Stranglers, The - 1983-02-20 - Rockpalast, Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany (86'54)(FM)[FLAC]

01 Aural Sculpture Manifesto
02 Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus)
03 Toiler On the Sea
04 Ships That Pass In the Night
05 It's a Small World
06 Just Like Nothing On Earth
07 No More Heroes
08 Who Wants the World?
09 Never Say Goodbye
10 Baroque Bordello
11 Golden Brown
12 Princess of the Streets
13 Midnight Summer Dream
14 European Female
15 Tramp
16 The Raven
17 Duchess
18 London Lady
19 Bring On the Nubiles (Cocktail Version)
20 Genetix

Total time: 1:26:54

 

disc break goes after Track 10

 
Hugh Cornwell - vocals, percussion & guitars
Jean-Jacques Burnel - bass & vocals
Jet Black - drums & percussion
Dave Greenfield - keyboards & vocals

 
Extracted 48k audio of an HD mkv file of the digitized pre-broadcast tape tracked and converted to CD audio 16/44 by EN, May 2020

Never the sun

The Stranglers - Portsmouth, GB 1990

 

The Stranglers - Live Guildhall
Portsmouth, GB
March 13, 1990
Soundboard @flac

Lineage: Cassette>Audition>Mastering>CDWav>FLAC

 

Setlist:

01. Intro (Meninblack)
02. Shah Shah a Go Go
03. I Feel Like a Wog
04. Straighten Out
05. Shakin' Like a Leaf
06. 96 Tears
07. Someone Like You
08. Sweet Smell of Success
09. Always the Sun
10. Ships That Pass in the Night
11. Peaches
12. Where I Live
13. School Mam
14. Let's Celebrate
15. Uptown
16. Tank
17. Was it You?
18. Down in the Sewer
19. Nuclear Device (part)
20. Duchess
21. No More Heroes (part)
22. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
23. All Day And All of the Night
24. Punch and Judy

*Original Notes*
The original line-up’s last UK tour was in support of the 10 album. I saw them several times on this stint and thought it was always an amazing gig! They were to lose Hugh Cornwell by August, but this is probably the ultimate document of this era.

A tight and energetic show they clearly are having fun and are at the top of their game. They were recording every show they did after being put in prison in 1980 in Nice, France, owing to comments allegedly made by bass player JJ Burnel.

Being free spirits who didn’t buy corporate bullshit they were always one comment away from controversy. This is why I love them. So luckily for us, a few of these tapes has found thee way into fans’ hands and this is one of the best.

This is a great recording. All the effects and left / right panning you’d hear at the gig are present. The band did release a lot of tracks from this tour as B-sides and extras and I suspect a professional got their hands on this before I did.

It’s a medium generation tape, ripped and mastered at 24bit/96k. Finalized as 16 bit/44k FLAC

As Always...Thanks To The Original Source!!!

 

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The Stranglers - Live at the Hope & Anchor 1977

From The original FBS archives...
 

The Stranglers - Live at the Hope & Anchor

November 22,  1977 
Hope & Anchor  in Islington, North London
Soundboard @192

Out of Print.

Track List:

1.Tits
2.Choosey Suzie
3.Goodbye Toulouse
4.Bitching
5.Mean to me
6.School mam
7.Peasant in the big shitty
8.In the shadows
9.Walk on by
10.Princess of the streets
11.Go buddy go
12.No more heroes
13.Straighten out
14.Peaches
15.Hanging around
16.Dagenham Dave
17.Sometimes
18.Bring on the Nubiles
19.London lady

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The Stranglers - Live Rockpalast 1983 {Rebooted}

As requested by soundmill...
Originally posted January 27, 2012 

The Stranglers - Live Rockpalast

February 20, 1983

Superb broadcast-quality recording of The Stranglers touring the 'Feline' album.

01 Aural Sculpture Manifesto
02 Nuclear Device/Toiler on the Sea
03 It's a Small World/Just Like Nothing on Earth
04 Ships That Pass in the Night
05 No More Heroes
06 Who Wants the World?
07 Baroque Bordello
08 Golden Brown
09 Princess of the Streets
10 Midnight Summer Dream/The European Female
11 Tramp
12 The Raven
13 Duchess

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The Stranglers - Live Dominion Theatre 1985 {Rebooted}

Originally posted February 17, 2014

The Stranglers - Live Dominion Theatre, UK
February 28, 1985
BBC In Concert

FM Source @ 192

Set List:
01 intro
02 Something Better Change
03 Uptown
04 No Mercy
05 Nice & Sleazy
06 Thrown Away
07 Midnight Summer Dream
08 European Female
09 Golden Brown
10 Peaches
11 Death & Night & Blood
12 Punch & Judy
13 Hanging Around
14 Down In The Sewer

Thanks to guitars101!

