Only saw Big Country once with The Stranglers at Reading ‘83 and they were great. Loved Stuart Adamson’s guitar work and especially in The Skids.Greatkudu wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 13:19Agree.Major Bunter.theraven1979 wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 12:37 Been hammering the feck out of their recent re-issue (which I recall not massively liking at the time but it's an absolute grower).
I can see why some Stranglers fans would like them. If you get over the "bagpipe guitar" (not my quote) they've some great tracks. Someone lent me their Greatest Hits when I was a young-un and I was all over it. Tracks like The Teacher basically takes Toiler as a template IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qotEzGUUi8M . They do that thing The Stranglers do so well; creating an amazing soundscape and layering it with stories and amazing musicianship.
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Depeche Mode.
A truly fucking awful band and one I wouldn’t have thought any real Stranglers fan would appreciate.
A truly fucking awful band and one I wouldn’t have thought any real Stranglers fan would appreciate.
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Obviously very different from the Stranglers but I think Dave Gahans's got a great voice and they've written some great songs with their own interesting atmospheric sound.Arthur Streeb-Greebling wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 16:34 Depeche Mode.
A truly fucking awful band and one I wouldn’t have thought any real Stranglers fan would appreciate.
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Palais23 wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 16:44Gold star for you Waffle Waitress!Waffle waitress wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 15:20Of course they fucking do!Palais23 wrote: ↑21 Jul 2023, 19:05 If he was playing in my garden, I would apologise to the neighbours, charge the fans £50 each and give the profits to Greenpeace. Fuck it, I sound like Glastonbury! What a middle class, non-music fan festival that's developed into. Blame the Bourgeois!
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BTW I like how the yardstick for how good a band is is if they sound like The Stranglers
There's loads of music I'm into that sounds nothing like The Stranglers
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Surely that's all rubbish though!theraven1979 wrote: ↑27 Jul 2023, 15:12 BTW I like how the yardstick for how good a band is is if they sound like The Stranglers
There's loads of music I'm into that sounds nothing like The Stranglers
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Case closed!jason wrote:Surely that's all rubbish though!theraven1979 wrote: ↑27 Jul 2023, 15:12 BTW I like how the yardstick for how good a band is is if they sound like The Stranglers
There's loads of music I'm into that sounds nothing like The Stranglers
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I quite liked Big Country,saw them in concert on their steeltown tour in 84.They were different and original,with a unique sound.Like another band I'm fond of.
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I also saw them there, and have seen them more recently in a local venue, and thought they were great live, but I don't think the energy comes across on record, though that can be said about a lot of rock bands.Arthur Streeb-Greebling wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 16:32 Only saw Big Country once with The Stranglers at Reading ‘83 and they were great.
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Sounds like that gig would have been brilliant. I had a mate who went to the gigs when Big Country were at their most prominent and he always said how brilliant the band were live he always urged me i should go. I have a feeling i have seen them supporting at a festival or something (it wasn't that one you have mentioned) but i just cant remember but i think they are a band that would have needed to be seen they were definitely famous for there mass of audience bouncing up and down at the gigs right to the back of the halls.droopsnoot wrote: ↑03 Aug 2023, 08:01I also saw them there, and have seen them more recently in a local venue, and thought they were great live, but I don't think the energy comes across on record, though that can be said about a lot of rock bands.Arthur Streeb-Greebling wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 16:32 Only saw Big Country once with The Stranglers at Reading ‘83 and they were great.
It is funny but not only can studio recordings not sound as good as bands do when live but i also find Live albums don't do the band any justice or as good as being there Often i have played the album with great excitement and expectation to only be a bit disappointed and thinking i don't remember it being this flat it was miles better than this.