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Post by billymedhurst on Dec 8, 2022 17:31:50 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Dec 8, 2022 18:27:23 GMT
No More Heroes was an incredible single.
I've got most of their early albums on CD. They were a band that defied categorisation.
R I P to Jet Black who, along with Dave Greenfield, composed Golden Brown... surely their most memorable and unusual hit.
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Post by billymedhurst on Dec 8, 2022 20:01:04 GMT
Yes, they can have a reunion, wherever they both are now....
Dave was a Brighton boy, like me. He went to Varndean school.
Quite a few early tracks were about Brighton;
Peaches: "walking on the (Brighton) beaches looking at the peaches..."
Burning Up Time: "The Brighton train it goes so soon, my Brighton-Belle (Choosey Susie) is in her room..."
Choosey Susie: whom I've been told lived in Brighton.
I'd already heard (Get A) Grip (On Yourself), Peaches, Go Buddy Go, and Something Better Change; but when I first heard No More Heroes when it came out; WOW! It was an amazing song way beyond anything else I'd ever heard.
Still my favourite Stranglers song.
Golden Brown was so stunningly different. I really think that 'La Folie' is an under-rated masterpiece.
RIP Jet and Dave, and thanks for all the amazing music and memories.
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Post by brinylonshirt on Dec 8, 2022 20:51:07 GMT
An integral part of one of the greatest bands ever. RIP
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Post by joshmel on Dec 8, 2022 21:48:39 GMT
I was just listening to Always the Sun before I seen this thread. RIP
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Post by AlanH on Dec 9, 2022 9:26:45 GMT
I hadn't realised that Jet was relatively so old when the band broke through. It seems somewhat surreal that someone in a band in 'my' era has just passed at 84. RIP. Part of one of the major bands of the time.
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Post by ltd on Dec 9, 2022 12:12:17 GMT
I hadn't realised that Jet was relatively so old when the band broke through. I always knew he was a bit older than the rest of the group and had been a fairly successful small businessman before his musical career took off. I like the story about the band going on tour in one of his fleet of ice cream vans. |
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Post by jno on Dec 9, 2022 17:58:41 GMT
Love The Stranglers and Jet Black was an important part of that. RIP
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Post by daz on Dec 11, 2022 6:40:21 GMT
Not a huge fan, but undoubtedly a very influential band from the punk/ new wave era who were a bit difficult to categorise musically, which I think is a great thing.
Hard to believe in an industry where artists are now mainly controlled by PR from the off, the he broke through with the Stranglers when nearly 40 years of age.
What a time to have been alive and to have been of age to have enjoyed it.
RIP
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Post by westminster on Dec 11, 2022 10:39:18 GMT
No More Heroes was one of my favourite records as a teenager.
Golden Brown I loved too but I was too innocent to realise what the track was actually about when when it came out.
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Post by Portland Road on Dec 15, 2022 23:05:51 GMT
They were very potent during their United Artists period (1977-81), and like e.g. Julian Cope or Echo & The Bunnymen, stayed 'New Wave' even in the musically insipid later-80s. By this time they were, like UB40, inclined to do cover versions for new singles, as they approached the end of their chart run. I did, and do, like them, and they didn't end early like The Boomtown Rats, The Jam, the Specials or The Police. I didn't realise until much later that Jet Black was considerably older than the others - we thought that Bill Wyman was 'old' in relation to the Stones, but Jet was off the scale  R.I.P. Jet Black. |
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