[kj] is: Stranglers was: You Tube!

[Alexander Smith]

To be fair, I did like a couple of the cuts on NORFOLK COAST. Lyrics  
were shit, but the band sounded quite burly.

Alex in NYC



On Jan 22, 2008, at 11:09 AM, gingoblin at easynet.co.uk wrote:


> It's 18months already?  Yeah, I remember hearing he'd left... so at  

> least they're back to the right size of line-up!

> Bought the last couple of albums, but just seems a bit pointless to  

> me. Same with Hugh's solo stuff. It needs all four of 'em really.  

> I'd maybe go see current Stranglers or Hugh if they played  

> Edinburgh, but wouldn't make any great effort. The REAL Stranglers  

> on the other hand... anywhere would do!

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> At 07:42 22/01/2008 -0800, you wrote:

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>> Paul Roberts left the Stranglers 18 months ago.

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>> The new line up is a four piece and the Suite XVI album is very  

>> good for what it is.

>> I did see them at the Rounhouse doing Rattus 30 years on but  

>> thought it was rather ploddy.

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>> However, anything Hugh Cornwell has done since leaving has left me  

>> cold and the Stranglers would have been dead and buried if he'd  

>> tried to do what he does now within the band, IMO.

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>> --- gingoblin at easynet.co.uk wrote:

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>> From: gingoblin at easynet.co.uk

>> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke \(the band!\)" <gathering at misera.net 

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>> Subject: Re: [kj] is: Stranglers was: You Tube!

>> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:16:16 +0000

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>> Yeah, very true... I mean, Jet Black was 60 when they first  

>> started. Okay,

>> not quite.

>> Must admit, I don't hold much hope of ever seeing them again. Money  

>> is

>> usually the motivation in such instances as these, and I think both  

>> camps

>> do alright out of the live circuit and song-writing was always  

>> credited to

>> all four, so they'll all be doing okay from that too.

>> I saw 'em once with the "new" singer and it was awful, truly  

>> awful.  If

>> they'd just split up then they'd be back with the real line-up by  

>> now,

>> that's the annoying thing. All those years of being rubbish have  

>> had the

>> unpleasant side-effect of putting off (possibly forever) a return  

>> of the

>> real deal.

>> But I always live in hope! Pointless, futile hope... I love it!

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>> Dave

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>> At 09:22 22/01/2008 -0500, you wrote:

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>> >Hugh better hurry up and get back with the `Glers soon -- how much

>> >longer can poor Ol' Jet still deliver behind the drum kit?

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>> >I hate to say it, but I think that if it were ever to happen -- it

>> >would've happened already.

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>> >Alex in NYC

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