Bloody hell, I can't believe you guys have only just made it to The Stranglers. I was smiling from ear to ear watching you hear this. Welcome to The Stranglers. Enjoy the ride!!

@paulwilson2651

2 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@andrewstevenson118

2 ай бұрын

Wait 'till they get to Madness. 🙂

@mastertoymaker5249

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewstevenson118 They already did Our House & It Must be Love

@andrewstevenson118

2 ай бұрын

@@mastertoymaker5249 Ah. Thanks. 🙂 I bore anyone who will listen by explaining 5/4 time.

"Golden Brown' works on two levels. It's about heroin and also about a girl... both provided me with pleasurable times." - Hugh Cornwel, the songwriter and singer in the band.

@nigelralphmurphy2852

3 ай бұрын

There was always a question among the guys in prison: when you get out what are going to do first, find a hit of 'golden brown' or have sex. The answer was always, always: get some skag and get high! No competition.

@jabberthebut

3 ай бұрын

How punk is that, a classy example of how to fool the radio stations to play a record about opium!

@jacquiollard8784

3 ай бұрын

hashish - not heroin

@markjones127

3 ай бұрын

@@jacquiollard8784 It was famously about Heroin.

@CoffeeConnected

3 ай бұрын

@@jacquiollard8784 Brown is a UK slang term for heroin.

When I first heard this song back in the day, I almost couldn't believe a punk band could write and record something so surprising and yet so unbelievably good. But what I've realized over the years is that when the musicians are truly good, then nothing is beyond their grasp.

@James-wj8eq

2 ай бұрын

The Stranglers precede the punk era...

@bradmenpes809

2 ай бұрын

@@James-wj8eq Perhaps it's more accurate to think of them as New Wave.

@tyger389

2 ай бұрын

The Stranglers might have been part of the punk movement. but they were never an ordinary punk band.

@WH-hi5ew

2 ай бұрын

Stranglers record company had been taken over by another record company who said Punk was over and the group then force them to release Golden Brown which the record company said wouldn't work, you couldn't dance to it and was too different from their previous stuff. Nobody was expecting much but took off and won the Ivo Novello award that year.

@talyrond2047

2 ай бұрын

It's a cover of Dave brubeck

"Always the sun" is a very good song of there's

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

* theirs 😉 And yes, great song indeed! 😊👍

@skadoink1736

3 ай бұрын

Another favourite of mine....

@cassandra2249

3 ай бұрын

My favourite from the stranglers although it's hard to say against Golden brown.

@CallicoJackracham

3 ай бұрын

''Skin Deep'' is another good one.

@clannad99germany70

2 ай бұрын

YEP !

A punk band doing a waltz on a harpsicord! "Golden Brown" is so different from their early stuff. Try "Peaches" for something completely different.

@psiphon2808

3 ай бұрын

I wondered if anyone would mention Peaches. 🤣

@module79l28

3 ай бұрын

I'd say "try ANYTHING from early stuff", not just Peaches, for something completely different.

@Cruithneach

3 ай бұрын

"Is she trying to get out of that...?'

@marksmodellingmadness

3 ай бұрын

These are the songs I know by this band- it's like two different songs by two different bands separated by two dozen decades...

@kategeraghty2591

3 ай бұрын

Peaches is great! A favorite of mine is Old Codger. Reminds me of my Irish born father-in-law! Hysterical lyrics!

This is one of those 'oh, and I'm a teenager again' songs. You don't hear it often but when you do...

