The Stranglers - Peel Session 1977
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- The complete session recorded by The Stranglers on 1 March 1977 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 7th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Hanging Around (0:07)
2. I Feel Like A Wog (4:29)
3. Goodbye Toulouse (8:18)
4. Something Better Change (11:34)
When i met my wife, we both had the same albums Stranglers, the Cure etc...23 years of happy marriage later, and she dies in my arms. I am still broken, but the music of the times keeps me alive.....for some reason....i miss my wife so much.......thanks for the music.......
I'm sorry for your loss and pain. ❤️🩹
Sorry for your loss. I hope some day soon that pain will turn to warm memory.
Sending Love...
Remember the Times.
man, am driven to tears, sending you hugs and love. Keep it up, mate.
The Stranglers were without a doubt one of the best British bands of all time.
They were better live than on record and that is so great to be able to say.
A sweaty, aggressive wonderful experience never to be forgotten
I know this won't sit well with others..... But these guys were the finest prog punk band ever......
It sits well with me big stuff, and I think they would take it as a compliment .they were a very innovative band,,never tied down with any tags,,but those 2 you have mentioned are as close as it gets.✌
they were weren't they! sort of bridge between prog and punk and new wave. Superb band. Everyone loved.
Fair comment, to which I'd add Magazine.
They were who they were, no labels just 'us' - listen and enjoy or fuck off. Just like The Saints were a few years earlier, the initializers of punk, or just a band. This labelling is so boring..Classification - it's such a fucking English thing. Where are you from, education, parents..
David Morgan - indeed, Magazine, still vastly underrated, sadly.
RIP Dave Greenfield :-(
Oh no just heard it. My favourite band.
'Hanging Around', absolutely marvellous. I never tire of hearing it, in all its' forms.
Just went into the comment section to write exactly this… Album version even better.
Dave Greenfield was and is such an underrated keyboard player. No one else from the punk / new wave era sounded like him. Supersonic riffs & runs all the way.
apart from ray manzarak!
S R DHAIN Yeah and don't forget Martin Duffy!
Hypnotic
Monty Oxymoron......
And Dave Formula of Magazine
RIP Dave... much love to the family and the rest of the band x
The two best bands I ever saw live were the jam they were unbelievable and the stranglers brilliant
Well said Mick.I do agree with you.out of all the band's I have seen live the stranglers and the Jam are at the top with the Police and the Bunnymen not far behind.RIP Dave.we miss you.💔
Never had the op to see The Stranglers, but did catch The Jam on their last time thru Chicago.
Jealous of you seeing them...
Dave Greenfields sound was totally unique.......Amazing band........first saw them in 1977.....I was 15
I'm not a huge Stranglers fan but they have an unmistakable sound
The STRANGLERS are Hugh Cornwell - Jean Jacques Burnel - Dave Greenfield - Jet Black
il y a un an surement pas cornwell est déjà plus là depuis un bail
Yep, I have no interest in any other formations.
What made them different from the cartoon punk bands.
Was the scary dark side.
Chemistry of the original members....don't work with out them.
BRING ON THE NUBILES.
Yes this is true nothing can compare to the original lineup
Were... and the only true line up!
Remember listening to this at the time. Who’d have thought all these years later hearing it again and realising just how great it was. 👍
Insane musical virtuosity meets the punk ethic. Phenomenal. Handy to have the best bass player of all time helping out
Hugh Strangler - the only voice that works with this group for me.
Agreed. Its probably no coincidence that Hugh departed in 1990-1 after the collapse of the Soviet-Bloc which ushered in immediately garbage like Spice Girls and other like trash as everybody suddenly became selfish and individualistic.
I agree. He's the face who pops to mind when I hear their name.
Well, looks like the cold war never went away. Individualism, that was everywhere, before & after, the fall of the wall. & besides, lots to enjoy, & listen to, after '91. Bitter-end comments, like this, make no sense. Besides, Brezhnev, wasn't all that.
Yeah JJ was a bit flat in places on SBC. And the backing vocals on HA are not great. Whereas Hugh is crystal clear throughout and constantly on the notes.
You mean Hugh Cornwell?
