I bought Feline when it was first released and was a little disappointed it didn't have the drive and drama of the first albums. Now, in my 50s, I enjoy it more than ever, the timelessness of some of the tracks is a sign of true quality.
Never underestimate the timeless wonder and contemporary art of the stranglers. I'm 53 and still feel the emotions and feelings I did at 11 or 12 when I first heard them. I thank the universe for the stranglers
Me too mate . I didn't know what to make of it , tho did quickly grow to love it at the time . I was reminded of Aural Sculpture today by the local shop keeper - who coincidentally went to same school in Milton Keynes 40yrs ago - we now live SW Cornwall - Stranglers still my fave band of all time ; all albums* ~ and I listen to a lotta music*
Hot damn, has it been a year already? ;-; my Dad reckons Jet Black is next, I can't imagine a World without The Stranglers, even if it was without Baz lol
I saw them in Amsterdam in 1979 and at least 15 times till 2019. Dave gave my wife Isabel 3 "Dutch kisses' in Rotterdam in the 90s. I still see it in front of me when I close my eyes. My wife died , very young, in 1998.
Love the subtle Kraftwerk vibes on this track. The Stranglers are still one of the very best bands ever...I grew up listening to these, The Police and Kate Bush!
Feline, one of THE most important albums EVER made. The references to Europe, Travel and the world are sublime. The sophistication, the Avant Garde of it all, the Synths, the sheer beauty. BEST Stranglers album EVER!
I so miss these days when despite being subjected to a Thatcher government you really felt part of the bigger European whole. Bands using French lyrics, bands like Kraftwerk touring UK regularly. Now we have both main parties determined to lock everyone into a pathetically narrow ANglo mindset.
The streets of tarmac are straight as a die With steel fingers clawing at the city 🌃 Inside the wall of the citadel Yellow chariots race Peasants and their peasants’ smells Hungry 😋 enough to touch your face The beasts from the end of the century Adorn themselves with jewellery Inside the wall of the citadel Yellow chariots race Peasants and their peasants’ smells Hungry 😋 enough to touch your face Their eyes 👀 they change colour from grey to green And when they’re blue they weigh the scene The endless game played in the timeless zone Remind me all roads lead to Rome Inside the wall of the citadel Yellow chariots race Peasants and their peasants’ smells Hungry 😋 to touch your frightened face All roads lead to Rome All roads lead to Rome All roads lead to Rome All roads lead to Rome
Though not their best, I am very fond of the album Feline which this song comes from. It's the ultimate celebration of the European sound. All the songs flows well into eachother, great cohesion and feel. The music matches the album cover perfectly I would say.
All Roads Lead To Rome along with European Female and Golden Brown is among my most favourite Stranglers tracks. I had no idea there was a video for this STUNNING piece of heaven x
The Stranglers certainly had a unique sound and vibe, this is just one of the countless classics they wrote IMO, only two of them left now, Hugh and Jean-Jacques.
The should have released this as a single. And Waltzinblack. I heard they didn't release this as it didn't "sound like" the Stranglers or the rest of the album. But you could say the same about Golden Brown
@@Tawera1 Wasn't it Jet who thought Golden Brown was a certain hit, and Hugh who said the Dave's harpsichord bit was good enough to be a song by itself? I thought only JJ didn't like it, hence why he pushed for La Folie to be the next single.
@@RossMcCarthy1990 correct. Dave tried to shoehorn the riff into an earlier song called 'Second Coming' but it was rejected at the time. JJ Burnel isn't actually on the recording of Golden Brown. The bass part is a synth.
@Jemma Schuurmans I thought your taste in music was usually young women who have voices sound like they have inhaled helium! You got that feelin, that Beatboy feeling! Bronski beat? SO sweet. Just embrace what you are and quit bullying me darling
il parait que la ligne de clavier de All Road Lead to Rome est inspirée par "cherchez le garçon" de Taxi Girl, j'ai réécouté les deux, mais... nada pour moi ! alors "Week-end à Rome". Hum, j'devrais pas écouté Carla Bruni💔
Im glad they got this album out of their system because Aural Sculpture was the best Epic album of theirs in my opinion... Feline has definitely grown on me since Ive stopped listening to The Raven once a week
If this video was filmed at night rather than during the day, it would have fit the overall feel of the song all the more. Also, finally! I can this watch this on RUclips now after all these years! :D
So funny to see old Los Angeles. They are so fantastic. Like the Doors, only better. I had the good fortune to see them in San Francisco at the Kabuki before it was turned into a movie theater. Such a shame.
The streets of tarmac are straight as a die With steel fingers clawing at the sky Inside the wall of the citadel Yellow chariots race Peasants and their peasants' smells Hungry enough to touch your face.
