Letter From Britain
FEAR OF REPTILES
It looks like the Flying Lizards are going to have the third hit in a row with “TV.”
May 1, 1980
It looks like the Flying Lizards are going to have the third hit in a row with “TV” Out a few days it already sounds familiar and—more surprisingy—I'm singing it. Which may not sound particularly odd except that the Lizards are not the kind of organization set up to make you respond in quite that way. Or so I thought. They ve become the “commercially acceptable” face of experimental post-punk avant garde. Categories, my dear Watson, mere categories. Into sound, electronics, tape bops, minimal lyrics, their tracks hiccough and insist.