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[8088]

And it's a particular sound that will never again happen because one of them is dead, one of them is dying, and the other two can't stand each other.

Without Hugh they'll never have the songs but 'the sound' is very easy to emulate - and for a lot of people that's enough.

[theraven1979]

Whilst it's incredibly tragic that 2 members left not of their own accord it doesn't change the band's current situation. I appreciate the emotion (which I think every fan agrees is still hurting) but this is where we are now.


Jim

...No the wheels have not fallen off anything...
1 member has died, another is very old and has ill health.

...

My thoughts, pritty much exactly.

[Ruby]

The picture is no worse than the cringe pics of the 5 piece in the 1990s.I don't think the pose is pretending to be the band the Stranglers once were, it just shows what remains today, in a quite dignified way.

[StanInBlack]

Without Hugh they'll never have the songs but 'the sound' is very easy to emulate - and for a lot of people that's enough.

It really isn't though, because no line-up post-MKI has been able to truly emulate it even with the presence of 2 or 3 original members in the band. It literally has to be those four exact people to create that exact sound.

[8088]

Without Hugh they'll never have the songs but 'the sound' is very easy to emulate - and for a lot of people that's enough.

It really isn't though, because no line-up post-MKI has been able to truly emulate it even with the presence of 2 or 3 original members in the band. It literally has to be those four exact people to create that exact sound.

Just because they haven't pulled it off doesn't make it so. God knows why they couldn't get it right - I've done it with shitty equipment and Straighten Out do it effortlessly - I know writing original material is different from covers but it's not that hard.
If the new keys player becomes an active member we will see this.

[StanInBlack]

https://www.loudersound.com/features/th ... greenfield

So, I've finally got around to reading this. Yet more tiresome Hugh bashing and of course JJ is wrong when he implies that it doesn't matter who is in the band - of course it does.

[ozymandias]

Well, would you look at that picture. The state of "The Stranglers" in 2021.

Yeah, pretty sure now that the only point of StanInBlack haunting the post-1990 forums is to fucking troll everyone else.

[Frederik]

Whole different time 1977, were there any current acts then that had been going since 1933 ?

[alaninblack]

It's as silly has holding up a recent picture of Hugh and saying, "look at his craggy face and ill fitting suit, look at his attempt to hide his huge bald patch - textbook image of a faded lead singer with a dwindling fanbase."

Great comment and sums up HAC pretty much

[Bear Cage]

Whole different time 1977, were there any current acts then that had been going since 1933 ?

Count Basie Orchestra, formed in 35 and are still going today

[droopsnoot]

Whole different time 1977, were there any current acts then that had been going since 1933 ?

Count Basie Orchestra, formed in 35 and are still going today

I bet their followers don't whine and moan about it not being the original line-up all the time.

[StanInBlack]

I bet their followers don't whine and moan about it not being the original line-up all the time.

I'll bet they don't, given that pretty much all of their original followers'll be dead by now.