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• Dont ask me why, but I spent 10 years of my youth thinking Hugh sang, 'you'd better watch out for the schoolies on 'Skin Deep'! So the best Stranglers record has to be 'Aural Sculpture'. They also win 'best topless dancers in Battersea Park' award for 1977. Brilliantly original band.

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• "No More Heroes"

  No more words!

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• Dont ask me why, but I spent 10 years of my youth thinking Hugh sang, 'you'd better watch out for the schoolies on 'Skin Deep'! So the best Stranglers record has to be 'Aural Sculpture'. They also win 'best topless dancers in Battersea Park' award for 1977. Brilliantly original band.

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• 'Black & White' was vital to my transition from Prog into Punk, it bridges both in many ways. It's also the one that most successfully merges their punk-ish beginnings with their more sublime and tuneful Euro-pop ahead!

  Posted by myRECcollection at 1:51 AM GMT 23/12/2009 Report Abuse

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• The great thing about The Stranglers is that there's something for everyone. It's a back catalogue that you can dip into depending on your mood. Want something aggressive? then pick out Rattus with its bleak yet melodic tales of sexist observations, misogyny, Nostradamus, isolation, yearning. Hot on its heels Heroes gives us an interesting take on life’s frustrations, suicide, Trotsky, mistaken identity all washed down with some fine guitar, keyboards, drums and bass.

  You'll probably need some cheering up after listening to that subject matter so why not pick out their 1990 album "10" (so called as it was their 10th album). Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and aiming for success across the pond "10" is a little hard to swallow at times. It's a bit too sickly sweet, too much chocolate being stuffed down your throat in the form of 48 layers of guitar (backwards on some tracks). The whole production is too polished and way too slick for a band like The Stranglers. However, that aside it did spawn a fine version of ? and the Mysterions "96 Tears" which gave the band another Top 40 hit in 1990. It's all a bit "Party Hits 2" with this album - you can't help but think the B52s "Love Shack" is going to burst out of the speakers at any moment. Needless to say this did not break the States but rather broke the band with Mr Cornwell leaving the taxi running and making his escape after the band's Alexander Palace gig in August 1990.

  Ok so 10 is maybe a bit too sickly? Prior to 10 I give you "Dreamtime". The band's 1986 album spawned one of their most well known tracks "Always The Sun". This is a clear example of just how fine the production on this album is. Although not notable for it's success (indeed "Always The Sun" only scraped the Top 40) fans hold the album in high regard as an example of how The Stranglers could belt out decent pop shimmer in the 80s. Other notable tracks worth a mention are "Shakin Like a Leaf" (catchy swing chart fodder), "Was It You?" (Burnel gives a great vocal performance and it's a great punchy number), "Too Precious" (an epic track with some wonderful musical pieces towards the end). This one has stood up rather well.

  Eccentricity is always in abundance particularly on the 1981 album "The Gospel According To The Meninblack". The nearest the band came to a concept album this Spinal Tap-esque piece of work takes on UFO's, alien interpretations of the bible, government cover-ups. It's all there for your enjoyment. Regarded highly amongst fans (some count this as their finest hour) it's probably a little too complex for the human lifeform new to the world of The Stranglers. Indeed Waltzinblack kicks the album off and announces the entrance of other lifeforms, from then on we're treated to some of the best well crafted, angular, and just down right weird tracks you'll probably ever hear. Choice picks for me are "Four Horsemen" (Dave Greenfield on vocals and doing a fine fine job on keyboards, particularly at the end of the track where melodic layers and layers build up into aural bliss!). "Two Sunspots" is probably the nearest we have to The Stranglers sound prior to this album - almost punk in its approach it features some nice guitar and great vocals from HughInBlack. "Thrown Away" catches Burnel in a reflective mood and stalls just shy of the Top 40 (42) but gives them another appearance on TOTPs.
  The artwork is worth a mention as well - it's all rather nifty including a subtly modified reproduction of the Last Supper showing a Maninblack whispering into Jesus's ear (looks great on the vinyl gatefold)

  My lunch hour is up I'll bring you Part II tomorrow!
  

