The Stranglers - Peaches 1975 Demo

[TheKate1098]

Ace

[quattroheadusa]

Cracking audio, yes it may even be better than the final product.

[warpedwiselegoman]

one of the best bass lines ever written

[180904kev]

big respect to whoever posted this

[santanocci]

i hope all you cunts at emi contract the most incidious painfull form of cancer known to mankind, you money grubbing mother fuckers

[xBrokenTearDropx]

@santanocci wtf....

[elmser569]

Best song of this band !!!!

[RinchenSherab66]

@elmser569 What about No more Heroes from first album?

[SirBanuTheFourth]

@RinchenSherab66 It wasn't from the first album

[gregglesmegma]

this is fantastic. note, jj actually muffs the last note in the intro lol. This song seemed to be just as it ended up a year or so later on Rattus, musically; but grew some legs lyrically with the ad-libby bits,

[Ermintrude64]

Thankyou for reminding me Mr McG!

[MrYorkyporky]

Strolling along minding my own buisness!

[HilaryMG]

I just love this, so off the wall and absaloutly hilarious!

Great band!

[Sleightofhandsz]

walking on the beaches lookin at the peaches

[TheBernas24]

One of my favourites musics :)

[warpedwiselegoman]

if only i were a part of the good ole days,where your guitar or bass could be out of tune and you didnt give a shit,you just went in and recorded your part.

being born in the 90s sucks... :(

[bradburypete]

@warpedwiselegoman

Being born at the begining of the 60's was the best time to be born...i got to live through music while it was happening n still am...it does get better my friend just give it time...

[MVilen]

@bradburypete Hi. I was born in 1970 and it was Soviet Union(terrible!). Nevertheless,I listened a lot of good music, etc. Stranglers and guys older me interested in the middle of 80-th, why I listen Doors, Queen, JJ Burnel and other group of 60-th and 70-th? Now I know: God bless this time to create a lot great musicians and great music and something more. I little hesitate you

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

@MVilen I always wondered wether Western music was allowed in the USSR, i guess it was then?

[MVilen]

@SSTTEEAALLTTHH Something was forbidden, something not.But in any case it wasn't encouraged by oficcial ideology. And it wasn't matter. We listened this music, got the vinyl disc(it was so expensive!), recorded to bobbins and cassettes. In many cities in USSR were real communities of music funs where was opportunity for conversation, for changing the discs, for trading this ones and other. Now it much easier, world became global and communism failed and vinyl expensive again))))))))

[RinchenSherab66]

@MVilen hello! I'm from Serbia,46, totally understand what You're saying! I remember how much trouble I had to even just listen to this kind of music! Started with punk when was 13. Then, in Serbia, was a famous radio show called "Good Vibrations". It started every Thursday at 10:00pm, and mom freaked out that I don't go to sleep cause of school. But can tell You ,I was doing harder in school just to make listening late possible, so my parents gave up and bought cassette-player ! TO RECORD!!

[garygrugen]

i love this :) and im onli 14 born in 1995 :)

[Madokkusu]

Ha me too..

[1dmugger1]

@garygrugen same here lol

[MrTURBOJOHN]

If someone doesn't like this music, jump off a very big building and if you survive pick up a weapon and kill yourself

[FingerXD]

woah

[paulrooney100]

wish i could go back to these days stranglers, pistols, damned, saw them all in the early days, happy days good to see the younger lot enjoying, good for you

[elvesarepeopletoo]

I can't believe this was released in 1975. I'm 14 so I obviously don't remember when music like this blossomed, but I'm pretty sure if it was only released now it would just as big a hit. Timeless.

[Julcisko]

I know I´m weird but I love this song maybe more then Golden Brown.

[RegulationTdog]

Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches :D

[lukaborna]

Walking on the beaches looking at the bitches :D

[TheDafProductions]

fu**ing all the bitches!

[ZLUGGO]

The final version is superior.

[Fintwon]

gah its impossible to find the non-demo non-live version of this on youtube...

