The Stranglers - Toiler on the Sea. From the Black & White Album

[TheArralad]

Brought the house down @ Apollo ha ha!!

[XXXPopeBenedictXVI]

'course it's worth while.

[ShaneRaw1]

FKIN EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!1

[luckygarbo1]

a great timeless band.

[shinmalishness]

no hype pure class

[TheWiggz22]

The best ever

[qwerty55160]

top album ,punk for life

[demensha23]

Before somebody KILLERS you, You Need to be STRANGLED. 

[AldofromBordeaux]

Great Job !!! I've just near forgotten how GOOD this Band was back in the days...

Believe it was about the Viking too...

[Knockrocker]

very good very good

[Bungaroo100]

"I went to toilet on the sea"

Not the best ever stranglers lyric.

[SCRAHEENI]

Thanx for this youve made an old punk happy one of me all time faves!

[youamwho]

Good show on the video here! I as a rule really kinda don't like overly busy fan concocted videos but this one is an exception, TA!

[1hallstone]

words cant describe how good this band is , see you in leeds

[longhornhodad]

Definitely Worthwhile! The Stranglers didn't just write songs, they wrote EPICS!

[vaughano24]

A seminal band but much underated. Never considerd to be one of the cool bands to have come out of the punk era and underated as a result.

[themaninblack1874]

can't wait to see this played live at theweekendinblack on saturday..

[themScreamS]

Our measley oul' collection of reprehensible reprobates are often compared with the awesome,amazing artistic aura of these true legends of lyrical lilts.We love 'em,HUGE fans of the Stranglers - vastly underrated.......

[nickstonecarver1]

wonderful, wonderful, wonderful !!!!!

[XXXPopeBenedictXVI]

Just worked out it was 27 years ago that I saw them, fuck am I getting old or what? Don't care, had fun. Best Stranglers track, so much energy. Glad I had my youth when I did!

[soapydee]

great stuff, love it

[Loobs666]

<<< Not quite a Toiler on the Sea.... but I once caught some sticklebacks in the river Ouse using a net I bought from a shop in Whitby for 25p.

[TheYellowellies]

iv bin a fisherman for 20 years -before that i became a hardcore stranglers fan-waiting for the new albums to come out and waiting in awe of the next one up to black and white-then i lost interest -but they still are my gothic gods

[joyceycousteau]

30 years a fan, and they still blow me away!

[bent2]

Raw bass sound!

[alanhug]

they are not underated they influenced hundreds can not be bettered hahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha

[TehGav]

Why would you need a toilet? You could just go over the side of the boat.

[RachelR220]

when i was a viking, my friend he was the raven.....

[MESOPOTANIAN]

my best band



[trekkian88]

best bass intro ever

[alooon69]

Great vid, it's all proper 'bo

[belovedklowny]

Another great Stranglers tune with a magnificent intro.

[24031965GAV]

i find it beautiful

[fluffyandtj]

Awesome live,this song tells a story...just don't know what!

[Loobs666]

If only this track hadn't inspired the band 'A Flock of Seagulls' it would be perfect!

[SirBanuTheFourth]

Absolutely brilliant. Black and White Definetly my fav stranglers album (Well maybe...

Rattus & Raven & No more heroes are INCREDIBLE)

[tyrz67]

Travelogue of a tune.Awesome.Ghods...D



[MrKareemBlack]

Defo my fave song from the Black & White album....

[mrgeebaby86]

the vikings discovered america...?!

[Raveninblack1]

@mrgeebaby86 They almost certainly DID.

[mrgeebaby86]

@Raveninblack1 ...been reading up on it, i had only heard that columbus was the first, you learn something every day!

[tigerspuds]

@Raveninblack1 I think you will find that it was an Irish monk called St. Brendan who first discovered America....

[Raveninblack1]

@tigerspuds Haven`t heard that one Tigerspuds. I will research this. Thanks.

[rd4kf3qb3]

Awesome.

[lilipoupette05]

the stranglers the best band ever!!!!!!

[SteKoWho]

Listening to this song, once changed my live. Just before someone played this (brand-new reased) album during a party I had been a typical teenage nerd, with no special idea of a thing called punk. But then, I "invented" pogo, because I didn't knew it existed. Thus, I had to leave this party, those nerds were not amused...

[fja1999]

absolute classic , by the most underated band ever.

[Swaggs303]

@fja1999 underated ... who said and what does that mean?

[almklit]

A collection of songs that exudes bleak war torn imagery and references the cold war dystopia to great effect. The black side sought to capture the post apocalyptic destruction with a stark sneer of cold command, the white side reflected a libertarian utopian landscape where robots rule and armies conquer. The sleeve depicts the band silouetted against a white background symbolising the intense white light of an atomic exposion, thus reflecting the entrenched paranoia that existed in the 1970's.

[ashie259]

@almklit Very nicely put. I would add that there was a frown and wrinkled lip in there as well.

[almklit]

@ashie259 The hand that mocked them (or me)

[TheBleech]

@almklit Thats your interpretation. To me, it's playing games on my ZX Spectrum and having good tunes in the backbround on an old crackly record player...total nostalgia.

[Raveninblack1]

@TheBleech Here here!!!

[almklit]

@TheBleech I am very DEEEP.

[Raveninblack1]

I`m sure you are....