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The Raven (Expanded Edition)

The Stranglers

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Customer Reviews

Worth the money for 1 track alone

Who wrote the souless "official" review? Clearly someone who never listened to the Album! There are some classic tracks here. Longships and The Raven sit well as a double act but as anyone who went to a Stranglers gig knows, the real bed fellows are Shah Shah a Go Go and Ice. Wow - bringing back such great memories. The real value in this album lies in the third quarter of Genetix. J J Burnell does an outstanding bass solo - incredible. Baroque Bordello is worth a mention - great use of sound on the intro - well worth a listen. Bear Cage is really hypnotic, great when you've had a bucket of beer - but then we must all drink responsibly these days so I probably wouldn't appreciate it now.....

Stranglers at their peak

An amazing album that still haunts me even after nearly 30 years; I would love to see good video of the Raven tour, I was mesmerised at the time. Deep meanings, swirling keyboards, grinding bass, exquisite guitar, intricate tunes and interwoven melodies, still hear new things when I put it through headphones. Menacing, dark, beautiful, tongue in cheek, and profound. My number one desert island disc, no question. Stunners for me are the title track, Baroque Bordello, Ice, Shah Shah, Genetix. Damn it, I'm off to listen to it again

Poor main review

It's not at all clear that the official review has actually listened to the album - it's just a bunch of generic quotes I've heard elsewhere about the songs. For me The Raven is a classic - the best The Stranglers ever managed - but it's quite an intriguing and occasionally challenging listen. Heady brews make up The Raven's inspiration: heroin, genetics, alienation, politics, suicide and the first indication of where the Meninblack were heading in, er, Meninblack. There are occasional flashes of chart-friendly pop-rock in Duchess and the rollicking Nuclear Device (track down the video on Youtube), but mostly The Raven is a dark, sometime baffling, often brilliant album that's not for the faint-hearted.

Biography

Formed: 1974

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

The Stranglers formed as the Guildford Stranglers in the southern England village of Chiddingfold (near Guildford) in 1974, plowing a heavily Doors-influenced furrow through the local pub rock scene — such as it was. Of the four founding members, only Hugh Cornwell had any kind of recognizable historical pedigree, having played alongside Richard Thompson in the schoolboy band Emil & the Detectives. According to Thompson, their repertoire stretched from "Smokestack Lightning" and...
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