Your favourite tune by THE STRANGLERS

[chips and gravy]

We've had the Jam. What about one of my favourite groups from the same era, The Stranglers. A punk group, but not really since they wrote some great tunes.

My favourites were Peaches and No More Heroes. Leon Trotskey getting an ice pick that made his ears burn is a classic line!

 

[METALMICKY]

We've had the Jam. What about one of my favourite groups from the same era, The Stranglers. A punk group, but not really since they wrote some great tunes.

My favourites were Peaches and No More Heroes. Leon Trotskey getting an ice pick that made his ears burn is a classic line!

Forget the Sex Pistols and the hype. The Stranglers were the real talent from the punk era. Personally i thought their golden period was up to and including the Raven album. After that they became a little too arty for my liking and they were never going to be the same when later Hugh Cornwell departed. The combo of Burnel's growling bass, Greenfield's (and from Brighton) rippling hammond and Cornwell's sparse Tele work were never bettered.

Too many songs to really rate as a fave but i would suggest:

No More Heroes
Go Buddy Go
Tank
Walk on By (cover)
Peaches
Get a Grip
5 Minutes
Dagenham Dave
London Lady
Princess of The Streets

If you like The Stranglers the biography 'No Mercy' is a great read with genuine tales of mayhem mainly involving rucking with all and sundry and their connection to the Hells Angels.

Who else could come up with a song based on an ageing schoolmistress who dies whilst experiencing her first orgasm, brought on by witnessing pupils copulating on a CCTV camera!

 

[Don Tmatter]

'Nice n' Sleazy' for me, never bettered.

 

[Beach Hut]

Walk on By or Golden Brown

 

[Raphael Meade]

a very good live band

 

[Superphil]

What was the song that was about sewers, "Down in the Sewer" or somthing?
I was never a particular fan but I liked that one cos there was a prefect at school we all hated and his surname was Ewer, work it out for yourseleves!

 

[attila]

I saw Hugh Cornwell at Glasto this year and it was really good - dunno about the other lot, Stranglers without Cornwell would be Rancid without Tim Armstrong...

Something Better Change.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Walk on By
Peasant in the big shitty
No more heroes
Down in the Sewer
The Raven
Ugly
Goodbye Toulouse
Dagenham Dave
Tank

 

[zefarelly]

something better change
PEaches
no more heroes

marvellous bas playing too

 

[Storer68]

Always the sun" was the song that went around the 1990 World Cup with me...............

otherwisethe usual suspects; No more heroes, Something Better Change , duchess

 

[REDLAND]

Golden Brown, its the only song I like that they have done

 

[METALMICKY]

Golden Brown, its the only song I like that they have done

As loved by all Wogan's Radio 2 listeners and all blissfully aware it was all about heroin

Come on Attila how about a Stranglers medley for pre-match against Preston?

Alternatively just "Something Better Change" would seem appropriate on current form!

 

[Pavilionaire]

Walk On By for me.

I saw them in 1982 at the Brighton Centre. A technically good performance but Cornwall didn't speak to the audience one except to say hello and at the end to say goodbye.

 

[Vlad the Impala]

First band I ever saw. Great gig on Hastings Pier, supported by the Dictators. Was it 1977 or 1978? Anyone else there?

For me, it is both the first albums, Walk on By, Go Buddy Go and Five Minutes.

If I'm not mistaken, the current lead singer of the Stranglers was once the lead singer for Sniff and the Tears (not a Yank band).

 

[Zeitgeist]

First band I ever saw. Great gig on Hastings Pier, supported by the Dictators. Was it 1977 or 1978? Anyone else there?

Yep, I remember seeing the Stranglers on Hastings pier in early 1977. The support band were "Eater", so maybe they played Hastings later too. After being gobbed on throughout the gig, Hugh Cornwell threatened to walk off unless the "f****** wankers f***** off and jumped of the end of the pier!". It was around the time their first album was released and they were at their raw best.
The Stranglers topped the bill yesterday (Sunday) at the Beautiful days festival at Escot in Devon. Anyone get to see them?

 

[Vlad the Impala]

Yep, I remember seeing the Stranglers on Hastings pier in early 1977. The support band were "Eater", so maybe they played Hastings later too.

Dunno, maybe Eater were there too. I cannot forget the Dictators, who came on stage and announced "We are the Dictators from New York City - and we are going to rule the world!" Greeted, naturally, with much derision by the locals. Not a bad band really though. Their version of "Search and Destroy" is a classic.

 

[The Orange Seagull]

Golden Brown and No More Heroes.

 

[Rambo]

No More Heroes.
Peaches

My two favourites.

 

[Yorkie]

Golden Brown & No More Heroes

Terry Wogan always introduces Golden Brown as being dedicated to the present Chancellor..

 

[GUNTER]

Nice and Sleazy does it every time...