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• Rattus is the perfect example of The Stranglers classic sound. Growling bass, thudding drums, speedy keyboards and scratchy guitars, over which Hugh Cornwell snarls lyrics of fascinatingly surreal content. "You're way past your station!" A classic album and the first top ten punk album I believe

  Hugh Cornwell's Nosferatu has to be ranked up there with the early stranglers classic albums. It's pre Goth eery feel seperates it from any other punk/ new wave album of the time. Plus it features Ian Dury, Devo and The Clash. Any album with a song called Irrate Caterpillar on is a sure fire classic

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• "X-Cert" captures an element of focused aggression and bile apart from the separate animal that is the Stranglers studio album. A live snapshot of one hell of an exciting live band!

  Posted by Molly at 10:41 PM GMT 23/12/2009 Report Abuse

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• Rattus Norvegicus was my favourite album for the longest time. It sent me on a path to picking up anything with the Stranglers even mentioned on it. Is JJ Burnel the best bassist ever? He certainly has a powerful and distinctive style.
  Dave Greenfield's keyboard wash recalls Ray Manzarek, which may explain the early Doors comparisons.
  I like both 'Euroman Cometh' and 'Nosferatu', though not as much as the vintage Stranglers LPs. Didn't Greenfield and Jet Black also do a side project together?

  Posted by Grant at 11:45 PM GMT 23/12/2009 Report Abuse

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• I would have to say that "Down in the Sewer" from Rattus and "Relentless" from Suite XVI are the best tracks of all. Both of them about 30 years apart.

  But to start with a really good Stranglers album is La Folie

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• I would have to say that "Down in the Sewer" from Rattus and "Relentless" from Suite XVI are the best tracks of all. Both of them about 30 years apart.

  But to start with, a really good Stranglers album is La Folie

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• I would have to say that "Down in the Sewer" from Rattus and "Relentless" from Suite XVI are the best tracks of all. Both of them about 30 years apart.

  But to start with, a really good Stranglers album is La Folie

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• The Stranglers have always given plenty of varied & quality fare to choose from, with a recent storming 'return to form' with Suite XVI, but for me the best has to be 1977's Rattus Norvegicus. It made me fall in love with a bass guitar sound that punches you in the chest. No other sound has come close, except maybe for PiL-era Jah Wobble but that hasn't got the sheer dirty aggression of JJ Burnel's bass.

  A very close second comes The Raven for sheer inventiveness. Songs about Norse mythology, the deposition of the Shah of Iran or Genetics anyone?!

  As for the rest, I know this is a bit 'Q'-like, but here goes anyway:

  Essential:
  Rattus Norvegicus, Raven,

  Advisable:
  Black & White, Meninblack
  No More Heroes, La Folie, , Suite XVI, Guilty (Hugh), Hooverdam (Hugh), Nosferatu (Hugh)

  Worth a listen:
  Feline, Aural Sculpture, Dreamtime, In the Night, Norfolk Coast, Laidblack

  Caution Advised:
  10, About Time, Euroman Cometh (JJ)

  Avoid:
  Coup De Grace, Written In Red, Clubbed To Death

  Utter shite:
  Coupe De Grace - where it didn't work at all. The one truly low point where we thought it had all petered out embarrassingly.

  Compilation:
  The Hit Men

  Live:
  X-Cert, Hope & Anchor.
  

  Posted by Westo at 11:09 AM GMT 24/12/2009 Report Abuse

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• The Raven
  Rattus Norvegicus
  No More Heroes
  That's all...

  Posted by Anonymous at 12:20 PM GMT 24/12/2009 Report Abuse

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• The Raven. I've seen them playing it at the Rainbow in July '80, mind blowing !

