The Stranglers: 10 Best Songs (x3)
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2022
- Are they punk, are they new wave, are they from another planet entirely? The Stranglers mix of punk ferocity and dynamic instrumentation won them fans across Europe in the 70s and 80s (and to a lesser extent 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s). But the band was mostly unknown here in America (where we are). After spending a lot of time listening to their entire discography, we're ready to jump into our 10 favorite songs... and surprisingly have little in common.
UK Hits include: Nice 'N' Sleazy, No More Heroes, Duchess, Peaches, Always the Sun, Skin Deep and Golden Brown, Strange Little Girl and European Female ... among others.
To check out any of our selections, visit our Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/0g4...
What are your favorite songs from the Stranglers? Leave your lists in the comments.
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Nothing on this planet could've prepared me for someone's favourite Stranglers song being "I Feel Like A Wog", that absolutely floored me but I 100% understand it.
Midnight Summer Dream! Wow no mention!! This song is amazing in headphones and there are two versions with different background vocals 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The only band that I can think of that I bought their album and tickets to see them on the strength of hearing just one song and that song wasn't even on the album. The track was Straighten out, so cool for '77.
Great track would be number 12 on my list
What a tune. The keyboard solo is epic.
Isn't it on X Certificate, mind you, haven't heard that album since it came out.
it's live xcerts album.@@JohnnyRocker2162
Straighten Out is an absolute classic… good judgment man!
1. Golden Brown
2. Always the Sun
3. Skin Deep
4. No more Heroes
5. Duchess
6. Grip
7. Two Sunspots
8. Tank
9. Water
10. Giants
Well here goes, Clearly everyone has a different ear for the Stranglers music.
1, Tank,
2, 5 Minutes,
3, No More Heroes,
4, I feel like a Wog,
5, Down in the Sewer,
6, Peasant in the big shitty
7, Toiler on the Sea,
8, The Raven,
9, Norfolk Coast
10. Walk on by
bubbling under Sometimes, Sweden, Nice n Sleazy, Tramp.
(1) Hanging Around, (2) 5 Minutes, (3) Go Buddy Go, (4) Grip (5) Straighten Out (6) Thrown Away, (7) Walk On By, (8) Duchess, (9) Golden Brown, (10) No More Heroes. Don't forget their instrumental music, especially Waltzinblack and Longships.
RIP Jet black 🥁 and RIP Dave Greenfield 🎹 can't believe we have lost both of you a great loss to the music world 🌍
10. Manna Machine
9. Who Wants The World
8. Nuclear Device
7. Sometimes
6. Ice
5. Nice And Sleazy
4. Bear Cage
3. Duchess
2. Goodbye Toulouse
1. Golden Brown
My Top 10 Favorite Stranglers songs 🎵 # 10 Golden Brown # 9 Don't Bring Harry # 8 Always The Sun # 7 Hanging Around # 6 Strange Little Girl # 5 Tank # 4 Walk On By ( My favorite cover of theirs .. instrumental interlude is awesome 👌 sounds like The Doors ) # 3 5 Minutes # 2 Nice N Sleazy ( The Bass 🔊 ) & # 1 The Raven ! 🎹 . 👍
10. Nice 'N' Sleazy
9. Duchess
8. The Raven
7. No More Heroes
6. Peaches
5. Golden Brown
4. Always The Sun
3. Sometimes
2. Ice Queen
1. Hanging AroundI
We share 5 songs!
1 Golden Brown
2 Goodbye Toulouse
3 Duchess
4 Straighten Out
5 5 Minutes
6 Walk On By
7 Nice & Sleazy
8 Don't Bring Harry
9 Curfew
10 Go Buddy Go
HMs - The rest of Rattus Norvegicus, Something Better Change, Bear Cage, La Folie, Strange Little Girl, Always The Sun
The Stranglers was my first ever concert in Autumn '77, at a sports centre where I later saw The Clash on the London Calling tour and Sabbath on the Heaven & Hell tour. Sadly, it was knocked down and turned into flats 20 years later. I was very young, and my mum would only let me go once she'd checked that there was security so that her little boy wouldn't get beaten up by nasty punks. Believe me, I didn't want that either:)
The band was really great, although Hugh might be a bit embarrassed now by his "hard man/cockney" onstage speaking voice
- and the other thing I remember clearly is that for some reason they didn't play Peaches.
1 Walk On By
2 Down In The Sewer
3 Hanging Around
4 No More Heroes
5 Nice n Sleazy
6 Toiler On The Sea
7 Genetix
8 The Raven
9 5 Minutes
10 Dagenham Dave
👋 Hi I was 17 years young in 1977. I liked Punk Rock. The Stranglers are a band that I like very much. No one had Get a Grip or Peaches on their list. Both songs were singles in 1977.
