Waltz in Black...The Stranglers

[TheBoyFrom1962]

My mate played this album all the time I hated it then bang realized what a great LP this is was

[simbafreeryder]

lol dis vid fukin sppoks me out but i lovvvvveeee itttt!!!!!!

[roosta1965]

the first time i heard this i was stoned..freaked the life out of me lol

[roosta1965]

just listen to the RATS laughing in the sewers spooky

[TheTcrazygirl]

I hate all these comments about some 'Carphone Warehouse' advert! Thumbs up if you knew and loved this song before it was on telly!

[calboy64]

JET BLACK>>>WHAT A DRUMMER

[heavy666varg]

its so fuckin good....

[revzillo]

Great vid btw !!! ;0)

[STroBEHiTMaN1]

This song really makes me think of a dark old-style 2D platformer game.

[mlwjewgirl8]

My old man used to make me listen to this when i was a kid,i also got forced to watch IT, I woke in the morning to find my bedroom full of balloons! Needless to say this combination of music + evil muther fucking clones has hit the spot!:)

[opsblock]

Thumbs up if you found this through the Carphone Warehouse advert :-)

[collageofthings]

@opsblock yeah! I spent so long looking for it after watching the advert :)

[mrbiffo1944]

brill,zombies,ghost trains,uncle fester (adams family sounds like a tuba ?

mrbiffo1944

[sta1V1ina]

I found this from the carphone warehouse advert. I had to find it once I heard it!

[mulattob]

@sta1V1ina Haha exactly the same here!

[brianartillery]

Always reminds me of the late great Keith Floyd. A TV chef quite often to be found quite 'heavily refreshed', as it were. This has a weird, queasy quality that reflects that quite well.

[itskirstybetchx]

I love it and am creeped out by it at the same time!

[miss1alex1dragonfire]

I like this song :)

[MrGingerninjer1]

Can i wake up from the dream i just had?. Bizzar to say the least but rather good & creepy as well & im not clowning around either. B-}

[NightcrawlerLuver]

Heard this on the latest Carphone Wearhouse advert and been wondering what it was, till i looked up the ad on here....love it XD

[DJYuzoboy]

@NightcrawlerLuver me 2 lol

[NICKY752]

This song coupled with "The Steps" which is the B side on the single of Visage's Fade To Grey have to be the creepiest songs of all time.

[MrDieselpower666]

love it this songs fantastic

[mizzelectroamz]

OMG THIS SONG AWSOM :D

[ElricMeln1]

I hate clowns...

[DannyNewman]

I love this piece. Highlights just how freaky clowns are. Anyone who likes clowns isn't normal, lol *tongue firmly in cheek*

[godzassassin96]

this sounds like it should be played in zombies ate my neighbours

[Irvineh01]

Where did you find the pic with the girl looking at the clown just under the pavement? It's the photo on your title page. Ta!

[jossy2278]

@Irvineh01 I can answer that for you, it's Tim Curry as Pennywise the clown from the Stephen King TV movie IT (brilliant book, poor movie). His performance was the only good thing about it. This is the scene in question watch?v=UzoPUHKZTNM

[bubbles199348]

For all the people who are hear for THE STRANGLERS not this floyd shit



[CrazyStubs3]

Happy Halloween.

[TheFlashbacksOfficia]

thumbs up if you looked at this because you watch Floyd

[SethHesio]

You made cooking what it is today. It's what all the people need. They want it! and it isn't there... I watch Floyd like you.... and our TV's aren't full of it they're full of happy nonsense.

[ph1i1]

Mr Jelly isn't it?

[cominca]

Nice one adding the clown pictures haha creepy

[utubescooby1]

STRANGLERS are just pure strange!....but brilliant..... Too many drugs lol

[totnesmartin]

God the clowns make this really extra creepy!

[ezie1968]

im 43 now i this was the 1st group that grabbed my attention in 1979 i thought and think theyre awsome

[ElektroGothic]

I've been looking for this track for over 20 years. Heard it on Kieth Floyds cooking programe and loved the catchy tune I but didnt know the name of the track or group.

It is a brilliant piece of music.

R.I.P Kieth Floyd

[chineseclownbaby]

OMG i just like the song not the clowns!

[admillnx6]

I dislike clowns even more now.

