THE STRANGLERS - Golden Brown | REACTION 

I loved this song since I was a child. Don´t know what it is about it that caught my attention back then, but it never gets old for me. I´ve always been interested in songs that sticks out from the rest.

please do more stranglers, no more heroes, peaches, down in the sewer they loads of great songs and albums

If he liked that, give him a shot of the sublime pop perfection of 'Always The Sun'.

Love the Stranglers, first gig I ever went to 1978 in the legendary Glasgow Apollo the Stranglers supported by very excellent the Skids ( the saints are coming), I was 14 years old, you should review some of the Stranglers early stuff, RIP Dave Greenfield and RIP Stuart Adamson.

Rip Dave Greenfield, he was classically trained and had an interest in medieval stuff so maybe you picked up on that, really underrated band

You should hear their7 minute long interpretation of walk on by , best cover version ever

Great pick Greg. I like the interesting time signature. It feels like a waltz but it's not. Great conversation afterwards. You listed some other of my favorite songs, but for some of the songs with more an Doors feeling to them, I recommend "Toiler By The Sea", "No More Heroes", "Down In The Sewer", and their cover of "Walk On By" (yes, the Burt Bacharach number, but the make it theirs). Great work!

Try Hanging Around. Great bass line!

The best song about heroin not by the Velvet Underground. Really recommend their cover of Walk On By -- Burt Bacharach meets The Doors in an acid nightmare.

No more hero's by the stranglers is the total opposite of this one. Great band.

An absolute classic!! 💥

they actually made a cool music video for this song..

Once, watching Good Morning America, I heard this familiar tune. They were introducing puppies available for adoption, and brought out a golden retriever with this tune. I instantly wanted to marry the producer of the show, male or female.

We've had millions of songs about alcohol.

Great song from a great album which was mixed by Tony Visconti (T. Rex, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy ...). You could do lots of other songs from the album La Folie ! Try “Non Stop” (about a nun's love for God), "Everybody Loves You When You're Dead" (which is a reflection on how the media and the general public treat people after their death, and in this case it's about John Lennon), "Tramp" (according to Hugh Cornwell, it's about a mythical tramp who wants to travel), "Let Me Introduce You to the Family" (could be about Family ties as about mafia)..... You can even go back to the beginning of The Stranglers' recording career with tracks like "Sometimes", "Goodbye Toulouse", "Hanging Around", "Peaches", "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)", "Ugly", "Down in the Sewer".......

Nice one guys! I nearly requested this myself. Keep them coming 😃

Hugh Cornwell once said the song was about toast :)

"It's a good feeling sort of song" - Lol. Golden brown = heroin - so you were spot on!

The Stranglers were punk with as addition great keyboards played by the late Dave Greenfield (passed away in 2020). Legendary songs are No More Heroes, Nice 'n' Sleazy, Toiler On The Sea, Peaches and quiet some others. The song Down The Sewer of their first album is their Magnus Opus in my opinion... Anyways it's a fantastic band.

Their label wanted to drop them as "Your singles aren''t selling" so they put this forward as the next one...Hit #2 in the charts LOL. Dave Greenfield wrote it in a few minutes in a pub after Hugh & JJ badgered him to write something. The Stranglers sat on it unsure what to do with it until the falling out with the record label so Hugh wrote the lyric about his experience with heroin as a "F**k you!" to the label. It is not pro or anti heroin, it's just how Hugh felt about the drug. Its about toast... :) Toiler On The Sea, the cover of Walk On By (the extended version), Down In The Sewer. Walk On By was included in their early set because "no one can dance to the shit you write". They made it their own. Burt Bacharach said it is his favourite cover of the classic.

I love this band. This song was climbing up the charts in the UK. Then one of the band members let it leak what the song was about, I think it got pulled right after that. Please do more, Skin Deep and Always the Sun are great. I love the "Dreamtime" album. Also, when you mentioned another song about Heroin, was it The Las' "The She Goes". Supposedly it too is about the drug. Great song, not a great drug...

Skin Deep is also one of my favourites, along with Get a Grip, Duchess and Strange Little Girl.