10. Nice N Sleazy
9. Golden Brown
8. London Lady
7. I Feel Like a Wog
6. Peaches
5. Tank
4. No More Heroes
3. Something Better Change
2. Duchess
1. Hanging Around
Too many great songs to choose from. You guys made some very interesting choices
10... Norfolk Coast
09... No Mercy
08... Peaches
07... Duchess
06... Cruel Garden (Strange Little Girl ... B. side)
05... Midnight Summer Dream
04... Always The Sun
03... Golden Brown
02... Nice 'n' Sleazy
01... Skin Deep
I like all of your lists .
Here's mine in order of preference :
No More Heroes
Strange Little Girl
Always the Sun
Long Black Veil
Hanging Around
Nice 'N' Sleazy
Golden Brown
Another Camden Afternoon
The Spectre of Love
The Raven
Cheers !!!
My top 10.
10. Outside Tokyo
9. Golden Brown
8 Hey (Rise of the Robots)
7 Sweden ( All Quite On the Eastern Front)
6. Down in the Sewer
5 Sometimes
4. Toiler on the Sea
3. No More Heroes
2. (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
1. Hanging Around
20) Mean to Me (Black and White)
19) Strange Little Girl (single)
18) Summer in the City (Written in Red)
17) Dutch Moon (Norfolk Coast)
16) Burning Up Time (No More Heroes)
15) Bring On the Nubiles (No More Heroes)
14) Hey! (Rise of the Robots) (Black and White)
13) Miss You (Written in Red)
12) Walk On By (single)
11) Bless You (Save You, Spare You, Damn You) (Suite XVI)
10) Golden Brown (La folie)
09) Down in the Sewer (Rattus Norvegicus)
08) Hanging Around (Rattus Norvegicus)
07) She Gave It All (About Time)
06) How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day (La folie)
05) La folie (La folie)
04) Mercury Rising (Giants)
03) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Rattus Norvegicus)
02) Nice 'n' Sleazy (Black and White)
01) Peaches (Rattus Norvegicus)
My sélection from best to worst :
1. The Raven
2. Down in the Sewer
3. Tramp
4. Sometimes
5. Always the Sun
6. Nice'n'Sleazy
7. Too Precious
8. Just Like Nothing on Earth
9. Skin Deep
10. Something Better Change
Get A Grip On Yourself is one of the coolest/unique songs i ever heard. The keyboard player is soloing throughout the verses. I can't think of another song with constant soloing during verses w/vocals.
Totally agree my favorite Stranglers track also 👍
@@stevec7372 you have great taste
Agreed surprised no mention of this amazing song. 🎉
In Toiler On The Sea, Dave also solos through the verse. He's just on a completely different level
Top 10 for me has got to be:
10 - Waiting for the Meninblack (Meninblack)
9 - Ice (The Raven)
8 - The Ice Queen (Aural Sculpture)
7 - Princess of the Streets (Rattus Norvegicus)
6 - Down in the Sewer (Rattus Norvegicus)
5 - No More Heroes (No More Heroes)
4 - Peaches (Rattus Norvegicus)
3 - No Mercy, 12" Mix (Aural Sculpture)
2 - Golden Brown (La Folie)
1 - Walk On By (Black/White)
Honorable Mentions -
No Man's Land / If Something's Gonna Kill Me (It Might As Well Be Love) (Dark Matters)
Stange Little Girl / Everybody Loves You When You're Dead (La Folie)
Tank / Hey! (Rise of the Robots) (Black/White)
Shah-Shah A Go-Go / Duchess (The Raven)
Skin Deep, 12" Mix (Aural Sculpture)
1. 5 Minutes
2. Toiler
3. Grip
4. Nice 'N' Sleazy
5. Golden Brown
6. Always the Sun
7. Skin Deep
8. Hanging Around
9. No More Heroes
10. Duchess
1. Toiler
2. Duchess
3. Nice & Sleazy
4. No More Heroes
5. 5 Minutes
6. Hanging Around.
7. Who Wants The World
8. Peaches
9. Ugly.
10. Tank
Honorable mention - Waltzinblack.
The surviving Stranglers released an excellent tribute to their late keyboardist Dave Greenfield last summer. It's called And If You Should See Dave & it's on YT .. ✅️ it out !
I remember Skin Deep back in 84, a great year for pop music. Despite all the competition it got to 15 in the UK.
