The Flying Lizards - Money

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • Music video by The Flying Lizards performing Money.

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  • @timkrauk8134
    @timkrauk8134 9 лет назад +507

    NASA should send this video to the aliens. It would confuse the fuck out of them.

  • @AlistairKiwi
    @AlistairKiwi 3 месяца назад +106

    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.

    • @Phoenix_VR
      @Phoenix_VR 2 месяца назад +2

      I highly doubt the (unrelated) part :'D

    • @RayfieldA
      @RayfieldA 2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah. This version was super popular when it dropped. I remember hearing it daily on R&B stations in Chicago back then.

    • @TekTrap
      @TekTrap 2 месяца назад

      why do all the oldies have default profile pictures

    • @TheKrispyfort
      @TheKrispyfort Месяц назад

      It's the definitive version for me

  • @bikersoncall
    @bikersoncall Год назад +2

    I like the way she says; ''your love gives me such
    a thrill'' haha, like she could care less, and 'not' lol .

  • @ajaugenti1976
    @ajaugenti1976 7 лет назад

    Heard that on SiriusXm big 80's on 8, as an lost 80's hit from 1980. I have never heard this music group or, this song before in my life. The song is pretty weird but cool as well!

  • @derrotepaul3485
    @derrotepaul3485 4 года назад

    Great ! A Dance Classic ! ⚡️🎹⚡️🔥

  • @shermancrawford7038
    @shermancrawford7038 7 лет назад +4

    anybody know what drum machine he is using leaning on the countertop in the very beginning? What a bizarrely good video by the way

    • @o.b.7217
      @o.b.7217 7 лет назад +2

      Haven't found anything about that particular machine, but maybe these interview snippets are of interest for you
      (it seems, there was no drum machine used at all):
      David Cunningham (on Vice '13):
      "The unusual snare drum sound on "Money" was recorded in three different rooms. First Julian Marshall's front room, where we recorded the piano and a metronome. Then I took that up to this echo-y room where Charles Hayward's spare drum kit was sitting, and I overdubbed the drums, just hi-hat and snare. I wasn't getting a decent bass drum sound so that's actually the sound of a bass guitar being hit with a stick. Then the rest of the mixing was done at my studio, a kind of shed at the back of the artist's studio complex building in Brixton. The sound was enhanced by the air in the room really because I initially couldn't get the mic close enough to the drum. I achieved that recording quality because of a lack of cable length, and will power."
      David Cunningham (on Record Mirror '78):
      "Then I took the tape to Brixton and put the other bits on there, using a borrowed drum kit. The knock on the record is a snare drum and tambourine being played together, I was hitting the snare drum with a stick. I in a different room to the tape recorder so I just got a very long mike cable and took the mike out to a very echoey room right next to the toilets and overdubbed it. There isn't any bass drum on the record, it's just bass guitar being hit with a stick. Then we put the guitar solo and backing vocal on and put it back onto the Vox, and that was the master tape really."

    • @CrossCuntryFranco
      @CrossCuntryFranco 7 лет назад +2

      Not a drum machine! That's a EMS Synthi-A, famous for providing the legendary sequence for "On The Run". :)

  • @mark45stewart50
    @mark45stewart50 4 года назад

    Look at that typewriter is huge,it wasnt long computers took over.

  • @Itsamadoldworld
    @Itsamadoldworld 8 месяцев назад

    How random that they used clips from Sweeney 2 in this video, and funnily enough I watched that last night 😂

  • @BryanDean-id2rq
    @BryanDean-id2rq 28 дней назад

    I play this on my way to the Casino.

  • @darknightumbreon8960
    @darknightumbreon8960 4 года назад

    Have no idea what I just watched or listened to. History teacher gave us songs to listen to as homework and this was one. I’m confused.

  • @candyfloss1416
    @candyfloss1416 5 лет назад +7

    this one goes out to our employee of the week
    lucas

  • @fulgenjbatista4640
    @fulgenjbatista4640 4 месяца назад

    ❤🎉❤

  • @bonaygoldhagen1831
    @bonaygoldhagen1831 9 лет назад +4

    Thought i heard that before ha the Beatles who knew...