@Xiroi87

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@allendixon7700

3 ай бұрын

It's a good Bernardo.You know, if you got one of those sick hours.I'm out while I'm tired.My heart tiger.Yeah, YAP then watch the video on the wide screeddie.I want to watch Her try.She t r I s h y automatic confederate confederate railroad

@rapidgtp

3 ай бұрын

ahhh you are listening to the wrong radio station ;)

I've always found this song hypnotic....and I've never been near an illegal substance......🤣🤣🤣

@allendixon7700

3 ай бұрын

They say once you go Tr. I yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. It's a it's a good, didn't? My beloved warm up board hover question mark Confederate railroad. Get on the train and I'll type.Yeah you'll get a butt turning load of trash😅😅😅😅😅😅

@michaelburggraf2822

3 ай бұрын

Just like me. I don't even smoke. But that music gets me in a state like in a trance or like being hypnotized. Just showing that I don't need any strange substances for feeling levitating.

@TreVader1378

3 ай бұрын

Of course you haven't.

Harpsichord delivers that "mediaeval sound". That the Stranglers used it in such a melodic way shocked us all back in the day. Back then, I would turn to either these guys or the Split Enz when I wanted to escape mainstream sounds of the late 70s and early 80s.

'No More Heroes' by the Stranglers is pure punk and 'Walk on by' is a great cover by them.

@zoeherriot

Ай бұрын

Inspired a weird Japanese game too. ;)

I think my favorite Stranglers song is probably "Always the Sun." It's more 80s dream pop, but I think Jay especially would dig it.

@davidhuggan6315

3 ай бұрын

They would LOVE this song

@malarija83

2 ай бұрын

I had a chance to hear them a few years back in Belgrade, they sounded amazing, this song was everything live!

Thank you for reacting to such a beautiful song! I also love their song 'Skin Deep'.

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

'Skin Deep' is great indeed! 😍 It was the second Stranglers song I'd heard (in late '84), after 'Strange Little Girl' 😊

@mcjs8640

3 ай бұрын

It's a horrible song.

"Walk on By" was one of their best songs [especially the instrumental part]. They had so many. Had the pleasure seeing them live in concert a few times in the 70's.

@Andy-ng9lz

2 ай бұрын

Imo, the best cover of that song completely.

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665

2 ай бұрын

@@Andy-ng9lz Even the notoriously exacting Burt Bacharach himself.. admitted he liked it... and pronounced it the most different versions as well. It turns it into a snarling angry wet London version.

@iancarr8682

2 ай бұрын

With shades of The Doors

@helenc1693

2 ай бұрын

love their version of it

@razor6552

2 ай бұрын

One of the best covers outside of Rasputina covers

The lyrical content is dark, it’s about heroin. Laced in beauty though

@mcjs8640

3 ай бұрын

Hate it.

@markcutting6504

3 ай бұрын

Hate what, the song or heroin😂

@markcutting6504

3 ай бұрын

Check out the la's there she goes.also a song about heroin/love.same as the classics of beatles/stones etc you don't need to dig to deep into the lyrics unless you want to.Lennon said he wrote I am the walrus just to mess about with the journalists that were trying to find drug references in their music

@tonyburton5706

3 ай бұрын

​@@markcutting6504great heads up, loved that song.

@Susan-nm3sx

3 ай бұрын

@@markcutting6504😂😂

The Stranglers rode in on the punk wave in the 1970s but were never really a true punk band. They were way more musically and technically accomplished then most of the punk bands and are really in a category all by themselves. Listen to their signature album, Rattus Norvegicus. It will blow your minds. Golden Brown was from their album La Folie, which went in a totally new direction from their earlier stuff, but no less brilliant. I was a teenager when those albums came out and still love their music now I’m in my 60s.

Lyrically brilliant- heroine is the underlying theme- punk / post punk brilliance- this is just one of a hundred great / brilliant songs from these GODS. THEY WERE /ARE MASSIVE HERE IN THE U.K. my favs = skin deep + 96 tears + peaches + no more heroes + always the sun ++++++++++++++ 👍🇬🇧.

A punk band playing a waltz, and everybody loving it.

@afterthemouse

3 ай бұрын

... on a harpsichord...

