tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post690406909632028054..comments2024-01-05T13:11:48.050+00:00Comments on ...and what will be left of them?: Down In The Sewercarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886258675618058752noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-33994120398307621032018-03-30T14:55:45.804+01:002018-03-30T14:55:45.804+01:00That’s right. See link below to a Guardian articl...That’s right. See link below to a Guardian article that references the episode. <br />No more feminist historical revisionism, please! <br />As The Stranglers knew so well, the authentic “Pussy Riot” is merely a period...<br /><br />https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/12/stranglers-40-years-fights-drugs-ufosLaurenzo St Duboisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-70973875237982494702014-10-23T10:26:08.140+01:002014-10-23T10:26:08.140+01:00Actually, it was a male journalist.Actually, it was a male journalist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-90537719454672123282013-09-12T14:30:47.997+01:002013-09-12T14:30:47.997+01:00In a similar way to Devo, they made misogyny seem ...In a similar way to Devo, they made misogyny seem 'cool' and trendy for men who like to 'have their cake and eat it'. Their woman hating ranged from casual and flippant to seriously disturbed and embittered. But they also walked the walk! Let us not forget that Hugh Cornwell was a real life woman-beater, or that this was the band who tied a female journalist to the outside of the Eiffel tower for writing a bad review about them. Fundamentally, it is worth remembering that if the situation were reversed, an all-female band writing similar songs about men would not get radio airplay and wouldn't be anywhere near as successful. Most of the 'riot grrrl' bands of the early to mid-nineties never found anywhere near the level of success that The Stranglers did, which only goes to prove that ours is still a society of sickening double-standards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-25984483123192449022010-12-20T10:35:27.827+00:002010-12-20T10:35:27.827+00:00Yeah, I think one of the good things about The Str...Yeah, I think one of the good things about The Stranglers is that since they've been deemed <i>persona non grata</i> by all right-thinking critics (for reasons other than their music), their work hasn't been analysed to death, so they're quite fresh to listen to.Phil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-66752011359280090972010-12-20T01:44:15.506+00:002010-12-20T01:44:15.506+00:00I love this quote...
At the same time we were doi...I love this quote...<br /><br /><i>At the same time we were doing gigs and they fucking hated us and we were starting to get aggressive. Pubs would pull the plug on us and we’d put it back in again.</i><br /><br />http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/stranglersjjburnelin052.htmBenSixhttp://bensix.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-18109277071886332442010-12-20T00:59:17.697+00:002010-12-20T00:59:17.697+00:00Good God, I never thought that anyone would get me...Good God, I never thought that anyone would get me thinking, "Y'know what? I feel like giving the ol' Stranglers a spin..." Good work!<br /><br />Although - like a musical equivalent of Jerry Sadowitz - if the world was going to tremble beneath them I'd prefer it was with vague discomfort. If they'd been <i>accepted</i> they'd have surely been less interesting.BenSixhttp://bensix.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-64928946252550988862010-12-16T17:38:47.051+00:002010-12-16T17:38:47.051+00:00Thanks Matt.Thanks Matt.Phil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-832521405368077602010-12-16T12:48:00.541+00:002010-12-16T12:48:00.541+00:00A great introduction. Great work Phil. Matt Woebot...A great introduction. Great work Phil. Matt Woebot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-3359769454205706642010-12-07T17:15:37.694+00:002010-12-07T17:15:37.694+00:00There's a bewildering number of facets to The ...There's a bewildering number of facets to The Stranglers, though. Burnel and Cornwell were both very well educated, for instance. They seem to have lived six lives each.<br /><br />One of the things that's missing from these clips is Cornwell's stage patter, which was usually worth the price of admission on it's own. He was forever going on about the size of Greenfield's organ, for example.Phil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355227236397241799.post-75320404532177482842010-12-07T16:25:26.172+00:002010-12-07T16:25:26.172+00:00They should have made an album called 'Men In ...They should have made an album called 'Men In Vans'. <br /><br />They always seemed much more genuinely grubby and 'dodgy' than their punk peers (probably cos they'd been around the block a bit more), no matter how daft the songs got. One of those bands where the public really did know better than the music press.David K Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10756535951359716522noreply@blogger.com