[MrAndy63]

the stranglers the best band by a mile

[markyboythewolf]

In their day The Stranglers were up there with The Who!!!!

[prienlake48]

KIller Klowns From Outer Space?

[Amberol]

A kind of macabre joyride on the roundabout of life... brilliant track!

[pinkdoors]

creepy  music !!!SUPER!!!

[jonfletcher147]

Keith Floyd. Legend.

[oblongfan1]

only the sound of dave greenfield swelling organ can make my ear drums have a massive orgasm

[googleisshittoss]

Viva La Stranglers!

[revzillo]

This was our song at our wedding ! .....My wife wore all black brideinblack you could say .......needless to say we got married in a registry office !! .....This Album is the the last of the best of the stranglers as far as i'm concerned !!! Rattus , No More Heroes, Black and White , The Raven, Live X-certs and themeninblack All Classics !!!!

[whereangelsplay1]

@revzillo Nice one! Love to hear about non conformist attitude to weddings!

[ggoldfingers]

@revzillo The last of the best?! Hmmm La Folie with Golden Brown,I love the family,Aint nothin' to it,Everyone loves you when you're dead,the title track.Feline was okay for its time,Aural Sculpture would be the end of the best for me.

[morrisgrover]

that is so funny x

[HankJwimbleton876]

After 10 years, I FINALLY found the name of this song! Drove me nuts, I love it!

[sapphireofslytherin]

@HankJwimbleton876 I know right?! I used to hear this on like adverts and tv show trailers all the freaking time and I could NEVER find the bloody title! Now, at last, finally!

[ggoldfingers]

@HankJwimbleton876 The cd is The Gospel according to the MeninBlack

[cestmoimarie1504]

thank for the music, it s a pleasure to ear it again and again

[adderleypoo]

People, if u love this, check out 'Empty House" by Air. Anyone got any more creepy circusy type type tunes to share?

[ElektroGothic]

@adderleypoo Thanks for the suggestion of "Empty House" It is just as sad and creepy as "waltz in Black"

[christophnz]

It's a real nice waltz, managed to get the DJ at our dance class to play it once, but for some strange reason not a second time (that was 25 years ago LOL)

[jtarantula3390]

OMG, i love their music, if it wasn't for tori's cover i never would of found out about them

[admiraltrainwreck]

One night I dreamed I married Pennywise... not too pleasant

[MrYorkyporky]

I dry bumed a clown today

[theseus27]

Perfect spooky music for Halloween!! Mwahahahaaaa!! ^_^

[pikachops]

long night halloween:)

[arkhammedik]

The Stranglers must have had clowns in mind when writing this....it's the macabre kind of circus waltz that would get John Wayne Gacy out on the dance floor.

[rottro]

Great song, underplayed live. A ballroom with the dead dancing the waltz as a dreamlike state fills the room, a carnival of death if you would.

[TheFatControlleR]

@rottro

A 'Danse Macabre'. ;)

[JollySunrise]

Imagine a sea of black leather bikers jackets, lights down, Waltzinblack and out comes the best band ever!! Stage lights up and we're into The Raven. Wish i was back there now.

[stargazerlily86]

The movie IT is the scariest movie ever! Who else thinks so?

[theseus27]

@stargazerlily86 I couldn't agree more with you,so you've just got a thumbs up!

[theboff1]

@lufc74is its cream of the crop :L 

[kyriakh123]

Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[felixbroadcast10]

fucking clowns. im terrified T_TU

[joshcboy]

OMG! i love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my dad used to play this to me and my sisters when i was younger!!!!!! its such a good song and im so glad i've finaly found it!

[eddandy]

This was a great intro song at their concert. This song played right before the band came on and then they started with Threatened.

[supperbowl43]

cLOWNS gREAT Baloon nOT

[volumex2000]

Stranglers are headlining at Triumph Live Sept 18

triumph-live.co.uk

spread the word

[kippert1987]

this video and song is amazing!

[Auntkekebaby]

Stranglers...most excellent band.

[winniebee112]

love this song those clowns sometimes remind me of the british public.

[persononspeed]

@winniebee112 lol, ur thinking of the British government mate :)

[bananasplitsable]

Love the Stranglers.

[MrCheeseboy55]

.. goosebumps when this was played, waiting for them to appear on stage.  15 and completely in awe of them. Brilliant days!

