Sessions

Stranglers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 5, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ziriguiboom Brasil
• ASIN: B000008RZ7
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,697 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hanging Around

2. I Feel Like a Wog

3. Goodbye Toulouse

4. Something Better Change

5. Dead Ringer

6. No More Heroes

7. Burning Up Time

8. Bring on the Nubiles

9. The Man They Love to Hate

10. Nuclear Device/Genetix

11. Down in the Sewer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic Album for a classic band, February 9, 2002

By 

George W. Rodriguez (Hialeah, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sessions (Audio CD)

THe stranglers have always been sort-of outsiders. From the very early days they were the first punk band to incorporate a keybord, and their lyrics always took on deeper, sleazier, darker, yet still good humoured topics. In all honesty, I believe that the stranglers are perhaps one of best alltime punk rock bands to ever have graced sound systems. This recording is a collection of some of their best and catchiest songs done live in a studio. All the songs are tight and clear, and every instrument sounds superb. Infact, if I didn't know any better I would have thought this to be a plain old studion album. You can tell the difference by the following: in this album the bass is thumpier and smoother-as opposed to their other studio works where the bass is growly and slightly distorted-and there is much more guitar, that is, the guitar is more audible, whereas regular stranglers records have a predominant keybord sound. ALso, the backing vocals are much more noticeable than on the regular recordings. These are nit-picky details, but in some cases add an improvement, but frankly if you want a nut-shell reasoning, the overall recording is just cleaner than regular stranglers' records. Other bands to whatch out for in this vain of punk rock would be the Jam, Radiobirdman, and the much newer fore-runners of the current punk rock scene, The International Noise Conspiracy. Forget blink-182, sum-41 and newfound glory. If you are looking for some real punk rock with cathcy melodies and humorously ingenious lyrics, then buy this album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Stranglers - The Sessions, June 25, 2000

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[e-mail] (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radio One (Audio CD)

This release is a compilation of sessions performed for the BBC in England. It covers their earlier years with United Artists. The songs are reproduced faithfully although the BBC engineers were unable or unwilling to give that edge heard on The Stranglers early studio albums. This CD is for Stranglers fans only, but if that includes yourself then it is not a bad buy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for fans, March 5, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Sessions (Audio CD)

I've had this for years, and thought it was good all the way through, but I've recently become more drawn to the '82 session tracks i.e. the final three. The Nuclear Device / Genetix medley works OK, but if you have "Rattus Norvegicus" or any live album with "Down in the Sewer" in it, then get this. You will not hear a sweeter, cleaner version of this song anywhere else, so far as I know. The instruments are almost perfectly balanced, and Jet's drumming is beautiful in it's simplicity, but Hugh's guitar gets washed out a bit somehow.