Top 10 songs of The Stranglers:
10. "Dead Loss Angeles" [1979] from The Raven
9. "Always the Sun" [1986] from Dreamtime
8. "Bitching" [1977] from No More Heroes
7. "(Get A) Grip [on Yourself]" [1977] from Rattus Norvegicus
6. "Ice Queen" [1984] from Aural Sculptures
5. "5 Minutes" [1977] single
4. "I Feel Like a Wog" [1977] from No More Heroes
3. "Straighten Out" [1977] single
2. "Hanging Around" [1977] from Rattus Norvegicus
1. "Nice 'N' Sleazy" [1978] from Black and White
Honorable Mentions:
- "Princess of the Streets" & "Peaches" from [1977] from Rattus Norvegicus
- "School Mam" [1977] from No More Heroes
- "Walk On By" [1978] from Black and White
- "North Winds Blowing [1984] from Aural Sculptures
My favourite 15 songs in rough order, keep in mind I got into them with their most downloaded LimeWire tracks, so a boring list though they mean a lot to me:
1. Strange Little Girl (favourite song)
2. Let Me Down Easy (close second)
3. Always The Sun (close third)
4. Duchess
5. Goodbye Toulouse
6. Golden Brown
7. No More Heroes
8. Walk On By
9. (Get A) Grip [On Yourself]
10. Nice 'N' Sleazy
11. Hanging Around
12. The European Female (In Celebration Of)
13. Don't Bring Harry
14. Skin Deep
15. La Folie
Listen to Tomorrow was the hereafter…. a great lost gem
Didn't expect a song from their most recent album would make my top 10, but I gotta go with the ones I think are the best...
1. Golden Brown
2. Ice
3. North Winds
4. Sometimes
5. All Roads Lead to Rome
6. Dagenham Dave
7. Hanging Around
8. The Man They Love to Hate
9. Paradise
10. Breathe
HMs: Dead Ringer, Don't Bring Harry, Peaches, Tramp, The European Female (In Celebration of), Something Better Change, Goodbye Tolouse, Tank, Choosy Susie, Bitching, It Only Takes Two to Tango, Down in the Sewer, The Raven, Duchess, Hallow to Our Men, No More Heroes, Nice 'N' Sleazy, Strange Little Girl, Baroque Bordello, Get a Grip on Yourself, Laughing, Turn the Centuries, Turn, Princess of the Streets, Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus), Blue Sister, Non Stop, Souls, Bear Cage, Ships That Pass in the Night, Punch & Judy, Everybody Loves You When You're Dead, La Folie, Waiting for the Meninblack, Skin Deep, Long Black Veil, Miss You (Written in Red version), Bless You (Save You, Spare You, Damn You), Second Coming, Let Me Down Easy, Norfolk Coast, Sinister, Spectre of Love, Relentless, The Last Men on the Moon, My Fickle Resolve, And If You Should See Dave..., The Lines
Cool to see Ice in your list.
Yeah I like Breathe very haunting.
White Stallion from the Dark Matters album is just awesome, that Operatic sound on the chorus is superb. I also love Breathe, and can't listen to it without tears in my eyes. And finally Water.
The Stranglers are probably my favourite band of all time. I saw them live in the late 70’s, early 80’s and mid 80’s. Great live band. I think their early stuff was best but now like most, they play their oldies in concert, not so much the new stuff.
By the way, London Lady is not Hugh Cornwell on lead vocals. It’s JJ Burnel. He overall did less lead vocal duties (20-30%?) but did well on those.
One thing that comes from these lists is that they have made a hell of a lot of good music!
A near impossible task. So many great songs in their catalogue.
(10) Lowlands (Giants, 2012)
(9) Ice Queen (Aural Sculpture, 1984)
(8) Nice 'N' Sleazy (Black & White, 1978)
(7) Something Better Change (No More Heroes, 1977)
(6) Five Minutes (Single only, 1978)
(5) English Towns (No More Heroes, 1977)
(4) Tramp (La Folie, 1981)
(3) Get A Grip (On Yourself) (Rattus Norvegicus, 1977)
(2) Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus) (The Raven, 1979)
(1) Goodbye Toulouse (Rattus Norvegicus, 1977)
I wasn't expecting that! We have the same number 1👌
One song from 'Black And White'!! That's totally incomprehensible to me. As for 'English Towns', that would be in my top 10 filler!
So many of these songs have a bigger feeling and sound when seen live past and present
Walk on by a cover, best cover ever and Go Buddy Go!
I never got to finalize my top 10 list but a lot of your picks made my contender playlist of 30 songs. My top favourite songs by them that I knew before the deep dive would be "No More Heroes" and "Strange Little Girl". But since this started I grew to really love "Always the Sun", "The Man They Love to Hate" and "Shah Shah a Go Go" (just think that one sounds really cool). Definitely lots of great songs to go back to.
