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Ya know'em, ya love'em, they're.....the `Glers!...and they rock. The brooding, the facial hair, that organ, the fisticuffs, the misogyny.....what's not to love?

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1. "Five Minutes"
2. "Something Better Change"
3. "(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)"
4. "Ice Queen"
5. "Peaches"
6. "The Raven"
7. "No More Heroes"
8. "Bring on the Nubiles"
9. "Golden Brown"
10. "Nuclear Device"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty good . . . but I would replace #2 and #4 with "Duchess" and "Nice and Sleazy" and call it a done deal.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 30 March 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oooh..."Nice'n'Sleazy" almost made the cut, I admit it.

Never liked "Duchess," actually.....

FELICITY....howaya?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Very well, and you? Are you joining the rest of the April Fools at the Jersey City FAP?

"Golden Brown" must be the most gorgeous punk harpsichord song ever. I like almost all of "La Folie" in fact but it does not capture the Stranglers' quintessence.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 30 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are you joining the rest of the April Fools at the Jersey City FAP?

My super powers diminish when I leave the island of Manhattan.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

All of the songs above, plus. Someone just played me "who wants the world?". I had forgotten what a fine song that was. I wish it had been done by the Chocolate Watchband. Maybe we could send the song back in time to be done in some kind of retroactive cover version....

― pauls00, Monday, 31 March 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

brother, watch out for the skin deep

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 31 March 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

A PERFECT mix of Punk, Pop and Prog that sounded like no one else!

1. (Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
2. Sometimes
3. Burning Up Time
4. Tramp
5. The Raven
6. Four Horsemen
7. Do You Wanna/ Death Night and Blood
8. Nuclear Device
9. Rok It to the Moon
10. Goodbye Toulouse

― Zaragon TS, Monday, 31 March 2003 07:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...

duchess
no mercy
peaches
(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
skindeep

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

So are there any other songs that sound like "Golden Brown " ? This ethereal waltz pop gem is so good.

― oscar, Monday, 19 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link

the Feline album it comes from has that feel. nothing exactly like 'ethereal waltz pop' but there's a late night sneaking around vibe to the whole thing.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 19 January 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link

I got "La Folie" and Golden Brown is on there, so it's on "Feline" too ?

― oscar, Monday, 19 January 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link

oops i forgot that. but yeah check out "Feline" for stuff that followed in the same vein.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link

No love here for their Walk On By then?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link

The Orchid by Psychic TV goes really well with Golden Brown.

As far as the Stranglers, Let's Tango in Paris from the same record has some similar qualities.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

If "Always The Sun" isn't in your top 5 I don't know what to say.

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 25 November 2024 01:25 (two weeks ago) link

It's not classic era Stranglers I know but

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 25 November 2024 01:26 (two weeks ago) link

It's aged very well but the rest of "Dreamtime" has not.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 25 November 2024 04:38 (two weeks ago) link

Finally bought Rattus on CD after years of relying on the cassettes I made in the 80s. The 2017 reissue which has the David Buckley essay on the UA/EMI years - an enjoyable read, especially on the Meninblack period.

― Jeff W, Monday, 25 November 2024 17:42 (two weeks ago) link

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