The Stranglers Documentray Part 1

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2009
  • BBC Choice documentary the story of The Stranglers, charting the band's rise to fame in the 1980s to present day. Despite the departure of lead singer and frontman Hugh Cornwell in 1990, the band continue to perform successfully to thousands of fans all over the world. Interviews with members of The Stranglers. Presented by jazz singer and art critic, George Melly. Producer/Director: Angus McIntyre
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  • @TheZegof
    @TheZegof 4 года назад +12

    12 years old : Stanglers, I am now 55 and still love this band. They are just greaaaat, forever

  • @carolinehyndes7043
    @carolinehyndes7043 4 года назад +18

    Loved them for so long. RIP Dave I love you I loved your playing, respect to all the guys at this dreadfull time, respect and love to the Greenfield family. I wonder which one took the Rat home from the photo shoot? I bet one of them did.

  • @stuartblack6803
    @stuartblack6803 2 года назад +2

    Loved the Stranglers and an added bonus here for me in this doc is George Melly .

  • @veloman59
    @veloman59 Месяц назад

    Fantastic songs ❤

  • @crisnboots
    @crisnboots 12 лет назад +13

    These guys are really organic, I met them @ the whiskey a go-go. 'The Raven is the best ever. They are all good musicians.

  • @AP86777
    @AP86777 5 лет назад +3

    My favourite band. Forever. Will never change.

  • @Bucketroo
    @Bucketroo 9 лет назад +8

    Oh yeaaaaaah! My all-time favorite band!
    C'est la folie!

  • @michaelvincent8306
    @michaelvincent8306 Год назад +2

    The greatest band ever love the stranglers

  • @charleswilliamson7733
    @charleswilliamson7733 3 года назад +2

    Rattus Norvegicus stands out to me along with No More Heroes as two of the best albums ever made that defined and cemented the Stranglers signature sound.Though to be honest.They never made a bad album.I love all their work equally an amazing band. I met Baz on holiday with around 30 of his mates on the isle of Arran a few years ago at his mates hotel.The Henderson Arms in Brodick.He was doing a small private gig that was'nt advertised just for his mates and a friend and i got into their company and were invited along .Supported by an act called The Nicky Kemp band was an amazing night and i will never forget Baz stopping between songs to share jokes and Anecdotes.

  • @steveh3373
    @steveh3373 8 лет назад +5

    Thank you for posting so that those of us who live in the garbage TV land of Australia can revisit some great music.

  • @alisonhilll4317
    @alisonhilll4317 4 года назад +1

    Bloody good band , nice one !!! , RIP Dave Greenfield , thanks for all the music mate !!! .

  • @2ndMOUSEofficial
    @2ndMOUSEofficial Год назад +4

    RIP Dave, and now Jet. Such an awesome band, and they'll live on through such a great back catalogue of classics

  • @Spiderwebsider
    @Spiderwebsider 14 лет назад +2

    If only you could capture the sheer energy of the day and put it up on the screen!
    The Stranglers were a huge part of my youth and I saw them many times in the early days. I wouldn't have missed living through that era for anything. It truly was an exciting time to be coming of age.
    "Something Better Change". Change had to come, and change has to come again because music today is as corporate, bland and inaccessable as it was prior to punk.
    Thanks for putting this up, it was great.

    • @littleghostfilms3012
      @littleghostfilms3012 3 года назад

      Change has come and it's named Sleaford Mods, Billy Nomates, Dead Sheeran. Not the sound of the Stranglers but it's a nut kick to corporate music culture and to the Brexiteers and to the consumer wasteland.

  • @selfselfself
    @selfselfself 15 лет назад +4

    I've never seen this before, thank you very much for uploading this!!

  • @parriskya6224
    @parriskya6224 2 года назад +1

    77 was my year
    Rip Dave

  • @75amoeba
    @75amoeba 12 лет назад +8

    Hugh is the Top Man.

  • @bobmiller7502
    @bobmiller7502 Год назад

    what a blast from the past Shiite im old, lucky its just on the outside ay,,thanks for sharing brother,xx

  • @billyblooboy
    @billyblooboy 10 лет назад +22

    They were my favorite band still have all the vinyl in mint condition ,i liked their style ,just like Roxy music ,David Bowie ,they were different .

  • @jamesnoble2753
    @jamesnoble2753 4 года назад +2

    Best Band in the world.

