I remember when this came out. This was before anyone knew what some bands looked like and we all thought the song was beyond out there. Now its a classic
@@JohnSmith-el2nj @ you don't know that; maybe the 'milk man' was from Ukraine or Yugoslavia?!? The girl back home in Serbia I was in love with looked just like her! And have you seen Yuliia Levchenko, the high-jumper from Ukraine? They could be twins...well, with the age difference...
My uncle was a DJ for an alternative station in the late 70s, early 80s. In 81, he made me two tapes from the studio - one of bands he thought would be big, and one titled 'weird, but good'. This was on the 'weird, but good' one, and was one of my favorites.
Heard this for the first time last night about 9pm. Ive listened to it at least 50 times now. And I intend to listen to a lot more, and make all my friends listen to it again & again...
I heard the other day, they recorded this as a spoof for a laugh, and it just took off. Ha, that'll teach them, they had to play a larking around record for years.
It came out in '79. It was the bleeding edge of avant-garde New Wave. It's a rejection of the processed Glam Rock era. I was cutting my teeth with music when this was released. The Flying Lizards, Blondie and the Eurythmics... warped my brain in a very good way.
It definitely doesn’t sound 90s, 1979 was an odd/interesting year of music and this totally fits right in to it, this is punk music before punk found it’s own identity in the already thousands of subgenres of rock
Best version, hands down. People who think this is "awful" are simply listening to a genre they don't like to begin with. This could not have been better.
First heard it over 40 years ago on The Dr. Demento Radio Show. Always thought they were an Asian punk band from her voice. Never "saw" them until now. Great stuff!
Barrett strong original version: Classic R&B blues version The beatles version: rock and roll version Flying Lizards version: experimental and new wave version
This group make Punk music sound friendly, doing amusing versions of rock and roll songs, through saying not singing the words, to a light Rock beat. They were one of the nicest pre Punk bands.
@@CartersRemasters It probably would be classed as Punk, in that sense, if the Beatles hadn't been a band which, according to one friend I had, could have been associated with the Mods, through he reckons started the Mod haircut, and also associated with Rock'n'Roll through doing two albums, Rock'n'Roll music Volumes 1 & 2. It could have also been Punk, when he was belting out the lyrics for Helter Skelter.
The first time I heard this song is when Ivisited my friends the Cohens and Julie Cohen let me listen to her cassette of 1980 Roxana Beder age 56 2:262:27
Love the deadpan delivery and cool percussive piano!
I remember when this came out. This was before anyone knew what some bands looked like and we all thought the song was beyond out there. Now its a classic
I'm 64 now and loved it when it first came out and it's still brilliant as ever 😁
I'm not 68 and I remember this when it debuted! I love eeeet!
that snare is so fantastically behind the beat
Good catch.
He plays the drums like a boss, especially when he’s got both hands full doing other stuff 😆
Perfection!
Have loved this since it came out in '79!
Yuppers...
I was a senior in high school and sang it over and in my head at Marine Corps basic training soon after.
Greta Thunberg anthem...
@@orionxtc1119 as ib a 16 year old girl ..... easy now Bronson
I was 11 in Seal Beach CA - we used to listen to this, Blondie, B52s - what a F'ING GOOD TIME!
What a decade to have existed in. I feel honoured.
I love her cut-glass vocals. Brilliant. RIP Barrett Strong who wrote this classic. Uk 🇬🇧
This song was a hit for Barrett Strong in 1959, but the song was written by Janie Bradford and Berry Gordy.
She wasn't British but the money theme is very British indeed
What a horrifically wonderful song.
What a wonderfully horrific comment.
Nice
😆😆😆
It's a cover version of a Barrett Strong song from 1959
@@dazza0018 Thanks, Captain Obvious
They try to make it sound bad, but they just can’t this is a gem
It's not as good as the original.
Jajajajajja
Sounds like Yoko Ono !!!
Dat Cringe - d'ya mean so bad that it's good...
@@garybradley1 It so is!
“Your love gives me such a thrill….”
I love her dancing
She was interviewed once and asked why she talked the song through. She answered that she could not sing. :)
Makes sense
Id lick her out me@@orionxtc1119
@@dinobussanich3017you’re an awful song
Best song ever!
Sounds like the anthem of my life!😅
Complete utter bonkers and I love it.
Yes. this did play on our radios and in our clubs....
I first heard this on a jukebox in a pizza joint in NJ when I was 12yo. 😂
This song lives forever rent free in my head
Rent free - love it!! Aka Ear worm
Minimal music at its best, no need for over producing, great song
I love her spin before she moves to the microphone. Her high heels, her Eastern European look. Her sound. It's so Choice!!!