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget Waltzing in Black from the Gospel according to the Men in Black .😎😉 A strange album ... Or Strange little girl.. Not a band to ever under estimate in anyway shape or form.. RIP Jet Black ..🇬🇧😎

@andrewcurtis8739

3 ай бұрын

As proved on Strictly when they tried to do a Waltz to it, it is NOT a Waltz (switching to 4/4 every fourth bar in the instrumental section). Very unusual for a pop song

@Xiroi87

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewcurtis8739 technically you are absolutely correct. It still sounds like a waltz for the musically untrained and I love the idea of a punk band playing a waltz, kind of.

@James-wj8eq

2 ай бұрын

The Stranglers preceded the punk era...

5 minutes is brilliant followed by nice and sleazy and then straighten out what a band❤😂

An example of their harder punk sound is "No More Heroes"

Stranglers song "Peaches" is awesome too.

@edd4875

3 ай бұрын

Yes! Peaches!

@Ecosse57

3 ай бұрын

*yes!*

@michael7191

3 ай бұрын

lol, probably not family friendly enough for this channel

@ibrstellar1080

3 ай бұрын

Peaches is amazing live.

@michellez1414

3 ай бұрын

Build up to Peaches by listening to a few Stranglers songs first - it will be appreciated more.

How the 45 of this song never made the Billboard Hot 100 is one of life's mysteries.

@silversurfer8278

2 ай бұрын

It made no.2 in the UK Charts in 1981, and was the Strangler's biggest single hit.

Check out The Stranglers "Skin Deep". My personal favorite.

@jethro1963

3 ай бұрын

Me too, love Skin deep

@kelliedee

3 ай бұрын

That's a good choice, i especially like the extended version.

@joannecunliffe8067

3 ай бұрын

Mine too 🥰

@JoTracy

2 ай бұрын

The lyrics are fire, and hit harder with each passing year

@richardmcneil2230

2 ай бұрын

can't believe I had to scroll this far down before someone mentioned skin deep, also 96 tears, always the sun and of course waltz in black

As a lifelong Stranglers fan who has seen them 20+ times live. Golden Brown is a very niche song in terms of what the band represents. The ‘Punk in your face’ stuff is definitely their early work. As the comments suggest, would definitely check out the tunes No More Heroes, Straighten Out, Peaches, Hanging Around, Something Better Change. Or my personal favourites which lets the band show off their artistic skills would be Down in the Sewer or Walk on by. The former keyboardist Dave Greenfield (who sadly died of Covid) is a genius. The closest thing you get to The Doors whilst still remaining unique.

@ColinBarrett001

2 ай бұрын

I can't think of any Stranglers song I didn't like.

@bozimsaho5590

2 ай бұрын

It's heroin they are talking about. There is no ambiguity

@victordevonshire807

2 ай бұрын

Yep it's about smack. I relate to it. Can't afford a habit today. Still here though many are not.❤ RIP 🙏

@purplebongo27

2 ай бұрын

Saw them 1st time when I was 15 ...try No more heroes, Peaches, Walk on by, loads more..this is a beautiful song but it is about heroine....golden brown. You guys make this old music lover very happy..8ts like my journey allover again. Pink floyd, Cure, Bowie, now you're on my early punk era. Thanks guys love & light from South Wales 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌻🤟

@victordevonshire807

2 ай бұрын

@@purplebongo27 How about listening to a great band from your neck of the woods (mountains). Man. Lucky to see them twice. Great band. ❤

One of my all time favourite songs is the Stranglers Strange Little Girl. It's another mellow one like this and I highly recommend .

@lilaelsi5766

3 ай бұрын

Strange Little Girl was later covered by Tori Amos on her cover album called… Strange Little Girls 😊

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

That song had been my very first Stranglers impression 😊

@DMCDObidon

3 ай бұрын

@@lilaelsi5766 Tori Amos has some cracking covers. I only just missed out seeing her live, gutted as I heard the gig was awesome.

