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The Stranglers

MUSIC

British punk band, formed 1974 as The Guildford Stranglers.

  • Jean-Jacques Burnel -- Bass, vocals
  • Dave Greenfield -- Keyboards, vocals
  • Hugh Cornwell -- Guitar, vocals (1974-90)
  • Jet Black -- Drums
  • Paul Roberts -- Vocals (1990-)
  • John Ellis -- Guitar (1990-2000)
  • Baz Warne -- Guitar (2000-)

Official Website:
http://www.stranglers.net/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dave Greenfield
Pianist
29-Mar-1949 3-May-2020 Keyboardist for The Stranglers
Nigel Kennedy
Violinist
28-Dec-1956   British 'punk' violinist

DISCOGRAPHY

Rattus Norvegicus (1977, A&M)
1 Sometimes
2 Goodbye Toulouse
3 London Lady
4 Princess of the Streets
5 Hanging Around
6 Peaches
7 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
8 Ugly
9 Down in the Sewer

No More Heroes (1977, United Artists)
1 I Feel Like a Wog
2 Bitching
3 Dead Ringer
4 Daganham Dave
5 Bring on the Nubiles
6 Something Better Change
7 No More Heroes
8 Peasant in the Big Shitty
9 Burning up Time
10 English Towns
11 School Mam

The 2001 remaster includes the songs "Straighten Out", "Five Minutes", and "Rok it to the Moon".

Black and White (1978, United Artists)
Side Black
1 Curfew
2 Threatened
3 In the Shadows
4 Do You Wanna
5 Death and Night Blood (Yukio)
6 Enough Time
Side White
1 Tank
2 Nice 'N' Sleazy
3 Outside Tokyo
4 Hey! Rise of the Robots
5 Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
6 Toiler on the Sea

The 2001 remaster includes the songs "Walk On By" (Burt Bacharach cover), "Mean to Me", "Tits", "Old Codger", and "Shut Up".

Live (X Cert) (1979, United Artists/IRS)
1 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
2 Dagenham Dave
3 Burning Up Time
4 Dead Ringer
5 Hanging Around
6 I Feel Like a Wog
7 Straighten Out
8 Curfew
9 Do You Wanna? Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)
10 5 Minutes
11 Go Buddy Go

Live album. The 2001 remaster includes the songs "Peasant in the Big Shitty" and "In the Shadows".

The Raven (1979, United Artists)
1 Longships
2 The Raven
3 Dead Loss Angeles
4 Ice
5 Baroque Bordello
6 Nuclear Device
7 Shah Shah A Go Go
8 Don't Bring Harry
9 Duchess
10 Meninblack
11 Genetix

The CD reissue includes the songs "Bear Cage", "Fools Rush Out", "N'emmenes Pas Harry", and "Yellowcake UFO".

The Gospel According to The Meninblack (1981, Liberty)
1 Waltzinblack
2 Just Like Nothing On Earth
3 Second Coming
4 Waiting For The Meninblack
5 Turn The Centuries, Turn
6 Two Sunspots
7 Four Horsemen
8 Thrown Away
9 Manna Machine
10 Hallow to our Men

The reissue includes the songs "Top Secret", "Maninwhite", and "Tomorrow Was Hereafter".

La Folie (1981, Liberty)
1 Non Stop
2 Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
3 Tramp
4 Let Me Introduce You to the Family
5 Ain't Nothin' to It
6 The Man They Love to Hate
7 Pin Up
8 It Only Takes Two to Tango
9 Golden Brown
10 How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day
11 La Folie

The reissue includes the songs "Cruel Garden", "Cocktail Nubiles" (a recording of Dave Greenfield working out a lounge version of "Bring On The Nubiles"), "Vietnamerica", "Love 30", "You Hold The Key To My Love In Your Hands", and "Strange Little Girl".

The Collection 1977-1982 (1982, Liberty)
1 (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
2 Peaches
3 Hanging Around
4 No More Heroes
5 Duchess
6 Walk On By
7 Waltzinblack
8 Something Better Change
9 Nice 'N' Sleazy
10 Bear Cage
11 Who Wants the World?
12 Golden Brown
13 Strange Little Girl
14 La Folie

Compilation.

