Flying Lizards: Flying Lizards / Fourth Wall, 2CD
Flying Lizards

A welcome reissue of the two key Flying Lizards albums, innovative Pop Electronica from the early 1980’s Founded in 1978 by avant-garde composer and producer David Cunningham as an experimental pop band, The Flying Lizards rode the crest of the New Wave peaking with the international hit single Money. First album players included sound stylists in their own right David Toop and Steve Beresford, with vocals from Vivien Goldman.
This also included the first two singles made by Cunningham, Summertime Blues and Money with monotone vocals by his art school colleague Deborah Evans, recorded before the album. On the second album Cunningham was even more experimental and brought in contributions from Michael Nyman and Robert Fripp, plus vocals by Patti Palladin.

Less successful commercially but more highly rated critically at the time. The music Cunningham created follows after Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, helping pave the way for the employment of electronica in later UK pop music with the likes of Stereolab, St Etienne and Portishead.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1. Mandelay Song
2. Her Story
3. TV
4. Russia
5. Summertime Blues
6. Money (That’s What I Want)
7. The Flood
8. Trouble
9. Events During The Flood
10. The Window
11. Bonus Tracks – Summertime Blues (12 Version) Dk4809
12. All Guitars Vs381
13. Money (Edit) Vs276
14. Money B Vs276
15. Tube Vs325Fourth Wall Virgin V2190 (P.1981) –

DISC TWO

1. Lovers And Other Strangers
2. Glide
3. Spin
4. In My Lifetime
5. Cirrus
6. A-Train
7. New Voice
8. Hands 2 Take
9. An Age
10. Steam Away
11. Move On Up
12. Another Story
13. Lost And Found
14. Bonus Tracks – Portugal Vs381
15. Continuity Vs392
16. Lovers And Other Strangers Vs421 (Single Version)
17. Wind Vs421