They are good, As already noted unorthodox and hard to categorize. Not really my bag, but I like the singles. I always thought The Suburbs (US) and them had a similar vibe.

fucking indispensable

Have been listening to them a bunch the past week or so, dipping into a few things I'd never heard before as well as revisiting tracks I hadn't heard in a long while, and I don't think The Stranglers were/are a merely "good" or even "very good" band, but rather, they are one of the best bands of all time.

Find me any other band that sounds like this:



Not a lot of bands have a song as catchy as "Nuclear Device," then Dave Greenfield goes full-on Rick Wakeman mode (in a good way) on "Genetix." And somehow this punky/post-punky/new wave rock meets prog stuff works! Maybe it shouldn't, but it does.


An interesting thing to me is that so many Stranglers songs really do "go somewhere" that whenever one doesn't, it's noticeable. Eventually, I hope to get through all of it, including the post-Cornwell records, as well as his solo stuff.

Edited for spelling.

^ At these moments I just think, "They're like The Jam crossed with Devo", which isn't a species you'd think would exist in the wild but it does and it's beautiful.

Don't really know about them, but I listened to a couple of songs, "Peaches", "Golden Brown" (this one I recognize), "Strange Little Girl", and a few others. The latter two I loved, pretty cool stuff going on in the rest. I like the melancholic songs more than the straight rock ones. TBC