Great songs for summer is group could blue cheer summer time blues I told you well like 👍 this something I listen 👂 43 years ago I want to see them live great music
When I was growing up there was a cookery programme presented by this bloke called Keith Floyd - he wasn't a chef as such but he used to travel around cooking various dishes in a somewhat druken state. Anyway, Peaches was the theme tune to Keith's cookery programme. I miss those days.
Floyd was a chef as evidenced by his credentials and several restaurants over the years, but yes this and Waltzinblack always remind me of the great man as they were the theme music for his shows because he was personal friends with the band
Walking on the beaches... I saw The Stranglers live about 20 or so times over the years. Heartbreaking seeing Jet Black having to step away from the band, the last time I saw him play with them, he couldn't do a whole show and was taken off stage in an oxygen mask... To thunderous applause and cheers of course. JJB's bass is always class and absolutely rattles the entire venue, live.
That baseline - it was utterly beguiling when I heard this as a teenager in the mid 70s when it came out on the early days of punk, and it is utterly beguiling still. Boy, were we spoilt for pop back in the day. I suggest Nice n Sleazy by them next - a very odd, sardonic take on the conquistadors reaching the Americas.
Once again I am so jealous of you- I would give a lot to be hearing the Stranglers for the first time. I only saw them play a couple of times later on but they were incredible. Maybe try "Nice 'n' Sleazy" next? Or I might again suggest "Down In The Sewer", the masterpiece that ends the album. Oh, and you were right, I was a wee laddie when this came out and didn't really understand the lyrics. That didn't matter though as that bass was something I'd have listened to on its own.
Glad you were amused and entertained. While "Nice and Sleazy" and "Walk On By" are great Stranglers tracks, the one I'd recommend is "Princess of the Strrets".
In the summer of 1991 me and my friends took a videocamera to the beach and filmed all the peaches that we saw - here in Denmark! 😎 Later me and a friend mixed a video of the footage to Peaches by the Stranglers. Every single man who saw the video - saw it from start to finish. And every single man who ever saw it, said it was good! Never the odd - nahh, I don't like it. It wouldn't survive 5 minutes on Facebook or TH-cam in modern time. But just imagine the perfect variation of peaches on a hot summer's day to this classic song :-)
Other comments below recommend "Nice and sleazy", which features incredible bass playing, and "Walk on by", which is an epic cover of the song made famous by Dionne Warwick. Both would be good choices. Of their later more commercial material, I would recommend "European female" and "Always the sun".
The Strangelers were always stiffled from mass success due to their intelligence and skill....To me they are like The Fall in that way, too clever and unique for their own good.. A captain on a ship I once sailed with had Burnels Triumph Bonnyville :)
The live video for 'Nice and Sleazy' on the Stranglers Collection album got me through many many teenage......moments............................................They hired Prostitutes to dance on stage and it was fn mental hahahahaha
Unfortunately you are in no position to comment on this song. You weren’t even born when it was written. You are inferring (wholly unconvincingly) that you are hearing it for the first time. You are American and cannot possibly understand the 1970s British psyche. Most of all you look like you have never seen or been near a ‘peach’ in your life. Don’t give up the day job!
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I don't think I've seen Nick look so amused for the entirety of a song before 😄
Lol the song had me hooked!
Great song, great reaction from Plymouth England ❤
Great songs for summer is group could blue cheer summer time blues I told you well like 👍 this something I listen 👂 43 years ago I want to see them live great music
They did a great cover of Dionne Warwick's Walk On By with an epic keyboard solo, well worth a reaction.
When I was growing up there was a cookery programme presented by this bloke called Keith Floyd - he wasn't a chef as such but he used to travel around cooking various dishes in a somewhat druken state. Anyway, Peaches was the theme tune to Keith's cookery programme. I miss those days.
I think it was Waltzinblack. Good old Floyd.
Keith was very much a chef. He was also a big Stranglers fan.
