Greatest Hits 1977-1990 1990 Album

The Stranglers

Generally, as it relates to the original glory/Hugh Cornwell years of the group, it does a good job, in that it selects all of the important singles and plops them on one disc for one’s enjoyment. You can haggle over a few tracks which should or should not be there, but overall, the job is done. Each album feels like it is represented as its’ own era with a roughly equal amount of singles. So, those of you who have this impression of the Stranglers as this gruff, misanthropic punk band, think again! A relatively fun, surface overview of one of the more intriguing groups to come out of the mid-70’s punk era.