Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock music group. Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s. Beginning life as the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, they originally built a following within the mid-'70s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through to the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

They had major mainstream success with their single "Golden Brown". Their other hits include "No More Heroes", "Peaches", "Always the Sun", "Skin Deep" as well as many other groundbreaking and popular songs. The Stranglers' early sound was driven by Jean-Jacques Burnel's pulsating bass, but also proudly gave prominence to Dave Greenfield's keyboards at a time when the instrument was seen as unfashionable. Their early music was also characterised by the growling vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell. Over time, their output gradually grew more refined and sophisticated. Summing up their contribution to popular music, critic Dave Thompson would later write: "From bad-mannered yobs to purveyors of supreme pop delicacies, the group was responsible for music that may have been ugly and might have been crude – but it was never, ever boring."


Discography

  • Rattus Norvegicus (1977)
  • No More Heroes (1977)
  • Black and White (1978)
  • The Raven (1979)
  • The Gospel According to The Meninblack (1981)
  • La Folie (1981)
  • Feline (1983)
  • Aural Sculpture (1984)
  • Dreamtime (1986)
  • 10 (1990)
  • Stranglers In the Night (1992)
  • About Time (1995)
  • Written in Red (1997)
  • Coup de Grace (1998)
  • Norfolk Coast (2004)
  • Suite XVI (2006)
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (1977)

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Rattus Norvegicus is the first studio album by The Stranglers, released on 17 April 1977. The band's name was printed as "The Stranglers IV" on the sleeve. The album was originally to be entitled "Dead on Arrival" but was changed at the last minute. It was one of the highest-selling albums of the punk era in Britain. The album's title is the taxonomic name for the common brown rat. It was produced in one week by Martin Rushent, and was basically a snapshot of the band's live set at the time. Some websites incorrectly list the title of the album as IV and the artist as Rattus Norvegicus.

Playlist files :

01.Sometimes (4:56)
02.Goodbye Toulouse (3:12)
03.London Lady (2:25)
04.Princess Of The Streets (4:34)
05.Hanging Around (4:25)
06.Peaches (4:03)
07.(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (3:55)
08.Ugly (4:03)
09.Down In The Sewer (7:30)


The Stranglers - No More Heroes (1977)

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No More Heroes is the second album by The Stranglers, produced by Martin Rushent, and released in 1977. It featured a photo of a wreath placed on a coffin with the tails of several rats (the Stranglers' 'trademark'). The album became one of the band's highest charting releases, peaking at no.2 on the UK album chart, and stayed in the chart for 19 weeks.

Playlist files :

01.I Feel Like a Wog (3:18)
02.Bitching (4:26)
03.Dead Ringer (2:46)
04.Dagenham Dave (3:19)
05.Bring on the Nubiles (2:16)
06.Something Better Change (3:37)
07.No More Heroes (3:29)
08.Peasant in the Big Shitty (3:27)
09.Burning Up Time (2:25)
10.English Towns (2:12)
11.School Mam (7:10)



The Stranglers - Black and White

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Black and White is The Stranglers third studio album and was recorded within 18 months of their debut Rattus Norvegicus. Produced by Martin Rushent and engineered by Alan Winstanley, the album is divided into the Black side and White side, each nominally characterised by the style and mood of the songs which they contain. This release sees The Stranglers adopting a more experimental approach to song structures and time signatures (for example, "Curfew" features 7/4 time).

Playlist files :

White side

01.Tank (2:54)
02.Nice 'N' Sleazy (3:11)
03.Outside Tokyo (2:06)
04.Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front) (2:47)
05.Hey! (Rise of the Robots) (2:13)
06.Toiler on the Sea (5:23)

Black side

01.Curfew (3:10)
02.Threatened (3:30)
03.Do You Wanna"§/"Death and Night and Blood (Yukio) (5:25)
04.In the Shadows (4:15)
05.Enough Time (4:16)



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The Stranglers - The Raven (1979)

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The Raven is an album by The Stranglers, released in 1979. The album was originally released with a limited edition 3-D cover. Another limited edition was inadvertently created when the band was forced to remove an image of Joh Bjelke-Petersen from the inner sleeve artwork. Petersen was the subject of the album's sixth track, "Nuclear Device".

Playlist files :


01.Longships (1:10)
02.The Raven (5:13)
03.Dead Loss Angeles (2:24)
04.Ice (3:26)
05.Baroque Bordello (3:50)
06.Nuclear Device (3:32)
07.Shah Shah A Go Go (4:50)
08.Don't Bring Harry (4:09)
09.Duchess (2:30)
10.Meninblack (4:48)
11.Genetix (5:16)

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