  Andrea
  Italy

  Posted by Tolo at 1:07 PM GMT 24/12/2009 Report Abuse

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• Essential:
  Rattus Norvegicus, Raven, La Folie

  Advisable:
  Black & White, Meninblack
  No More Heroes, Feline, Norfolk Coast, In the Night, About Time

  Worth a listen:
  Aural Sculpture, Dreamtime, Suite XIV, Laidblack

  Caution Advised:
  10, Coup de Grace, Written in Red

  Avoid:
  Clubbed To Death

  Compilation:
  Old Testament

  Live:
  X-Cert, Live at the Apollo 1981, 5 Live 01
  

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• Geeee... never thought i will make a commentary one day on Mojo's blog... but let's face it, il was in my youth a huge fan of the men in black (the hugest... i mean i was alone, because at that time 84-86, the other ones will prefer the cure or... uh... johnny Klegg). Anyway, i was introduce to the stranglers by a gift of my older brother to my older sister (she was more euro-dance than new wave, so the LP is still in my collection), so i listened to death to "aural sculpture". I always have a good affection on this one. Then after, i collect all their lp's till "10" (wich is crap). I would say, from the original band, that "black & white" is the greatest : weird, strange, punky-progy, ugly, epic... something like Peter Hamill or Roxy on neocondion ?
  "La folie" is near (i'm a froggy, maybe that's the reason)... and i always like a lot "aural sculpture" because it was the first. That's it !

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• About the time of Raven, The Stranglers played a small club in London, Canada, my home town. My band was on the bill as support and it was magic. They were at the top of their game and were magnificent! I was a bass player and JJB was THE MAN! Fender precision and an Ampeg SVT amp turned way up. I could have wet my pants.
  Black & White was great,with 'Toiler on the Seas' a favorite, but Raven is their growl, squared.

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• The Stranglers most inspired work happened when they formally introduced The MenInBlack - government agents who 'investigated' people who witnessed UFO incidents. From The Raven through to the less-accessible The Gospel According To The MenInBlack their heads were in one strange place during this era.

  It made for some bold themes and intricate arrangements, blending synthesizer-driven progressive rock with new wave. Though maybe not the most successful or commercial period, the essence of The Stranglers can be found here. The band themselves rate TGATTM amongst their favourites.

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• What? Nobody likes The Purple Helmets?

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• The first four albums are flawless.I'd pick Rattus above any album released by anyone EVER! The Raven is probably their second best, you can debate Black & White and Heroes 3rd and 4th.Then it's Meninblack and La Folie before the quality starts to dip. Personally, i quite like Feline and 10. As for the post Cornwell albums, probably Norfolk Coast followed by Suite 16 are the picks. The best live album is Live x, listen to that and try denying they weren't punk...
  If you've got the dosh, The Old Testament is the compilation to have. Otherwise, Hits and Heroes or The Hit Men.

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• The Stranglers played here in Seattle in 1980. And although my girlfriend slept with Dave Greenfield that night. The Stranglers still hold a fond place in my heart. With a music collection that numbers in the thousands I still go back to those first three albums. A unique and classic sound at least to a young man from Seattle.

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• The Raven

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• Never underestimate the Stranglers audacity and capacity to surprise. After ten years in the doldrums, they came back in 2004 with quite possibly one of their greatest albums, "Norfolk Coast" - the title song perhaps being one of their best ever.

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• Never underestimate the Stranglers audacity and capacity to surprise. After ten years in the doldrums, they came back in 2004 with quite possibly one of their greatest albums, "Norfolk Coast" - the title song perhaps being one of their best ever.

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• I first heard Rattus Norv as a young teenager in early '78, I never looked back, I then bought No More Heroes, then bought every album as it was released ....... B&W, Raven, MIB, Folie, Feline, Aural Sculpture, Dreamtime and finally 10 .......

