Thursday, October 15, 2020

They don't come in peace.

After yesterday's radio transmission to Venus, I just haven't been able to get enough of the Rezillos! I've watched/listened to "Destination Venus" at least a dozen times in the last 24 hours, and I'm still hungry for more. So today's song is another spacey Rezillos tune: "Flying Saucer Attack"!

This was the first song on their 1978 debut, Can't Stand the Rezillos. Like "Destination Venus," it also has an amazingly well-produced and well-preserved video from the band performing the song on Top of the Pops in 1978. Once again, co-lead singer Fay Fife impresses with her spastic dance moves and vinyl fashions, although this time she's rocking otherworldly polka dots instead of serving Wilma Flintstone realness. Her singing partner, Eugene Reynolds, opts for a purple vinyl leisure suit and his signature wraparound dark shades to protect his eyes from those alien laser beams. 

They have some good advice for when the skies fill with armies of enemy tin pie plates--lock yourself inside and never come out until it's oh-oh-oh over!


Since I seriously can't get enough of the infectious pop stylings of these geniuses, here's a song by the group Fay Fife and Eugene Reynolds formed after the original Rezillos disbanded. They simply replaced the Z with a V and kept on crafting pop masterpieces about voodoo, love bugs, and monster men for many more years as the Revillos. Check out the twitching, shimmy-shammy mutation pop that is "Graveyard Groove"!

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