    • @StopAskingMyName1
      @StopAskingMyName1 9 лет назад +4

      first off the beatles did this before her, secondly, barrett strong did it b4 the beatles

    • @miscellaneous1831
      @miscellaneous1831 7 лет назад +1

      It was a Berry Gordy (Motown) hit originally. Written for Barrett Strong

  • @Xonslaught1
    @Xonslaught1 7 лет назад +4

    Joe's Money

    • @dklfjsdkfh
      @dklfjsdkfh 7 лет назад

      Charlie Huffman Yesssss

  • @AllenGarvin
    @AllenGarvin 5 лет назад +21

    Apparently some group called the Beetles did a version of this. I listened to it, bleagh. Not a fan of obscure cover bands.

    • @Leevelix
      @Leevelix 3 года назад +1

      The beetles aren't some band dammm you don't know your bands

  • @noomguod
    @noomguod 4 года назад

    Joe Jackson and Olga Colbert star?

  • @g5nationtonation
    @g5nationtonation 11 месяцев назад

    Money ya peter is 80s flashback rocker says peter g5nationtonation or nation to nation

  • @DaveG425
    @DaveG425 8 месяцев назад +168

    Did she ever get her money?

  • @steely10
    @steely10 4 года назад +181

    I love that cacophony of noise, combining instruments and banging inanimate objects. It really hits my groove bone

  • @Spillage66
    @Spillage66 8 лет назад +1094

    Nothing beats 1:14 where she briefly floats about for absolutely no reason at all!

    • @argylesox3606
      @argylesox3606 8 лет назад +5

      +Spillage66 new movement.....your idea....i'm just running with it.....watch it grow.....FLYING LIZs forever. Grandiose idea......hah......watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luvs......sox

    • @Orangeflava
      @Orangeflava 8 лет назад +3

      +Spillage66 i know, riiiiiiite?? :)

    • @ripperduck
      @ripperduck 8 лет назад +42

      She got some money, she so happy she levitates....

    • @johnbarber7815
      @johnbarber7815 8 лет назад +10

      I think LSD

    • @Rextrent
      @Rextrent 8 лет назад +9

      Is their a religion based on this video?
      It's overdoo.
      I once thought LSD.

  • @zombiemistress
    @zombiemistress 8 лет назад +885

    I'm amazed no rap group has used this as a backbeat for their song.

    • @arbeeex
      @arbeeex 7 лет назад +11

      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

    • @cyriafeatherstar9872
      @cyriafeatherstar9872 7 лет назад +18

      Lol. That's what you have to bring to the table? 'It's a beatles song? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu offff

    • @ajaugenti1976
      @ajaugenti1976 7 лет назад +34

      That is what I like!

    • @arbeeex
      @arbeeex 7 лет назад +2

      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.

    • @ajaugenti1976
      @ajaugenti1976 7 лет назад +21

      Great awesome video and song!!!!!!

  • @jetsetdog
    @jetsetdog 10 лет назад +113

    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

  • @euphoria_8807
    @euphoria_8807 8 лет назад +299

    Empire Records anyone?

  • @zitasophia9093
    @zitasophia9093 4 года назад +38

    Anybody here from 2020 because I am?

  • @goatwarrior3570
    @goatwarrior3570 9 лет назад +519

    Her accent is amazing. It's like posh London with a German twist.

    • @MbartM96
      @MbartM96 7 лет назад +35

      Abaddon Interitus Marlene Dietrich meets Princess Margaret

    • @kennyohare3987
      @kennyohare3987 5 лет назад +6

      Love it

    • @pinkypavlova8608
      @pinkypavlova8608 5 лет назад +9

      European with British

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 лет назад +17

      There's nothing German about it, it's just posh English, although she's putting it on a bit thick I think.