John Peel had so many cool bands on his show
There are a few Peel shows on YT where one can hear him talk between cuts.
That man was seminal for so many years. I was fortunate to be able to get WORT out of Madison WI in the late 70s->early 80s and they (re)broadcast the JP show nightly in the early evening. (usually the previous day's BBC broadcast.
Only this kid u went around with shows it Taz mufc
Thank you for uploading.
What a great fucking band!! Dave on keyboards classic. And then they went on to write golden brown, one of my favourite tracks. R.i.p.Dave.
All of you Old School Punks & Mods from the U.K.are absolutely right about The Stranglers.They were a brilliant band & very underated back in the day.I have seen & experienced The Stranglers Live in Concert more times than I can count? In Hollywood & Los Angeles.The first time I saw them Live,I was fortunate enough to see them with Magazine as the opening band!
Same seen them countless times in London
I don't think that they were very underrated back in the day, they were one of the most prominent and commercially successful bands from the punk/post punk era.
@@paulph12002 Thanx! For your positive comment about The Stranglers! Most Individuals who hear The Stranglers for the very first time on You-Tube & post their comments on this page never attended any? Of their Live Concerts? In the very beginning when they started Going On Tour back in 1976 to 1977 & into the very early 1980's!!
WITH MAGAZINE?! You lucky ba....d!
Very much a Punk band at the start, but after 1978 changed direction.
What a great session. So good. What a top notch band.
Rest in peace dave greenhill one the finest keyboardist in the late 70s. And onwards.
Field not hill you moron 🤓🤓🤓
Absolutely loved the original line up of Black Burnell Cornwell and of course Dave Greenfield ,such a fantastic band seen them many times and loved them every time ,Dave is among the musical giants above us now ,Thank you for some of the best days I can remember from my teenage years :(
The only line up for me. RIP Dave RIP Jet.
My first big gig, aged 14. Stranglers at Portsmouth Locarno / Mecca..Skids backing! What more could a young lad dream of. Fantastic times !!
+Roger Parkes All Skids Peel sessions are now on CD - 6 CD boxed set "Skids - The Virgin Years" - and for £20 max.
+Roger Parkes What tour/album?
that was the B&W Tour 1978 - I was there too!! a year older, Hugh mentioned the Strippers had been sacked and invited the audience to give it a go, lol saw them again a few times in Portsmouth and got to meet JJ and Dave briefly on the Giants tour at the Pyramids, real kind they were too.
believe it was Black & White,
I saw them on the same tour at the Glasgow Apollo . I was only fourteen and watched the whole thing kick off as Burnel got into it with aggressive Glasgow bouncers
Huh? How did this one slip by me? It was posted 11 months ago on the excellent Vibracobra23 channel but somehow I missed it. This band, frequently surrounded by controversy in their early years, formed way back in 1974 in Chiddington, Surrey, England. The three original members were Hugh Cornwell, an ex-science teacher, Jean-Jacques Burnel, a history graduate and Jet Black, a jazz drummer. They were subsequently joined by Dave Greenfield on organ in 1975. They started playing a kind of retro rock but in 1976 after supporting gigs with the Flamin' Groovies and the Ramones, they hit on their trademark style, a blend of punk, rock and for want of a better word, new wave. But they were most feverishly embraced by punks and that is probably how most people would describe their music. It's the churning organ that gives one pause. I mean, how many punks bands had an organ?
Hanging Around and Goodbye Toulouse turned up on their debut album Stranglers IV -- Rattus Norvegicus (April 1977) I Feel Like a Wog and Something Better Change both were included on their second album No More Heroes ( October 1977) Something Better Change was also issued as a single in July 1977. So the Stranglers were one of the few British punk bands to have two albums out in that seminal year of '77.
This Peel session is strange. The songs are taken at a more relaxed tempo than the album versions, especially I Feel Like a Wog which has quite a different feeling here. And I don't know why. From what I've heard, most bands really revved it up in these Peel sessions, especially since punk was the rage at this time. It seems every band wanted to out-punk the next one and I find it very peculiar that one of the most aggressive groups (in their lyrics, at least) here is so laid back. Maybe someone can supply an answer.