@DMCDObidon

3 ай бұрын

@@mightyV444 I would play it on a loop. I wasn't a big stranglers fan but SLG is so unique it stands on it's own.

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

@@DMCDObidon - Just like 'Golden Brown', really! 🙂

I’ve been a huge Strangler’s fan since first hearing them in 1980🔥👍 My favorite song from them is “ Duchess “

I am 57 years old. Not going to tell you I heard this song in my youth, because I didn't. At work, I am fortunate enough to get to listen to music of my choice all day. I only discovered this song about 7 years ago. And it is awesome. Might I recommend another that I did hear back the on the radio and rediscovered 16 years ago? The Korgis, " Everybody 's Got To Learn Sometime". Such an odd, but beautiful song.

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

Yes, that one's a great song, too! 😍 I'd heard it for the first time in many years only fairly recently myself 😊

The Stranglers - without doubt the greatest and most successful punk band of all time featuring a keyboard player. Still amazes me how fast that dude could flow (listen to "Tank" and be amazed). But the band's true secret weapon was the bass. You will never hear a more muscular, aggressive, testosterone-fuelled, up front, in your face and daring you to do something about it bass tone than on the earliest few Stranglers albums. "Peaches" showcases it, but have a listen to how the bass player muscles his way into the intro of "Hanging Around", and tell me that's an instrument that belongs in the background!

My favourite band and severely underrated. Please give more of their songs a listen!

This was part of the soundtrack to Snatch. A movie I highly recommend for a movie reaction.

@nigelw7626

3 ай бұрын

Great song. Awful Film.

@williamgreco3046

3 ай бұрын

@nigelw7626 I love Jay and Amber but Snatch is far better than most movies they choose.

@HamzaDarby

3 ай бұрын

Was going to say this too. Some great tracks in that soundtrack. Makes me think they need to check out Massive Attack.

Stranglers have so many great tracks, Always the sun, no more heroes, skin deep, strange little girl, 96 tears.....the list goes on and on you have definitely hit seam of pure gold with this group and I look forward to your dive into their catalogue.

Along with The Clash, the Stranglers were probably one of the best bands to come out of the British punk era. There was a darkness to their early work, but they could definitely draw you in. This song was Dave Greenfield (Keyboards) and Jet Black (Drummer) creating the music, for which Hugh Cornwell wrote the lyrics. They are very much worth exploring. hoping you are, and remain well.

No.2 hit in Britain back in 1982.

Arguably the best thing that came out of Punk Rock in the UK. The "Doors" sounding organ, heavy catchy base line, flat singing, great riffs and the drums pulling it all together. No wonder their music has lasted the years and still sounds fresh today as it did back in the era. Their musicianship has for many years been very underated. Please please listen to "No more heroes" and "something better change" from the early days and "Water from more recent times. I am sure you will be loving them as much as I do.

As others have said the 'golden brown' is a particular potent strand of a well known hard core drug the lead singer was addicted to for a time, with its history (Golden brown, finer temptress/Through the ages she's heading west/From far away/Stays for a day), and how it feels(Golden brown, texture like sun/Lays me down, with my mind she runs/Throughout the night/No need to fight/Never a frown with golden brown) and the loss of yourself (Every time just like the last/On her ship tied to the mast/To distant lands/Takes both my hands/Never a frown with golden brown.) A lot of the time it feels like an anomaly in being one of the few songs about addiction that's haunting and beautiful but also ultimately, well, quite positive about the whole thing.

@nigelralphmurphy2852

3 ай бұрын

They're doing the one thing you're not allowed to do: tell the truth that drugs are fun, and heroin is the best. Skag is great, skag is beautiful, skag never let's you down. For another love poem to this marvelous and wonderful drug, listen to Lou Reed's Heroin.

@mcjs8640

3 ай бұрын

​@@nigelralphmurphy2852Try saying that when it's destroyed a family member's life. Not so wonderful then.

