The Stranglers - The Old Testament (UA Studio Recs 77-82) (2013)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Sometimes
02. Goodbye Toulouse
03. London Lady
04. Princess of the Streets
05. Hanging Around
06. Peaches
07. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
08. Ugly [Explicit]
09. Down in the Sewer (Medley)
10. Choosey Susie
11. Go Buddy Go
12. I Feel Like a Wog
13. Bitching
14. Dead Ringer
15. Dagenham Dave
16. Bring on the Nubiles
17. Something Better Change
18. No More Heroes

CD2
01. Peasant in the Big Shitty
02. Burning Up Time
03. English Towns
04. School Mam
05. Straighten Out
06. 5 Minutes
07. Rok It to the Moon
08. Tank
09. Nice N' Sleazy
10. Outside Tokyo
11. Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
12. Hey! (Rise of the Robots)
13. Toiler on the Sea
14. Curfew
15. Threatened
16. In the Shadows
17. Do You Wanna?
18. Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)
19. Enough Time
20. Shut Up
21. Walk on By
22. Mean to Me
23. Old Codger

CD3
01. Longships
02. The Raven
03. Dead Loss Angeles
04. Ice
05. Baroque Bordello
06. Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus)
07. Shah Shah a Go Go
08. Don't Bring Harry
09. Duchess
10. Meninblack
11. Genetix
12. Fools Rush Out
13. Yellowcake UF6
14. Vietnamerica
15. Bear Cage
16. Who Wants the World
17. Waltzinblack
18. Just Like Nothing on Earth
19. Second Coming
20. Waiting for the Meninblack

CD4
21. Turn the Centuries, Turn
01. Two Sunspots
02. Four Horsemen
03. Thrown Away
04. Manna Machine
05. Hallow to Our Men
06. Top Secret
07. Man in White
08. Non Stop
09. Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
10. Tramp
11. Let Me Introduce You to the Family
12. Ain't Nothin' to It
13. The Man They Love to Hate
14. Pin Up
15. It Only Takes Two to Tango
16. Golden Brown
17. How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day
18. La Folie
19. Love 30
20. Strange Little Girl
21. Cruel Garden

CD5
01. Peaches (Radio Edit)
02. Mony Mony
03. Mean to Me
04. No More Heroes (Radio Edit)
05. Walk on By (Radio Edit)
06. Sverige
07. N'Emmenes Pas Harry
08. Bear Cage (12" Extended Mix)
09. Shah Shah a Go Go (12" Version)
10. The Meninblack (Waiting for 'Em)
11. La Folie (Radio Edit)
12. Peasant in the Big Shitty (Live at the Nashville '76)
13. Tits (Live at the Hope & Anchor)
14. In the Shadows (Live at the Hope and Anchor) [Edit]
15. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) [Grip '89 Remix]



A lavish package celebrating the myriad bumps, bruises, and highlights of the Stranglers' earliest and best, the boastfully titled Old Testament is a four-CD set (five, in some editions) that spans the group's first six albums (up to 1981's La Folie), also including a number of non-LP singles and B-sides. (Physical editions of the box also contain an exhaustive -- if blindly...er, boastful -- 112-page book, which makes the package all the more attractive for longtime fans who have long since hunter-gathered the rarities.) It would be a major gamble to make this your first Stranglers purchase, especially due to the 1997 release of The Hit Men, which runs through the band's stylistically varied singles and doesn't indulge too much in the Stranglers' lengthy deterioration phase(s). They were productive from 1977-1981, discounting the number of album tracks that really shouldn't have seen the light of day. Make no mistake, nearly every good thing they did can be found within these four discs, save for the odd later hit like 1984's soft rock gem "Skin Deep." The 80-plus songs on The Old Testament definitely prove the Stranglers to be worthy of a box set.

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