Advantages: As good a selection of Stranglers songs available on 1 disc Disadvantages: Naturally not everyone will have their favourites on here. Skin Deep is on it.
...the band via songs like Peaches and 5 Minutes via pub jukeboxes, compilation CDs and movie soundtracks, and not to mention the band's most famous song, Golden Brown being adopted for some reason by my friends in high school as an anthem of sorts, I decided that maybe I should look into the band more. Peaches, with it's sleazy reggae sound and lyrics about strolling down the beach for a perv, Golden Brown with it's more classy waltz sound, and infamous ... ...2001/2002, on the back of Peaches being used in an Adidas TV ad, all of the band's albums were re-issued on CD, along with a rarities collection, two singles reproduction box sets, and this compilation, geared to snare in all the people who caught the song on the advert, and even possibly in the movie Sexy Beast. All in all, it's a bit of an odd compilation. It's in anything but chronological order, even if the first and last tracks would suggest ...
Flash-Hammer 04.12.2005
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disregard for law and order and--as this melody-heavy collection serves to remind us--the highest tally of hits. Peaches--The Very Best Of packs 20 of them ("Hanging ...
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