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Pretty much played it on loop all weekend - album of the year - no contest

Tenek - On The Wire
Gary Numan - Sacrifice

Quite a contrast in the quality of production of these two albums, but both superb (the Toffeetones sound is about as crisp and clear as I have heard).

I think the Tenek album is a step forward over their debut album, especially the vocals. Good stuff!

David Bowie; Station to Station - Special Edition

Big Beautiful Sky by Venus Hum, and lots of Bryan Ferry with a bit of Roxy's Avalon.

The Flying Lizards - 'The Flying Lizards'

Was browsing the F section in HMV Birmingham when I spied the above. Only bought 7" of 'Money' when it came out & didn't buy the album. So 30 years later I catch up & give myself 30 lashes for over-looking it way back when.

Most enjoyable.

I had their other sort-of-hit single, 'TV' when it came out. It had that memorable line that went: "I think you're very, very, very..." I too never heard an entire album. 'Money' was definitely one of the more original Beatles covers, the other obvious one being Siouxsie's 'Helter Skelter'.

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It's quite experimental & dubby in flavour & has a 'recorded live in the studio' feel to it, even though it wasn't.

Their version of 'Summertime Blues' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9CRGKYXjCA is probably the best cover version I've heard, even better than 'Money', which isn't a Beatles song. The original is by Barrett Strong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6xkT7FMyTc&feature=fvw

Always thought it was a Beatles cover myself, until I read the cd sleevenotes. Also included on the cd is the dub version of 'Money (That's What I Want)' which was on the 7" b-side. I used to crank it up on my Waltham Music Centre!

The album begins with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Yo4Y9RwA8&feature=related & you realise immediately that the rest of the album is going to have a majestic ride through your earholes.

Yup I read they just re-released 1st and 2nd albums.
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/rpm/artists/flyinglizards.php#retrod883

Monsieur Ilektrique, I bow to your superior knowledge (and the fact that you have the benefit of the CD sleeve notes!). As for the recorded live in the studio feel, I think I read at the time that some of the vocals were recorded in somebody's bathroom to achieve that sort of effect. Shows how far technology has come that you can now just set your VST reverb plugin to 'Bathroom' and achieve the same effect!

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In a similar vein, does anybody remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ELIzGZMdcE&feature=related

I wore a badge with that single cover on it to college one day and my lecturer asked me what it meant, he said something like "How can you drink electricity?". The words 'point' and 'missed' came to mind. That said, the poor guy's name was Frank Bottom (no kidding!) so I had to make allowances.

I never bought any of their subsequent releases but I played this one to death.

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They're on MySpace too:

http://www.myspace.com/drinkingelectricity