Be that as it may, these are well played very early recordings of a very important band.
I noticed that, Live they usually sped things up .... maybe as it wasn't a conventional gig they took an opposite approach, no audience or volume PA required? really works, loverly versions!!
thanks for your comment, mate
Something Better Change sounds about the same tempo as the LP/Single.
yes
what a beautiful well made comment thank you for it bud
Rattus Norvegicus on cassette, played non stop all the way to, and back from my brothers house in London many times. Unique, original sound.
just the best band ever.......bass, keyboards and great song construction...constantly producing different styles ....and not bothered....did what they liked!!!!!! always the best way..
Certainly among the most talented bands of their historic period.. and that period was so full of talented bands!
Genuine punk attitude and the ability to compose great melodies..
Stranglers forever.
IT'S SO GOOD TO HEAR THIS AGAIN...!!! I had this LP ( peel session's ) BUT..!!! It got wreaked at a PARTY someone threw up all over my LP collection's....AH...THAT WAS ME....🍺🥴🤮🤮 Anyways big thanks for putting this up in a upload yeah I got into PUNK ROCK in 1978 -- 79 and I'm still a PUNK ROCKER today.... well as they say in it for life...!!! 🏴🏴🏴🇨🇮🇷🇺🏴🏴🏴🅰️☮️☯️🏴🏴@🏴🏴🏴🍺😊✌️
FOR LIFE 🖤☠️🖤
The Stranglers were one of my favourite punk bands! The first single I bought was ;Something better Change! Love em! dx
Best band in the world
This is 1977, just look at what had come from the earlier recordings, I bet this was in one take...Some of the greatest engineers were and still are at the BBC
+FP51DPO Oh what John recorded later was hard to top.
Trouble is they're all Paedo's.
Amazing sound quality. Maida Vale was great...
The BBC Remains as the benchmarks in all aspects of broadcasting. I used to work at Solid State Logic, from 1984 to 1995 and the BBC reputation was inevitable.
It could be on the album it's so well recorded and mixed. The engineers were next level back then. The sounds they captured the equipment used was the best. Not digital
Dave Greenfield RIP
My first concert was The Stranglers at the Keystone Palo Alto in 1980. Dave's synth on Rok it to the Moon is still ringing in my ears. "Dave, you put Rick Wakeman to shame" - RIP!
Heard this live on the radio back then age 16 and went bonkers. Knew the future looked bright that night!
saw these guys perform in 77, absolute perfection.
Cost me 35p 1st time I saw them in a seafront pub
That bass ❤JJB
Sits alright with me also Mat . It's hard to have a favourite band when u get to my age , BUT.... The Stranglers are my favourite band of all time . I still love every album , never skip a track when listening to them , as I do very often . By 1978ish , I was already obsessed by American thrash bands like Dead Kennedys , then I heard Something Better Change and Peaches , and that was it , fan for life . The concepts behind the albums did then , and still do , impress the shit out of me , The Raven , Meninblack etc. , opened my mind , educated me even toward intrigue and mystery of subjects I still am fascinated by 45yrs later . I love Luscious Jackson , Groove Armada , Yello , Underworld , Morcheeba , The Cramps , The Clash , Killing Joke , The Ruts etc. etc. , but nothing has ever taken The Stranglers off pole position for more than a month or two .
And HEY , Dave Greenfield , you will NEVER be forgotten , not as long as anyone who's ever known me is still alive ha ha...
Matt , TT even .
The 1st band that musically fell in love with. There was something special about this band, they were so different to anything else that was going about at the time. I liked a lot of the stuff from 77 but to me it was the Stranglers who stood head and shoulders above everybody else. Great recording and thanks for posting. Vibracobra23. Great Memories.
Well said Martin.I feel your joy.👍 RIP Dave.sadly missed.💔
the main elements .......daves keys and jjb's bass......it was like...that was meant to happen.....r.i.p. dave...many thanks for the memories...deepest respect to your family.
Лучшая группа всех времен и народов!!!!!!!
Fantastic sound quality and great playing. Managed to see Hugh live several times and the post-Hugh Stranglers a few years ago.