  • @oblongfan1
    @oblongfan1 13 лет назад +12

    i want those stranglers puppets !

  • @happyguyx1
    @happyguyx1 10 лет назад +20

    if we never had those haunting keyboards i dont think the stranglers as we know it

    • @LaughingStock_
      @LaughingStock_ 5 лет назад +1

      And the Jumbo jet bass?

    • @Katehowe3010
      @Katehowe3010 3 года назад

      That's a rather confusing sentence, is it not?

    • @Katehowe3010
      @Katehowe3010 3 года назад +1

      And Hugh's shattered glass guitar sound. It's a myth that one instrument was more important than another!

    • @sspbrazil
      @sspbrazil 3 года назад

      R.I.P. Dave

  • @DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter
    @DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter 9 лет назад +1

    Ah awesome doc. Thanks for sharing this^^ Been a big fan of them for decades.

  • @S1d-ney
    @S1d-ney 2 года назад

    Every person playing or singing in the best groups ever to be are quintessential to that group to make it what it is , simples 👍

  • @MrToileronthesea
    @MrToileronthesea 15 лет назад

    Excellent, thanks for posting this & parts 2,3 & 4 as well.

  • @ridgy37
    @ridgy37 12 лет назад +16

    Jet Black, what a legend!

    • @davehoward22
      @davehoward22 4 года назад +2

      Hes older then this comment😄

    • @Mrz-sb1hw
      @Mrz-sb1hw 9 месяцев назад

      The stranglers weren't real punk they were " punkish".

    • @davidhandley2087
      @davidhandley2087 25 дней назад

      He was quite cute in sexy bearish way, wasn't he. Hansum aww ❤

  • @TheRocktalk
    @TheRocktalk 9 лет назад +9

    Haha! Kudos to the band for blowin' out the uni gig.

  • @COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY
    @COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 11 лет назад +2

    raised in a small town in new zealand, difficult to buy UK imports, pistols bollocks etc was hard to obtain, but instead i got BuzZcocks, and Stranglers No More Heros.
    Later on the imports started to roll in, Undertones, Gen-X, Joy Division, and many more. They had to be ordered on vinyl

  • @aarcvault908
    @aarcvault908 6 лет назад +19

    The Stranglers, like Throbbing Gristle and/or The Fall aren't sufficiently credited for their keen, if dark sense of humor. Black & White was arguably their best work. -Whatever.................

    • @michaelmelton999
      @michaelmelton999 5 лет назад +3

      Personally I really enjoy the first 4 records, I always come back to those. After that, I have one's that I like okay, and the way they change is fascinating, but the energy and composition of the first three records is my favorite. Then the Raven. La Folie is okay. Feline is almost too new wave sounding for me. The Gospel of the Meninblack has some great tunes but doesn't captivate me as a whole. I like the 76-78 era the best. Not knocking them in the least.

  • @littleghostfilms3012
    @littleghostfilms3012 3 года назад +3

    For years like an idiot I only had and listened to maniacally their Live From London Cd which is just the greatest music I can think of. Lord knows why I didn't buy their other albums. I guess that one just satisfied me for then. Long story short this year I have been listening to all their stuff, finding out more about what an unusual group of guys they were and just what top shelf musicianship came out of The Stranglers. That bass, the keyboards, Hugh's voice, the lyrics, everything just floors me to no end!!!

  • @DavidJohnLovell1
    @DavidJohnLovell1 13 лет назад +4

    If you listen to Black and White album, Jet has to reverse his bass drum to snare pattern at the opening to Death and night and blood, listen very carefully, I spotted this back in 78.

  • @chrisbodum3621
    @chrisbodum3621 3 года назад

    Hugh looks really healthy at 2:17. Great footage, thanks.

  • @trubblemuffin
    @trubblemuffin 11 лет назад +3

    Gee my tinnitus was really playing up watching this video!

  • @MoveOverCasanova
    @MoveOverCasanova 11 лет назад +4

    from the cover of the 1st album you could tell they´re great - no persona cult, you see greenfield and burnel in the foreground and the others in the background, surely because this was simply the best picture of the shooting or so...)) - they just never bothered about what is hip

  • @Teeb2023
    @Teeb2023 6 лет назад +3

    >video ends<
    Ah, there you are, hearing... I wondered where you'd gone.