Eastern European ma. She's as English as Jenny Agutter meets Eliza Doolittle
@@JohnSmith-el2nj @ you don't know that; maybe the 'milk man' was from Ukraine or Yugoslavia?!? The girl back home in Serbia I was in love with looked just like her! And have you seen Yuliia Levchenko, the high-jumper from Ukraine? They could be twins...well, with the age difference...
@@JohnSmith-el2njShe is totally Brit but she got something Eastern European
Love, love, love the deadpan delivery of this timeless classic! ✌️☮️✌️
So 😅t😅true
Flying Lizards were really great. Their album was fantastic and remais a masterpiece after all this years...
This song sounds weirdly good I can't stop listening to it
But it’s actually NOT good.
I guess you can't stop taking drugs either?
@@peacefuljeffrey ok
@@peacefuljeffreyCorrect, it's fantastic
Tell me about it!
My uncle was a DJ for an alternative station in the late 70s, early 80s. In 81, he made me two tapes from the studio - one of bands he thought would be big, and one titled 'weird, but good'. This was on the 'weird, but good' one, and was one of my favorites.
Who would have thunk this song would be awesome in a mafia movie, gotta love Sopranos, great taste in music
I wanna do a good deed
The Dickie Moltisanti actor was such a good choice, I think he will be the true acting gem of the movie.
Evidently chicken town :)
I wouldn't have thunk for sure
and in Lord of War
You hear that Ton? The best things in life are free! He he
Paulie
Vito is a good earner
Its called Social Security
The most energetic band to this date.
The band IS energetic, she's dead-pan, meaning... As little as needed 🥴.
Heard this for the first time last night about 9pm. Ive listened to it at least 50 times now. And I intend to listen to a lot more, and make all my friends listen to it again & again...
Magnificent, creative, zany, unique. Golden era of pop 1978-84...
i agree, exactly those years.
I usually say 1978-1983 imo 84 is when it started to get more overproduced. Not to say there aren't plenty of good songs in 1984 as well.
Still stuck in my head 40 years later..
Same
Its older than 40 years,came out in 1979.
If you don't like this version, you just don't get it. This is gold
GOLD???? That means MONEY and i want MONEY!!!! But you're so right , this is brilliant.
@@hemmohoving2558 bitcoin?😁
i get it!:|D
You mean Solid Gold, not cheesy gold-plated.
Gatekeeping,cirnge
Classic and timeless! 🤗🤑🤑🤑
Her voice is so mesmerizing. I love the certain robotic speaker sound of it. And I love the so honest message. Reality bites, baby.
Beautifully shambolic sounding but excellently produced song and so many electronic and no wave production tricks used here 😎🤘🏾
She couldn't sing.......she couldn't dance.......and I love it!!! Can't get enough of this track!!
she can't lip sync but that is even more charming
HA !
Think that's the best part, that she is NOT lip-sinking(on purpose sinking 😁) !
My mum used to play this song to me poor old dad, I remember it clearly, bless him!!
I love this version! I listen to it all the time. At lunch my coworkers come by and look in to hear it!
Now Sprockets, we dance!
😂
Yes! This time on Sprockets. Dieter!
I heard the other day, they recorded this as a spoof for a laugh, and it just took off. Ha, that'll teach them, they had to play a larking around record for years.
Classic!!! The piano in the end is nothing but pure talent
Forever gold
Absolutely love this song.
One of the best covers of an everlasting hit song. Superb!!!
utterly cold, callous, slicing and pircing but brilliant. I want your money .
This came out in the 70's... Sounds like something that came out in the 90's. Crazy
NO! It sounds like something out of London's swinging 60's era!
It came out in '79. It was the bleeding edge of avant-garde New Wave. It's a rejection of the processed Glam Rock era. I was cutting my teeth with music when this was released. The Flying Lizards, Blondie and the Eurythmics... warped my brain in a very good way.
It definitely doesn’t sound 90s, 1979 was an odd/interesting year of music and this totally fits right in to it, this is punk music before punk found it’s own identity in the already thousands of subgenres of rock
@@BearCubster little too new to be 60s either, I would have guessed 1984 at the latest had I not known what year this song came out
Have loved this since first hearing it at the university of south dakota in 1979. This and turning japanese were my favorites!
Shes so real for this
Still 100% better than anything out in the last 20 years!
*QUITE TRUE! And that's EXACTLY the problem!!!* 💀
I adored The Flying Lizards.
They are simply spectacular and she is a Goddess
Best version, hands down. People who think this is "awful" are simply listening to a genre they don't like to begin with. This could not have been better.