The Peel sessions are amazing for so many groups......The Jam , Adam Ant ect......
The Wild Swans.
I like these slower versions, nice to hear the songs done like this, the performances every bit as good as the vinyl ones we all know and love.
I can still tell you the first time I heard the Stranglers. Our local (Toronto market) FM station was still doing what an FM station was SUPPOSED to do; playing good & interesting music. (my, how the world has changed!) My brother & I were still living at home....suddenly, one evening, the ground floor of the house was ankle deep in water...hey hey! Spring run-off time in Ontario, folks!! We're furiously mopping up water and the Stranglers are on the radio! Never heard a bass like that and immediately loved their sound. Next thing you know, Bro & I put Dead Ringer in the set of our goofy little bar band while all the other bar bands were trying to figure out Max Webster tunes! Good times.
Life changing music , top musicians and still brilliant live.
My first punk show, Chicago 1977 or so! Blew me away completely! Tuff Darts (never heard of them before or after, also on the bill. They were also fantastic!).
I had that Tough Darts record. It was ok, and of its time, worthy, but I bet they did sound better live.
Stranglers were my 1st band to see after my o level maths 1977 . Life changing and possibly life ruining for young impressionable types . Completely original , forget Doors comparison . I still listen to early Stranglers . Not bugged about stuff post Black and White . Similar with Clash . Became a bit meh and American .
Of couse. Dead Loss Angeles is definitely a bit meh and American.
On no, The Raven is legend!😜
Snap. Absolutely agree with you - stopped Stranglers LP purchases after B&W and pre-US-obsessed Clash is the best
Early stuff was tremendous Arthur totally unforgettable
the clash were always obsessed with American music - they were Ramones super fans.
This sounds fantastic, i have yet to hear a peel session that is of poor sound and production quality. Considering the diversity of the acts that recorded peel sessions the engineers always done a sterling job.
Thats the genius bbc engineers for you
@@jamespdab Yeah, exceptional quality.
Hello Vibracobra, I have been going through all the Peel sessions that you have uploaded they are superb, very well done it brought back my teenage years thank you.
What a wonderful expression of power and humour and intelligence .
Fantastic band.
Iconic tunes.
Thanks Vibracobra for putting this up, such a brilliant recording and performance, such balance and I love hearing Dave Greenfields swirling keyboard loops slightly different to the albums but the whole band is so tight in this Peel session. RIP Dave Viva Stranglers the real musicians of that era.
Respect Dave greenfield rip
" Peel " Back The layers Of " Musical Brilliance " And Enjoy " This Classic Session " Courtesy Of The Stranglers!!! From Adrian Browne 1965
More than mere Punk...
Paddy Campbell mere punk isn’t a thing
"Power Pop" w/'77 UK Punk Influences.
A very good thing [sound] indeed!
The slower pace feels comfortable, like this was recorded early in the AM and the boys were shagged and ragged from the previous night's performance, but still on top of their game. Brilliant performances all around, just a bit more ...relaxed.
Worth 2 a levels to have followed this lot . Paid the fucking price ever since . God bless these bands . Atv , Stranglers , Ramones , Wire , Television , Moped , Gong . Crass . Here n now .
excellent!!!
Seen them in Dublin a few years ago and the bass player is a s good today as back in 1977
+DAVID MCATEER his name is Jean-Jacques Burnel
The bass from Jean Jacques Burnel ist incredibly
Great Bass player !!! Really cool tones !!
Like Paul Simenon of The Clash he always looked dead cool on stage too!
@@Barry1748 Fender growling bass!
I taped this on my new Toshiba music centre with Dolby tape deck when it was on the peel show, back then no internet or phone but i always heard what was going to be on peel and when, like the pistols album, must have been melody maker the only paper i ever bought, JP would say ill give it a 3-second silence for you home tapers.
Amazing music skills up here ! Too bad Hugh and JJ had to split some way. The music is in the books and we'll never stop playing it so loud that our neighbours finally know who the Stranglers are!!
Hugh and JJ had a few disagreements which ended with JJ getting violent. Enough was enough.
