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Quite a lot of GBH , Splodge , Hateful ....... of late . Hateful do a bloody good "When the man comes around " version .

I'd love to go see them . Trouble more often than not they do Scotland or a handful of gigs , none really near me , but would like to make an effort to see them sometime . Would say same about The Buzzcocks , but that's not going to happen now .

At our school , if you were a punk ( the majority in my year were , it was that and heavy metal ) , to be called a Jam fan was an insult , however they were a very decent band . Punk or not .....who cares now , but it was important then. Same with The Stranglers , looking at The Stranglers compared ...

Shame . One of the best punk bands IMO .

For the benefit of Ozymandias , who obviously missed all the talk about punk bands and members of 40 odd years ago - a chance to enlighten from our own points of view that era music , including our own favourites , The Stranglers ( so I guess this will be quite a biased thread really ) . People nowa...

Jello Biafra ( Dead Kennedy's) - ever short of an opinion . Capt Sensible - for comedic relief , funny and down to earth bloke . Jet Black - Stranglers element , just think JJ or Hugh would always be on about their own past and history . Mick Jones ( Clash ) - probably more interesting than Simonen ...

The history of JJ v Foxton . Around 77-82 both The Jam and The Stranglers were very popular , this sort of played out not only in singles charts but also NME and Sounds year best of polls . Hugh never really featured but JJ and Foxton were always top 2 in any bass player poll .JJ won the early ones ...

Well, you know, some of us weren't around 40 years ago to hear the discussion. If you want to discuss it, then do. If not, don't waste your time with the fatuous posts. Wasn't fatuous - just saying it was a popular subject for a couple of years around 77-78 , just pointing that out , nothing more ,...

ozymandias wrote: ↑

19 Nov 2018, 11:24

Bruce a better bass player than JJ? Discuss...

It was discussed about 40 years ago , for a while .

jason wrote: ↑

30 Sep 2018, 10:59

At least we know it's a female vocalist that cuts it down a bit!

Not really , could be The Communards or something like that

Actually this topic has gone right off topic - all my fault I think . Should post tour stuff on the right thread .

It was a tongue in cheek comment I made about a ne live album being due ....however if they did one I'd get it ........ there are probably ample of the modern era , pretty much every one has Heroes and bloody Golden Brown on it , so if they did a vastly revised set next year ( say for example, Choo...