Popel Vooje wrote: The Stranglers - The Collection 1977-1982
Uncool, yes - but it's aged better than some of the more cutting-edge punk artifacts of its time, possibly because they shamelessly plundered 60s garage-punk for inspiration and never affected the dubious year-zero attitude adopted by the Sex Pistols. And over here in the red corner, we have...
The first album still sounds great. It's up there with "Damned Damned Damned" for me.
I've actually completely forgotten why we weren't supposed to like them back then. Was it the lack of overt politics that did for them or was it the strippers and the hells angel security types?
I saw them at The Roundhouse and remember really liking The Dictators and The Pop Group and being a bit under whelmed by the headliners. Being young my mind may have already been poisoned against them by the NME and Sounds and yet 30 years on the first few records stand up pretty well. A lot better than say "Power In The Darkness", "Give Em Enough Rope" or "This Is The Modern Word"!
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