Despite its rather cheeky title, Greatest Hits 1977-1990 is a good place to sample the entire Stranglers output. From the squalor of the late-'70s material, to the smoothed-out gloom pop of songs like "Skin Deep" and other mid- to late-'80s neo-goth rock, this is a solid anthology that values substance over style and exhaustive track selection. For sure, a well-edited Stranglers anthology is the only way to enjoy them; they recorded way too much dross to spend time searching out all of their plentiful, marginal records.
A Bachrach/David cover by this British pub-rock > new wave band. I wish the vocals were better, but their extended instrumental jam shreds. Has a sort of psych sound to me. Notice how "broken in two" isn't enough. This guy's got to be "broken in pieces". On second thought, I do hand it to him. The liner notes, here, quote an unknown pundit as saying, "They're too old to be punks, too out...
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I saw mention of the Stranglers in a recent Crash post and it made me think of this song. A lot of the techno-y songs from the eighties were total crap, but this one is golden. There was this roving nightclub in Austin sometime around '84-'85, and this, my dear mogsters, was a crucial part of the soundtrack of the proto-rave-feel-good experience AKA Club Iguana.
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A Bachrach/David cover by this British pub-rock > new wave band. I wish the vocals were better, but their extended instrumental jam shreds. Has a sort of psych sound to me. Notice how "broken in two" isn't enough. This guy's got to be "broken in pieces". On second thought, I do hand it to him. The liner notes, here, quote an unknown pundit as saying, "They're too old to be punks, too out...
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The Stranglers - Walk On By (1978).....it goes on for 6 minutes.
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Dub Pistols ’Peaches’ feat. Rodney P & Terry HallAdd to My Profile | More Videos
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And change it did. Another 1977 release, this time from the new wave/punk band The Stranglers.Not as popular as some of their peers, they are still cited as an influential band by many music makers. Still touring as well.
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I saw mention of the Stranglers in a recent Crash post and it made me think of this song. A lot of the techno-y songs from the eighties were total crap, but this one is golden. There was this roving nightclub in Austin sometime around '84-'85, and this, my dear mogsters, was a crucial part of the soundtrack of the proto-rave-feel-good experience AKA Club Iguana.
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| 1 Peaches |
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| 2 Something Better Change |
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| 3 No More Heroes |
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| 4 Walk on By |
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| 5 Duchess |
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| 6 Golden Brown |
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| 7 Strange Little Girl |
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| 8 European Female |
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| 9 Skin Deep |
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| 10 Nice in Nice |
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| 11 Always the Sun |
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| 12 Big in America |
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| 13 All Day and All of the Night |
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| 14 96 Tears |
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| 15 No Mercy |
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