25th
The Flying Lizards - Her Story (1979)
Experimental British “pop” group led by producer David Cunningham and joined by a loose collective of avant-garde personnel on instruments and vocals, most notably journalist and reggae/postpunk musician Vivien Goldman. Aside from the well-known, emotionless hit covers, the debut album also contains two wonderful songs written and sung by Goldman, including “The Window” and “Her Story”, which also contains a line that inspired the Public Image Limited single about bands selling out their artistic principles for commercial success - “This Is Not A Love Song” from 1983 (“But you can still make money, by singing sweet songs of love… this is a love song”). Ironically, it gave PiL their biggest international hit single.
This is also the song that the Roots sampled for the first half of “Water.” I love this track, and played it for a class of undergrads that I was visiting last year. They found it confusing.