Oh, this was a great band... went to see them live at 15 yrs.... had a teenage crush on the guitarist Jean Jacques ! Loved No More Heroes x

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

He's the bassist, though! 😉 And the only original member remaining in the band today! 🙂

YES!!! Finally got there. Dig deep my friends. You won't be disappointed.

This song was so popular back in the very early 80's down here in Australia. It contrasted with the upbeat, fun, and fast paced music of the time. You could listen to a string of fast paced pop/punk/new wave music and be able to come back down and mellow out with songs like Gold and Brown...I still have it in my play list to this day.

Dave Greenfield (Keyboards) Passed away/2020) In his honor & memory the group would write/record,, The Stranglers "...And If You Should See Dave" 🙏❤️

Fun fact: As this song has a 3/3 time signature that make's this song a Punk Waltz.

@walterrutherford8321

3 ай бұрын

Is that what I’m hearing? Thanks. My mind kept trying to force it into an even beat.

@GMJ7

3 ай бұрын

​@@walterrutherford8321 The time signature for a waltz is generally 3/4, or ocasionally 6/8 if the composer / arranger prefers. "Golden Brown" constantly feels out of kilter or "lurchy" during the instrumental passages because an extra beat keeps getting added to the end of each phrase when the harpsichord has the solo. The intro, for example, begins with 3 measures of 3/4, then the 4th measure is an abrupt 4/4, then that pattern repeats several times. It can easily throw off the listener's sense of timing because an extra beat is constantly being pulled out of thin air. (Try counting along with the music: 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, repeat.) A typical, traditional waltz like Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" stays in 3/4 for the duration, lends itself extremely well to dancing, and doesn't feel uneven, so triple meter on its own isn't the culprit if "Golden Brown" seems to clash with your sense of rhythm. It's the mixture of 3/4 and 4/4 that gives it that feel.

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

​@@GMJ7 - Exactly! It's in 3/4 with an occasional 4/4 thrown in 🙂

@hipsville

3 ай бұрын

It always reminds me of Dave Brubeck and I can't unhear it that way. :)

@mightyV444

3 ай бұрын

@@hipsville - I heard a Reggae(!) version of 'Take Five' somewhere recently, and it was in 4/4 instead of 5/4, too! 🙈 😂

Rob Squad Reactions, Wow, this made my day brighter! Thank you!

Need to start with NO More Heroes & Something Better Change & Who Wants The World

@sheronasims6783

3 ай бұрын

Peaches 🍑 lol

@thabudmaster

3 ай бұрын

i disagree, this is the only Stranglers song I would recognise ....& I LOVE it

@michael7191

3 ай бұрын

Also Hanging Around, Get a Grip on Yourself. Golden Brown is unique and cool, but to me it’s not the Stranglers without JJ’s bass and Hugh’s guitar out in front, and more energy in the drums and keys.

@matthewmcalley392

3 ай бұрын

​​@@thabudmaster Seriously ? 😂 Wow each to their own but In my opinion they might have one or two just a tad better than this 😂

@corkydukeII5898

3 ай бұрын

I'll bet not too many know of their awesome version of 'Walk on By'

This song was used in an Ore-Ida ad campaign for about a week... I guess they found out what the song was about.

Definitely check out more Stranglers "No More Heroes" "Peaches" "Walk on By"

@ibrstellar1080

3 ай бұрын

Strange little girl has aged well .

@billjones3720

3 ай бұрын

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?

@deanpowell4843

3 ай бұрын

⁠he got an ice pick

@fleshen

3 ай бұрын

Always the Sun

@JohnLovesSpain

2 ай бұрын

@@deanpowell4843 that made his ears burn

My friend Dick Whitmore's favorite song, demanded I play it at his 21st birthday disco. Just days before he died of a Brain Tumour. This song holds a lot of good memories of him for me.

