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Japanese
import from 1979 featuring the tracks:
5 Minutes,
Death and Night and Blood and Outside Tokyo |
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Another
Japanese import from 1977 this time featuring the tracks:
Sometimes
and Go Buddy Go |
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Limited
edition white vinyl single which was issued free with the first 75,000
copies of Black and White. Features the tracks:
Walk
on By, Mean to Me and Tits |
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The
first Lies and Deception CD (near left) came with a limited edition
(far left) and poster. Tracks featured are:
Lies
and Deception, Kiss the World Goodbye and Bed of Nails |
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European
Female was also released as a picture disc featuring the tracks:
European
Female and Savage Breast |
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Single
released through IRS from 1980 in conjunction with Stranglers IV, the
American import album. Tracks featured:
Do
the European, Choosey Susie, White Room and Straighten Out |
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CD
single released in 1990 featuring live tracks recorded at Alexandra
Palace on 11th August 1990. Tracks featured:
Always
the Sun, Nuclear Device, All Day and All of the Night, and Punch and
Judy |
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Single
sided limited edition vinyl single released free with Feline in 1982.
One track only:
Aural
Sculpture |
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Limited
edition sickly-pink vinyl single released in 1977 with a jazzy centre
which the sleeve warns could cause epilepsy if viewed at 78 rpm. Tracks
featured:
Something
Better Change, Straighten Out, (Get a) Grip (On Yourself), and Hanging
Around |
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Re-release
of an original limited edition freebie single (see later on). Tracks
featured:
Choosey
Susie and Peasant in the Big Shitty |
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Limited
edition single 96 Tears released in 1990 presented in a black circular
tin embossed with The Stranglers logo. Tracks are:
96
Tears and Instead of This |
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French
version of Don’t Bring Harry from 1980. Tracks featured:
N’Emmenes
Pas Harry and Livin’ in a Bear Cage |
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Single
issued by the Stranglers Information Service (SIS) in 1980. Tracks are:
Tomorrow
Was the Hereafter and Nubiles (Cocktail Version) |
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Swedish
version of Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front) from 1978. Tracks
featured:
Sverige
(Jag Ar Insnoad Pa Ostfronten) and In the Shadows |
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What’s
that 1980 Vapours single doing here? Well the B side is listed as Here
Comes the Judge but due to a miss-pressing the actual track is .....
Shah Shah a Go Go! This single came into Waltzinblack’s possession
by accident - anyone else got this? Tracks are:
Turning
Japanese and Shah Shah a Go Go |
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Limited
edition of the 1990 12” single came free with a 10” print
based on the cover of the album 10. Tracks featured:
Sweet
Smell of Success, Motorbike and Something |
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The
1985 12” version of Let Me Down Easy was billed as a collectors
limited edition. As well as extra tracks it came with a full size poster
of the band based on the sleeve cover. Tracks featured:
Let
Me Down Easy, Achilles Heel, Place De Victoires, Vladimir Goes to Havana,
and The Aural Sculpture Manifesto |
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Limited
edition band interview picture disc |
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Limited
edition band interview picture disc |
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1979
Japanese import 12” single featuring songs from solo ventures
being played live by the whole band. Limited edition had a sleeve sash
(near left) for the Japanese market. Tracks featured:
Don’t
Bring Harry, Wired, Sverige (Jag Ar Insnoad Pa Ostfronten), Crabs (Live),
In the Shadows (Live) and Don’t Bring Harry (French Version) |
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Limited
edition flexi single issued through SIS in 1991. Track is:
New
Day Today |
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Rare
pre-pressing of Heaven or Hell from 1992. Tracks featured are:
Heaven
or Hell, Disappear, Brainbox (Live) and Hanging Around (Live) |
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Limited
edition of the 1979 album The Raven featured a 3D cover. Also rare is
the inner sleeve which depicted a grotesque characature of the State
President of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, partially covered by the
map of Australia. This was banned shortly after issue. |
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Limited
edition picture disc of the 1990 album 10 |
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Japanese
Feline import from 1999 featuring several bonus tracks (full listing
opposite disc image below). All bonus tracks marked with *. |
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Japanese
“10” import from 1999 featuring bonus tracks as follows:
Instead
of This, Poisonality, Motorbike, Something and You |
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Japanese
import of Aural Sculpture from 1999. Bonus tracks featured are:
In
One Door, Hot Club, Achilles Heel, Place De Victoires, Vladimir Goes
to Havana, and The Aural Sculpture Manifesto |
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Japanese
import of the Dreamtime album from 1999. Bonus tracks as follows:
Head
on the Line, Since You Went Away, Norman Normal, Dry Day, Hitman and
!Viva Vlad! |
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All
Day and All of the Night CD single from 1985 featuring the tracks:
All
Day and All of the Night, !Viva Vlad!, Who Wants the World? (Live) and
Strange Little Girl (Live) |
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All
Day and All of the Night single from 1987 with a sleeve featuring Monica
Coughlan which was withdrawn. Tracks featured are:
All
Day and All of the Night and !Viva Vlad! |
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All
Day and All of the Night US album import from 1988. The tracks featured
are the same as the UK version with two altered track titles:
Northwinds
Blowing and Under the Name of Spain |
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All
Day and All of the Night US album import from 1988. The tracks featured
are the same as the UK version with two altered track titles:
Northwinds
Blowing and Under the Name of Spain |
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No
More Heroes single from 1977. Initial copies had a picture label. Tracks
featured are:
No
More Heroes and In the Shadows |
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Shakin’
Like a Leaf “Official Bootleg” 12 inch single from 1987
featuring tracks:
Shakin’
Like a Leaf and An Evening With Hugh Cornwell (Live) |
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Limited
edition Choosie Susie single given away free with Rattus Norvegicus.
It came in a plain red sleeve and had “What do you expect for
nothing” cut into the vinyl. Tracks are:
Choosie
Susie and Peasant in the Big Shitty (Live) |
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American
release of Duchess from 1980 from the IV album. Tracks featured:
Duchess
and The Raven |
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Limited
edition of Tomorrow Was the Hereafter sleeve issued by SIS. Only 1000
were ever issued. Tracks listed:
Tomorrow
Was the Hereafter and Nubiles (Cocktail Version) |
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SIS
issued single of My Young Dreams by A Marriage of Convenience. Jet Black
played in and produced this 1985 single. Tracks are:
My
Young Dreams and Two Sides to Every Story |
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The
Epic Years released in 2001 featuring the albums 10, Aural Sculpture,
Dreamtime, Feline and All Live and All of the Night. Also included were
5 black and white photos of the band from the Epic era - see below: |
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Black
& white marble vinyl limited edition American import of the 1978
Black and White album. Features the same tracks as the UK version:
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Who
Wants the World EP import from 1980 featuring the tracks:
Who Wants the World, Bear Cage (Long Version), The Meninblack (Waiting for ‘em) and Shah Shah A Go Go (Long Version) |
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The Collection 1977 -1982 German import released in 1982. Due to a manufacturing mis-pressing, this has 2 side twos. Tracks should have been:
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Celia and the Mutations single Mony Mony from 1977. As we all know her "backing" band were The Stranglers. Tracks are: Mony Mony and Mean to Me |
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Second Celia and the Mutations single also from 1977. Tracks are: You Better Believe Me & Round and Round |
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