The Stranglers are a British rock band, formed in 1974 as The Guildford Stranglers in Guildford, Surrey.
They soon dropped the geographical prefix and the name, The Stranglers, was registered as a business on 11 September 1974 by Duffy.
They experienced several line-up changes. After Cornwell's departure in 1990, Burnel, Duffy and Greenfield had been the only constant members of the band, until Duffy's retirement in 2018 and Greenfield's death in 2020.
Band members:
Hugh Alan Cornwell - guitar, vocals
David Paul Greenfield - keyboards
Jean-Jacques Burnel - bass, vocals
Brian John Duffy - drums.
"Stranglers IV" (also known as Rattus Norvegicus) is the debut studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1977 on United Artists Records. The album was reissued in 2001 with three bonus tracks on EMI.
Tracks:
1-9 LP Stranglers IV
10 7" bonus single
11 7" Sometimes, released in 1977
12 7" bonus single, recorded live at The Nashville in West Kensington, 10 December 1976.
Originally with a triangular hype sticker on the sleeve shrink wrap indicating "Includes Free Single - Limited Edition". This is one of the first 10,000 pressings with an dditional 7" single housed in a plain dark-orange sleeve.
Tracklisting:
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
10. Choosey Susie
11. Go Buddy Go
12. Peasant In The Big Shitty (Live)
VBR ~251K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"No More Heroes" is the second studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1977 on United Artists Records. The album was reissued in 2001 with three bonus tracks on EMI.
Tracks:
1-11 LP No More Heroes
12 7" Something Better Change, released in 1977
13-14 7" 5 Minutes, released in 1978.
Tracklisting:
1. I Feel Like A Wog
2. Bitching
3. Dead Ringer
4. Dagenham 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
12. Straighten Out
13. Five Minutes
14. Rok It To The Moon
VBR ~254K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Black And White" is the third studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1978 on United Artists Records. The album was reissued in 2001 with six bonus tracks on EMI.
Tracks:
1-12 LP Black And White
13-14 bonus 7" (FREE 9)
15 7" Nice 'N' Sleazy, released in 1978
16 7" Sverige (Jag Är Insnöad På Östfronten), released in 1978
17 7" Walk On By/Old Codger/Tank, released in 1978
18 bonus 7" (FREE 9).
The first 75000 copies of this album included the 7" "Walk On By/Mean To Me/Tits" in white vinyl in a black paper sleeve also containing a card with the credits. The 7" with cat # "FREE 9" was not released separately and is listed as tracks C, D1 and D2 on this release.
Tracklisting:
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
7. Curfew
8. Threatened
9. In The Shadows
10. Do You Wanna
11. Death And Night And Blood (Yukio)
12. Enough Time
13. Mean To Me
14. Walk On By
15. Shut Up
16. Sveridge
17. Old Codger
18. Tits
VBR ~258K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
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"Live (X Cert)" is a live album by The Stranglers, released in 1979 on United Artists Records. The album was reissued in 2001 with seven bonus tracks on EMI.
Live (X Cert) contains tracks recorded at The Roundhouse in June and November 1977 and at Battersea Park in September 1978.
Tracks:
1-11 LP Live (X Cert)
12 from The Nashville, London, 10 December 1976. Originally included on a free 7" with the Rattus Norvegicus album.
13 from Hope And Anchor, London, 22 November 1977. Originally included on the 7" Don't Bring Harry in 1979.
14-18 are taken from the same era as the original source tapes.
Tracklisting:
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
12. Peasant In The Big Shitty
13. In The Shadows
14. Sometimes
15. Mean To Me
16. London Lady
17. Goodbye Toulouse
18. Hanging Around
VBR ~250K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
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"The Raven" is the fourth studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1979 on United Artists Records. The album was reissued in 2001 with four bonus tracks on EMI.
Tracks:
1-11 LP The Raven
12 7" Bear Cage/Shah Shah A Go Go, released in 1980
13 7" Duchess, released in 1979
14 7" N'Emmènes Pas Harry, released in 1980
15 7" Nuclear Device (The Wizard Of Aus), released in 1979.
Tracklisting:
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
12. Bear Cage
13. Fools Rush Out
14. N'Emmenes Pas Harry
15. Yellowcake UFO
VBR ~255K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"The UA Singles 1977-1982" is a 3 CD compilation album by The Stranglers, released in 2009 on EMI.
Tracklisting CD1:
1. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
2. London Lady
3. Peasant In The Big Shitty (Live At The Nashville '76)
4. Choosey Susie
5. Peaches
6. Go Buddy Go
7. Something Better Change
8. Straighten Out
9. No More Heroes
10. In The Shadows
11. 5 Minutes
12. Rok It To The Moon
13. Nice 'N' Sleazy
14. Shut Up
15. Walk On By
16. Mean To Me
17. Tits (Live At The Hope And Anchor)
VBR ~274K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
Tracklisting CD2:
1. Walk On By (Radio Edit)
2. Old Codger
3. Tank
4. Duchess
5. Fools Rush Out
6. Nuclear Device (The Wizard Of Aus)
7. Yellowcake UF6
8. Don't Bring Harry
9. Wired
10. Crabs (Live)
11. In The Shadows (Live At The Hope And Anchor)
12. Bear Cage
13. Bear Cage (Extended 12" Mix)
14. Shah Shah A Go Go
15. Shah Shah A Go Go (12" Version)
16. Sverige
17. N'Emmenes Pas Harry
VBR ~271K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
Tracklisting CD3:
1. Who Wants The World
2. The Meninblack (Waiting For 'Em)
3. Thrown Away
4. Top Secret
5. Just Like Nothing On Earth
6. Maninwhite
7. Let Me Introduce You To The Family
8. Vietnamerica
9. Golden Brown
10. Love 30
11. La Folie
12. La Folie (Radio Edit)
13. Waltzinblack
14. Strange Little Girl
15. Cruel Garden
VBR ~267K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
