Peasant In The Big Shitty - The Stranglers

Track 8. 'Peasant In The Big Shitty'. From the album 'No More Heroes'

Hugh Cornwell: Guitars & Vocals
Jean-Jacques Burnel: Bass & Vocals
Dave Greenfield: Keyboards & Vocals
Jet Black: Drums & Percussion

Produced by Martin Rushent

Engineer: Alan Winstanley

♪♫ The day was sticky yellow
The night was so untight
The cows go moo moo moo.
Is everything alright?

Baby digit at my face.
Who the man with the smile, mum?
Do you like it like that?
I'm just a peasant in the Big Shitty

I'm going real slow
But if the light ain't real
Then there can't be a hole
Not even some red

Do you like it like that?
Do you like it like that?
You're not real. Oh no! You're not.
You're not real. Oh no! You're not.
You're not real. Oh no! You're not.

There be a strange garlic here
The room is full of fear
With empty wavelength touch
It's coming in a rush
It's coming in a rush
It's coming in a rush
It's coming in a rush

Do you like it like that?
Do you like it like that?
Do you like it like that?
Do you like it like that?

I'm just a peasant in the Big Shitty ♪♫

Category:

Music

Tags:

• No
• More
• Heroes
• Peasant
• In
• The
• Big
• Shitty
• Post-punk
• Punk
• Rock
• Stranglers
• 1977

[smmeegal]

@enigmatikc- bi9g stranglers fan here, now 43, brilliant moving track, real nice thankyou ELGROOVER so very much XXXX

[ELGROOVER]

To smmeegal ~ My pleasure ☺ ;-j

[enigmatikc]

the best Stranglers album. Theres something odd about this album, but pleasing. Prog rock ? makes me feel like ive smoked a joint... now theres a memory!. Does anyone share this ?

[ELGROOVER]

@enigmatikc ~ best Strangs album? Probably. This and The Raven are the ones I play the most. Prog rock ? ;-D... yea....but no, but yea.... Odd yes, wonderfully so ; there being a lot of Strange in the Stranglers. I certainly can't bogart that my friend ; it rocks and it's progressive, even if it can't be strictly classed as Prog rock! ☺ ;-j

[Toracube]

The more I hear f these guys the more I like them. Great !!!!!!!

[ELGROOVER]

to Toracube ~ "..do you like it like that, do you like it like th@..." Yea.. :-D guessed you would 'T' ;-j

[kenskyrocket1]

I alway thought that Dave Greenfield had the most sinister sounding voice of all the Stranglers. A real sneering tone about the boy! Great stuff.

[ZXwarp]

Prog punk

[whouster]

Inspired stuff to give Dave lead vocals - he's got a wonderfully creepy voice. Interesting that Dave also got the nod to sing 'Dead Ringer' and 'Do You Wanna' - two other tracks showing the boys at their most menacing.

[STUMP777GRINDER]

stranglers at their finest, psychodellic, DaDa-esque and experimental.

[gnatsinthepizza]

It's coming in a ruuuuuuuuush :-)

[gnatsinthepizza]

:-)

[markinblack1]

agreed maxinblax dave is the bollox!!!!!!!!

[SollyMotherF]

One of the best names for a song! One of the best songs!

[maxinblax777]

dave is god!

[almklit]

@ELGROOVER Acid Punk a rare combination - not too many bands branched into this avenue.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@enigmatikc:

I wonder which nerd "invented" the insulting term "prog rock" for the Stranglers, only because Dave Greenfield could have played in Yes, but he wanted something not so boring +more innovating and not so "pleasing" !