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
    @sirandrelefaedelinoge Год назад +2

    *_"Have you all got your Crackerjack pencils...?"_*

  • @LivingMy9Lives
    @LivingMy9Lives 12 лет назад +1

    Awesome band.

  • @void0094
    @void0094 3 года назад +1

    8:00 love how hugh pretends to play the guitar part on bass and JJ pretends to play the bass lineon the Telecaster

  • @chrisbowers85
    @chrisbowers85 11 лет назад +1

    4.30........don't get any better than this! LONDON SOUND!

  • @danspivey91
    @danspivey91 12 лет назад +5

    Very few bands have Class written all over them, and to be honest this is the only band I can think of.

    • @Katehowe3010
      @Katehowe3010 3 года назад +1

      You're not giving the grey matter much exercise then!

  • @AnonymousAccount514
    @AnonymousAccount514 4 года назад +1

    Nice. Discovered this band in “Sexy Beast”

  •  15 лет назад +10

    Clash & Stranglers best punk bands ver .

  • @josep.rodriguez1419
    @josep.rodriguez1419 4 года назад

    Gran Banda!

  • @AlexanderLaurence
    @AlexanderLaurence Год назад +2

    RIP Jet Black

  • @vandolmatzis8146
    @vandolmatzis8146 4 года назад

    God bless you George

  • @mickharryharris6866
    @mickharryharris6866 4 года назад

    Epic band !

  • @richardhewit215
    @richardhewit215 7 лет назад +3

    The guitar swap is a classic.

  • @theart8039
    @theart8039 4 года назад +3

    When the Buzzcocks tried walking off in Brighton in 1978, their whole set got smashed up..(including a roadie who had hit a kid in the head with a hammer ) I was there and saw it happen and one of my mates got a cymbal that was rolling across the floor. I doubt if that roadie ever walked properly again. That was real Punk and Brighton was a tough act

  • @treasurehunteruk9718
    @treasurehunteruk9718 4 года назад +2

    Where's Part 2? Removed for copyright purposes. Why not the other parts????

  • @almklit
    @almklit 15 лет назад +4

    There you all go JJ considered himslef to be a Punk Rocker quite right too.

  • @void0094
    @void0094 Год назад

    8:25 this is so amazing

  • @ezrhino100
    @ezrhino100 12 лет назад +10

    these guys were almost prog rock, with some doors thrown in for good measure.

  • @happyguyx1
    @happyguyx1 10 лет назад +1

    thats how the caught me------but the album no more heroes tore me apart---it had no more heroes on it plus 9 more tracks that were as good------my fav being wogs-----then bar-------i dont know why hugh left but i have a rough idea------my mates following them till this day---- denis odonell died they knew him-------i think im a huch fan-----i,l always love that band so much history for me

  • @gyugug
    @gyugug 14 лет назад +1

    JJ miming "BOLLOCKS" at the start of the TOTP Go buddy Go - and Dave going "Fuck Off" during the chorus...lol..

  • @marcocalarco7575
    @marcocalarco7575 11 лет назад +2

    I can't watch it due to the high pitch ringing. Pity.

  • @steveh3373
    @steveh3373 8 лет назад +1

    Have reshared to 'The Stranglers' googleplus community. Hope that's ok.

  • @antonioeasypiano
    @antonioeasypiano 9 месяцев назад

    As a big fan of The Stranglers I offer these two piano cover in my channel: Waltzinback and Strange Little Girl. 💥🎹

  • @terrythekittie
    @terrythekittie 12 лет назад +1

    correct....that gruff voice is him....he had good taste to play with the Stranglers

  • @willalwaystelehandler8450
    @willalwaystelehandler8450 3 года назад

    To cool

  • @nookie077
    @nookie077 11 лет назад +5

    Thanks for killing off millions of my hearing related brain cells...

  • @chrisbowers85
    @chrisbowers85 11 лет назад

    3.50......FUCKIN LOVE IT! THIS IS MUSIC!

  • @happyguyx1
    @happyguyx1 10 лет назад +1

    alone n no more heroes was played

  • @merseybeast76
    @merseybeast76 13 лет назад +4

    great piss take there on TOTP. JJ's playing the guitar and Hugh's on the bass ha ha.

  • @happyguyx1
    @happyguyx1 10 лет назад +3

    this new greap called the stranglers

  • @jaquesaulait
    @jaquesaulait 4 года назад +3

    Anyone know where I can see this interesting doc without the brain-piercing whistling . . ?