  I cycled home in my lunch break every day in 1978 to listen to a couple of tracks from Black & White, then cycled the 3 miles back, no food, it was that good. I used the lyrics from Black & White in my English essays and got an A and an A-. The Raven is awesome, La Folie is great. Men In Black is my least fave of the MK1 stuff before Cornwell left on 11 August 1990.
  The MK2 and MK 3 stuff is "OK", but it doesn't get close to any of the Cornwell era material. Current incarnation featuring Baz Warne is watchable, I would dearly love to seen Cornwell return, but can't see it, but, they remain the greatest band in history ...... the Beatles come a close second ........

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• It's really hard to choose five albums in descending order as The Stranglers were a vital part of my musical education but I shall try. Here are my nominations (with recommended songs)

  1. RATTUS NORVEGICUS (1977)
  (Hanging Around, Peaches, Down In The Sewer)
  2. THE RAVEN (1979)
  (Nuclear Device, Duchess, Dead Loss Angeles)
  3. BLACK AND WHITE (1978)
  (Tank, Nice 'n' Sleazy, Toiler On The Sea)
  4. LA FOLIE (1981)
  (Golden Brown, Tramp, Pin-Up)
  5. NO MORE HEROES (1977)
  (No More Heroes, Bring On The Nubiles, Bitching)

  Honorary mentions:

  6. FELINE (1982)
  (Midnight Summer Dream, European Female,
  Never Say Goodbye)
  7. NORFOLK COAST
  (Dutch Moon, Sanfte Kuss, Norfolk Coast)

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• The Stranglers were one of my favourite bands as a young 12 year old snotty nosed punk rocker. Their songs were never off our record players and i will always be grateful to them for providing some of the greatest tunes of the late 70's and early- mid 1980's.
  which is the best album??? who knows?? who cares ?? each had their own brilliance and if i were asked to pick my favourite each week for a month i would probably recite you four different titles each week depending on my mood and memories associated with each !!!
  for this week i will say.....'No More Heroes' as my favourite but i know next week it will be 'Black And White'

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• The Stranglers were one of my favourite bands as a young 12 year old snotty nosed punk rocker. Their songs were never off our record players and i will always be grateful to them for providing some of the greatest tunes of the late 70's and early- mid 1980's.
  which is the best album??? who knows?? who cares ?? each had their own brilliance and if i were asked to pick my favourite each week for a month i would probably recite you four different titles each week depending on my mood and memories associated with each !!!
  for this week i will say.....'No More Heroes' as my favourite but i know next week it will be 'Black And White'

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• As a Schoolboy for some reason The Stranglers were more accessible to my ears they had been on Top of the Pops they made great records and had some rather fine lyrics first picked out with my ears in what form a towel could be used for getting out of and in my book that was fine (at that point still waitng to help a lass out of a towel!)...I lost interest by the 3rd album which I had got with the free single and times moved on but around the period of No More Heroes for me they could do no wrong a classic album full of fire and fantastic hard hitting singles so
  No More Heroes

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• As a Schoolboy for some reason The Stranglers were more accessible to my ears they had been on Top of the Pops they made great records and had some rather fine lyrics first picked out with my ears in what form a towel could be used for getting out of and in my book that was fine (at that point still waitng to help a lass out of a towel!)...I lost interest by the 3rd album which I had got with the free single and times moved on but around the period of No More Heroes for me they could do no wrong a classic album full of fire and fantastic hard hitting singles so
  No More Heroes

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• Black & White»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»NO contest
  "DEATH AND NIGHT AND BLOOD'
  is what I say

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• Rattus Norvegicus is the Stranglers LP I return to again and again. As fresh as it was when I first heard it in 77. People forget that it went top 10 long before Never Mind The Bollocks hit the street. Is there a better/cooler bass player than JJ Burnel? I think not!