When my wife told me this is the worst song ever, that actually made me like it more!
I love all versions, for different reasons.
She is up front what she wants no pretense her expression spot on
Great video like something in a David Lynch film
Thanks for pointing that out
It just got used in Sopranos Prequel trailer, and got me hooked.
The moment I first saw this on Top of the Pops was the moment I decided to start buying vinyl records.
I love this song and the band is so cool!😎👍💯
First heard it over 40 years ago on The Dr. Demento Radio Show. Always thought they were an Asian punk band from her voice. Never "saw" them until now. Great stuff!
I always thought the lead "singer" was Asian for some reason....
Dr. Dimento!❤️🎇
Same! It would make more sense.
Best cover of this song ❤
This takes me back. Waaaaay back 😂
The energy she oozes is AMAZEBALLS!!@
Beyond awesome!
6ft tall and a face like that, money you shall HAVE !
great arrangement . . . . she says it like she means it
I had a 45 record of this song..brings back memories.
Lovin' this, memories of autumn 79.
I heard this song sometime in the 90s, and I thought it was brilliant! I love her deadpan delivery ❤
great version of this song brilliant
super theme of the 70s, classics, they will never go out of style.
Thank you Flying Lizards for this track.. still rockin it 2021
2023 here
Thank Barrett Strong. It's a copy.
Thank you Strong for performing, and The Beatles making it well known enough for Middle Class losers like the Lizards to hear it
@@CartersRemastersYou have bitterness.
still rocking it 2023
The most inspirational wife and mother ever!!!
Once again British musicians grab an American gem and do a WHOLE new reinvention on it! This sounds so fresh in 2023!!
And to think it was done in the 80s!
@@henryeason9572 Brit?? Isnt' she German???! Ach Tung baby.
Such crisp enunciation, nice.
I love it.
This song is definitely on time nowadays and I loved it back then too.
I’m gonna start sending this song to a few people who owe me munneh! 😄😄
Spring is coming
It's true
But I want money
Is anyone old enough to remember this being play on Dr. Demento? It was a late-night radio show from the '70s?
Barrett strong original version: Classic R&B blues version
The beatles version: rock and roll version
Flying Lizards version: experimental and new wave version
And the Kingsmen was a proto hard rock version.
Don't forget the most important cover by the Tiny Toons
Don't forget The Doors! 70's blues rock version. Also has an ironic attitude
SUCH ENERGY!
Once heard, never forgotten. Love it! ❤
Happy days fantastic songs
Been a long time since I last heard this….still love it. It’s just so genius n unique.
One of the BEST cover versions EVER!
THE SLITS cover of Heard It Thru The Grapevine was also pretty fkng amazing!!!
Just remembering my weissbier drinking days, listening to WMSE alternative music broadcasts in 1981. This song I remember 😄
Good beer too, sounds like memories
Brilliant! I have the LP record.
My mother loved this song r.i.p Angela Malika White
Tune from my childhood. Still sounds amazing.
I'm liking them dance moves 🤣🤭
So pure.
This group make Punk music sound friendly, doing amusing versions of rock and roll songs, through saying not singing the words, to a light Rock beat. They were one of the nicest pre Punk bands.
This is POST-punk... one of the earliest new wave songs.
Post punk not pre punk
How is John Lennon belting this out not punk? but this is?
@@CartersRemasters It probably would be classed as Punk, in that sense, if the Beatles hadn't been a band which, according to one friend I had, could have been associated with the Mods, through he reckons started the Mod haircut, and also associated with Rock'n'Roll through doing two albums, Rock'n'Roll music Volumes 1 & 2. It could have also been Punk, when he was belting out the lyrics for Helter Skelter.
I saw them live in The Mud N.Y,C. Never heard them before it stuck with me for all these years
Gold Diggers anthem 💛💛💛💛💯
Suctorian women....
Love this and them, especially her.
Sooo wonderfully Retro!!!!
All time Classic brilliant song
Such beautiful honesty on multple levels.
The many saint of newark, it's beautifull, salute uncle jun🥂
Mr. Magoo
❤❤❤
Listening to song in 2023 and I am enjoying it.
Perfect
The instruments sound like items found in a kitchen. Such an awesome song.
Fantastic!
Weird how the snare is behind the beat at the start but seems to catch up later. Very avant garde.
There are other versions of this song by The Beatles and originally Barrett Strong in 1959
So bad it’s awesome 👏
The first time I heard this song is when Ivisited my friends the Cohens and Julie Cohen let me listen to her cassette of 1980 Roxana Beder age 56 2:26 2:27
She seems so thrilled "You're Love Gives Me Such a Thrill', Lol. It's very cheezy.