The video would have been more prophetic if they weren't so cheap back then and went to Washington DC instead of LA to film it. This song is prophetic now more then when it was made with the peasants touching the face and Rome. I have many many Stranglers on CD, great music and great videos.
The music was consistently high quality in the early days. But if I had to choose between material like "Let's Celebrate" and "Out of my Mind" from the final Stranglers/Hugh album "10", and the music they are producing now, I'd take the latter. Wouldn't you?
goodbye Toulouse. peasant in the big shitty. curfew. genetix. four horsemen. how to find true love and happiness in the present day. all roads lead to rome. spain. mayan skies. man of the earth.
ruclips.net/video/Ofm6lDANps4/видео.html Stranglers 1982 "All roads lead to Rome" One of my favourite bands of the "punk" era and this video clip of the British band is filmed in New York with of course the twin towers featuring amongst many yellow chariots (taxi's). It just came into my mind as I was listening and watching your vid Casey.
Maybe that's why zwerina used inverted comma's? anyway nowhere near New York either - somewhere on the Pacific West Coast, anyone know where that is they're driving around? hard to locate a building from a Google Search. looks a bit like San Diego or Long Beach from the Hilton and Palm Trees but can't be sure?
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One of the best songs from Stranglers
So true
Can't disagree.
I bought Feline when it was first released and was a little disappointed it didn't have the drive and drama of the first albums. Now, in my 50s, I enjoy it more than ever, the timelessness of some of the tracks is a sign of true quality.
Feline is a Classic Album. One of my favorites
Never underestimate the timeless wonder and contemporary art of the stranglers. I'm 53 and still feel the emotions and feelings I did at 11 or 12 when I first heard them. I thank the universe for the stranglers
Me too mate . I didn't know what to make of it , tho did quickly grow to love it at the time . I was reminded of Aural Sculpture today by the local shop keeper - who coincidentally went to same school in Milton Keynes 40yrs ago - we now live SW Cornwall - Stranglers still my fave band of all time ; all albums* ~ and I listen to a lotta music*
yes yes and yes
Je ne l'aimais pas non plus au début. Mais c un chef d'œuvre
So SoCal. Love the vintage images, the parallels, just…outstanding.
This song brings me back to my teenage years.
RIP Dave Greenfield 😇😢 👼🏽✝️
Hot damn, has it been a year already? ;-; my Dad reckons Jet Black is next, I can't imagine a World without The Stranglers, even if it was without Baz lol
@@sambot14 you're fucking kidding!!!! D:
Absolutely loved this track when this was out, back in the heyday of Los Angeles radio station KROQ.
Yes! Richard Blade played it most. He had the best taste and opened my teenaged ears to british music.
91X in SD played it a lot also!
I'm an old man and I have always liked these guys.
Synth masterpiece.
Proud to be a member of the family in black for over 40 years. RIP D.G ❤
I saw them in Amsterdam in 1979 and at least 15 times till 2019. Dave gave my wife Isabel 3 "Dutch kisses' in Rotterdam in the 90s. I still see it in front of me when I close my eyes. My wife died , very young, in 1998.
@@Pete_Delfina My first time was in Dublin, same year when I was 16. 👍
We all bear the scars.
Always loved the dark tone of this song.
Hauntingly...Melodiously...Beautiful..son.. a,Stranglers...CLASSIC..song.
Love the subtle Kraftwerk vibes on this track. The Stranglers are still one of the very best bands ever...I grew up listening to these, The Police and Kate Bush!
JJ told me during a gig: 'we are growing old together, Peter.'.
Far from subtle. Pure kraftwerk and moroder
FELINE . One of those perfect albums .
love the Stranglers!
Takes me right back to my student days. Rediscovered this track just recently, absolute gem. Still sounds so original 40 years later.
One of most beautiful songs I ever heard ! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I didn't live in the 70s/80s but boy do the stranglers bring me memories
Feline, one of THE most important albums EVER made. The references to Europe, Travel and the world are sublime. The sophistication, the Avant Garde of it all, the Synths, the sheer beauty. BEST Stranglers album EVER!
The Raven is the best album ever.
I so miss these days when despite being subjected to a Thatcher government you really felt part of the bigger European whole. Bands using French lyrics, bands like Kraftwerk touring UK regularly. Now we have both main parties determined to lock everyone into a pathetically narrow ANglo mindset.
@@andyj639Narrow Anglo mindset - brings to mind Brit Pop.
Clearly modelled after Ultravox/Visage/Foxx European vibe of several years prior.