[rastafarianman413233]

i often listen to this song blazed

scary as fuck

[rastafarianman413233]

i often listen to this song blazed

scary as fuck

[RolandJP4]

Great Track from a great Band. The Stranglers are one of my favourite bands. Thanks for posting this.

[armandsdamanhoo]

@RolandJP4 you sound like a robot

[troellie1]

sweet

[belovedklowny]

This album was a real departure for them at the time but I liked it just as well as what came before.

[TheBellybiter]

love it love it love love it

[southendboi17]

proper band,they use 2 get into proper trouble and we loved them 4 living the ream

[vinceyboy321]

fuckin freaky song lol but luv it so awesome :D

[mrspacman0dontripit]

This scares the shit out of me... I'm not particularly afraid of clowns, (I don't find them funny/entertaining at all though :S) but this reminds me of the movie 'IT' D;

[irishelk1]

Sounds alot like the doors song "whiskey bar"

[GetafeMagic]

Prolly one the most strange songs I'll ever hear... Keith Floyd the cook (R.I.P) is where I heard it... but no matter how strange it is... its hella cool! and its unlike me to generally like british music

[GarytheSlug]

Tim Curry ^.^

[chemical376]

scary clowns are coool

[ChilliandChorizo]

I don't find the music creepy at all, it just brings to mind Keith Floyd cooking somewhere hot slugging back glass after glass of red wine!! What a legend!

[grrenlight]

creepiest song ever o.o but i have to use it for my drama assignment so i have to listen to it like every day now

[Eilavamp]

I've been trying to work out who this was made by for like the last two years :D this is so awesome.

[copperstar48]

This song reminds me of A Clockwork Orange for some reason.

[kisbie]

@copperstar48 It's probably the electronic organ sound.

[maddermermaid]

I'm not one to be afraid of clowns, but that one in the gutter was effing creepy.

[LightningNight]

@maddermermaid I think that was the IT so it should be scary XD

[LordRockfish]

Tim Curry = scariest clown of all time

[teshka1]

It would be good to hear The Stranglers play this live. Clowns frighten the life out of my kids.

[allyplumb]

They use it as an intro to all their gigs. I don't think Dave has enough fingers to pull this off live lol

[childofthedamned]

Send in the clowns? Yes please! Do they ever play it live I wonder... I might ask next week :D

[Acidwrath]

When do clowns ever make anyone laugh? ...

[kisbie]

@Acidwrath Krusty the Klown is pretty funny.

"Aah, there's nothing better than a cigarette - unless it's a cigarette lit with a $100 bill!"

[maadmaestro]

...it's peaths, it's carroths and a quick slurppp!! god bless, Keith!!

[maadmaestro]

dont make me laff! you ever seen obama??

[maadmaestro]

i think the word we're all missing here is 'pennywise!!'

[VernianProcess]

Another really excellent song from the same era is The Human League's - The Circus of Death. It's all about killer clowns. Oh and The Dickie's - Killer Klowns From Outerspace. But that was late 80's.

[bracket215]

Nightmares!

Clowns are very scary.

Great song and video.

[cuntfacekilla]

Listening to this on 45 rpm whilst on mushrooms was always interesting!

[petriec2]

Pennywise the clown!!!!! very scary!!!!

[johnanthonyp]

That's right, Mikethe kev! I bet all our internal organs are screwed. It's that or the copious amounts of alcohol consumed over these past twenty years since then. Great gig. Was that the one when Hugh jumped up and down on that rubber toy that was thrown on stage and JJ tripped over his lead, screwing up Duchess?

[thomasvenables]

At Home With The Snails, great show - but would never have made the transition to the telly!

[johnanthonyp]

I remember this opened at Birmingham Odeon back in the day. The baseline rocked the walls and floor and it was pre-release. It was the most mesmerising tune I'd ever heard and I don't think I was alone in thinking that. Not knowing it was going to be on the the next album, I used all my ingenuity to find this song, obviously to no avail. Boy, was it great when I put on TGATTMIB and this came on. Sent shivers down my spine!

[mikethekev]

i was at the same gig ... it bounced off your rib cage.. as i remember

[prikard]

I'm thinking dubstep remix

[CaptainWampum]

@prikard Do you think about raping Princess Diana's corpse too?

[prikard]

@CaptainWampum yes

[SlamTilDeath]

Britain's got talent!

