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Raven (+4 Bonus Tracks) | 
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| Artist: The Stranglers
Label: Caroline
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $10.99
You Save: $0.99 (8%)
Rating:  6 reviews
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 34689
UPC: 724353468927
EAN: 0724353468927
ASIN: B00005MAGD
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Longships | | • | The Raven | | • | Dead Loss Angeles | | • | Ice | | • | Baroque Bordello | | • | Nuclear Device | | • | Shah Shah a Go Go | | • | Don't Bring Harry | | • | Duchess | | • | Meninblack | | • | Genetix | | • | Bear Cage | | • | Fools Rush Out | | • | N'Emmenes Pas Harry | | • | Yellowcake UF6 |
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Album Description
UK repackaged reissue of 1979 album, includes new artwork with extensive sleeve notes and previously unseen photos. 15 tracks including four bonus tracks, 'Bear Cage', 'Fools Rush Out', 'N'Emmenes Pas Harry' & 'Yellowcake UFO'. This was perhaps the band's most commercial album to date and features many tracks that remain firm fan favorites including 'Duchess', 'Nuclear Device', 'Baroque Bordello' and the title track. In the U.S., this album was released as Stranglers IV with a few tracks removed and some non-album tracks added. EMI.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered and Repackaged with Bonus Tracks, Extensive New Sleevenotes and Many New, Previously Unseen Photos. The Raven is One of the Many Peaks of the Stranglers' Long Career. One of their Best Lyrically, Musically and Visually.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
flying straight with perfection May 8, 2007
Mark Tall (Hermosa beach, Ca)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is the Stranglers finest hour. Following the fascinating 'Black & White' which highlighted two distinct and developing sides to the Stranglers music - the lighter, faster,melody flooded White side with the darker, slower, spikier more challenging Black, this LP kind of mixed the both into a wonderful collection of intelligent songs that still entrance, intrigue and envelop you 22 years later. Gone are the naive, 'notice me' brutal lyrics of the early songs, seceded by an international theme born of tours beyond bristol, bolton and birmingham. Here each of the four players dance with and around each other in musical games - each offering different parts that somehow complement to add to a gorgeous whole on tracks like Genetix, Baroque Bordello and Ice. Many of the songs feature very strong, very intelligent opening instrumental passages that never over stay their welcome but transform into a seemingly separate song in an instant - 'shah shah a go-go' is a perfect example. The drum patterns are very inventive too and add to the layered, textured feel of a lot of the tracks. And then there is " the Raven' - the title track and 5 minutes and 12 seconds of perfection. The sectional approach to the song, the bleak romanticism of the lyrics, the interplay of keyboard and guitar, the driving bass and the final ethereal, swirling last minute of synthesizer magic evoking the flight of 'the Raven' is just breathtaking at loud volume. This is The Stranglers' masterpiece.
One of the best albums ever. July 26, 2006
Elaine Ellerton (austin, tx)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you like the Stranglers, then you probably already own it (if not, shame on you) and it is even probably your favourite Stranglers album. It has the heaviness and kick of previous albums (gotta love their basslines), but is much more polished as they have gotten a lot more synthesizer savy on this one. This is by far my favourite Stranglers album, although everything pre-Aural Sculpture is fantastic as well.
PUNK PPULSED OUT, MACHINE GUNNED,EMPEORS MEoW SUITTE, January 3, 2004
david (ALAMO USA)
5 out of 22 found this review helpful
THE ULTIMATE punk CATHARSIS, OUT SMART THE AART PRETENTIOUS SNOTY BRATS, WASH OUT,SURD STYLED VENTURES SPIRALS of HEAVEN FORBIID POWER POP,BEFORE IT GOT SOFT, RADICAL EXAMINATIONS INTO exe Verificationn of LUNACY, SET OF, OFF THE SHORES OF VAGRANCY,blow your snoty noises out WITH the lame in with the brain thinkin mans RATTLLES, the foundation OF before with AFTER CLEAAR, new shores toooo EXPLORE sabbertoothed SNATCHES OF THE BEST EVER SYNTHESISERS,trumphet YES ELEPHANT WAIL ala eric BRANNS guitar EFFECTS DONE percoscious,punk smart ALEXS OUT SMARTS, ALL ELSE.
PUNK PPULSED OUT, MACHINE GUNNED,EMPEORS MEW SUITTE, January 3, 2004
david (ALAMO USA)
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
THE ULTIMATE punk CATHARSIS, OUT SMART THE AART PRETENTIOUS SNOTY BRATS, WASH OUT,SURD STYLED VENTURES SPIRALS of HEAVEN FORBIID POWER POP,BEFORE IT GOT SOFT, RADICAL EXAMINATIONS INTO exe Verificationn of LUNACY, SET OF, OFF THE SHORES OF VAGRANCY,blow your snoty noises out WITH the lame in with the brain thinkin mans RATTLLES, the foundation OF before with AFTER CLEAAR, new shores toooo EXPLORE sabbertoothed SNATCHES OF THE BEST EVER SYNTHESISERS,trumphet YES ELEPHANT WAIL ala eric BRANNS guitar EFFECTS DONE percoscious,
Interesting Times September 22, 2003
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
The Stranglers always had something of a mixed reputation, both intellectual and menacing, with the latter perhaps being more appealing to their fan base, this album was the first to showcase their intellectual side. Of course in popular music intellectual refers to occasionally reading a newspaper, but in 1979 there were lots of interesting things in the papers and few other punk bands had an ex-scientist as lead singer. Musically they lowered the bass in the mix to less than speaker destroying volume and Hugh lets loose his guilty secret, he may be able to really sing. At the very least evocative of an era, there were more important things happening in 1979 than your (my) tawdry memories of teenage trysts, the album holds up well. Buy it for your children.
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