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The Stranglers - Live Minneapolis, MN 1981

The Stranglers - Live Sam's 

May 20, 1981

Minneapolis, MN

Soundboard Master @flac

*Original Notes*
This is a rare master recording unearthed a couple of years ago which has thus far only been circulated on a very limited level. To celebrate The Stranglers' 40 years in the biz (on tour now) I thought it was time it got a bit more exposure.
The person who kindly allowed me to rip this cannot remember who gave it to them...
This is The Stranglers at their peak. Playing material from The Raven, and The Gospel According To The Meninblack LP they were promoting, the music is interspersed with Hugh Cornwell’s acid wit. Hugh is on top form throughout, riffing after almost every song. 
The cassette is a TDK AD90 and the inlay card has notes that read:
“Desk: PM1000 out of subs into active combining network mixed by Kevin Hortmann”
I have ripped this tape clean to digital with no processing at all.
It's a stunning document of a band several decades ahead of their time...
Enjoy!!!

Lineage:
The Stranglers playing>Soundboard>master cassette (played back via Sony TC-WE475 deck)>Terratec Phono PreAmp Studio>Audition CC (rip only)>CDWave>FLAC

Band:
Jet Black - Drums
JJ Burnel – Bass, vocals
Hugh Cornwell – guitar, vocals
Dave Greenfield – Keyboards, vocals

Set List:
01 - Threatened
02 - The Raven
03 - Toiler On The Sea
04 - Just Like Nothing On Earth
05 - Thrown Away
06 - Who Wants The World?
07 - Baroque Bordello
08 - Second Coming
09 - Meninblack
10 - Shah Shah A Go Go
11 - Ice (cut)
12 - Tank (cut)
13 - Nuclear Device
14 - Genetix
15 - A story about Lady Diana
16 - Duchess
17 - Hanging Around (cut)

Thanks to one of the DC++ hubs!

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The Purple Helmets - Rise Again - 1989 {Out of Print}

The Purple Helmets - Rise Again (1989)

Studio recordings @flac

{Out of Print}

Whether the result of, or the impetus for, the Stranglers' penchant for covering rock'n'roll standards (or just an indication of artistic burnout), J.J. Burnel and D. Greenfield launched a just-for-kicks sideband with Stranglers' saxman Alex Gifford (also piano with Van The Man & half of the Propellerheads), ex-Vibrators guitarist John Ellis (he had opened for the Stranglers in the 1970s as a member of The Vibrators, filled in for H. Cornwell during his time in prison in 1980 and became the future Stranglers' guitarist during near ten years) and Manny Elias ( drummer for : Interview , Tears for Fears , P. Gabriel, etc...). On two similarly titled but totally different albums, the Purple Helmets (nice name...) do nothing but relive the songs of their misspent youth. Whether they're playing "Woolly Bully," "I Can't Explain," "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Not Fade Away" on the live "Ride Again" or "She's Not There," "Money" and "First I Look at the Purse" on "Rise Again", a slightly more accomplished studio concoction. The Purple Helmets approach their chosen jukebox classics with the enthusiasm of teenagers and the skill of seasoned professionals.
~TrouserPress

Track List:
    "Brand New Cadillac"
    "I'm Crying"
    "Rosalin"
    "She's Not There"(*)
    "First I Look At The Purse"
    "Get Yourself Home"
    "Oh Pretty Woman"
    "Homework"
    "Don't You Like What I Do"
    "Money"
    "Under The Sun"
    "Baby Let Me Take You Home"
    "Sha La Lee"
    "Baby"
    "Everything's Alright"

(*) J.J. sings lead vocals


    Alex Gifford: Lead Vocals
    J.J.Burnel: Bass & Vocals
    John Ellis: Guitar & Vocals
    Dave Greenfield: Keyboards
    Manny Elias: drums









Rise Again...

The Stranglers - Demos Consolidated 1976

A Dave Sez contribution...

The Stranglers - 1976 Demos Consolidated 

Demo recordings @256

Mountain Studio Demos, Wales, March 1976
01 - Peaches (4:18)
02 - Down In The Sewer (very early version, without "Rats' Rally" finale) (4:56)
03 - Bitching (4:58)
04 - Tomorrow Was The Hereafter version one (4:27)

Thanks to the great radiolux, Starving Artist at
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/the-stranglers-rare-1976-demos-bbc-rock-to-college-1978-exc-sdb-recordings-85559.html

The full session was:
March 1976 Foel Studio; Mid Wales, UK recorded by Ian Gomm
Tomorrow Was The Hereafter (version one)
Tomorrow Was The Hereafter (version two)
Peaches
Bitching
Down In The Sewer
http://www.xulucomics.com/Pre.html
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July 11-12, 1976 Pebble Beach Studio; Worthing, UK

05 - [sirens and cheesy keyboard intro, with sax] (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
06 - Bitching
07 - Go Buddy Go

Info: http://www.xulucomics.com/Pre.html. Audio source: Stranglers - The Early Years CD.
Earlier bootlegged as: 1976 Demos  3 Early Demos  Pan-Vox PV 1618 (7" 45 + ps) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) / Go Buddy Go / Bitching
http://www.xulucomics.com/Boot.html. Re-released on Stranglers - The Early Years '74-'75-'76 Rare Live & Unreleased; out of print.
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08 Tomorrow Was The Hereafter (version two, 1976)

Track released 1980 by Stranglers Information Service as SIS001, re-released in picture sleeve 1988, backed by Bring on the Nubiles
(Cocktail Version) (1980); both tracks re-released on Stranglers - From Birth and Beyond, out of print.