Feline (1982, Epic)
1 Midnight Summer Dream
2 It's A Small World
3 Ships That Pass In The Night
4 The European Female (In Celebration Of)
5 Let's Tango in Paris
6 Paradise
7 All Roads Lead to Rome
8 Blue Sister
9 Never Say Goodbye

The reissue includes the songs "Savage Breast", "Pawsher", "Permission", "Midnight Summer Dream/Europe", "Vladimir and Olga", and "Aural Sculpture Manifesto".

Aural Sculpture (1984, Epic)
1 Ice Queen
2 Skin Deep
3 Let Me Down Easy
4 No Mercy
5 North Winds
6 Uptown
7 Punch and Judy
8 Spain
9 Laughing
10 Souls
11 Mad Hatter

The 2001 reissue includes the songs "Here and There", "In One Door", "Head on the Line", "Achilles Heel", "Hot Club (Riot Mix)", "Place de Victoires", "Vladimir and the Beast (part 3)", and "Vladimir Goes to Havana".

Dreamtime (1987, Epic)
1 Always the Sun
2 Dreamtime
3 Was It You?
4 You'll Always Reap What You Sow
5 Ghost Train
6 Nice in Nice
7 Big in America
8 Like a Leaf
9 Mayan Skies
10 Too Precious

The 2001 reissue includes the songs "Since You Went Away", "Norman Normal", "Dry Day", "Hitman", "Was it You? (7" version)", and "Burnham Beeches".

10 (1990, Epic)
1 Sweet Smell of Success
2 Someone Like You
3 96 Tears (Question Mark and the Mysterians cover)
4 In This Place
5 Let's Celebrate
6 Man of the Earth
7 Too Many Teardrops
8 Where I Live
9 Out of My Mind
10 Never to Look Back

CD reissue includes the songs "Instead of This", "Poisonality", "Motorbike", "Something", "You", "Viva Vlad!", "All Day and All of the Night", and "Always the Sun (Sunny-Side Up Mix)".

Stranglers In the Night (1993, Viceroy)
1 Time to Die
2 Sugar Bullets
3 Heaven or Hell
4 Laughing at the Rain
5 This Town
6 Brainbox
7 Southern Mountains
8 Gain Entry to Your Soul
9 Grand Canyon
10 Wet Afternoon
11 Never See
12 Leave It to the Dogs

The Early Years: Rare And Unreleased 1974-1976 (1994, Castle)
1 Grip (demo)
2 Bitching (demo)
3 Go Buddy Go (demo)
4 Get a Grip (live)
5 Sometimes (live)
6 Bitching (live)
7 Peasant in the Big Shitty (live)
8 Hanging Around (live)
9 Peaches (live)
10 Ugly (live)
11 Down in the Sewer (live)
12 Go Buddy Go (live)
13 Wasted (demo)
14 Strange Little Girl (demo)
15 My Young Dreams (demo)
16 Princess of the Streets (live)

About Time (1995, When)
1 Golden Boy
2 Money
3 Face
4 Sinister
5 Little Blue Lies
6 Still Life
7 Paradise Row
8 She Gave It All
9 Lies and Deception
10 Lucky Finger
11 And the Boat Sails By

Written in Red (1997, When)
1 Valley of the Birds
2 In Heaven She Walks
3 In a While
4 Silver into Blue
5 Blue Sky
6 Here
7 Joy de Viva
8 Miss You
9 Daddy's Riding the Range
10 Summer in the City
11 Wonderful Land

Coup de Grace (1998, Festival)
1 God is Good
2 You Don't Think That What
3 You've Done is Wrong
4 Tonight
5 Jump Over My Shadow
6 Miss You
7 Coup de Grace (S-O-S)
8 In the End
9 No Reason
10 Known Only unto God
11 The Light

Norfolk Coast (2004, EMI)
1 Norfolk Coast
2 Big Thing Coming
3 Long Black Veil
4 I've Been Wild
5 Dutch Moon
6 Lost Control
7 Into The Fire
8 Tuckers Grave
9 I Don't Agree
10 Sanfte Kuss
11 Mine All Mine



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