The Stranglers "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)"

[ItsNowAlways]

No one can compare to The Stranglers! Their first 10 years were truly astounding.

[711honved]

Did we party to this track at Ealing College 1977! To be played at max volume only! Thank you Dave Greenfield for the unique Stranglers keyboards!

[camphor210]

saw them in the 70's woot, i was there

[mackenziek1]

I played the hell out of that album back in the '70's...one of my all time favourites

[roddy76to86]

@mackenziek1

Didn't we all !

[dagwoodveg]

@mackenziek1 thank you!

[2000toddowen]

So fortunate to have been able to hear this while it was relatively new, even admittedly though I'm one of those bloody fat Yank wankers.

Life was good to be so near college radio back 30 plus years ago. {WCNI- New London, CT.} They just emanated education...even for those of us too poor, dumb, drunk, dopey, etc..to have gone to school there.

Tune in and hear The Stranglers, or tune into everything else and hear non-stop Boston, Van Halen, and The Bee Gees.

The choice was obvious.

[roddy76to86]

@2000toddowen

You were lucky, so much of the USA missed all this great stuff. I'm "friends" with a guy from Berlin who grew up on the "wrong " side of the Wall in East Berlin, and he was able to listen to all this great music in perfect FM Stereo from the "British Forces Broadcasting Service" as the British, French and the USA still had small troop contingents in Berlin. I've always found this incredibly ironic. The Bee Gees in LA, The Stranglers in East Berlin !

[onemaddog100]

@2000toddowen Good post mate: knowing what  u r: so important, and it aint your fault u were not born English. Our empathy is with the decent yanks , fk the idiots!

[2000toddowen]

@onemaddog100 Thanks, pal.

Admittedly, I'm not too far removed from Britain. Both parents were of limey stock as far back as I can trace.

Too few of us around here now.

[dickerkata]

Hugh,i miss you!!!

[tkysimon]

MARISA DAL SANTOS



[SpiritualDimensionX]

CLASSIC!!

''Din't have enough money to buy a morry Thou''

Come back Hugh Cornwell : )

[Ashley19721]

what a great song

[SuperJustincider]

Brunel university 1977 best gig ever I'm 50 now and still remember this band at their best!

[Denkverbrecher]

Musik vor 1984 ist immer gut!

[sausagefryer]

fantastic track. so glad there are no dislikes.

[rocktypedude]

@sausagefryer sorry i had to dislike it. i love this song but if there is a trend to rail against i will :)

[funincenmd]

@rocktypedude ther is no "trend" tard.

[rocktypedude]

@funincenmd obviously there is no education in you

[rocktypedude]

@sausagefryer 

[dems661]

Magik Blast fae the past!!!!!!!

[1624green]

all time awesome group long live the stranglers

[naomiTHErocker]

saw this on marisa dal santo strange world

[whitebigpolarbear]

always had that edge over other bands ,an accompanying intelligence that eluded a lot of punk stuff at that time ....

[teemusique]

On of my favourite bands.

[elektrotubbie]

I love the keyboards

[TheBigNod]

There is nothing better on this earth

[TheBigNod]

There is nothing better on earth

[Metalmiltia]

At 15 this tune was exactly what I needed in my life. Growing up in the 70's I wa so fucking bored. Then along came the punk era, and I knew that my time had come!

[mark19611theKnife]

@Metalmiltia i was 16 at the time and oh how right you are (:

[undoingrusty]

Dam I love this tune even after all these years!

[HadjiGirl]

O'Banions.........

[diamantinadavina]

Thank you so much - excellent posting - love this song - takes me back to my punk days in the mid 70's Ratticus Noviticus !!!!

[MagentaHead]

@LandHo12345 Jeez! Jet's 72...just can't grasp that! saw them first in '77,many more times after and just latley in September gone (Stormin The Castle) That man is whoa! x x

[roddy76to86]

@MagentaHead

That's great he's back behind the kit. I'd heard he'd been unwell.

[WoodRatGirl]

Oh I love how they have a rat under their name ;)

[SmithJohn72]

This song is amazing i love the keyboard part to it. the word's to it mean a lot if you actually listen to them. my favorite line from this song is. "but the worst crime i've ever done was play some rock n' roll" love that part. and 1:50 through 2:30

[PhifaStyle]

I really like the bass. Great stuff, great album, great music era!

[loverhcp4ever]

begged and borrowed sometimes i admit i even stole. but the worst crime i ever did was playing rock n roll

[ThaDj50]

this song is catchy

[scottie11424]

nice one roddy seen this group 3 times live great nites

[tstsullivan797]

this band is worth about 20 of the bands around today, thanks for reminding me of this classic!

[roddy76to86]

My pleasure ! I just upload songs on impulse, so there's quite a few more Stranglers classics in there. And when I uploaded "Nice n' Sleazy" I thought nobody will listen to that, it's been uploaded so many times already. How wrong can one be ?! Over 21,000 views.

[zeldagoblin]

@roddy76to86 I grew up on RN. My dad thought it would be good for me :o)

[thesamnsays]

@roddy76to86 of course my man! punk may be dead, but that doesn't mean its forgotten!

[CH4IN3R117]

@roddy76to86 great job on this :)

[roddy76to86]

@CH4IN3R117

Thank you. I really took a grip of it !