    • @mr.radical2899
      @mr.radical2899 5 лет назад +25

      seeing this video for the first time today.. before that I Always thought she was Chinese...

  • @marSLaZZ66
    @marSLaZZ66 Месяц назад +11

    The late 70's and early 80's was an amazing period !

    • @journeyman348
      @journeyman348 12 дней назад +1

      Best times of my life, I'm 60 now and weep for my grandbabies.

  • @joseschmoe2800
    @joseschmoe2800 8 лет назад +958

    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.

    • @bethm5852
      @bethm5852 8 лет назад +13

      +Jose Schmoe That's so sad. Sorry to here that, man. :/

    • @LinguisticLifeform
      @LinguisticLifeform 8 лет назад +14

      +Jose Schmoe sorry to hear this. I would have liked Alan because he loved this song

    • @alanrios9349
      @alanrios9349 8 лет назад +13

      Wow, I'm sorry.

    • @joegamble328
      @joegamble328 8 лет назад +15

      Respect

    • @festivaldeacnne2893
      @festivaldeacnne2893 7 лет назад +9

      Jose Schmoe holysh** I thought it was gonna be a fun story, it went dark in a second, respect.
      R.I.P Alan

  • @CharlesJergl
    @CharlesJergl 4 года назад +34

    One of my favourite songs. Brings back so many memories of 1979

  • @jrmetmoi
    @jrmetmoi 10 лет назад +142

    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!

    • @petrajaureque7658
      @petrajaureque7658 2 года назад +6

      First Motown, then The Beatles now this...Wow! It's so good!

    • @ZusuBee
      @ZusuBee Год назад +4

      @@petrajaureque7658 Barrett Strong did this first in 1963

    • @jamesjameson4566
      @jamesjameson4566 Год назад +1

      @@petrajaureque7658 it was actually a white guy who wrote it

    • @blackpapiii2845
      @blackpapiii2845 Год назад +3

      Berry Gordy & Janie Bradford wrote this song

    • @jamesjameson4566
      @jamesjameson4566 Год назад +1

      @@blackpapiii2845 yeah, whypepo

  • @jonblazeinc
    @jonblazeinc 7 лет назад +50

    sounds very modern for 1979

    • @glerbinmcflerbin156
      @glerbinmcflerbin156 7 лет назад +8

      New Wave pre-commercialization!

    • @BeerDad69
      @BeerDad69 5 лет назад +12

      It wasn’t called “new wave” for nothing

    • @kristypolymath1359
      @kristypolymath1359 4 года назад +2

      Hard to believe I was 7 years old back then :(

    • @dr2stroke611
      @dr2stroke611 4 года назад +1

      the song must have been earlier that as it featured in the Sweeney 2 film and that came out in 1978

  • @ChristinaSmith
    @ChristinaSmith 10 лет назад +242

    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.

    • @haveanicedave1551
      @haveanicedave1551 2 года назад +2

      I bought the 45 too but I don't have it. I had over 2,000 45's, I needed to unload some.

    • @JessJoanne
      @JessJoanne 11 месяцев назад

      ​@Ski-DooSafarioriginally The Beatles song.
      That was a great movie!

    • @swissmonkeys
      @swissmonkeys 8 месяцев назад

      NPC

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@JessJoanneThe Beatles was a cover song of a US artist.

    • @blueblood76
      @blueblood76 6 месяцев назад

      I still have my 33.

  • @tonyreilley2842
    @tonyreilley2842 7 месяцев назад +56

    You can sense the influence this version had on groups like the B-52s. A truly wonderful one hit wonder.

    • @xtrinsicdesign
      @xtrinsicdesign 4 месяца назад +1

      Not sure, both band started in 1976 lol

    • @tonyreilley2842
      @tonyreilley2842 4 месяца назад +2

      @@xtrinsicdesign you think they were in separate universes?

    • @kelechi_77
      @kelechi_77 3 месяца назад

      @@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.