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• Top Ten:
  1. The Raven - The band's masterpiece, intelligent world-view lyrics, interwoven instrumentation, powerful and melodic. A Technicolor widescreen classic.
  2. Rattus Norvegicus - The ultimate crossover album, loved by punks, rockers and psychedelic casualties. Dark and menacing with killer hooks. Every home should have a copy.
  3. Black and White - Ground-breaking, claustrophobic, monochrome post-punk epic. The template used by many copyists, unaccredited of course.
  4. No More Heroes - Psychedelic new wave that will blow your speakers.
  5. La Folie - Necessarily commercial, following the misunderstood Meninblack album. Varied, poppier, accessible, highly listenable tunes yet retaining musical inventiveness.
  6. The Gospel According To The Meninblack - Alien concept / alien sound. Very experimental with weird sounding tunes, and odd lyrics. An acquired taste that has become an essential part of the band's story, only really understood after hearing the first four albums. Worth persevering with this one.
  7. Dreamtime - Warm sounding record that suits a laid back mood. Great tunes.
  8. Aural Sculpture - Brass section works well when used, modern clean production that kept the band sounding contemporary. Some great tracks.
  9. Feline - Acoustic / synthetic combinations work at times, others less successful, always tuneful. Perhaps the band were too comfortable at this time.
  10. 10 - Good, mainstream songs that suffer from over the top production for the US market. The demos sound much better. The last hurrah of the original band.

  
  Best Live Albums:
  1. Live X-Cert - Good representation of their punk phase, but better bootlegs exist (e.g. London Ladies)
  2. Apollo Revisited. Great gig from the Glasgow Apollo during the last great pre-brass days.

  
  Avoid (all post-Hugh Cornwell albums):
  1. Coup de Grace - Unbelievably awful. Hugh missed more then ever.
  2. Written In Red - Very poor effort. Written mainly by the two newcomers and it shows.
  3. About Time - Third rate, pub rock. Nothing original.
  4. In The Night - One good song - "Time To Die". In fact, the only post Cornwell song worth remembering.
  5. Norfolk Coast - In desperation to save their career, the band copy the original band's early stuff, and produce a poor Stranglers by numbers effort.
  6. Suite XVI - Uses a similar approach to Norfolk Coast, JJ sung songs are OK, the rest are dismal.

  
  Solo:
  Hugh Cornwell
  1. Hooverdam - Back to basics, 3 piece no nonsense rocky album packed full of hooks. Excellent.
  2. Guilty - The album most like The Stranglers of anything post 1990 (by band or Hugh). Keyboards included. Fantastic album of typically original Cornwell numbers.
  3. Hifi - Psychedelic sounding effort, almost as good as Guilty.
  4. Nosferatu - Horror movie soundtrack devised by Hugh and Robert Williams. Some great, weird stuff on here.

  JJ Burnel
  1. Un Jour Parfait - Underrated, beautiful, sensitive songs, some acoustic. Sounds great, French lyrics.
  2. Euroman Cometh - Ahead of its time, electronic keyboard experimentation that proved that JJ wasn't all bass and bovver boots.
  

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• Top Ten:
  1. The Raven - The band's masterpiece, intelligent world-view lyrics, interwoven instrumentation, powerful and melodic. A Technicolor widescreen classic.
  2. Rattus Norvegicus - The ultimate crossover album, loved by punks, rockers and psychedelic casualties. Dark and menacing with killer hooks. Every home should have a copy.
  3. Black and White - Ground-breaking, claustrophobic, monochrome post-punk epic. The template used by many copyists, unaccredited of course.
  4. No More Heroes - Psychedelic new wave that will blow your speakers.
  5. La Folie - Necessarily commercial, following the misunderstood Meninblack album. Varied, poppier, accessible, highly listenable tunes yet retaining musical inventiveness.
  6. The Gospel According To The Meninblack - Alien concept / alien sound. Very experimental with weird sounding tunes, and odd lyrics. An acquired taste that has become an essential part of the band's story, only really understood after hearing the first four albums. Worth persevering with this one.
  7. Dreamtime - Warm sounding record that suits a laid back mood. Great tunes.
  8. Aural Sculpture - Brass section works well when used, modern clean production that kept the band sounding contemporary. Some great tracks.
  9. Feline - Acoustic / synthetic combinations work at times, others less successful, always tuneful. Perhaps the band were too comfortable at this time.
  10. 10 - Good, mainstream songs that suffer from over the top production for the US market. The demos sound much better. The last hurrah of the original band.

