Last Friday I decided to stay in but could not sleep.
So I did what any other person would do, I decided to spend (waste) some money and time on some stuff online.
After I exhausted my whole emusic account for this month I turned to Itunes (which I pride myself NEVER turning to) and just went to town with all sorts of things I always wanted to own but never did (my receipt I am hiding).
Anyhoo, one of the songs I tried to find was the cover of “Best things in life are free (Money)” by seminal 80s British band, the Flying Lizards (which most of you may remember from “Empire records”) and ITUNES DID NOT HAVE IT.
Left with not other option, I then went and illegally downloaded it from some random blog (I love you HYPE!) and in the meantime stumbled upon the SHEER GENIUS THAT WAS THEIR “TOP TEN” ALBUM filled with some of the finest post modern covers you’ve ever laid your ears on: James Brown, The Crystals, Jerry Lee Lewis…no one is safe.
And I love them all so much I wanted to share.
So, to kick your weekend off right, feast your eyes and ears on these….
Now, can someone please get me this thing up on Itunes so I can never listen to anything else again?
Money
And then he Kissed Me
Great Balls of Fire
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Sex Machine
also please post the world party song
“just afloat on the sea” or whatever it was…best song in the movie and they cant put it on itunes?
I can only offer you this…….
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3817075/The_Flying_Lizards-The_Flying_Lizards
July 18, 2008 at 7:17 pmExcerpt from Cybernauts in the Cultural Marketplace, by Steve Taylor, Melody Maker, February 9, 1980:
“The next Flying Lizards project had [Dave] Cunningham rifling through his collection of old singles once more - not quite as far back as Eddie Cochran’s 1958 million-seller, but to February 1960, when Barrett Strong had an American top 30 hit with “Money”. a Berry Gordy Jr. song later to be covered by two well known British pop groups.
Here the Lizards expanded to include a musician Cunningham had met at Covent Garden through a mutual friend - Jullian Marshall, a pianist and songwriter who was about to tour Europe with Marshall Hain. Cunningham had liked the elegant “black” sound of their single “Dancing in the City”, but had other reasons for introducing Marshall into the fold.
“I used Julian for the first time on ‘Money’,” Cunningham admits, simply for logistics; here he was with a piano - a grand piano - and a TEAC in his front room.”
Marshall recalls How It Was Done: “David played me the original version to refresh my memory, put one mike in the piano and another one by the metronome on the floor. We did it twice, the second time with various things - Chopin sheet music, a glass ashtray, a cassette recorder - thrown into the piano.”
His subsequent response serves as a revealing illumination of the Cunningham Method: “David said ‘That’s fine,’ and I was slightly amazed: it sounded fairly wrong. But the next time I heard it, at Utopia, where he was cutting it” - this was after Cunningham had added all the other instruments, treated and mixed it - “it sounded fantastic.”
It reached number five in September of last year. In the States, where it was a cult hit on import - the fastest selling import in New York for a time - it has since been released on Virgin U. S. on both 12 and 7-inch, reaching number 34 in Cashbox at the last count and selling around 200,00 copies.
Cunningham had been around the record business for long enough to know that this was putting him in a position of some power, especially as “Money” is reputed to have recouped his $250 advance with the first day’s sales.”
July 19, 2008 at 4:40 pmmonotone female vocals never sounded so good
well there’s Ladytron, sometimes
loved the scene with Money in Empire Records
DAMN THE MAN, SAVE THE EMPIRE!
I listen to that cover of Sex Machine at least once a week.
July 18, 2008 at 4:29 pm