The Stranglers were lairy. And meaty. And beaty. I went to Secondary School from 1972 to 1982 ten years from the epicentre of where things were happening in the centre of London and The Stranglers felt as pertinent to the times as any band going.We all went from Hanging Around to Duchess to Golden Brown and then out into the world. The Stranglers aggression was different from most of the front line Punk bands and it's not worth quibbling over whether Punk is what they were. They certainly sounded pretty Punk if you were twelve as I was.
But they were smart as well as nasty. The Doors had passed their baton. And they clearly had plenty of gas in the tank. Whether the fact that they were clearly busting for a scrap was an issie probably depends on where you were standing. These were violent, stark, lurid times. The Stranglers painted a vivid representation of them just as J.G.Ballard and Ian McEwan did..
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