Only the Stranglers could put out a waltz about Heroin and get it in the popular charts 😂😂😂

"Golden Brown" is a fine song. All kinds of things of note about The Stranglers. Hugh Cornwell, guitar and voice until he left, was in high school with Richard Thompson, initially of Fairport Convention and then solo, and they played together in a band at that time. The Stranglers started as a pub rock band that evolved into punk in terms of attitude, but were all good musicians, unlike most of the Sex Pistols, etc. There very hard, rough and punk sounding albums that gradually shifted into another sound (although the bass tone is always impressive), but their attitude didn't really change. There was an infamous outdoor live show in 1978 (Peter Gabriel was the opening act) that landed them in some hot water - although the music was played really well. Songs from that show come and go on RU-vid. Also, check out the smoother sound (but with veiled power) of the live set of three songs from the UK TV show The Tube in 1983: "Midnight summer dream", "European Female", "Who Wants The World". My fave album of theirs is still The Raven. Saw them once on tour here in the early 1980s, and they were terrific. Have enjoyed Hugh Cornwell's non-Stranglers albums and a couple of live shows over the decades, too.

Check out the Mariachi Golden Brown that Hugh di, it is brilliant.

Great band! You should check out ‘something better change’, ‘no more heros’ and ‘peaches’!

The song isn't a glorification of heroin, just an accurate representation of 80s Britain. Under Thatcher heroin use exploded, people were desperate for any escape they could find

Check out Waltzing Black or Peaches, great band from 70s punk era into 80s

Peaches, No More Heroes, Skin Deep....go for it!

You should have to remark, that Dave Greenfield died in May 2020, in the first Covid- wave age 72...

This song was used in the movie “Snatch”. That is where I first heard it.

This is a song that could only have been produced with the creative songwriting ability from British bands in the culture of the 70s and 80s Let's face it the melody is pure genius. and as been said its about heroin ,they apparently took a trip/holiday to Tunisia 😅😂

One of, if not, my favourite tracks of all time.

Loved the Stranglers. The bands set up is unique Hugh Cornwell lead vocals & rhythm guitar, Jet Black on drums, Dave Greenfield on Keys & Vocals and Jean-Jacques Burnel Bass & Vocals, NO Lead Guitar. The Bass is used like a lead Guitar along with the Keys in most songs giving their unique sound. Best Albums: Black & White, No More Heroes, The Raven and Rattus Norvegicus. Best Songs: Peaches, Ugly, Down in the Sewer, Something Better Change, No More Heroes, Tank, Nice 'N' Sleazy, In The Shadows, Dead Loss Angeles, Duchess, Hanging Around and so many more. 🐀🐾🐾🐾🐀

Chanson qui parle de l'héroïne"Brown sugar" drogue que le chanteur prenait est en parle comme d'une petite amie qui lui donne beaucoup de plaisir... De plaisir illusoire.... 🤔😥

Actually it was a mix of allusions to heroin and a mysterious enchanting woman. The French name of the album means madness. One of the members is French.

its in the movie 'snatch'

You gents may also enjoy: A Midnight Summer Dream ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mL69DoM0MuI.html or Strange Little Girl (which was covered by Tori Amos) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jDpNhgIq0pg.html

The Stranglers is great, strange little girl is another good one.

Bloke on the left needs to listen to the Stranglers first album.

I bet you weren't expecting that, guys, eh. ? lol Try Nice N Sleazy by The Stranglers. Great review, btw.

It's a cantata about Persian Brown heroin

The Stranglers are in my Top5 favorite Bands of all time with, The Police, XTC, Supertramp and King Crimson...all different, all spectacular!

take 5 for dave brubeck is the most beautiful reaction I have ever heard . guys you fucking rule.

I love this tune. I love that it’s about heroin too... That’s not for me, but I’ve done enough drugs to get how they feel about it...

The song was about heroin..I.e smack.. it was banned by the BBC after the bass player let slip in an interview what it was about....

Never a thrown with golden brown...indeed!

two more about heroin "There She Goes" by The La's and Royal Oil by Mighty Mighty Bosstones

kinda strange but pleasurable a bit like drinking Absinthe,...

That’s not the Stranglers video

The Stranglers were never punk musically. Their time just coincided with punk and they looked the part.

I watched The Stranglers in 1990 as a support act to Simple Minds at Maine Road, Manchester. This song was superb and is a classic. sadly they spent the rest of the set playing their new album which was really poor and eventually threatened to walk off stage due to the crowd reaction. Lesson, if you are a support act, play your best set.

Try stiff little fingers

Don't Bring Harry another song about heroin.

No idea what this video is, but it's certainly not the right one. It's totally misleading. No wonder he was confused by the meaning of the lyrics.