"rattus norvegicus"Year: 1976
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Rock
The Stranglers are a rock
music group, formed on September 11, 1975 in Guildford, Surrey,
England, United Kingdom. They were originally called The Guildford
Stranglers and operated from an off-licence in the town. They also based
themselves in the nearby village of Chiddingfold for a while. They began as a sinister sounding, hard-edged pub rock
group, but eventually branched out to explore other styles of music.
The Stranglers were, beginning in 1976, tangentially associated with punk rock, due in part to their opening for Ramones’ first British tour. The Stranglers were also associated with new wave music as well as gothic rock, but their idiosyncratic approach never fit completely within a musical genre.
Year: 1977
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post-Punk
Recorded in the same 1977 like its predecessor "Rattus Norvegicus", this second Stranglers long album is perhaps a bit less inspired and original, but continue with its original mix of punk, goth and few psyquedelic touchs (keyboards). Is entitled "No more heroes" as a anti-war manifest and clear principles declaration.
"black and white"Year: 1978
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post-Punk
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Year: 1979
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post-Punk
"la folie"Year: 1981
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LPTracks: 11
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post Punk
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"feline"Year: 1982
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 9
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: New Wave
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Year: 1984
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: New Wave
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"ten"
Year: 1990
Label: Universal
Format: CD
Tracks: 9
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Year: 1995
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 35 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Indie Rock
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"written in red"
Year: 1997
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 9
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: New Wave
"norfolk coast"
Year: 2003
Label: Universal
Format: CD
Tracks: 11
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Alternative Rock
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Year: 2003
Label: Universal
Format: CD
Tracks: 11
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Alternative Rock
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Year: 2006
Label: EMI
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 35 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Rock
Among their brethren in the first graduating class of british punk, the Stranglers are one band who seem admirably uninterested in spiky-haired nostalgia. Rather than simply mining their past, the Stranglers continue to write and record fresh material in their trademark style, and 2006's "Suite XVI" (their 16th studio album, natch) features a full three-quarters of the lineup that recorded Rattus Norvegicus back in 1977 (even the "new guy," guitarist Baz Warne, had close to five years under his belt with the Stranglers by the time this disc hit the shops). Following the muscular-but-hooky pattern of the group's mid- to late-'80s commercial high point rather than the sinister lurch of their earliest stuff, "Suite XVI" is plenty lively and generates a good head of aggressive steam on most cuts, especially the bitter "Summat Outanowt" and the passionate opener "Unbroken." However, while the Stranglers are to be congratulated for keeping their muse alive and functioning, that doesn't change the fact "Suite XVI" sound wondering young; while the band sounds as skillful as ever (especially Jean Jacques Burnel's thick bass and Jet Black's powerful drumming), they haven learned a whole lot of new melodic tricks over the course of three decades, and Dave Greenfield still sounds like he wishes he was Ray Manzarek. And the tunes feel like variations on a theme the Stranglers have been dynamic wearing into the ground since the day they started; "Suite XVI" is the work of a band who still have the focus and wherewithal to continue what they started, some kind of mix with classic punk rock, psychedelic rock and optimistic voices and melodies. (Mark Demming)