1 Hanging around
2 Something Better Change
3 Grip
4 Five Minutes
5 No More Heroes
6 Nice and Sleazy
7 Tank
8 Walk On By
9 Choosey Susie
10 Nuclear Device
11 Peaches
12 Duchess
13 School Mam
14 Golden Brown
15 Toiler On The Sea
16 English Towns
17 London Lady
18 Go Buddy Go
19 Straighten Out
20 Goodbye Toulouse
21 Don't Bring Harry
22 Down On The Sewer
23 Don't Bring Harry
24 Shah Shah A Go-Go
25 Big Thing Coming
One of my favourite bands in my youth. I couldn't narrow it down to a top 10 as so many mean so much to me, after the top 5 the rest could be in any order, and I could have included pretty much anything from the first 2 lps and most of the next 2. I still listen to them a few times a year.
The first four LPs (plus the various live LPs) are the ones that I connect most with, I was 15 when Rattus was released, The first song of theirs I heard on the radio was Hanging around which is still my favourite by them. They totally lost me at the meniblack album.
It wasn't until Norfolk Coast (Americans please pronounce this Norfok Coast, you will be closer) that I reconnected with them although in a smaller way than it my teen years.
Although they came through with the punk movement they were never really part of it. Despite wandering into misogynism at times they wrote a lot of intelligent lyrics, beyond what most of the punk bands wrote about. They were all in their mid to late 20's (Jet Black was pushing 40) when Rattus was released. JJ, one of the finest bassists of his generation, was a classically trained guitarist, Hugh Cornwell was a Biochemist who formed a band while doing post-graduate studying in Sweden, which he hated, (only country where the clouds are interesting) and I think that Dave Greenfield is a seriously underrated keyboard talent.
Toulouse is a French city not a lady, pronounce it to-loose, not "to Louise", one of the rare songs where the lyricist didn't sing it (Sung by Hugh, Lyrics by JJ). At the time I thought it was about one of JJ relationships that had gone bad - I assumed that he was from France - but is it apparently about a prediction by Nostradamus about the city.
London Lady was sung by JJ not "Cromwell"!! It was written primarily about a journalist who slept with JJ then went on to write a pretty scathing article about the band.
I think that walk on by is the best version of Bacharach/David song ever!
I believe that choosey Susie/Princess of the street and 5 minutes were all written about the same person - a lady of the evening who lived in the same house as JJ. 5 Minutes is about her rape by 5 coloured men in their home. 5 minutes reflects how close the attack was to one of the richest and best protected areas in the country, even though they were living in virtual poverty. It also has an anti-racism message (Some say I should hate them all, but that wouldn't help at all) as some people used the attack promote racism as the attackers were coloured and claimed that all coloured should be hated because of the actions of a small gang.
My Stranglers top ten. Man this is hard but I'm going to do it from memory. No researching
1. Goodbye Toulouse
2. Get a grip
3. Tank
4. Genetix
5. Ice Queen
6. Walk on by
7. London lady
8. Midnight summer dream
9. Just like nothing on earth
10. Big in America
Give the late Martin Rushent much credit for his Production on the first 3 Stranglers albums .. He also did Buzzcocks & Generation X simultaneously & later did the synth pop classic Dare for The Human League & the first two Altered Images albums. He was an Ace in the studio.
Rushent had been the engineer for the first five Gentle Giant albums as well as the fabulous One Live Badger (with first Yes-keyboard man Tony Kaye) - he was great to capture those layered keyboard sounds and that helped a lot to make all the instrument in Stranglers sound so great. (Yes, he was also on Electric Warrior, but the album that came closer to Strangler's sound was Impossible Dream by SAHB, keyboards + a scottish marching band with bagpipes on top of Alex Harvey's voice.)
@@roxannewalsh Second time in a month Tony Kaye has come up ! Last time with Zep emulators Detective. Martin is right up there with Hannet & Lillywhite for late 70's early 80's albums of note. I need a Gentle Giant album or two in my collection.
@@davidellis5141 Both, Kaye and Peter Banks, kept making (some) interesting music after Yes kicked them out. The "Flash" records with Banks show, that his influence on the sound of his former band cannot be underestimated.
Two GG albums? Octopus + In a Glass House.
He nicked the drum beat from Peasant in the big Shitty and used it for a Human League song, Open your Heart?
@@roxannewalsh Thanks Roxanne.
Have you ever been to a Stranglers concert? Come on guys, how can you forget Waltz in Black ? It's an anthem (as much as Ugly).
Tramp is an interesting choice, I like that song.
I would have picked songs like Princess of the street (What a piece of meat), Genetix, 5 Minutes, Hallow to our Men, Baroque Bordello, plus the most famous ones like No more Heroes, Nice an' Sleazy,Hanging around.
And Don't bring Harry (in French)
Go see the band live, JJ still kicks it pretty high !
