The bsStranglers - Decades Apart (2CD) (2010)

Released(1 Mar 2010) | Number of Discs: 2 | Format: Double CD | MP3 320 Kbps | File Size: 306 MB
Genre: Rock / Hardcore & Punk Rock | Label: EMI Gold


Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Retro Rockets
2. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (1996 Digital Remaster)
3. Peaches (1996 Remaster)
4. Go Buddy Go (1996 Digital Remaster)
5. Something Better Change (1996 Digital Remaster)
6. No More Heroes
7. 5 Minutes (1996 Digital Remaster)
8. Nice N' Sleazy
9. Walk On By
10. Duchess
11. Nuclear Device (The Wizard Of Aus)
12. Waltzinblack
13. Golden Brown
14. La Folie
15. Strange Little Girl
16. European Female (Edit)
17. Skin Deep
18. No Mercy

Disc: 2

1. Always The Sun
2. Nice In Nice
3. All Day And All Of The Night
4. 96 Tears
5. Heaven Or Hell
6. Time To Die
7. Sugar Bullets
8. Golden Boy
9. Lies And Deception
10. In Heaven She Walks
11. Coup De Grace
12. Norfolk Coast
13. Big Thing Coming
14. Long Black Veil (Album Version)
15. Unbroken
16. The Spectre Of Love
17. I Don't See The World Like You Do

The bsStranglers - Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1990)

Alternative | MP3 | 320 kbps | 125 MB

The Stranglers formed as the Guildford Stranglers in the southern England village of Chiddington (near Guildford) in 1974, plowing a heavily Doors-influenced furrow through the local pub rock scene -- such as it was. Of the four founding members, only Hugh Cornwell had any kind of recognizable historical pedigree, having played alongside Richard Thompson in the schoolboy band Emil & the Detectives. According to Thompson, their repertoire stretched from "Smokestack Lightning" and the blues, through to "old Kiki Dee B-sides," while their gigging was largely confined to the Hornsey School of Art, where Thompson's sister was Social Secretary.


The Guildford Stranglers were confined to a similar circuit. It was 1975 before they ventured into even the London suburbs, although once there -- and having shortened their name to the less parochial Stranglers -- things began moving quickly. The established pub rock scene was dying and promoters were willing to give any unknown band a break, simply to try and establish a new hierarchy. Thus it was that as the first stirrings of punk began to make their own presence felt on the same circuit, the Stranglers were on board the bandwagon from the beginning.

01.Peaches
02.Something Better Change
03.No More Heroes
04.Walk On By
05.Duchess
06.Golden Brown
07.Strange Little Girl
08.European Female
09.Skin Deep
10.Nice In Nice
11.Always The Sun
12.Big In America
13.All Day And All Of The Night
14.96 Tears
15.No Mercy

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