Floyds programmes used both Waltzinblack and Peaches and he started his chef career in the Army
Floyd was a chef as evidenced by his credentials and several restaurants over the years, but yes this and Waltzinblack always remind me of the great man as they were the theme music for his shows because he was personal friends with the band
Top punk band!
Walking on the beaches... I saw The Stranglers live about 20 or so times over the years.
Heartbreaking seeing Jet Black having to step away from the band, the last time I saw him play with them, he couldn't do a whole show and was taken off stage in an oxygen mask... To thunderous applause and cheers of course. JJB's bass is always class and absolutely rattles the entire venue, live.
That baseline - it was utterly beguiling when I heard this as a teenager in the mid 70s when it came out on the early days of punk, and it is utterly beguiling still. Boy, were we spoilt for pop back in the day. I suggest Nice n Sleazy by them next - a very odd, sardonic take on the conquistadors reaching the Americas.
Once again I am so jealous of you- I would give a lot to be hearing the Stranglers for the first time. I only saw them play a couple of times later on but they were incredible. Maybe try "Nice 'n' Sleazy" next? Or I might again suggest "Down In The Sewer", the masterpiece that ends the album.
Oh, and you were right, I was a wee laddie when this came out and didn't really understand the lyrics. That didn't matter though as that bass was something I'd have listened to on its own.
Punk rap!
My favourite band for about 40 years (at least!)
Masterpiece of peaches
Double A side when released as a single, I always preferred the other side, " Go Buddy Go."
Untill this day, I find their third album "Black and White" avant-garde and special. Could have been recorded yesterday.
This is definitely a very catchy, funny song, they do a great version of the Burt Bacharach song “Walk on By” “Nice ‘n’ Sleazy” is another great song
What happened to the beach video of Peaches? Did they ban it? It was a great video.
Glad you were amused and entertained.
While "Nice and Sleazy" and "Walk On By" are great Stranglers tracks, the one I'd recommend is "Princess of the Strrets".
Great song
Great reaction to a great song!Thanx Nick!
Please try Marc Almond one day!THE BOY WHO CAME BACK!💘
In the summer of 1991 me and my friends took a videocamera to the beach and filmed all the peaches that we saw - here in Denmark! 😎 Later me and a friend mixed a video of the footage to Peaches by the Stranglers. Every single man who saw the video - saw it from start to finish. And every single man who ever saw it, said it was good! Never the odd - nahh, I don't like it. It wouldn't survive 5 minutes on Facebook or TH-cam in modern time. But just imagine the perfect variation of peaches on a hot summer's day to this classic song :-)
On the severance day God created the Stranglers
Other comments below recommend "Nice and sleazy", which features incredible bass playing, and "Walk on by", which is an epic cover of the song made famous by Dionne Warwick. Both would be good choices. Of their later more commercial material, I would recommend "European female" and "Always the sun".
Erum erum erum errrummmm, HAHAHA, says it all
The Strangelers were always stiffled from mass success due to their intelligence and skill....To me they are like The Fall in that way, too clever and unique for their own good.. A captain on a ship I once sailed with had Burnels Triumph Bonnyville :)
Sex Dwarf by Soft Cell is another sleazy silly song. I saw them perform it last year in Glasgow and the place went off like a frog in a sock!
One of the filthiest basslines ever
Indeed, Jean-Jacques Burnel was a master of filthy bass.
The live video for 'Nice and Sleazy' on the Stranglers Collection album got me through many many teenage......moments............................................They hired Prostitutes to dance on stage and it was fn mental hahahahaha
@SynthMusicFan 501 They were friends of JJ'S girlfriend and yes they were strippers and they suggested it.
Unfortunately you are in no position to comment on this song. You weren’t even born when it was written. You are inferring (wholly unconvincingly) that you are hearing it for the first time. You are American and cannot possibly understand the 1970s British psyche. Most of all you look like you have never seen or been near a ‘peach’ in your life.
Don’t give up the day job!
Gold star for idiotic comment.