The streets of tarmac are straight as a die
With steel fingers clawing at the city 🌃
Inside the wall of the citadel
Yellow chariots race
Peasants and their peasants’ smells
Hungry 😋 enough to touch your face
The beasts from the end of the century
Adorn themselves with jewellery
Inside the wall of the citadel
Yellow chariots race
Peasants and their peasants’ smells
Hungry 😋 enough to touch your face
Their eyes 👀 they change colour from grey to green
And when they’re blue they weigh the scene
The endless game played in the timeless zone
Remind me all roads lead to Rome
Inside the wall of the citadel
Yellow chariots race
Peasants and their peasants’ smells
Hungry 😋 to touch your frightened face
All roads lead to Rome
All roads lead to Rome
All roads lead to Rome
All roads lead to Rome
... and we're looking for the home
Clawing at the sky.
Though not their best, I am very fond of the album Feline which this song comes from. It's the ultimate celebration of the European sound. All the songs flows well into eachother, great cohesion and feel. The music matches the album cover perfectly I would say.
Well, I love Feline. I know it's not Rattus Norvegicus, but I still think it's their best work.
Oui c'est un album fabuleux. Yes It's à wonderful album with à profond atmosphere
Remember this song playing on 91X San Diego , Ca
Inside the walls of the citadel yellow chariots race. Genius
Nonsense
@@DiabolicShape Their eyes change colour from grey to green
A reference to yellow cabs while evoking images of ancient Rome.
A bit of synth added too stranglers music was a breath of fresh air
Total greatness
I just love this arty video... and the song and the entire album. So brave to make sucha a distinct and different album! A favourite!! :)
Oh hello, first time seeing the video for this. Takes me back
Feline is a Classic Album. Stands on it's own
One of my favourite Stranglers tracks.
Sonic the hedgehog sound effects kick in at 1:32 way ahead of its release 👍
haha - boss comment that, Gaz!
Well observed!
Midnight Summer Dream
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#JJBurnel absolutely shreds this bass line - Especially that middle eight like a freight
I don't hear a bass guitar in this song. Sounds like it was made fully on synths.
What a great song, it's impressive how authentic this band was
And organic.
Dobra PUNKOWA KAPELA Z LAT 70-tych i 80-Tych.Bardzo dużo super kawałków zrobili,a koncerty ich były super!!!
This is soooooo cool in 2023 ❤
Damn, I haven't heard or even thought of this song for decades. YT rabbit hole pays off again!
When we know what goes on in the Vatican! 🕊🙏✨💖🕊
For me this seems like a band that has been at the top at a crossroads not knowing which way they should be going, didn't stay there long though.
A jump into the past with this beautiful video, what a wonderful album those of the stranglers, will always remain in our hearts, super!
All Roads Lead To Rome along with European Female and Golden Brown is among my most favourite Stranglers tracks. I had no idea there was a video for this STUNNING piece of heaven x
and 'northwinds blowing' ???
personally love this track, but i'd add the whole meninblack album there as well
mr greenfield is my hero.....
Janice Lehane jet black is my hero
Janice Lehane jj burnell is mine
Hugh is my dad
Dave Greenfield RIP
@@TelecastPropellor96 He's my mum 🙂
Reminds of doing my homework while listening to KROQ in the background
Timeless Classic. Thank you!
Great song
I have to say I don't really know what this song is about, but the music sound so ominous and foreboding that it must be something deep!!!
The Stranglers certainly had a unique sound and vibe, this is just one of the countless classics they wrote IMO, only two of them left now, Hugh and Jean-Jacques.
The should have released this as a single. And Waltzinblack. I heard they didn't release this as it didn't "sound like" the Stranglers or the rest of the album. But you could say the same about Golden Brown
The band (excl. Dave who wrote it) didn't think that Golden Brown would be successful as a single.
@@Tawera1 Wasn't it Jet who thought Golden Brown was a certain hit, and Hugh who said the Dave's harpsichord bit was good enough to be a song by itself? I thought only JJ didn't like it, hence why he pushed for La Folie to be the next single.
@@RossMcCarthy1990 correct. Dave tried to shoehorn the riff into an earlier song called 'Second Coming' but it was rejected at the time. JJ Burnel isn't actually on the recording of Golden Brown. The bass part is a synth.
It's coming Rome
First time I've heard this
É sempre bom ouvir STRANGLERS
Saw a white mustang in Milton Keynes today, instantly had this playing in my head.
solid ralf hütter impression and kraftwerkian synths too
all these excellent vidz are on the singles dvd 1977 to 82 ,..
I love this.
I love the way he says Peasants and their peasant smells hahha x
Thats you fool !!!
Thats you !!!
@Jemma Schuurmans I thought your taste in music was usually young women who have voices sound like they have inhaled helium! You got that feelin, that Beatboy feeling! Bronski beat? SO sweet. Just embrace what you are and quit bullying me darling
when i start my car and this track plays first how can you not smile great intro
Soo beautiful
Evocation de l'électro-pop italienne de l'époque. Magnifique, parfaite : Stranglers !
il parait que la ligne de clavier de All Road Lead to Rome est inspirée par "cherchez le garçon" de Taxi Girl, j'ai réécouté les deux, mais... nada pour moi ! alors "Week-end à Rome". Hum, j'devrais pas écouté Carla Bruni💔
The Stranglers, always.