[luis22892]

really, i will upload it

[hywel777]

there used to be one

copyright ate it

[steveboy32]

@Fintwon so true it a bit shit really also makes u wonder why no one has uploaded the original/proper one

[thrillhouse86]

@Fintwon

/watch?v=8aI9k06dGpg  :)

[Efrasnel]

@Fintwon : Yeah...Fuck EMI.

[jzh094]

@Fintwon the driver parallel lines version is the good version

[ImAddictedToTrollin]

@Fintwon Demos suck and so do lives

[lolatmyaccounts]

@ImAddictedToTrollin I prefer this demo to the origional..yeah seriously

[JasmineXeniaa]

having a baad day, need music.

[seanreillyireland]

this is best version

[coffycup75]

@seanreillyireland

Agreed.

[seanreillyireland]

Thanks. I never knew they (the Stranglers) were big in America. Its great to see that they have fans there. I know the Clash are popular, possibly on the back of the imo dreadful green day people... but the Stranglers are the real deal. They remind me more of french artists like Jacques Brel, which I think would please Hugh.

[coffycup75]

The Stranglers are but a microcosm here, save for Always the Sun. Which is unfortunate. Their discography is full of little treasures such as this song.

"Dreadful Green Day people"... you hit the nail on the head.

[elvesarepeopletoo]

Best bass line and keyboard of...ever.

[lillmisshobbit]

its all about booty innit you foolz!!!!

[ZEKELUCCA]

IS THIS RAP? HA HA

[RinchenSherab66]

@ZEKELUCCA Sight si PAR. AH AH

[thenonbelief]

i love this song, it rocks"""""

[sickxkirsty09]

peaches geldof

walking on the beaches looking at the peaches lol

ps: fern and holly r soo cool!!!

[Forestamtul]

this song a hit ages before she was born though it must have been foretold a girl called Peaches was going to around soon.

[84211805]

@Forestamtul

If that was true, it would have been called 'Cunts'

[sovkhan]

nice song

[brybish]

boy this makes me wish it was 77 again.

[0EllieBelly0]

my grandad arested them

there druggies

[metallicmaiden]

so am i, arrest me.

[CombatRocks]

When I first heard the single version of Peaches in the summer of '77 I stopped in my tracks and said "what is making THAT noise?" I'd never heard a bass guitar sounding that good before. I've played bass ever since. Thank you JJ.

[captaincrap1995]

i have a audio clip of jj being kicked while playing this live

[SOMOGYI8230]

Maybe I do not like "that sleazy snarl'n'growl" because I like this version much more than the final version. But very much the most I like I Feel Like A Wog (from No More Heroes).

[CombatRocks]

Thank god Martin Rushent came along and transformed this into the classic we know today. Also, where did Dave get that Bontempi???

[3UpairuMan]

The Stranglers est un groupe britannique formé le 11 septembre 1974 sou le nom de "The Guildford Stranglers", en tourné en ce moment en Europe et en France. * Baz Warne : Chant, guitare * Jean-Jacques Burnel : Basse

 * Dave Greenfield : Clavier * Jet Black : Batterie

formation actuelle comme en 74 sauf Hugh Cornwell : Chant, guitare remplacé par Baz Warne (si mes info sont bonnes!)

[hopsin123]

is it punk ?

[almklit]

Define punk - take it from me who was there at the beginning they were Punk and some. There essence has been lost with the passing of time. Punk was not all about 3 chord thrashing but was an attitude, anti-establishment which if you listen closely is quite offensive in it's approach but more importantly you have to remember that 1977 was quite conservative and this was really shocking when it came out particularly with the added swear word on the final rendition.

[guffley]

good man almklit

[robson1144]

Quiete bloody right

[overlandr]

for 1977 one could pretty much insert and last two integers there!

[almklit]

Is that oz talk as I cannot understand what you are saying!!

[zaksnaporaz]

this is one of the best songs in rock'n'roll EVER !!! great demo, but the final version has all of that sleazy snarl'n'growl we all stranglers die hard fans are still falling for, after all these years, ugh !!!