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by StanInBlack
17 Mar 2024, 18:35
Forum: Other Bands
Topic: WHAT THE FCUK ARE YOU LOT LISTENIN TO - When it's not the fucking Stranglers??!
Replies: 5621
Views: 829053

Re: WHAT THE FCUK ARE YOU LOT LISTENIN TO - When it's not the fucking Stranglers??!

Having a Gentle Giant binge: Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends, Octopus, In a Glass House, The Power and The Glory, Free Hand... sublime.
by StanInBlack
16 Mar 2024, 00:02
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: To all those w@nkers who wouldn’t stand next to the critical thinkers who knew covid was bolloxs and who were dumb enoug
Replies: 9
Views: 374

Re: To all those w@nkers who wouldn’t stand next to the critical thinkers who knew covid was bolloxs and who were dumb e

Hmm. You see, I know people who contracted COVID pre-vaccine and were very close to death. I contracted COVID after I'd had the vaccine and it was fucking awful. I sure as hell wouldn't have liked to have caught it pre-vaccine. Either way, none of this bollocks has much to do with JJ Burnel & Fr...
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 22:59
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

kenl wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 22:43 it is definitely written somewhere that the concept was Hugh's idea about the album sleeve.
The concept of the sleeve is pretty much a representation of the concept of the album. The Last Supper with the man in black, the meeting of the biblical with the extraterrestrial.
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 22:27
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

kenl wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 21:44 Jet was the driving force behind the MiB idea.
He may have been the initial spark of inspiration due to the literature he was reading, but it was Hugh that moulded those disparate ideas of UFOs and bible stories into the concept. Unless you're suggesting Jet wrote the lyrics, which he didn't.
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 22:24
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

gizzard wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 16:52 If not for Jet actually as he started the band. 8)
Or so it's claimed. It could be strongly argued that the band basically grew out of Hugh's old band.
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 22:22
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

Josh wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 22:09 I'm currently in Newcastle and it's been pretty good so far. No sign of Stan though :grin:
That's because I'm not there! :lol:
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 15:33
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

People slagging off Hugh is perhaps the most bizarre of all, though. If not for Hugh, none of us would be posting here. Or Jet's logistics, or Dave's vital musical output. Nobody ever slagged off Jet's logistics. Nobody ever slagged off Dave's keyboard playing either. Until towards the end when he ...
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 15:05
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

Stan just hits a nerve. We could critise the band in other ways, like how bad 10 is or how brass section was a mistake, without anyone claiming its insulting the stranglers or a sign of not being a real fan. The curent tour or album is always sacred. Like they are the lady di of the stranglers hist...
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 13:59
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

I'd be well up for JJ doing something weird and arty as a solo project, maybe another concept piece like Euroman Cometh or The Gospel According to the Meninblack (even though The Gospel was Hugh's concept, it says so on the sleeve) You don't know much about the Stranglers do you? The concept was on...
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 00:49
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

I'd be well up for JJ doing something weird and arty as a solo project, maybe another concept piece like Euroman Cometh or The Gospel According to the Meninblack (even though The Gospel was Hugh's concept, it says so on the sleeve) I'd love to see him collaborate with other musicians, stretch his wi...
by StanInBlack
14 Mar 2024, 00:13
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

I think the fact that you label JJ as "a bassist who occasionally wrote and sang" is revealing. I'm unsure which part you think is incorrect. Is JJ a bassist? Yes. Did he occasionally write? Yes. Did he occasionally sing? Also yes. Anyway, enough. Objectively, you troll this board. Again,...
by StanInBlack
13 Mar 2024, 20:46
Forum: The Stranglers MKV (2021-)
Topic: 50th Anniversary Setlist?
Replies: 856
Views: 768983

Re: 50th Anniversary Setlist?

Stan, Newcastle tomorrow. Practically on your doorstep. Get those docs polished and get down there! It goes without saying that I won't be there. Can't be bothered. Stan, even though I agree that a very important part of a band is the music they produce, I don't believe that a band should be judged...