What an amazing session. Tight as a chuff
Fantastic!
Stranglers are good Songwriters.
And very good Musicians too.
I Feel like a Wog in a slow Version.
And with whispering Backingvocals from JJ.
Thats too fucking good
Agreed!!!
Completely original , I scratched around in the shadows throughout my time at College with an orange rat on my ripped t shirt my best years , ohhh the memories squeek .
Love Nice n sleazy great bass
In the tune, Black and white album
My favorite.
Great band
Brilliant
Great sound quality and I love the slower, thumping throb of, I Feel Like A Wog
+Ian Robson Shit I thought you were me 'Ian Robinson' I have photo's of these guys I took that now lie in boxes in my halllway, after being punched by their protective crew :) good photos.
DeMontfort Hall shit can't remember the Albumn
Loved their Early stuff!
anyone see the similarity with The Doors, I love both.
This was released by the band along with other BBC sessions they cut on a 11 song cd called 'The Sessions'. 8 songs from '77 and 3 from '82.
i have yet to hear a bad peel session. this one rocks.
Everyone always bangs on about JJ and Dave. Hughs a great super consistent guitar player and the best singer of the band. Great drums too from Jet. Sum of all parts
Been nice to have this on my Old Testament box set 1997
Bizarrely, Cornwall's father was a canoe coach at my school, back in the '70's!
Wow!
Cool ... surprising how slow & subdued they are . Kings none the less !
RIP Dave. Such sad news.
The band with the best base line by far.
Late 70s uk boarding school, it was required listening each week, the John Peel show.
I remember recording this very session off the radio and going out to buy Rattus Norvegicus.Still have both somewhere in my collection
No more hero s anymore RIP Dave G,,,,
i won a stranglers album when i was a kid at a army cadets Disco . just 13, molded me ok... well........
Must've been before the days of Parental Advisory stickers. Hey, we all love our parents, but hey, they (most of them) were pretty clueless. Those stickers guaranteed an extra 20% of sales!
my mum used to sit and listen to them with me she said toiler on the sea reminded her of the shadows and she's right.@@klausrain111
Awesome, classic, love em
The stranglers,the perfect 8 track in my first ever escort van.
Really interesting to hear this, these are all slower than the ones off the albums.
Top 4: Stranglers Magazine Japan and The The.
Saw them 21.09.78 at Tiffanys Great Yarmouth last saw them in Norwich where I met JJ and Baz - still love 'em.
Guessing 'I feel like a wog ' isnt very politically correct these days. So how does my employer get away with making me feel like one.
Peaches probably isnt accepted by the Lesbian clan either lol.
Glad I'm too old to care anymore. Thank fuck I was born in the 60s, lived all this music. Excellent times. Clash Damned Vibrators Buzzcocks Cure even liked some Pistols stuff.👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😁
Fuq yeah!
was your employer paying you peanuts.
Lo maximo!!! Saludos desde Perú
i have no more heroes and rattus norvigacus on vinyl..stranglers are one my a;lltime fav bands and the damned..original as,,awesome bass by j.j burnell
I love these two bands as well. Going to miss Dave
I have my good headphones on but am still missing the rumble of JJ's bass and the stereo separation is too extreme for cans. This one needs your best speakers!
I now have a top pair of headphones and it sounds perfect!
Have you heard their BBC (and FCC) friendly Peel Sessions version of "bring on the nubiles"?
Dave could do it, thru, thru, thru, and all the guys, i mean what a band, Thank's John, they are not gone, not when they are here....
excellent :) thank you
Some people need to be held down and forced to listen to this band. I know I did. they are so unique, that to many people their work is initially unrecognizable as music. The absolute genius of Rattus Norvegicus is not forgiving to the bland palate or the faint of heart. Exquisite.
While most keyboardists use arpeggiators, Greenfield PLAYED arpeggios.
I had the 3d holographic album cover of Raven from the early 1980's which I gave to a friend. The human race are just hanging around until they make the elixir of immortality in 420 years time (hint: the missing ingredient is Bismuth. Hahaha). Anyway, until then enjoy life. Hahaha. Brilliant energetic music from the 20th century as usual.