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The Stranglers: Peaches - The very best of

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 2002.07.02
Time:
 72:36
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.stranglers.net
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Purchase date: 2003.02.03
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] Peaches (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 4:05
[2] Golden Brown (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:27
[3] Walk on By (Bacharach/David) - 4:24
[4] No More Heroes (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:27
[5] Skin Deep (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:55
[6] Hanging Around (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 4:25
[7] All Day and All of the Night (Davies) - 2:30
[8] Straighten Out (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 2:46
[9] Nice 'N' Sleazy (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:11
[10] Strange Little Girl (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield/Warmling) - 2:41
[11] Who Wants the World (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:12
[12] Something Better Change (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:34
[13] Always the Sun (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:57
[14] European Female (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 4:01
[15] Grip '89 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 4:01
[16] Duchess (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 2:28
[17] 5 Minutes (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 3:16
[18] Don't Bring Harry (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 4:08
[19] La Folie (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield) - 6:05
[20] 96 Tears (Martinez) - 3:03

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JET BLACK - Percussion, Drums, Producer
J.J. BURNEL - Bass, Vocals, Producer
HUGH CORNWELL - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
DAVE GREENFELD - Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Producer

J.J. BURNEL - Remixing
ROY THOMAS BAKER - Producer
STEVE CHURCHYARD - Producer
TED HAYTON - Producer
MIKE KEMP - Producer
LAURIE LATHAM - Producer
MARTIN RUSHENT - Producer
ALAN WINSTANLEY - Producer, Engineer
HUGH CORNWELL - Producer
DOUG BENNETT - Engineer
BENNY KING - Assistant
TONY VISCONTI - Mixing

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2002 CD EMI 540202

Includes singles from their years with both EMI & Sony. 20 tracks, 'Peaches', 'Golden Brown', 'Walk On By', 'No More Heroes', 'Skin Deep', 'Hanging Around', 'All Day & All Of The Night', 'Straighten Out', 'Nice 'N' Sleazy', 'Strange Little Girl', 'Who Wants The World', 'Something Better Change', 'Always The Sun' (Sunny Side Up Mix), 'European Female', 'Grip '89 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)', 'Duchess', '5 Minutes', 'Don't Bring Harry', 'La Folie' & '96 Tears'. Digitally Remastered Single Disc Compendium of the Punk Band that Lasted the Longest Since the Original English Punk Era Began. The Stranglers Beat Out the Sex Pistols as England's Favorite Punks at the Time and it Will Always Be to their Credit. This Unique Collection Includes Tracks from Both their United Artists Years and First Years on Cbs Records, Making it the Most Complete Assemblage of their Hits Ever.



Less than a year after EMI released The Very Best Stranglers Album Ever, they released Peaches: The Very Best of the Stranglers, which actually outdoes its predecessor and a fair amount of the predecessor's predecessors — which are well over a dozen in number. This one includes 20 tracks and covers all the essentials, such as "Peaches," "Golden Brown," "No More Heroes," "Skin Deep," and "Hanging Around." It does stretch out chronologically enough to include (unfortunately) their covers of ? & the Mysterians' "96 Tears" and the Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night." Although it ignores other strong moments — "Let Me Introduce You to the Family," "Just Like Nothing on Earth," "Toiler on the Sea," the original version of "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" — due to space constraints, it's one of the better introductions to the band available.

Andy Kellman - All Music Guide
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Of all the first wave punk bands, the gruesomely mercurial Stranglers had the highest disregard for law and order and--as this melody-heavy collection serves to remind us--the highest tally of hits. Peaches--The Very Best Of packs 20 of them ("Hanging Around" was never released as a single but it was a hit for Hugh Cornwell's then girlfriend Hazel O'Connor) into one tin but even then there isn't enough room for either "Go Buddy Go" or "Nice in Nice". Famously short of fuse and occasionally sweary of mouth (at least in the early days) Guildford's self-styled "Meninblack" eventually moved away from the snarling, year-zero tenacity of "Something Better to Change" and "No More Heroes" to plough a sophisticated 1980s adult-rock furrow with the beguiling likes of "Always the Sun", "Skin Deep" and the odd-waltz of "Golden Brown". If anything, the non-chronological running order disproves the "they were punk and then all of a sudden and ever-so-conveniently they weren't anymore" notion which the Stranglers' detractors still persist on carping on about to this day. Things with the Stranglers were never that black and white (except on the band's third album, of course) and to listen to the bikini-ogling quasi-reggae laddishness of "Peaches" or to improve one's command of the French language on the extraordinarily sinister "La Folie" is to experience a band who were creatively flexible and adventurously out-of-step with the times, punk or no punk. Strangely, in a poacher-turned-gamekeeper kind of way, the Stranglers ended up doing charity work for the Metropolitan Police and haven't had a hit in yonks. There's a moral in their somewhere.

Kevin Maidment - Amazon.co.uk
 

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