The Stranglers

[LadyDeliah]

I've just been You Tubing my favourite band and am feeling so sad that the Yout of today have no idea how good they were!

Always The Sun

[LadyDeliah]

They don't make em like this any more!

[LadyDeliah]

Cameron Anthem:

Check out the feedback play!

[LadyDeliah]

So come on East Dulwich, which Stranglers classic is your favourite?

[LadyDeliah]

Ok, you have to admit that this one is pretty good:

Duchess

[Annette Curtain]

Remind me to tell you my "Hugh Cornwell" story tomorrow.

Oh how I love this story....

Nette:))

[LadyDeliah]

And for a sedate night in:

Golden Brown

[LadyDeliah]

Lol, spill! I love a kiss and tell, especially if it involves someone as sexy as him.

[RosieH]

Nettie you big tease, come on, tell us now...

Lady D - you been on the marijuana again?

[LadyDeliah]

Lol, no a bottle of wine is all!

Never a frown, with Golden Brown! lol but don't worry, I'm frowning :-)

[LadyDeliah]

cos I prefer Charlie nowadays!

[RosieH]

Ah, wine-fuelled nostalgia - like it. Mine isn't usually that cool.

[LadyDeliah]

Lol, I am soooo old! And boring! lol

[LadyDeliah]

Ok, it's past my bedtime. I better say goodnight!

[LadyDeliah]

Couldn't go to bed without sharing this:

[malumbu]

Too much good stuff on the first two albums, and after a while I got to like the Raven. Slightly later fave was midnight summers dream when I think that they were at their most intersting. All a bit down hill after that sadly.

Saw them at five different venues but not at the Hope and Anchor.

My Hugh Cornwall story is that whilst he was in Pentonville Jimmy Lydon (John's brother) started a campaign to keep him in there.

[LadyDeliah]

I forgot about this one:

I've got a few of their albums but haven't had a record player for years :-(

Never saw them live tho.

[maxxi]

Something of a guilty pleasure in that I liked some of the tunes but thought the band were winkers. Saw them twice in Coventry 77-78, Jean Jaques Tosseur jumped off stage for a 'fight' on both occasions and at the 78 gig the crowd booed them off and chanted for the support band (Steel Pulse) to come back on.

[LadyDeliah]

Heresy!

[maxxi]

but true - they were a little bit sneered at at the time as "not real punk" and all that rot, hence they were a guilty pleasure (and one i rarely admitted to back then). I don't think they liked Coventry very much.

[Ridgley]

Strange little girl was my favourite song, as I can relate to this being the only black Goth in my school those were the days :))

[StraferJack]

Malumbu has nailed the Stranglers in that post. Some great early stuff, but it was the Feline album which genuinely impressed me. Shame it didn't lead anywhere

The other useful part of this thread is I now know who Lady D is, thanks to a parallel splurge on facebook

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"Hippies with short hair" - John Lydon

...I do like Rattus though. JJB made a stage appearance with Riff Raff (the Essex Bard's first group) when I saw them in a very small venue...."Jean Jaques Burnel je Suis Un Rockstar", sums him up nice

[Jah Lush]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> The other useful part of this thread is I now know

> who Lady D is, thanks to a parallel splurge on

> facebook

True but I think I know who you are now too.

[PeckhamRose]

Saw them at Hammersmith Odeon about 1984. So loved them and still do. Golden Brown was my favourite. But on sunny days on the coast I still sing Peaches to myself!