They're eyes turn from blue to green
tune
Im glad they got this album out of their system because Aural Sculpture was the best Epic album of theirs in my opinion... Feline has definitely grown on me since Ive stopped listening to The Raven once a week
Fantastic thanks
If this video was filmed at night rather than during the day, it would have fit the overall feel of the song all the more.
Also, finally! I can this watch this on RUclips now after all these years! :D
i thought the same! this is a dark song that should have been shot during night time.
Yes you are right.
The Stranglers are quintessentially European and this is an anti-American song and You Tube will probably delete my comment.
tutte le strade portano a Roma. awesome.
Sounds like Heartbeat City by. the Cars at the beginning
Ehm I think you'll find it's the other way around...
Evokes Prague or Vienna, a still winter's night. Europe love the continent, hopefully one day the UK can rejoin the family..
today's one year without JetInBlack 🖤🌹🖤🌹🖤🌹🖤
It just happened the same thing to me.......I was a bit disappointed back in 1983 .''..'.glad they did it now......
WIE GEIL!!!!!!!!
'A' Masterpiece
Well done
Apart from the A259 that leads to from fontwell to bognor
If I could rescript this song it would be with goodbye toulouse , just like nothing on earth, baroque bordello, all roads lead to Rome...??
Punk-synth, first time hearing this song today and that´s how I like to sum it up.. great!!
Went to see The Stranglers on the Feline Tour. Played the album to death beforehand.
Tribute to Dave Greenfield,born this day in Brighton and died in 2020,RIP
Even though it is not about Rome, It got me thinking about The Roman Empire anyway.
Any time is good for thinking about the Roman Empire.
Never knew there was a video to this. Certainly shocking when they went in this direction but I kept the faith.
Its true !!!
Whose listening 👂 2020?
I have been listening to the stranglers since 1984
I put the videos on and the sound off. I love watching them in the old days. They don't do it for me now.
Mine. Yours, too?
Absolutely. I'm 50 and have been a fan since about the age of 17 or so.
So funny to see old Los Angeles. They are so fantastic. Like the Doors, only better. I had the good fortune to see them in San Francisco at the Kabuki before it was turned into a movie theater. Such a shame.
The early eighties.
Incredible piece of work. It's just a shame the track keeps skipping.
The riff at 1:31
The streets of tarmac are straight as a die
With steel fingers clawing at the sky
Inside the wall of the citadel
Yellow chariots race
Peasants and their peasants' smells
Hungry enough to touch your face.
davegoodby
The video would have been more prophetic if they weren't so cheap back then and went to Washington DC instead of LA to film it. This song is prophetic now more then when it was made with the peasants touching the face and Rome. I have many many Stranglers on CD, great music and great videos.
That was obviously after "Vienna", but before "Rio", wasn't it.
inside the wall of the citadel. yellow chariots race .
Bien cadencé
four horsemen.
Unless you live in a Cul de sac.
01:31 it reminds me a Mario Bros xD
Nutrition. 💜
Where?
All roads lead to Juneau, Alaska.
I bet Hugh storyboarded this video and probably directed it.
Reminds me of The Pet Shop Boys.
All roads lead to Trowbridge
they just wrote better music with hugh in the band
The music was consistently high quality in the early days. But if I had to choose between material like "Let's Celebrate" and "Out of my Mind" from the final Stranglers/Hugh album "10", and the music they are producing now, I'd take the latter. Wouldn't you?
Relentless.
@@Trotskyxx True but still !
Guess the black Mustang was rented that day
Although this song does call for a yellow chariot!
goodbye Toulouse. peasant in the big shitty. curfew. genetix. four horsemen. how to find true love and happiness in the present day. all roads lead to rome. spain. mayan skies. man of the earth.
Actually, all roads lead to Tal-y-Bont - if you're driving through mid Wales. No escape.
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Stranglers 1982 "All roads lead to Rome"
One of my favourite bands of the "punk" era and this video clip of the British band is filmed in New York with of course the twin towers featuring amongst many yellow chariots (taxi's). It just came into my mind as I was listening and watching your vid Casey.
they aint punk hun...punk was a fashion inspired movement ....stranglers are alternative
Maybe that's why zwerina used inverted comma's? anyway nowhere near New York either - somewhere on the Pacific West Coast, anyone know where that is they're driving around? hard to locate a building from a Google Search. looks a bit like San Diego or Long Beach from the Hilton and Palm Trees but can't be sure?