[jimmyhayers]

RIP Keith Floyd. Legend.

[eddandy]

I love it when they open a concert with this song!

[SoCal491]

they like to show Pennywise from Stephen King's It

[pukkalife]

M and r kid watching Floyd uncorked. He took the piss from start to finish of that poncey wine taster see you at the gates of ST Peter ......LOL. RIP.

[nedmost]

Good on yer, Floyd - good food ,good music,good humour.

[destructivedandy]

I'm with you there, RIP Keith, legend

[karl198]

Yeah :D Gonna have some jack daniels or rum or homemade wine in a minute in memory of the man himself.

RIP floyd.

[liquidfreak]

RIP Floyd

[pronyma]

Song reminds me of castlevenia!

And yes also of Vladimir goes to .... and vladimir and olga.

[123yayicancount]

uuuh. i hate clowns. it's a great peice of music though :)

[zugrook101]

A long term fan, was this made before gremlins. Stranglers, the keyboard masters. Yes the video is eminiscent of Stephen King IT.

[neilthegooner]

1:55 Is that from Stephen Kings It?

[jethropike1964]

yes its pennywise the clown.

[ANFTAMMI4EVER]

yep lol, great film, 1st half is more fun then the 2nd half though...

[peletonkambing]

Great song, but I fucking hate clowns.

[1themagician]

can, not cann! Sorry, I so hate spelling mistakes-that was a typo!!!

[1themagician]

Fantastic pics, well matched to a fantastic song by the World's Best Ever band. Where cann i get these pics on the net please!!!!!!!!!!

[LORDGODSIRALEXFERGIE]

richard39bucks - accept some help. You are looking for Vladimir and Olga. follow the links.

[chilly3bonza]

song is great...pics are freaky

[richard39bucks]

any1 know what then name of this song is..... its about a russian bloke in affghanistan with a camal named demitres,,, its a stranglers track, on the B side of a 12inch single? pleae if you have it put it on here,, all the bast n ava great summer

[FP51DPO]

The tales of Vlladamir and olga...

[pablonerudaouquoi]

This song is really amazing...too bad i like clowns ! ^^

[garwento]

Disturbing but nice :)

My uncle Hannibal would like this but I am afraid to play it to him. He has been known to eat little ones like me for breakfast :)

[sam102y]

I so love this song and also listend to it in the dark. I hate the clowns they are scarey, I also hate porcelain dolls.

[RumbleGuts2112]

oooo them little dolls eyes are creepy and follow you round the room... very freaky. One of my exes collected them and had them all over the house... it got too much for me so i had to let her go.

I've never liked clowns since watching the film 'IT' many years ago.

[bigbabyjesusaddf]

i used to listen to the stranglers.. then i drank alot for a few years and completly forgot about this song haha.. some fucked hearing it again.. i remembered as soon as i heard the first seconds..i wish i were drinking

[Loobs666]

Thank fuck i'm not a coulrophobe!

[slipknotfreak6760]

2:20 really creepy

[lozlthedweeb]

Absolutely amazing song, but i cried when it was played until I was about 8 and then i made my sis cry :P

[looneechic]

i used to SHIT myself when i was a kid n my dad used to play this REALLY LOUD XD fkn brilliant.

[connorsworld]

is it weird to say that this song gives me a instantly cool grin lol XD

[pornocollection]

Freaky ass shit man

[charliethecamel]

I used to listen to this song in the dark all the time, coz I was a little psycho, and scare myself witless.

[SMH9008]

this song is really spooky

[Widsy320]

Love this Song...but all clowns should be put to the sword!

[miniboob]

amazin tune i like the way not allot of ppl know about it shud put better clowns in tho

[mikew55555]

I'm a taxi driver,often play this,freaks the f**k out of some customers,wonderful tune !

[damnedlikebeauty]

remind me not to get in your cab lol xxx

[lighterphantom]

@damnedlikebeauty I'D say keep drivin soo good the Stranglers are!

[darkangel99423]

@mikew55555 You are fucking awesome. loll

[MisAnnThorpe]

@mikew55555 You don't say!

[armandsdamanhoo]

@mikew55555 you rule!!!

[bikesi]

scared the crap out of me, lol! (great piece of music though)

[y0utubemetube]

Great song.First heard it on the Keith Floyd cooking show.