The Stranglers

I wasn’t really into them, but I did like this album and this track? It was interesting to read Jammy Jeff’s stuff about them.

I have no real reason for posting this today. I'd love to share some poignant anecdote or deep, cerebral meaning, but I'm only putting it up because it rocks so fucking furiously that it never fails to make my goddamn day. J.J. Burnell's inimitable bass playing well to the fore. GODDAMMIT I LOVED THE STRANGLERS SO MUCH.

New Wave Wednesday; The Stranglers - 5 Minutes . The man's a STAR

Someone was playing this in halls, and it was extremely -> Give me a guy and a dancefloor anyone know ryan adams?? lame...but worth getting it out there. I LOVE RYAN ADAMS.but thats a different story. I've heard this one's about drugs...

After posting about The Dead Kennedys I got to thinking. There's a lot of music I like that doesn't fit in nice neat genres. They skirt the outsides of genres, subverting them and making the genre richer for their influence.
What happens when you take a blues singer, a classical concert guitarist, a jazz drummer and a military band player? It sounds like the biggest mistake but it turned out to be a very powerful combination indeed. Much like the Rolling Stones the combinat... MORE

Dub Pistols ’Peaches’ feat. Rodney P & Terry Hall



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This song has been stuck in my head all day. Clearly I'm focusing on my work:

...Buzzcocks;

Sometimes Punk music brings out the warrior in me. You can tell where I am going by following the trail of sonic carcasses I leave in my wake.

Rock music has been deluged with precautionary tales of excess, through every genre, through every decade, there's been artists only too willing to confess via record their regression into addictive substances of one form or another. For fans of London four piece The Stranglers, the signs of chemical addiction were vividly obvious from their promo video for the classic single "5 Minutes" from 1978. The band members (particularly Drummer Jet Black) looked vacant, tragically... MORE

Someone had a post of Hugh Cornwell,so I had to share one of the best "Stranglers" songs,well my fave anyway(and Skin Deep) Enjoy!