08 Mar '08 - 194 W - + 1 - 2 Flying Lizards - That's What I Want!

Yesterday I posted a video (not the original) of The Flying Lizards’ best known song, Money. YouTube does, in fact, have the original video on site but the sound quality is pretty ropey. However, I have been doing a bit of research and found original Fling Lizards videos for two other songs, which I give you below...

These are wonderful. In my view, just as good as Money. Why, then, did The Flying Lizards never have another major hit? I suspect it’s because they were just a bit too strange. The first video below, TV, is practically a mini David Lynch film. But if David Lynch seems reasonably mainstream now, after the TV series Twin Peaks and films such as Mulholland Drive, the same could not be said back in 1979 when this Flying Lizards video was made (Twin Peaks wasn’t even broadcast until 11 years later!). ‘Coquilles Saint-Jacques indeed!”

The second video is a rather unusual cover version of the 1958 rock’n’roll song, Dizzy Miss Lizzy. What can I say - sheer genius.

More on The Flying Lizards here: http://www.markallencam.com/theflyinglizards.html


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