1. Nice n Sleazy 2. Dagenham Dave 3. The Raven 4. Duchess 5. Get A Grip 6. Five Minutes 7. Down In the Sewer 8. London Lady 9. Peaches 10. North Winds.
Some of my Stranglers favourites in no particular order. Old Codger needs more love. This list could have been much longer, including some more recent songs but I'd be happy with this as a best of compilation/playlist.
Sometimes
Hanging Around
Grip
Ugly
Down in the Sewer
I Feel Like a Wog
Walk on By
Old Codger
Nice and Sleazy
The Raven
Baroque Bordello
Duchess
5 Minutes
Tramp
Cruel Garden
Midnight Summer Dream
Great week guys, thanks!
Who's this Cromwell person? Three cracking non album bangers; Go Buddy Go, Straighten Out and my favourite Stranglers single Five Minutes, one of the most brutal top ten hits ever. The Stranglers were regular chart visitors along with the likes of The Jam, Buzzcocks, Skids, X Ray Spex, Banshees, and of course the Sex Pistols. After the end of glam for a couple of years the charts were awful, full of shite like Abba, Brotherhood Of Man, Stylistics etc. Come 77 it was like rock'n'roll was back! Great times to be teenage!
One thing of note with The Stranglers is that they have several discs worth of great non-album tracks and that the albums alone don’t tell the whole story.
I, for what it’s worth, HIGHLY recommend the Old Testament 5-cd box set because of this and the remasters with bonus tracks for the later albums that didn’t appear on the Liberty label.
I picked one song for every album of the Hugh Cornwell era in chronological order.
01. Sometimes
02. Something Better Change
03. Toiler On The Sea
04. The Raven
05. Who Wants The World (the single that preceeded and announced The Meninblack album)
06. Golden Brown
07. Midnight Summer Dream
08. Skin Deep
09. Always The Sun
10. Sweet Smell Of Success
honorable mention: their cover of Walk On By
My shadow top 10 with tracks from each album to back up my favourites (chronological).
01. Down In The Sewer
02. Straighten Out (double A-side with Something Better Change but not on the No More Heroes album)
03. Sweden (All Quiet On The Eastern Front)
04. Duchess
05. Waiting For The Meninblack
06. Non Stop
07. All Roads Lead To Rome (should have been a single)
08. Spain
09. Mayan Skies
10. All Day And All Of The Night (their Kinks cover that announced their 1988 live album All Live And All Of The Night)
honorable mention: the very odd b-side Vladimir & Olga
ps. Kramzer: JJ Burnel is doing lead vocals on London Lady.
ps. Joe: the icy high pitched sounds at the end of Ice Queen are guitar licks by Hugh Cornwell (Toulouse (pronounced "to lose") is a city in France or the first name of a famous French painter)
ps. Jason: Skin Deep was a late 1984 number 1 hit in the Flemish alternative charts (compiled by schools, youth clubs and universities)
* About prononciations: How to find true love and "a-penis" in the present day.
* Language twists in the Stranglers repertoire: Midsummer Night's Dream becomes Midnight Summer Dream and Last Tango In Paris becomes Let's Tango In Paris.
* Fun fact: A Flock Of Seagles borrowed their band name from Toiler On The Sea.
* A must read: Hugh Cornwell's song by song review book of every Stranglers track he was involved in (including all b-sides and non-album singles).
So , A Flock Of Seagulls were Stranglers fans 🤔 .. Nice !
@@davidellis5141 The story goes that during a concert Hugh Cornwell was (coincidental) looking in the direction of Mike Score when he was shouting out "A flock of seagulls". Mike took that as a sign for the band name he was looking for.
Skin Deep is my favourite. It got a lot of radio play on Live 105 Quake indie new wave radio station in San Francisco in the 80s. Golden Brown....Walk On By....No Mercy...Peaches .. .Let Me Down Easy and Always the Sun are my favs too. Thanks for the video. Great to know what other people's Stranglers fav are.
Peaches, Down in the sewer, Toiler on the see are my 3 favourite tracks
Really enjoyed you going through all the stranglers songs been a stranglers fan all my adult life so thanks from Scotland 🏴👍🙂😎
1. Get A Grip…
2. Hanging Around
3. Walk On By
4. Peaches
5. No More Heroes
6. Golden Brown
7. Skin Deep
8. Old Codger
9. Something Better Change
10. Strange Little Girl
I’m only in it for the Cornwell years, as they became another band. Golden Brown was such a huge hit here in the UK and so has only been dropped down the rankings for reasons of over familiarity, in the same way that you can’t sensibly put Stairway To Heaven in a Zeppelin top 10, because it has a life of it’s own.