    • @sab6261
      @sab6261 3 месяца назад

      Or the other way around

    • @NormAppleton
      @NormAppleton 3 месяца назад

      B-52's came first

  • @Eric-zi1oz
    @Eric-zi1oz 9 лет назад +265

    One of the most bizzare rock videos of the 1980s

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 8 лет назад +17

      +Eric 12374 1979 but darn right otherwise.

    • @Threedog1963
      @Threedog1963 7 лет назад +10

      I always thought David Bowie and Mick Jagger duet was weird.

    • @BeerDad69
      @BeerDad69 5 лет назад +7

      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

    • @thachubbmonster9013
      @thachubbmonster9013 5 лет назад +9

      This was made in 1979 not the 80s

    • @kienischneider9862
      @kienischneider9862 5 лет назад +7

      @@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.😁

  • @mrfairplay
    @mrfairplay 4 года назад +17

    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!”

  • @qzsue4184
    @qzsue4184 8 лет назад +403

    Ah, the 80's. What a wonderfully weird, wacky time. But some of the greatest music!

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 8 лет назад +44

      This is from the summer of 1979.

    • @collarelbow5183
      @collarelbow5183 7 лет назад +21

      Wrong decade, bub

    • @CT-zo2fh
      @CT-zo2fh 6 лет назад +10

      You can thank cocaine

    • @leroylowe5921
      @leroylowe5921 6 лет назад +28

      summer of 1979: close enough to be the 80s.

    • @zacharyhenry6780
      @zacharyhenry6780 5 лет назад +14

      @@collarelbow5183 same, you see Ice Ice Baby is also called a 90s song but it's actually a 80s single

  • @davidnorden1972
    @davidnorden1972 4 года назад +31

    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.

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 7 месяцев назад +1

      Yes prepared piano and Deborah! A killer combination.

  • @Cheeso888
    @Cheeso888 4 года назад +17

    Props for playing the Synthi and the oven at the same time.

  • @tuts351
    @tuts351 6 лет назад +16

    She is so unenthusiastic it's entertaining 😂

  • @magazinekirby
    @magazinekirby 2 месяца назад +5

    I really thought this was BMO

  • @billmimms
    @billmimms 10 месяцев назад +2

    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.

  • @codyb701
    @codyb701 2 года назад +6

    Coinbase brought me here...

    • @mjr_muppet7125
      @mjr_muppet7125 2 года назад +2

      Glad you could make it! Adds another level to a very clever Super Bowl ad don't it? 🤣

  • @smartalek180
    @smartalek180 8 лет назад +23

    Such a brilliant performance!
    Thank you so much for promoting it here -- and for giving it a reasonably hifi bitrate.
    Cheers

  • @JoshuaBracegirdle
    @JoshuaBracegirdle 8 лет назад +83

    Will forever remind me of Charlies's Angels when Lucy Liu's character Alex is introduced by Charlie

    • @bobhooey847
      @bobhooey847 5 лет назад

      awesome

    • @devilpupbear09
      @devilpupbear09 4 года назад

      Once upon a time there were three very different little girls

    • @MegaColacho
      @MegaColacho 4 года назад

      same reason im here!

  • @rienpost3145
    @rienpost3145 5 лет назад +28

    Total and utter genius.

  • @dezreenmacdowell9967
    @dezreenmacdowell9967 2 года назад +14

    This was the most interesting and original cover of this song. I never tire of hearing it.

  • @davestone3853
    @davestone3853 4 года назад +30

    Never understood why some people think this is cold and emotionless. It's two people having sardonic, gleeful Fun and barely controlling their laughter.

  • @PrincessofPower84
    @PrincessofPower84 3 месяца назад +4

    Joe's money brought me here

  • @cnote4461
    @cnote4461 13 лет назад +11

    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!!!

  • @Machialemmi
    @Machialemmi 9 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @rayreyes5405
    @rayreyes5405 Год назад +13

    The vocals sound like they lifted them from an early 1960s movie. Love it.

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 7 месяцев назад +2

      The original Barrett version of the song is from the late 50s early 60s. Then the Beatles ran with it.

