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Showing posts with label The Stranglers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Stranglers. Show all posts

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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Saturday, February 10, 2024

Tracks of My Tears! SATURDAY SOUNDS | Well songs of the Day from guest source NEBULOUSLY BURNISHED!!!


 I think most if not all of this morning’s posts are from one of my two favourite picture bloggers and this one is from NEBULOUSLY BURNISHED who I have been following for the longest time and I only just realised a couple of things and that is she has been posting pictures of herself lately! and that: She is a young woman! I don’t think I ever really thought much about what gender the poster was but it threw me somehow! Mudwerks who I also follow religiously (sic!) he posts music of his own and picture resources ad infinitum somehow all the time and more and faster than I!) He was clearly a chap as he used a picture of himself but Nebulously . . .  I didn’t really think was a gal!? Why? What is THAT all about! When I saw her picture I was so pleasantly surprised it made my day somehow! WEIRD !

Today she has posted the following great tracks:

She starts the day with this . . . bear with me an ear worm I know and whilst I am not so much of a later Bee Gees fan (it’s all that falsetto!) this is classic film track and no mistake . . . . . 


I wonder if he means Johnson or Fanning? I like both so it’s all good!

awesome song, heartfelt and moving . . . . about his wife?!

and this indeed is she!

Curator of things.…..

@nebulously-burnished

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Stranglers - Live Guildhall Portsmouth, GB 1990 - Floppy Boot Stomp

 THE STRANGLERS


I think the Boss over at Floppy Boot Stomp and Voodoo Wagon must be psychic! For a while I had been contemplating posting the Stranglers first album Rattus Norvegicus (April 1977, UK album chart #4) as part of an occasional series in that I bought it when it came out. 1977 was an amazing year for music. Punk Rock's 1968! Floppy Boot Stomp have this set this morning. The notes indicate this line up was the last tour of the original line up Hugh Cornwell, Jean Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield and Jet Black (Brian Duffy) In his autobiography, Cornwell stated that he felt that by 1990 the Stranglers were a spent force creatively, and cited various examples of his increasingly acrimonious relationship with his fellow band-members, particularly Burnel. Oh and did I mention this is in FLAC format so it is AWESOME quality!

The Stranglers - Portsmouth 1990 - Floppy Boot Stomp

March 13, 1990
Soundboard @flac


Lineage: Cassette>Audition>Mastering>CDWav>FLAC
Setlist: 

01. Intro (Meninblack)
02. Shah Shah a Go Go
03. I Feel Like a Wog
04. Straighten Out
05. Shakin' Like a Leaf
06. 96 Tears
07. Someone Like You
08. Sweet Smell of Success
09. Always the Sun
10. Ships That Pass in the Night
11. Peaches
12. Where I Live
13. School Mam
14. Let's Celebrate
15. Uptown
16. Tank
17. Was it You?
18. Down in the Sewer
19. Nuclear Device (part)
20. Duchess
21. No More Heroes (part)
22. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
23. All Day And All of the Night
24. Punch and Judy

The Stranglers - Peaches


The Stranglers - Hanging Around




Rattus Norwegicus 1977. . . . .