As a die hard fan my top 10 favourite tracks are;
Ice
Do You Wanna
No Mercy
Bear Cage
North Winds
Pin Up
Too Precious
European Female
All Roads Lead To Rome
Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
10) London Lady
09)Walk on By
08)Sometimes
07)Hanging Around
06)Golden Brown
05)Straighten Out
04)Duchess
03)Skin Deep
02)Peaches
01)Something Better Change
1. Hanging Around
2. Duchess
3. No More Heroes
4. Golden Brown
5. Straighten Out
6. Strange Little Girl
7. Who Wants the World
8. Nuclear Device
9. The Raven
10. Get a Grip On Yourself
Dave Greenfield RIP
10.still life,9.in a while,8 time to die,7 Valley of the birds,6, 5 minutes 5 bitching 4 hanging around,3,sometimes2,the raven,1european female, that list could be so different tomorrow, so many great songs to choose from
Love that keyboard break in Bitching.
1. 5 minutes
2. Golden brown
3. The Raven
4. Tank
5. Down in the sewer
6. Always the sun
7. Skin deep
8. Thrown Away
9. Hanging around
10. Genetix
Rich and Joe - Hanging Around, Golden Brown, In the Sewer
Rich and Kramzer - nothing!
Rich and Jason - Nice 'n' Sleazy
Nice 'n' Sleazy especially that bass has been stuck in my head for days.
Excellent Production by Martin Rushent.
Top 5
5. All Roads Lead to Rome
4. The Raven
3. No Mercy
2. Hanging Around
1. Toiler on the Sea
All roads lead to Rome is superb, very clever lyrics.
@@m.b-ee8815 I think 'Feline' as a whole is greatly underrated. Really shows the band's talent for great melodies.
@@ianagar68 I love Feline, very original mix of acoustic instruments and electronics.
10)Golden Brown
9)Shah Shah a Go Go
8) 4 Horsemen
7)Dead Loss Angeles
6)Hanging Around
5)Water
4)Grip
3)Tank
2) Goodbye "to lose"
1)Curfew
Very well-informed picks. Well done guys. My 10 would be very different but that’s taste with such a vast discography.
i only heard half of the albums so i have a half assed list in no order!
down in the sewer
go buddy go
feel like a wog
shah shah a go go
dont bring harry
tank
four horseman
sugar bullets
leave it too the dogs[ off the album V hates] and maybe my favorite , maybe!!
back to my 1972 bengalathon!
as the great humble pie album smokin plays while i type!
🐯🐯🐯🐯
It's worth checking out some of the non album singles such as 'Five Minutes' and 'Strange Little Girl,' in my opinion, two of their best songs
01 No More Heroes
02 European Female
03 Who Wants The World
04 Too Precious
05 Golden Brown
06 Walk On By
07 Let Me Introduce You To The Family
08 Skin Deep
09 Always The Sun
10 Hanging Around
They've got a lot of cool songs, but the no. 1 was easy to decide. Golden Brown is one of the best songs I've ever heard, and I still get this magical otherwordly hypnotic feeling when listening to it.
10. Time to Die (1992)
9. Was It You? (1986)
8. Always the Sun (1986)
7. Waltzinblack (1981)
6. Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus) (1979)
5. (Get a) Grip (on Yourself) (1977)
4. Hanging Around (1977)
3. London Lady (1977)
2. Duchess (1979)
1. Golden Brown (1981)
Hard to choose only 10 songs.
10. Time Was Once On My Side
9. This Song
8. Duchess
7. Skin Deep
6. Toiler on the Sea
5. And If You Should See Dave
4. Curfew
3. No More Heroes
2.(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
1. Golden Brown
1. Genetex
2. Nuclear Device
3. 4 Horsemen
4. Toiler on the Sea
5. Tramp
6. Waiting for the Men In Black
7. Dungham Dave
8. Bear Cage
9. Good Bye Toulouse
10. Was It You?
My top 10 Stranglers songs: 1. The Raven 2. Tank 3. Goodbye Toulouse 4. Ice 5. Nice 'n' Sleazy 6. Burning Up Time 7. All Roads Lead to Rome 8. Souls 9. Shut Up 10. Down in the Sewer. They are the greatest UK band ever. Better than the Beatles.
Yes Jason, Skin Deep great pop song! Also well known down under 👍
No Peaches, then? Bummer!
Great picks by everyone. They stretched creatively, in a weird way, and had a sense of fun. New wave pop prog punk! Black & White probably my favorite (listen to it with great big giant speakers), then the debut then Aural Sculpture. But debut has crazy amount of good songs.