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 9 лет назад +1

    Did JJ say "we had to barricade ourselves in the stressing room"!?

  • @Joebunkyss1
    @Joebunkyss1 12 лет назад +2

    I gotta get me soma dem puppets.

  • @WAWELDRAGON
    @WAWELDRAGON 14 лет назад +1

    those puppets would fetch a bob or two and wouldnt be a bad idea for the Strahglerrs merchandise people to have these produced for sale. Great stuff, and what about Stranglers garden knomes, the potential is uinlimited :)

  • @happyguyx1
    @happyguyx1 10 лет назад +3

    jet to me made the stranglers

  • @nunuloki
    @nunuloki 11 лет назад

    JJ and Hugh have swapped bass and guitar roles in the clip about 8.30. I wonder how often they did this?

  • @williamcole960
    @williamcole960 7 лет назад +2

    How is this documentary so old and yet, they're old too?

  • @theselector4733
    @theselector4733 9 лет назад +2

    What does Hugh say at 01:52 when presenting Dave......."The only man who can ????"

    • @flashtheoriginal
      @flashtheoriginal 9 лет назад +3

      He meant to say "Dave Greenfield, the only man who can write up a crossword clue on the keyboard". But he stuttered when he said it and basically ballsed it up. It was a reference to Daves cerebral nature as he was always doing crosswords, rubics cubes, puzzles, playing with packs of cards etc and is well known for being the boffin of the band (also incredibly gifted at mathematics)

    • @theselector4733
      @theselector4733 9 лет назад

      flashtheoriginal Cheers.......I'd completely forgotten about this and had another careful listen........seems like he says the word "Anacruse" somewhere in that line. I looked it up and funnily enough it's related to crosswords.

    • @JennyH-yr1hj
      @JennyH-yr1hj 6 лет назад

      flashtheoriginal aka absolute legend

  • @roderickturnbull5402
    @roderickturnbull5402 Год назад

    RIP jet black

  •  12 лет назад

    @skadeline Do you ?

  • @happyguyx1
    @happyguyx1 10 лет назад

    hes just mentioned greaqt bands

  • @baabaabaa-yp2jh
    @baabaabaa-yp2jh 2 месяца назад

    Absolutely nothing wrong with Dr Feelgood, Kilburn, the 101ers or the Jam... all great bands, helped steer what came later...
    Can't blame the Stranglers for that.

  • @jasperedwards3341
    @jasperedwards3341 4 года назад +1

    good puppets

  • @jimhobbs3792
    @jimhobbs3792 3 года назад

    Unwatchable because of the high pitch tone going throughout, shame because it looks interesting.

  • @bluecat798
    @bluecat798 Месяц назад

    I once saw the Stranglers in Bath in the 80s. Skinheads infiltrated the gig and were even hitting girls. One got up on stage and JJ punched him off the stage-just deserts!😂

  • @charleshall3372
    @charleshall3372 6 лет назад

    Anyone see Dictators W/Stranglers?

  • @percylongshaft4091
    @percylongshaft4091 4 года назад

    Jean-Jaques Burnel looking more like Kevin McNally with age .

  • @irishelk2
    @irishelk2 13 лет назад

    @rubencon and the pistols

  • @PAULLONDEN
    @PAULLONDEN 9 лет назад +2

    Such a fucking shame Cornwell left the fold. The guy is such an original and had true charisma.
    The current _Stranglers_ are nuthing more than a Stranglers' tribute band...which probably suits Burnell and Greenfield fine.

  • @punkrockpub
    @punkrockpub 11 лет назад +3

    bRInG oN tHE NuBiLEs!!!!

  • @terrythekittie
    @terrythekittie 12 лет назад

    no argument with that...2012 may as well be 50 years ago, 1962, with pretty boys and predictable dross providing the hits but no longevity, class or talent..but remember about 1964 Dylan, Beatles, Stones etc came to the fore....will 2014 be a revolution in music?..I hope but I'm not that optimistic.

  • @sbilts
    @sbilts 12 лет назад +4

    Paul McCartney,psychedelic guitar? I think not Hugh...

  • @RogueRotting360
    @RogueRotting360 11 лет назад +1

    Prog-punk.

  • @jounik8980
    @jounik8980 3 года назад

    Elitist audience