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Hmm well, I thought it would be good to make a thread for this band. I was pretty hard on them in another thread cause there's a particular Ray Davies song that I didn't care much for when they did it and had a big hit out of it.
Well anyway I only have their Greatest Hits 1977-1990 album and it'll be that I'll work from.
What's interesting about The Stranglers is in the 70s they were a Punk band and had Top 10 hits in 1977 with "Peaches", "Something Better Change" & "No More Heroes". My favourite of them three being "No More Heroes" simply by how the song opens with the Guitar and Drums, it sounds amazing. "Peaches" actually does nothing for me and I tend to skip over it & "Something Better Change" is a bit better and can listen to it.
"Walk On By" is one of those known songs which was a hit song in the past for a lady whose name I'm forgotten!
The Song is one of many songs which Hal David and Burt Bacharach wrote though and in terms of what version I heard first, it was the Stranglers version on this album, which a Top 30 Hit in 1978 for the Stranglers. What's interesting about this is it's almost like The Stranglers wanted a song simular to The Doors doing their extended version of "Light My Fire", cause the song just comes across as very simular and of simular length.
The last kinda Punkish song on that album being "Duchess" which was a Top 20 song in 1979.
In the 80s The Stranglers took on a slightly different approach to their music and the result was a big hit song with "Golden Brown" which got to number 2 in 1981. Personally I feel their music between 1981 and 1986 is perhaps the most interesting and even when I listen to it today, it sounds quite good and to me doesn't show a lot of that heavy 80s influence you hear in typical 80s music. "Golden Brown" could have been done in the 60s for instance - could be wrong in that assumption, though it just sounds like a straight-foward song. After that came "Strange Little Girl", "European Female", "Skin Deep", "No Mercy", "Nice in Nice", "Always The Sun" & "Big In America" which sound more complicated than "Golden Brown", though have a certain kind of flare which I find appealing. After their big hit with "All Day and All Of The Night" which I didn't really find appealing, comes "96 Tears" which is fine, though sounds a bit different to some of their earlier 80s music and by 1990 they were transforming their sound to go with the times, just like they did when the 80s arrived.
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)
Giants (2012)
Hmm well, I thought it would be good to make a thread for this band. I was pretty hard on them in another thread cause there's a particular Ray Davies song that I didn't care much for when they did it and had a big hit out of it.
Well anyway I only have their Greatest Hits 1977-1990 album and it'll be that I'll work from.
What's interesting about The Stranglers is in the 70s they were a Punk band and had Top 10 hits in 1977 with "Peaches", "Something Better Change" & "No More Heroes". My favourite of them three being "No More Heroes" simply by how the song opens with the Guitar and Drums, it sounds amazing. "Peaches" actually does nothing for me and I tend to skip over it & "Something Better Change" is a bit better and can listen to it.
"Walk On By" is one of those known songs which was a hit song in the past for a lady whose name I'm forgotten!
The Song is one of many songs which Hal David and Burt Bacharach wrote though and in terms of what version I heard first, it was the Stranglers version on this album, which a Top 30 Hit in 1978 for the Stranglers. What's interesting about this is it's almost like The Stranglers wanted a song simular to The Doors doing their extended version of "Light My Fire", cause the song just comes across as very simular and of simular length.The last kinda Punkish song on that album being "Duchess" which was a Top 20 song in 1979.
In the 80s The Stranglers took on a slightly different approach to their music and the result was a big hit song with "Golden Brown" which got to number 2 in 1981. Personally I feel their music between 1981 and 1986 is perhaps the most interesting and even when I listen to it today, it sounds quite good and to me doesn't show a lot of that heavy 80s influence you hear in typical 80s music. "Golden Brown" could have been done in the 60s for instance - could be wrong in that assumption, though it just sounds like a straight-foward song. After that came "Strange Little Girl", "European Female", "Skin Deep", "No Mercy", "Nice in Nice", "Always The Sun" & "Big In America" which sound more complicated than "Golden Brown", though have a certain kind of flare which I find appealing. After their big hit with "All Day and All Of The Night" which I didn't really find appealing, comes "96 Tears" which is fine, though sounds a bit different to some of their earlier 80s music and by 1990 they were transforming their sound to go with the times, just like they did when the 80s arrived.
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)
Giants (2012)
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