- Get A Grip On Yourself
- Hanging Around
- Sometimes
- London Lady
- Toiler On The Sea
- Outside Tokyo
- Nice & Sleazy
- No Mercy
- Skin Deep
- Let Me Down Easy
- Always The Sun
- Another Camden Afternoon
- Golden Brown
- Duchess
"Genetix"! Dave GREENFIELD on vocal from "The raven" album. 😉
10. Too Precious (Dreamtime)
9. Money (About Time)
8. See Me Coming (Suite XVI)
7. European Female (In Celebration Of) (Feline)
6. Lowlands (Giants)
5. Don't Bring Harry (The Raven)
4. Princess Of The Streets (Rattus Norvegicus)
3. Genetix (The Raven)
2. Baroque Bordello (The Raven)
1. Ice (The Raven)
Ice was the song played at Dave's funeral
10. london lady
9. feel like a w#g
8.something better change
7. baroque bordello
6. pin up
5.death and night and blood
4.la folie
3.dead loss angeles
2. burning up time
1.ugly
could change every day
Haha Jason, look what you’ve done to me…next YT suggestion after this was In State, Kathleen Edwards…live, such a great tune! Then went down a Kathleen rabbit hole. Loved it!!! Thanks man 👌
Refreshing perspective with some great choices from all 3 on a near impossible task, considering the lineup changes, breadth of career and almost obligatory changes in the bands musical style.
10. Freedom Is Insane
9. Big in America
8. Dagenham Dave
7. Golden Brown
6. Nice 'n Sleazy
5. Sinister
4. Tank
3. Always the Sun
2. Something Better Change
1. No More Heroes
hi roxanne! Cant wait for your 72 songs list! Now tell me about vinegar joe ! do you like slade? bengal full of questions! Thanx roxanne!
@@bengalgangster Vinegar Joe was a short lived 6 piece band that featured two great singer talents: Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks. They only made 3 albums, 72/73 of which the first and third are good.
I love Slade for what they were, a fun singles band, Get down and get with 'em. Sometimes Were All Crazee.
@@bengalgangster 72 songlist? That was already done in SOTY? Or is there something else? So far, I have not seen what the Listograpy deep dive will be about, probably Jason teaching us all that we have been in the wrong year altogether...
@@roxannewalsh hi i guess the lists are 25 albums and 50 songs , same thing just a expanded version i guess!
#1: Meninblack. The synth is to die for.
The only Strangllers song I actually knew and still know of is Skin Deep.
Better than nothing :-)
Given it’s timeframe aren’t you sure you ever heard Always The Sun or Golden Brown??
@@janpoelkamp4229 sadly, no.
My choices change like the seasons with this band but number one stays the same. Great song legendary if only for the impact and controversy it caused following their tour of my homeland (Australia)all those years ago. The Stranglers -great ambassadors that they were:
1 Nuclear device (the Raven)))
2 Duchess (La Folie)
3 Hanging around (Rattus norvegicus)
4 Bear Cage (45)
5 Something better change (No more Hero's)
6 Dreamtime (Dreamtime)
7 Tramp (La Folie)
8 It was you (45 version)
9 Big Thing Coming (Norfolk Coast)
10 Valley of Birds (Written in Red)
1 The Raven 2 Don't Bring Harry 3 Dead Loss Angeles 4 Duchess 5 La Folie
6 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) 7 Ice 8 Toiler On The Sea 9 Shah Shah A Go-Go
10 How To Find True Love and Happiness In The Present Day
Great choices - tried to pick just 10 but failed... (Skin Deep is still a fav in the UK)
1 Golden Brown Feline
2 Soul Aural Sculpture
3 Always the Sun Dreamtime
4 Midnight Summer Dream Feline
5 No More Heroes No More Heroes
6 Let Me Down Easy Aural Sculpture
7 You'll Always Reap What You Sow Dreamtime
8 Let Me Down Easy Aural Sculpture
9 Ice Queen Aural Sculpture
10 Skin Deep Aural Sculpture
Good mention:
Big In America Dreamtime
Duchess The Raven
Mad Hatter Aural Sculpture
No Mercy Aural Sculpture
Nuclear Device The Raven
See Me Coming Suite XVI
Down In The Sewer Rattus Norvegicus
London Lady - vocal JJB
So difficult to trim their songs down to a Top 10... easy if it's the albums though.
Under torture I'd have to go for...
10: Rok It To The Moon
09: Ugly
08: I Feel Like A Wog
07: Death and Night and Blood
06: Skin Deep
05: Nice 'N' Sleazy
04: Genetix
03: Down in the Sewer
02: 5 Minutes
01: Something Better Change
But not necessarily in that order.
Albums are so easy...
10: La folie
09: Feline
08: Dreamtime
07: Live (X Cert)
06: Aural Sculpture
05: The Gospel According to the Meninblack
04: No More Heroes
03: The Raven
02: Rattus Norvegicus
01: Black & White
JJ sings lead vocal on London Lady
Great lists overall. I would have had Get A Grip On Yourself and Whi Wants The World in my top ten
Sophie’s choice for me to pick a top ten. Threatened is what I’m currently listening to. Also on the first list, it’s JJ who sings number five, London Lady, not Hugh.
