Peaches Very Best Of The

• Artist : Stranglers
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0724354020223
• Format : Original recording remastered
• Label : EMI Music Canada
• Languages : Original Language: English
• Manufacturer : EMI Music Canada
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.40 inches (Height) x 5.60 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 4.90 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : EMI Music Canada
• Release Date : 2003-02-18
• SKU : EMIJuly6777
• Studio : EMI Music Canada
• UPC : 724354020223

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

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Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Peaches (1996 Remaster)
  • 2: Golden Brown
  • 3: Walk On By (Edit)
  • 4: No More Heroes (1996 Digital Remaster)
  • 5: Skin Deep
  • 6: Hanging Around (1996 Digital Remaster)
  • 7: All Day And All Of The Night
  • 8: Straighten Out (1996 Digital Remaster)
  • 9: Nice N' Sleazy
  • 10: Strange Little Girl
  • 11: Who Wants The World
  • 12: Something Better Change (1996 Digital Remaster)
  • 13: Always The Sun (Sunny Side Up Mix)
  • 14: European Female
  • 15: (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Grip '89 Remix)
  • 16: Duchess
  • 17: 5 Minutes (1996 Digital Remaster)
  • 18: Don't Bring Harry
  • 19: La Folie
  • 20: 96 Tears (7" Edit)

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