Biography

The Stranglers formed as the Guildford Stranglers in the southern England village of Chiddingfold in 1974, plowing a heavily Doors-influenced furrow through the local pub rock scene. The following year they ventured into the London suburbs and shortened their name to the Stranglers. 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. From foul-mouthed hooligans to purveyors of supreme pop delicacies, the group was responsible for music that may have been ugly and might have been crude, but it was never, ever boring. ~ Dave Thompson

Top Tracks

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• (get A) Grip (on Yourself)

• 5 Minutes

• 96 Tears

• All Roads Lead To Rome

• Always The Sun

• Big In America

• Cruel Garden

• Daganham Dave

• Dead Ringer

• Death And Night And Blood (yukio)

• Don't Bring Harry

• Down In The Sewer

• Duchess

• European Female (in Celebration Of)

• Four Horsemen

• Get A Grip (on Yourself)

• Get A Grip On Yourself

• Ghost Train

• Golden Brown

• Hanging Around

• Ice Queen

• Just Like Nothing On Earth

• La Folie

• Let Me Down Easy

• Let Me Introduce You To The Family

• London Lady

• Mad Hatter

• Money

• Never Say Goodbye

• Never To Look Back

• Nice And Sleazy

• Nice 'n' Sleazy

• Nice N' Sleazy

• No Mercy

• No More Heroes

• Nuclear Device

• Old Codger

• Peaches

• Peaches

• Peasant In The Big Shitty

• Princess Of The Streets

• Shakin' Like A Leaf

• Ships That Pass In The Night

• Sinister

• Skin Deep

• Something Better Change

• Sometimes

• Souls

• Straighten Out

• Strange Little Girl

• Summer In The City

• Sweet Smell Of Success

• The Man They Love To Hate

• Toiler On The Sea

• Uptown

• Walk On By

• Waltzinblack

• Was It You?

Discography

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• Suite XVI

  Capitol/EMI Records / EMI / EMI Music Distribution

  2006

• Norfolk Coast

  Roadrunner Records

  2004

• Coup de Grace

  Festival Records

  1998

• Written in Red

  Import

  1997

• About Time

  Beacon Records

  1995

• Stranglers in the Night

  Lost Grove Arts / Magnetic Air Records

  1993