Ever since Elastica released "Waking Up" I can no longer listen to No More Heroes " in my head", every time I start the refrain, it detours into the Elastica song, and I hate them for it.
They stole from Wire too. I guess they were just rip off artists.
@@179rich I just listened to 154 .. Talk about holding up. That could come out today & be innovative.
Some interesting choices, great to see some selections from the (in my opinion, fairly) maligned MKII albums... even if they're not to my taste, it's nice to see these sorts of lists push the boat out. I do feel obliged to tell you that it's Hugh CORNWELL (like 'Cornwall,' but with an 'a') rather than Cromwell, though.
I'd be hard pressed to select a top 10, but gun to my head it'd probably look something like this:
10) North Winds
9) Let Me Introduce You to the Family
8) Toiler on the Sea
7) Down in the Sewer
6) Who Wants the World?
5) Duchess
4) Don't Bring Harry
3) Goodbye Toulouse
2) The Raven
1) Sweden
Glad none of you picked Peaches, which is so overplayed here in UK.
They have some great songs though and here's my top ten
10) La Folie
9) Goodbye Toulouse
8) Death and night and blood
7) No man's land
6) Nuclear device
5) Skin deep
4) Duchess
3) London lady
2) Something better change
1) Bitching
Peaches was my number 1, but I can easily see growing to hate it if it was overplayed on the radio (never gets airplay here in Fort Worth Texas)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a single stranglers song in the wild ever in the US. They’re a virtual non-entity here.
La Folie a ballad inspired by a Japanese guy who cut up a woman and put her remains in a suitcase! La Folie of course translating into madness.
no love for walk on by or baroque bordello? wow
Indeed
Two absolute classics
The first guy seems like a guy who’s never heard the Stranglers in his life and then 3 months ago is given all their albums and asked to pick his favorite 10 tracks.
Yeah that’s exactly what we do here. You’re a real sharp guy. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic It’s a pity for your channel and your subscribers that you aren’t.
You may not understand what we do here. So you should figure that out first. - Joe
(Honourable Mentions: Peaches, No More Heroes, Baroque Bordello, Tonight, Norfolk Coast)
1. Always The Sun
2. Golden Brown
3. Nice ‘n’ Sleazy
4. North Winds Blowing
5. The Raven
6. Outside Tokyo
7. Something Better Change
8. Heaven or Hell
9. Skin Deep
10. Sometimes
Songs I share with Kramzer: (1) Always The Sun
Songs I share with Joe: (3) The Raven, Golden Brown, Sometimes
Songs I share with Jason: (3) Nice 'n' Sleazy, Skin Deep, Sometimes
A large discography but I only need the first two. Rattus Norvegicus is one of my top 20 favourite albums of all time so every track(except Peaches that I don't need to hear any more) has to be on my list. I'm also omitting, No More Heroes for the same reason.
10. Bitching
9. I Feel Like A Wog
8. Princess Of The Streets
7. Ugly
6. Hanging Around
5. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
4. Down In The Sewer
3. London Lady
2. Sometimes
1. GOODBYE TOULOUSE
Nice & Sleazy only in one of your Top 10s? Unbelievable...
Sorry Gelb
Sorry Gelb
@@TastesLikeMusic But there are many great songs! :)
PAWSHER, PEASANT IN THE BIG SHITTY, OUTSIDE Tokyo, Don't Bring Harry, Ice(brilliant intro)Souls ,Dagenham Dave -certainly a lost soul. Don't think anyone's mentioned any of the aforementioned...thank God, i'm unique.
Yellowcake UF6 and Rocket to the Moon.
What about "Get a grip on yourself"???? What about "Peaches"???
Burnell on London Lady.
I cannot pick 10, Mostly listen to a best of, 2 CD set with 45 songs all are great.
Even that with 45 songs it missed some very good ones.
Only one I skip and not really into myself is La Folie.
While I disagree on it being their best track, respect to you Jason for choosing I Feel Like a Wog. Those lyrics have been misunderstood by some but of course it's an anti-racist song.
"Ta-loose"
1. The Raven
2. Duchess
3. Get a Grip on Yourself
4. Curfew
5. Non Stop
6. Golden Brown
7. Tank
8. Strange Little Girl
9. Five Minutes
10. Just Like Nothing on Earth
Never heard of this band before, after listening to them, wished I never heard of them before. Thanks for that.
2:00 Cromwell??? I think you meant Cornwell 🙈
I just think if you're reviewing albums, get your pronunciations correct. Another example is Toulouse as in "Too Lose" IE. The place in France.