Just found this: http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/george-melly-with-john-chilterns-footwarmers-1991-12-xx-london-uk-fm-flac-177399.html - FileFactory link still live.

Cheers, Dave Sez.

"Old Codger"
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
Communion's got a lot of grace
It's got style and bread and wine
But they're not mine!
You know what I like!
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
I may be long in tooth and jaw
But I've got a lot of nerve
When it comes to an angel boy
Pray for me!
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
What an old codger I am
When the choir is singing in the aisles
And the moon tomes up over the steeple
I might just turn into a bol-weevil
And creep up on you with my beef-jerky!
Hey baby!
We're gonna shave 'em dry
You know what shave 'em dry is?
You'll learn!
Mmmm, that's good, that's good!
That's very good!
Just close your eyes baby and think of England!
Well why not?
I always keep my socks on!

Consolidated

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The Stranglers - '74-'75-'76 Rare Live & Unreleased {Out of Print}

The Stranglers - '74-'75-'76 Rare Live & Unreleased

Studio Session Demos & Live @320

{Out Of Print}

Track List:

(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)- demo

Bitching- demo

Go Buddy Go- demo

(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)- live

Sometimes- live

Bitching- live

Peasant In The Big Shitty- live

Hanging Around- live

Peaches- live

Ugly- live

Down In The Sewer- live

Go Buddy Go- live

Wasted- demo

Strange Little Girl- demo

My Young Dreams- demo

Princess Of The Streets- live

Recorded At:
Tracks 1-3 Pebble Beach Studio, Worthing, 11+12/7/76 (Demo tape for Bell Records)
Tracks 4-12 live in London, Hammersmith Odeon, 23/10/76 (supporting Patti Smith)
Tracks 13-15 TW Studios, Fulham, 1974
Track 16 live in Redhill, Surrey, Railway Tavern, 15/11/75
 

I was rather interested to discover that vintage video footage of the Stranglers' infamous 1978 open-air gig in London's Battersea Park, complete with male and female strippers onstage during Nice 'n' Sleazy, has been posted on YouTube (in the restricted section which requires users to log in).  It's been there for almost nine months now, so evidently YouTube are perfectly cool with it, which is reassuringly non-uptight.

What strikes me most about the video is how preposterously tame it now looks  -  almost like a scene out of the once-outrageous but now rather embarrassing Hair.  In fact, it's not just tame, it's positively cheesy.  And yet there's a sort of innocent charm to it, almost of the girl next door variety, which on the one hand is faintly endearing but which on the other hand makes it even harder to get one's head around the fact that way back in '78 this was considered a "sexy" occurrence.

Personally I've never quite understood how anyone except a twelve-year-old boy could possibly get turned on by anything as naff and laboured as striptease.  But this particular bit of videotape certainly stands up as a quaint social document of what used to be considered outrageous  -  and as one of the (female) viewers has commented underneath the video, it's also good to see a bunch of young ladies whose wazongas haven't been 'enhanced' to bursting point by having unnatural substances shoehorned into them.

~Mr Hodges

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The Stranglers - Live Dominion Theatre 1985

The Stranglers - Live Dominion Theatre, UK
February 28, 1985
BBC In Concert

FM Source @ 192

Set List:
01 intro
02 Something Better Change
03 Uptown
04 No Mercy
05 Nice & Sleazy
06 Thrown Away
07 Midnight Summer Dream
08 European Female
09 Golden Brown
10 Peaches
11 Death & Night & Blood
12 Punch & judy
13 Hanging Around
14 Down In The Sewer

Thanks to guitars101!

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Dominion Theatre '80


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The Stranglers - Live Emerald City, Cherry Hill, NJ. 1984

The Stranglers - Live Emerald City

Cherry Hill, NJ.

April 11, 1981

FM Source @ 192

Tracks:
01. Waltzinblack (intro)
02. Threatened
03. The Raven
04. Toiler on the Sea
05. Just Like Nothing On Earth / Thrown Away
06. Who Wants the World
07. Second Coming
08. Meninblack
09. Shah Shah A Go Go
10. Hallow To Our Men
11. Tank
12. Nuclear Device
13. Genetix

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Emerald City '81


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The Stranglers - Live Rockpalast 1983

The Stranglers - Rockpalast

Germany 1983

Superb broadcast-quality recording of The Stranglers touring the 'Feline' album.

Track List:

01 Aural Sculpture Manifesto

02 Nuclear Device/Toiler on the Sea

03 It's a Small World/Just Like Nothing on Earth

04 Ships That Pass in the Night

05 No More Heroes

06 Who Wants the World?

07 Baroque Bordello

08 Golden Brown

09 Princess of the Streets

10 Midnight Summer Dream/The European Female

11 Tramp

12 The Raven

13 Duchess

Rockpalast '83


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