music of the early to mid 1980s it's Original Gangsta OG!
Just heard this song on public radio. I could have sworn this singer was Asian. it will take me a long time to acclimate to this music style. Kind of like it.
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.
Oh wow!!!!i need this song right now $$$ i am 52 yrs young growing up to this song 🎵 🙌 yayy!!!
0:15 the guy driving was trying to sync the rhythm of his crash with the song but still failed... lol
I like the way she says; ''your love gives me such
a thrill'' haha, like she could care less, and 'not' lol .
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.
I imagine it with Nico singing, Maureen Tucker drumming, and John Cale producing.
I am so going to do this song in one of my upcoming shows, love it.
Now that's a nice recalling of a classic. Different but not disrespectful. Holds its own ground. So sick.
This, for me, is the best version of the song.
Makes me laugh everytime I hear it.
Leitura perfeita da obra. Adorei!
sounds very modern for 1979
New Wave pre-commercialization!
It wasn’t called “new wave” for nothing
Hard to believe I was 7 years old back then :(
the song must have been earlier that as it featured in the Sweeney 2 film and that came out in 1978
She sings with such soul. Right up there with Aretha.
LOL
😂 funniest thing I’ve heard in ages. Thanks my day is going to be good now
Good one.
always loved this song!!
Smash up tune. Let's kick off 💪
Empire Records anyone?
Joes money, lots of money ☆.☆ xD
+Hanji Zoe YEAH!
euphoria _ its rex manning day!
Warren beaty
euphoria _ lots of money joes money 😅
I first got introduced to this song by listening to a version of it on the show Brassic
Pov : you are a Bikini Bottom reporter and you just asked Mr. Krabs why he decided to open a second Krusty Krab right next to the other one.
Cold and superb.
Will forever remind me of Charlies's Angels when Lucy Liu's character Alex is introduced by Charlie
awesome
Once upon a time there were three very different little girls
same reason im here!
Always love listening to this. Went to college with the lead singer.
.. cool!... what college, and what is her name? Thank you!😊
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!
Iconic!
what an incredible song...
Thanks Asda ( never thought I'd say that!) for reminding me of this sliver of awesomeness
Just heard this song as I was eating pizza at MOD PIZZA lol And I couldn’t stop dancing on my chair ! Love it 🕺🏽
Here from TD! We see what you are doing, we will not be defeated!
I remember hearing this song in The Wedding Singer and have never found until now
This was a jam among my teen scene in Chicago 1979 etc 🙌🏾💃🏾🙌🏾💃🏾
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 had a 45 of this when it was new!
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.
Holy crap. I jest realised that I posted the first comment in 9 years. I hope someone sees it. Thanks for this great video, love it.
*just
That's incorrect, btw. There are zillions of comments. You must have had it set to 'Sort by top comments' instead of 'Newest first' 🤦♂
What an amazing tune
Amazing percussion!
I Love this song!!
This song is in an episode of WKRP In Cincinnati!!! Crazy song but anything from that show I like because it takes me back
Still have the single in my collection oh my god music was so cool then !!!
Anyone know, please, what made the beeping at 2:14?
Why can't I like, share, or save this vid? So weird. Love it to death.
Use to hear this on Dr. Demento in the 80s.
thanks Steve......
The Asda TV advert in the UK is bringing this song back to life 😂