  • @jamiebilich4084
    @jamiebilich4084 5 лет назад +16

    this song is awesome speaking the truth you can't survive without it

  • @_Junkers
    @_Junkers 8 лет назад +187

    Her English accent is like Queen Elizabeth's. I can almost picture her singing it.

    • @Sakurball
      @Sakurball 6 лет назад +5

      Junkers yep

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 6 лет назад +7

      She's South African

    • @carolgoodman4880
      @carolgoodman4880 6 лет назад +10

      no its not, you a yank, we sound the same yeah? ha

    • @remaguire
      @remaguire 6 лет назад +19

      She seems German to me.

    • @akz247365
      @akz247365 6 лет назад +2

      I thought was Chinese lol

  • @rogerspencer
    @rogerspencer 8 лет назад +18

    Was one of the early new wave records to come out of disco, certainly was a hit on the dance floors here.

  • @mikeg6311
    @mikeg6311 9 лет назад +8

    I always thought she was asian.

  • @cracker4706
    @cracker4706 8 месяцев назад +6

    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 !!

  • @blackred0486
    @blackred0486 8 лет назад +27

    I like it! I have always liked the Flying Lizards' version of "Money (That's What I Want)".

  • @johnmccormick8159
    @johnmccormick8159 2 года назад +37

    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.

  • @butters395
    @butters395 Год назад +2

    i remember as a teenager...i thought this was yoko ono 😂

  • @towersd
    @towersd 13 лет назад +9

    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.

  • @tracyglennmurray
    @tracyglennmurray Месяц назад +2

    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.

  • @cerysfalmai8644
    @cerysfalmai8644 10 лет назад +254

    I've seen robots show more emotion than that woman, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if she was a robot all along.

    • @edmund184
      @edmund184 9 лет назад +23

      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.

    • @MrSKINFLICK
      @MrSKINFLICK 9 лет назад +2

      edmund184 All women should also not be involved with sex.....that's why I'm gay + will stay gay. Women are religious fascists.....no kidding.

    • @TheFantasyClinic
      @TheFantasyClinic 9 лет назад +5

      +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).

    • @DavidB5501
      @DavidB5501 9 лет назад +17

      +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.'

    • @guitarpunk77
      @guitarpunk77 7 лет назад +1

      Mitzi the evil ferret it kind of makes her hotter though...

  • @clalyrics441
    @clalyrics441 7 лет назад +361

    FAMILY GUY -- THE DOLLAR EPISODE

    • @cheylahazell6673
      @cheylahazell6673 6 лет назад +18

      Cla Lyrics literally just watched it hahahaha then ended up here 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @leannebillows3343
      @leannebillows3343 6 лет назад +12

      That’s why I’m here 😂

    • @warrenguy76
      @warrenguy76 6 лет назад +11

      That's why I'm here too!! Just watched and wasn't sure who sang it. Thanks Shazam! 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @deweyalcoran7816
      @deweyalcoran7816 6 лет назад +3

      Yah

    • @gvapanese
      @gvapanese 6 лет назад +2

      Cheyla Hazell ikr

  • @traruhsynred3475
    @traruhsynred3475 7 лет назад +21

    The anti-Mary Poppins!

  • @meadministrator4968
    @meadministrator4968 6 лет назад +9

    I would love to have heard a version of this featuring either Zsa Zsa or Eva Gabor on lead vocals

    • @fluffybunny3178
      @fluffybunny3178 4 года назад

      They could have got their little dogs to do the chorus

  • @TheNewRiflemanBob
    @TheNewRiflemanBob 9 лет назад +88

    Lord of War!!!!

  • @starrlaurent4294
    @starrlaurent4294 6 лет назад +8

    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...

  • @Phoenix258
    @Phoenix258 10 лет назад +71

    selling guns is like selling vacuum cleaners

    • @thewomble1509
      @thewomble1509 6 лет назад +3

      yes, both suck!!

