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Well I think it’s great and i can’t get enough of its playful melody and bang average lyrical content…if I’m being honest

I listen to it everyday and sometimes twice a day if I’m lucky! I generally skip most of the tracks and focus purely on This Song which gets better with every play. Apparently the lad that wrote it is the only person to get a letter printed in Strangled and a song on a Stranglers album…something tha...

I like poems me

I deplore the poor chord progressions and 6th form poetry aesthetic in This Song. If I had my way I’d bury it in a shallow pit and douse it in petrol before it had chance to thrive or potentially embed itself in the public consciousness

I went and I must say I found it hugely enjoyable x

yes I guess your right but i guess if you asked anyone who didn’t know the band very well if it was the same band rattus and 10 they wouldn’t think it was..or maybe not the same 4 people doing the music

can’t believe people think 10 sounds like the same band is rattus and heroes!
didn’t like dreamtime much as well but band had changed so much since 1977. Completely different band in 1990

you really love hugh don’t you Stan! good on yer!

Guilty or Totem and Taboo, then try Hi Fi and Beyond Elysian Fields. thanks stan plenty to listen to now! 😀😀 ‘Songs of Shiva’ is also worth digging out, although it’s not Hugh’s lyrics (or vocals), there’s some great music, to my ear reminiscent of Nosferatu in places. Avoid his album with John Coo...

StanInBlack wrote: ↑15 Aug 2021, 00:01

Hazzainblack wrote: ↑15 Aug 2021, 00:00 what is a good place to start with hughs music ? what is his best album solo? I have got nosferatu and wolf

Guilty or Totem and Taboo, then try Hi Fi and Beyond Elysian Fields.

thanks stan plenty to listen to now!

what is a good place to start with hughs music ? what is his best album solo? I have got nosferatu and wolf

thanks staninblock i will look for the preview stuff sorry to hear it is disappointed people I was looking forward to this ☹️☹️ You can find complete live versions of "Water", "This Song", "Payday" and "The Last Men on the Moon" on Youtube. The studio version...