Firstly, great T-shirt Amber, I agree. 'The Stranglers' started during the Punk Rock movement in the '70s in the U.K. Their sound evolved over the years, tracks by them I recommend are: "Peaches", "5 Minutes", "Straighten Out", "Go Buddy Go", "Hanging Around", "No More Heroes", "(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)", "Something Better Change", "Walk on By" a cover, "Nice 'n' Sleazy", Above are the more Punk tunes from the band, below are the later ones: "Skin Deep", "96 Tears", "Strange Little Girl", "La Folie", "European Female", "Duchess", "Always the Sun". There are many more but these are good ones to continue with.

@sophiapangloss2149

3 ай бұрын

Was that a joke Adam? It's '5 minutes'... 😀if it is... yeah that happens.

@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.

3 ай бұрын

@@sophiapangloss2149 Thanks, Sophia, it was a mistake, I've corrected it now. I wrote that very early this morning just before going to bed I was falling asleep when I wrote it. 😄 Thank you again for the heads up. 😊

@carrerlluna66

3 ай бұрын

Love 'em all but Goodbye Toulouse is a monster to me

@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.

3 ай бұрын

@@carrerlluna66 Yes, I thought that I'd recommend the better known tracks first, I'm hoping that, Jay and Amber, get into the band as they're great and have a varied catalogue. 🙂

@carrerlluna66

3 ай бұрын

@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Understood and I'll say it again, you made a beast of a list. I hope they dig into the Stranglers "nest" a bunch more.

No More Heroes is my favourite Stranglers song but I did like Golden Brown to relax to 🙂 Jean-Jaques Burnell's bass is just awe inspiring.

More Stranglers please. You've hit a rich vein of gold with this band. I'm sure the comments here will guide you to more songs to check out!

So glad you got to this. The Stranglers early stuff is completely different, but needs listening to. Try "Peaches" and " No More Heroes" and "Always The Sun" and "Something Better Change" and... ...well, try everything thing. They produced so many fantastic songs that it's hard to put a foot wrong.

Jay, you're swaying to the music the way you are, because this song is a waltz... 3/4 time...

@wayne_twentyfive

3 ай бұрын

It's actually a mixture of 3/4 time and 4/4 time .. After the first 3 bars of the riff in 3/4, there's a bar of 4/4 .. That's what gives it that slightly unusual feel.

For the VERY OPPOSITE END of their style/sound,, I would STRONGLY SUGGEST,, The Stranglers "Walk On By" 🔥❤️🔥

One of my favourite Stranglers tracks - so unexpected and so beautiful. The guitar solo is the very definition of short and sweet 😎👌 Loved it when it first came out and love it more now 🥰🥰

I grew up loving this song and still do. Like mediation it moves you around whilst seated :-)

This was years after they had left their punk roots behind. If you want that you should listen to No More Heroes or Get a Grip on Yourself, Peaches or Hanging Around. Another trippy one is Strange Little Girl. Soo many great tracks to choose from.

No Mercy! The guitars! The bass! OMG! ❤

@mgnzmn9362

2 ай бұрын

Yesssss!!! No Mercy is sooo great!👍

A song that you can simply listen to over and over and over again..

The Stranglers are a band who had a raw, punky style to start with which over time morphed into something more 'Pop', and 'Golden Brown' is somewhere in-between. I had recorded it from the radio onto cassette tape in '85, not realising/recognising at the time it was actually The Stranglers, as everything else by them I'd heard so far had been quite different, and so it was a big surprise when 'Golden Brown' popped up on a 'Best of The Stranglers' album I bought six years or so later 😀 My 18-year-old Son was OCD'ing for quite a while on their song 'Go Buddy Go' a couple of years ago 😅

I always think The Stranglers are the punk Doors

@joegillam1497

3 ай бұрын

Spot on.

@markbrown4127

3 ай бұрын

Never thought of that, spot on

@lilaelsi5766

3 ай бұрын

Yes, “Walk On By” has a very similar structure to “Light My Fire”, with that long, middle, instrumental section.

