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Sunday, July 14, 2024

This . . . . now we’re talking . . .THE STRANGLERS

The Stranglers: 1977 - 1984 9 Albums!




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This is of course up to Kostas’ usual standards and well the exploration. Bought the first album when it came out and then mid stream kind of left them somewhere . . . . . . . but hey that first album! 
THE STRANGLERS - RATTUS NORVEGICUS ! plus eight more! (count ‘em)

The Stranglers are an English rock band. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene. Although they rose to fame during the initial explosion of U.K. punk, the Stranglers always stood apart from the other bands from the class of 1977. They had been together before punk became the "next big thing", and while they had a great talent for being suitably rude and transgressive, their music didn't sound or feel much like the fast-loud guitar-based fury of the Damned, the Sex Pistols, or the Clash.

                         Formed as the Guildford Stranglers in Guildford, Surrey, in early 1974, they originally built a following 


within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging 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 the sophisti-pop of some of their 1980s output. They had major mainstream success with their 1982 single "Golden Brown". Their other hits include "No More Heroes", "Peaches", "Always the Sun", "Skin Deep" and "Big Thing Coming".

1977 was a weird year! The Punk’s 1968 somehow!

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1 comment:

Kostas said...

Many thanks as always Andy.