    • @patsyl8935
      @patsyl8935 6 лет назад +1

      the womble have you ever shot a gun? they are a wicked amount of fun

    • @iwrite4jacobin-bd2dr
      @iwrite4jacobin-bd2dr 6 лет назад

      You earned this like

    • @marcap9757
      @marcap9757 5 лет назад

      @@patsyl8935 especially when they're pointed at someone

    • @mikesleva291
      @mikesleva291 5 лет назад +1

      Selling vacuum cleaners is like pulling off the perfect deepthroat of any 6" or larger object!!!

  • @brianmorecombe2726
    @brianmorecombe2726 8 месяцев назад +1

    Give her money then coz she wasnt getting much singing like that lol

  • @BearCubster
    @BearCubster 11 лет назад +10

    This, for me, is the best version of the song.
    Makes me laugh everytime I hear it.

  • @pauls6897
    @pauls6897 2 года назад +52

    She sings with such soul. Right up there with Aretha.

  • @zeniamarshallofficial
    @zeniamarshallofficial 12 лет назад +20

    I love how she sings it!

    • @JMBluecoat8289
      @JMBluecoat8289 2 года назад +3

      She’s not singing. In fact, she said that she couldn’t sing.

    • @alondathomas293
      @alondathomas293 Год назад

      She's barely even singing this---she's just speaking it, lol.

  • @elw2214
    @elw2214 2 года назад +6

    We were sophomores in high school , can still see my sweet friend mouthing this version , with her braces. Brings tears and a smile.

  • @hughjasse4047
    @hughjasse4047 9 лет назад +177

    I'm shocked to see that the singer is a white lady. I always thought she sounded like an asian woman.

    • @ACheeseWheel
      @ACheeseWheel 9 лет назад +4

      Haha yeah

    • @steveyoung8876
      @steveyoung8876 9 лет назад +2

      +Hugh Jass Sounds more South African to me.

    • @AdamPilichowski
      @AdamPilichowski 9 лет назад +2

      +Hugh Jass and Izzy Azzelia is white OMG wtf?

    • @mrinvader
      @mrinvader 9 лет назад +1

      +Steve Young zsa zsa gabor or her sister ava

    • @bethm5852
      @bethm5852 8 лет назад

      +Hugh Jass hahaha (Sarcastic laugh since you can't tell the tone of my voice through the internet.) I get your name hahaha.

  • @lizvee7724
    @lizvee7724 2 года назад +5

    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

  • @arcamead1
    @arcamead1 2 года назад +6

    I remember when this came out and loved it,quirky tune for 1979,good ole days 😉

  • @atheistsince1210
    @atheistsince1210 4 месяца назад +6

    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!

  • @rodrigo7gomez
    @rodrigo7gomez 10 лет назад +19

    Table talk rocks

  • @jamiegoddard562
    @jamiegoddard562 8 месяцев назад +3

    Strange and brilliant loved flying lizzards deborah was so hot and classy love the pinball machine sound on it

  • @dayglowjim
    @dayglowjim 4 месяца назад +4

    I had a 45 of this when it was new!

  • @inyourfaceguitar5454
    @inyourfaceguitar5454 7 лет назад +1

    I just love the way she mocks the elitist upper class materialistic snobs and the way the guitarist mocks elitist posers like Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and the rest of that ilk.

  • @ripsawrodge67
    @ripsawrodge67 15 лет назад +8

    Campy and brilliant.One of my all time faves.

  • @starchmonkey
    @starchmonkey 2 года назад +2

    Anyone else hear Oingo Boingo's "No One Lives Forever" in the opening?

  • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
    @Gunners_Mate_Guns 10 лет назад +7

    The Barrett Strong original version remains the true classic that it is, but this version is good fun.

  • @Mistwalker801
    @Mistwalker801 Год назад +2

    "Lucas wants money"
    "Lots of money"
    "Joe's money"
    😁

  • @hellomynameisrodney
    @hellomynameisrodney 10 лет назад +76

    the Congressional theme song ?