[destined2sleep]

@tstsullivan797 hey hey HEY, Between The Buried And Me, ok, fella

[Frodi1995]

I really need sheet music for the keyboard part!

Very good song

[sk8ersteeze]

One of the best parts in strange world

[shelbie1xx]

Joe Innes==

i reaaly like the stranglers shhh i hate them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!by shelbie i hate them by shelbie innnes my dad JOEE likes them :'((( help its crapp

[KumoYume]

Marrisa Del Santos - Zero Strange World.

:D

[jonny5601]

one of the best bands of alltime loved them since late seventies. just awesome

[shrewsoul]

if does'nt get you moving your probably dead, superb, brilliant, and by far their best record

[slantyrock]

great song, check out PRONG's cover of it.

[CHilleRulz]

what u mean with "aw" ??? xD

[Steeplerot]

'ere sod off you wanker!

[Steeplerot]

I spin this at a Deathrock club in SF and I get pplz requesting more Stranglers, just get a grip in 2010!

[roddy76to86]

Incredible isn't it, over 3 decades later !

[ferrers88]

@Steeplerot WHERES SF?

[roddy76to86]

@ferrers88

I would think San Francisco.



[ferrers88]

@roddy76to86 no shit ,lol must have been out of it ,dont even remember asking this ;)

[Steeplerot]

@ferrers88

Whoops, yes, SF is San Francisco.

It is called Batcave SF, you can look it up on facebook, we spin lots of the good post-punk like Stranglers.

[catbirdtree]

Roddy, cheers to thee, from Bogota at the end of a long weekend, Love the vinyl version of Switch too. Only 76 to 86?

[roddy76to86]

Well there was a bit of a music revival in the mid-90s with the likes of M-People, Prodigy, Elastica and Bjork. And in the 60s there was the likes of The Animals and early Ska. But that's about it.

99% between '76 and '86 !

[WoodRatGirl]

@roddy76to86

I love M People.

Wtf ever happened to them?!

[warminator]

One of their best. And it still sounds fresh.

[Gunneddowndead]

Fucking great comments ere people, unfortunatly it's 6am and I can't think of anything witty to say..x..

[hampden12]

I've got 2 tickets for Shug doin' Ratus in May...just listened to some of his solo stuff on youtube (have no desire to see the "new stranglers" without him) and I hate to say he's past it...shite...very bad...ah'm sellin'...Edinburgh May 8th

FOR SALE x 2

[kevintheshedend1976]

Every track on this albun - ratusnorvegicus - is a gem.

It's amazing to think that, apart from Peaches, none of them went close to the top 20.

But then again, EVERYTHING good back then was heavily underground, including the best, soul & reggea.

The general consensus being that if it was mainstream, it was shit

[roddy76to86]

Funnily enough, "Peaches" is the only song on the album I don't like ! TOTP wouldn't let them play it, and if I remember rightly it was released as a double "A" sided single, so they would play "Go Buddy Go" on the show. But yes, the rest of the album is sheer class.

There were a few "breakthroughs" into the charts. The Sex Pistols of course who were # 2 (when they were #1 !) with "God Save The Queen", and "Honk Kong Garden" by Siouxsie And The Banshees went straight into the Top 10 in 1978.

[spiccybaby]

Well here we have it, I was living way up country and drowning in a sea of Supertramp and Robin Trowsers and suddenly there was this single, the Damned's New Rose and Neat Neat Neat and the Pistols Anarchy.... tip in a dollop of speed and drop of acid, result. Great times, if a little hazy nowadays.

[Bluemerlin32]

Didn't know they got back together? Brings back many good memories from around 77. Proper summers, great birds and Suzuki GT250's!

[yetiflicker]

saw em live last month.......superb, afterwoods i got a grip on myself in the tent.

[roddy76to86]

Hmm...I should censor you for that, but since the Stranglers said it first, I'll let you off with a warning !

[CakeAndShinyThings]

this is one of those songs I can listen to over and over and I love it more each time

[roddy76to86]

Absolutely. And I have done so !

[Aqualung71]

Like it! I can relate with it! haha It does sound oddly prog too, musically anyway. I know you'll hate me or saying that! hahha But the attitude and lyrics are punk all the way! 5 stars!

[roddy76to86]

There's another reason I uploaded this, as there's a version already on YouTube, but it said "not available in your country". I'm still wondering if it's because of this masturbation innuendo.

All of which reminds me of the Monty Python, which the BBC hardly ever censored otherwise, when the guy is asked his hobbies, and he says "Strangling animals, golf, and masturbation", and they BBC made them take out "masturbation"!

[Aqualung71]

Not available in your country!? Its only innuendo! I've seen much worse on this site! Ha! That is great, bloody BBC and its censorship, I am sure over here that would fly, as there is far worse being said on television, these days anyway.

[roddy76to86]

Well the BBC were a bit odd in those days. They'd let far worse than that through, but for some reason known only to themselves they took severe exception to this on this occasion !

[flaming0moe]

one of their best I think...is this spelling taken from the cover? never see it in this kind...however a good and typical song of them...

[roddy76to86]

Yes, the spelling is directly from the cover.

There was a lot of controversy at the time as some newspapers implied the song was about masturbation. Will that translate ?

The Stranglers and most journalists/newspapers did not like each other - and that is a big understatement !