@erik5374

2 ай бұрын

I first heard of the stranglers when I asked my uncle, who owned a huge album collection, to record a tape cassette with music of the Doors. There was some tape left. He decided to fill in the blank space with tracks of the Stranglers (but not golden brown, though). When I was starting to build a collection myself, the stranglers’ albums were some of the first I bought. I think I had all of them.

@melchiorvonsternberg844

2 ай бұрын

It's about the keys, right?

I don't believe The Stranglers had a song chart in the US. They did release a compilation album of sorts in the US(1980) called IV.

The Stranglers are really worth listening to - their grungy bass is really pleasing ....

My dad played the Stranglers none stop when I was little, my sister and I used to sing this word for word aged 6 and 4! And we used to sing Peaches at the top of out voices when we ever were at the beach ha ha

Skin Deep & Always The Sun are my two favorites, but if you want the in your face punk sound, you have to go back to their 70s music

@jethro1963

3 ай бұрын

I didn't know the Stranglers and bought a greatest hits CD solely because of the Skin Deep video. Ended up liking everything on the CD.

Stranglers go boroque Canterbury scene - great track, always loved this one. Thanks 😊

@allendixon7700

3 ай бұрын

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@allendixon7700

3 ай бұрын

Country, it's sick before we're down. I think we're dial. God is ideal from a country music that was done long before. Where'd I don't ever did it? That went on withth all country music songs, paradise for country music. You can lock it up. I do George John's etc. She thanks a steal ST AI L still cars C. I. Rs she thinks I'm still cars. Alright all right😅😅😅😊

@davidhuggan6315

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking that since I've been getting into the Canterbury scene recently

" Down in the sewer " from Rattus, as a young punk, i remember pogoing to this at the Glasgow Apollo in 1978, it builds and builds, to a crescendo

I grew up listening to The Stranglers, they are still touring today. This track is predominantly about Heroin ' Golden Brown', there is a section of music mainly guitar and some backing vocals about half way through, maybe the 2 minute mark, where if you image you have just taken a shot of heroin it sounds like how your mind would be tripping to it, it's very cleverly composed.

Ohhh The Stranglers. This is about heroin. Your next Stranglers song should be No More Hero's. This is the in your face punk sound that was mentioned, but with a Hammond organ. Then do Peaches, then Hangin Around, Nice and Sleazy. All very dirty punk. The bass sounds sooo dirty, you'll love it. Oh then Always The Sun....which is much later and more commercial sounding, but really beautiful.

The song is about Herion addiction. No more heroes, something better change, get a grip, Dagenham Dave, 5 minutes are more their known sound. School mam is interesting and peaches has a great baseline.

You've got to see the video of that song.. it is perfect!!

Hugh Cornwel did a version of this with a mariachi band.... Sheer brilliance!!! Good choice guys. Two thumbs up👍👍

The Stranglers- Hanging Around

This is late Stranglers … try Hanging around ! Classic I grew up listening to 😊I was so lucky 🍀

Just one their great tunes! The lyrics are about Smack/Heroin!! The joys of!!...

So glad you guys listened to this and liked it so much. This is one of my favourite ever songs. The kind you can listen to over and over without ever getting tired of it. Genius and timeless.

The Stranglers had many phases. This was a comeback song and their biggest hits . I love their earlier punk vibe songs , No More Heroes,,Grip , Something Better Change. They do a phenomenal version of Walk On By originally by Dionne Warwick which brilliantly shows if JJ Burnell's Bass and Dave Greenfield's Keyboards. They were different from most trad punk and most Punk bands were afraid of them. They were a Punky Doors!

Trippy is the right word 🙂

This was my favourite punk band in the UK growing up they were a soft punk to me xx🇬🇧🥰xx

I love the Stranglers. Peaches and Always the Sun are great as well.

‘Peaches’ is my favourite of theirs. I’m surprised more people haven’t reacted to it. It’s unusual, cheeky… and properly good.