  
  Best Live Albums:
  1. Live X-Cert - Good representation of their punk phase, but better bootlegs exist (e.g. London Ladies)
  2. Apollo Revisited. Great gig from the Glasgow Apollo during the last great pre-brass days.

  
  Avoid (all post-Hugh Cornwell albums):
  1. Coup de Grace - Unbelievably awful. Hugh missed more then ever.
  2. Written In Red - Very poor effort. Written mainly by the two newcomers and it shows.
  3. About Time - Third rate, pub rock. Nothing original.
  4. In The Night - One good song - "Time To Die". In fact, the only post Cornwell song worth remembering.
  5. Norfolk Coast - In desperation to save their career, the band copy the original band's early stuff, and produce a poor Stranglers by numbers effort.
  6. Suite XVI - Uses a similar approach to Norfolk Coast, JJ sung songs are OK, the rest are dismal.

  
  Solo:
  Hugh Cornwell
  1. Hooverdam - Back to basics, 3 piece no nonsense rocky album packed full of hooks. Excellent.
  2. Guilty - The album most like The Stranglers of anything post 1990 (by band or Hugh). Keyboards included. Fantastic album of typically original Cornwell numbers.
  3. Hifi - Psychedelic sounding effort, almost as good as Guilty.
  4. Nosferatu - Horror movie soundtrack devised by Hugh and Robert Williams. Some great, weird stuff on here.

  JJ Burnel
  1. Un Jour Parfait - Underrated, beautiful, sensitive songs, some acoustic. Sounds great, French lyrics.
  2. Euroman Cometh - Ahead of its time, electronic keyboard experimentation that proved that JJ wasn't all bass and bovver boots.

  Posted by Donald MacKay at 6:06 PM GMT 19/01/2010 Report Abuse

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• Easy. It's Black & White. The band had such forward momentum going at the time, yet were still hungry. And any album containing both the slimiest, nastiest bass guitar sound ever caught on tape AND a Bacharach cover (Walk On By) sure gets my vote!

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• Black and White is their best to me. The Stranglers sound is unique!

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• I have been a Fan since 1977 and feel qualified to give my top Ten Stranglers.

  1. Black and White (Post Apocalyptic Vision)
  2. No More Heroes (Punk Masterpiece)
  3. The Raven (Norse Mythology)
  4. Rattus Norvegicus (Protpunk Masterpiece)
  5. LaFolie (Psychedelic Rock Masterpiece)
  6. Live X-certs
  7. The Meninblack (Best Album Cover some great Songs)
  8. Feline (Soft melodic rock with an edge)
  9. Norfolk Coast (Title track best in years)
  10. In The Night (Time to Die amazing)

  Albums I never play are 10, Dreamtime, Coup de Grace (dire though 'in the end' is one of the best songs ever written). Written in Red.

  
  Hugh Cornwell Nosferatu is an exceptional masterpiece. Euroman is not bad either in parts.

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• It's really I joy to read all this comments about one of my all time fave bands. For me all their 70's output was and is absolutely TOP NOTCH (and I really wonder if we ever again are going to experience a British band doing a Swedish (!!!) version of one of their songs) :)

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• 1- Black and White
  2- Aural Sculpture
  3- Dreamtime
  4- No More Heroes
  5- La Folie
  6- The Raven
  7- Gospel According To The Men In Black
  8- Rattus Norvegicus
  (the studio albums i consider necessary)
  9- Off The Beaten Track
  (b-sides collection)
  10- The Euroman Cometh
  (JJ solo album)

  further comments:
  Black and White stands up as truly the best of the lot for me
  ... I really love that album. It would have to be in my top 10 albums of the seventies.

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• ooRCiGx

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