  • @makeupandashley7348
    @makeupandashley7348 2 года назад +4

    Just heard this song as I was eating pizza at MOD PIZZA lol And I couldn’t stop dancing on my chair ! Love it 🕺🏽

  • @keshatalbot
    @keshatalbot 5 месяцев назад +2

    Its true that love won't pay my bills 2:31

  • @melgrant7404
    @melgrant7404 3 года назад +5

    My first single
    Love it xxxx
    Sounds great played loud with that thumping baseline xx

  • @tonystark341
    @tonystark341 4 года назад +8

    This video is definitely a classic !

  • @SuperSethstone
    @SuperSethstone 10 лет назад +12

    Anyone else used to think the girl singing this was asian?

    • @JasonSalt
      @JasonSalt 10 лет назад +1

      i thought she was the voice actress for BMO

    • @LMac1970
      @LMac1970 10 лет назад +1

      You might be thinking of the woman from M who sang on the record "Pop Musik"? Also 1979.

    • @estella5619
      @estella5619 10 лет назад

      I thought she was Brazilian

    • @SuperSethstone
      @SuperSethstone 10 лет назад

      Lawrence Mcilhoney
      Oh no. I dont mean to be offensive to anyone or anything, but the reason I thought she was Asian, was because of the accent.

    • @JBofBrisbane
      @JBofBrisbane 9 лет назад +1

      Seth Stone
      Sounded posh English to me.

  • @Baronrhubarbpostoffice
    @Baronrhubarbpostoffice Год назад +4

    This is bonkers and plain bloody brilliant a real mind twister

  • @stellagalo1292
    @stellagalo1292 2 месяца назад +1

    the lyrics:
    0% drugs
    0% sex
    0% violence
    100% gimme moneyy 🤑💰
    - Alejandro

  • @TabaquiJackal906
    @TabaquiJackal906 3 года назад +4

    Why can't I like, share, or save this vid? So weird. Love it to death.

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 2 года назад +2

    Okay, the original version by Barrett Strong is the most soulful and has a funky Rumba rhythm.
    The Beatles in my estimation somehow did an even better version.
    But I’ve always been crazy about this kitschy New Wave interpretation.
    I think it’s a stroke of genius and funny as hell.

  • @joedq
    @joedq 8 лет назад +6

    I am so going to do this song in one of my upcoming shows, love it.

  • @patriciahunter-hw9cl
    @patriciahunter-hw9cl 3 месяца назад +1

    This song is really done well… we can all relate! Love the song.. first time I saw the video…( for some reason, I love vids)….. Anyway. Cool

  • @Us51520783
    @Us51520783 10 лет назад +7

    Nice, They Sing This Song The Best, Many Tried!! :0)

  • @HowlingSquaw-os7dh
    @HowlingSquaw-os7dh Год назад +2

    ThiS Should bE BIDEN'$
    CAMPAIGN SONG. lol

    • @Lazy_Sundae
      @Lazy_Sundae 11 месяцев назад

      How ironic to hear that from a Trumpanzee 😂🐑

  • @m1cykwhoopwhoopwhoop688
    @m1cykwhoopwhoopwhoop688 2 года назад +1

    I really love this & this Era of music, she's lovely to.is Deborah still alive? Heard she was single a while ago?.

  • @357Muzzleblast
    @357Muzzleblast 10 лет назад +5

    Offbeat and original, I like the East European accent Deborah uses, but I'll bet she got sick of doing that one "song" over and over. She said she had to use the accent because she can't sing. That hasn't stopped countless people in our day and age, however, many of whom are making a lot of money by singing poorly.

    • @WillScarlet1991
      @WillScarlet1991 10 лет назад +5

      Eastern European accent ?! - are you thick ? - it sounds more like what posh people sound like.

    • @BeerDad69
      @BeerDad69 5 лет назад

      blackflagsarebetter
      Her name is Deborah Evans

    • @BeerDad69
      @BeerDad69 5 лет назад

      blackflagsarebetter
      There were three female vocalists in this band, Deborah sang the vocals for this song.