You guys should defo watch Snatch 😂😂

@johnpublicprofile6261

3 ай бұрын

Not till they've 1st seen "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels"

@jordan0010

3 ай бұрын

@@johnpublicprofile6261 true

This is one of my all time favourite songs. Glad you love it, too.

Whoah! Now you've done it. The Stranglers are amazing. DEEP rabbit hole of goodies.

The Stranglers "Strange Little Girl",, "Skin Deep",, "Always The Sun",, Etc. 🔥❤️🔥

@thewomble1509

2 ай бұрын

Duchess!

The song is about heroin

Finally, this was the one I most wanted you to hear, glad you like it.

Please go down a Stranglers rabbit hole... so many good songs and so much variety....

Robs Golden Brown Amber. 😅

Skin Deep and Strange Little Girl are my favs from the Stranglers, had the pleasure of seeing them live.

The Stranglers have a lot of great songs! Some of their tracks were featured in movies and TV commercials. Most of their biggest hits were New Wave, but they also did other genres including Punk Rock and Art Rock. Here's a few of their New Wave tracks that will pull you into a dreamy trance just like Golden Brown: Skin Deep, No Mercy, Always The Sun, Strange Little Girl, Nice in Nice, and Big In America Here's some of their Punk Rock hits: Something Better Change, Peaches, 96 Tears (cover of the ? & The Mysterians hit), and All Day And All Of The Night (cover of The Kinks hit)

I've loved this ever since I was a kid. Love the time signature, the harpsicord, and the lyrics.

Believe it or not, this was a huge new Wave dance club hit in the early 80's. Started going to new wave clubs in March 1980, when all the great groups like OMD, The Cure, Joy Division/New Order, and Depeche Mode were just coming out with their first albums. But this song, along with Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins became instant favorites for me. Love your reactions, which was the same reaction I had when I first heard it when it came out.

One of my favorite larger club gig concerts from early 80s was the Stranglers (at the Paradise Rock club, Boston). I was not familiar with them pre-show. Totally frenetically ecstaticly danced my ass off. Fun memory 😊

Golden brown was the first Stranglers song I heard as a teen in the 80s and is still one of my favourites but I soon discovered their punk rock style from the late 70s and also enjoyed their music into the late 80s, there are so may other songs to check out like No more hero’s or something better change from the 70s or European female but do check out Always the sun from I think 1990, I did hear or read that Golden brown was referring to Heroin in some way but don’t know if that is correct or not?? Anyway thank you for reacting to one of my favourite bands of that era!!

Has to be in the 100 greatest popular music songs ever written. Epic and understated at the same time. Incredible.

The Morlocks "My Friend The Bird"...TRUST ME on this one my music lovin' sister & brother. 🔥❤️🔥

Great reaction! “Always the Sun” is another great gem of theirs!

Finally, a Stranglers reaction. Love it. Girly's got the offbeat down, so cool. More Punky is 'Hanging Around.'

I haven't heard this song in decades. Glad that you played it. If I remember correctly it came out in the 1980s. Back then it was hard to get these records and the only way you could hear it played was on college radio stations where I recorded the song off the air onto a cassette.

What a Song that is. Brilliant.👏👌

@mcjs8640

3 ай бұрын

Horrible song.

The first time I ever heard this was in the film "Snatch". Since then, it's been one of my favorite songs.

Thanks for a great reaction. They did start off as a punk band but they kind of evolved and this was an early example of one which wasn't punk. This was a stunning tune in the day which I believe got to Number 2 in the UK at the time. Their Punk type stuff includes No More Heroes and Hanging Around. Strange Little girl is also good - the video, though not the tune, has a very punk theme. Their later stuff, like this tune, includes Always the Sun - a beautiful tune & well worth a listen.

My fav song, gives me chills.

Stranglers WOW. Gotta love that Harpsichord