Upon arrival, the Stranglers were perhaps inappropriately corralled into London's boisterous Punk camp. Like many Punk bands, they specialized in offensive, woman-baiting song lyrics and chord-defacing guitar speed, and they were notorious for mercilessly hectoring their fans who appeared to enjoy the abuse. But though they've been around long enough to witness the style's evolution through its Pre- and Post- phases, calling the Stranglers "Punk" dilutes the term's precision. In the band's early days, they sounded more like a faster, harder Dr. Feelgood than the Sex Pistols and later they started to sound more and more like Phil Collins-Genesis for goths. Between the band's first incendiary LP, Rattus Norvegicus (preceding the arrival of the Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks by a number of months), and 1986's flame-retardant Dreamtime there is a world of difference. Over their quarter century career in music these quasi-Punk dinosaurs seem to be going the way of all dinosaurs by slowly calcifying into fossils.

ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT + 3	ALL LIVE AND ALL OF THE NIGHT	ALWAYS THE SUN / SAME	APOLLO REVISITED
BEAR CAGE	BEST OF THE EPIC YEARS	BIG IN AMERICA	BIG THING COMING 7" RED VINYL
COLLECTION 1977-1982	DEATH AND NIGHT AND BLOOD	DON'T BRING HARRY	EARLY YEARS'74-76
EUROPEAN FEMALE/SAVAGE BREAST	GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE MENINBLACK	GREATEST HITS 1977 - 1990	IV RATTUS NORVEGICUS
LET ME INTRODUCE YOU	LIES AND DECEPTION	MENINBLACK	MIDNIGHT SUMMER DREAM 1982 USA 12 VINYL 49-03564 #
NICE IN NICE	NORFOLK COAST	NUCLEAR DEVICE/YELOWCAKE	RATTUS NORVEGICUS.1V -3 BONUS TRACKS.5344062
SHAKIN LIKE A LEAF	SHAKIN' LIKE LEAF / HITMAN	SKIN DEEP - HERE & THERE	STRANGE LITTLE GIRL
STRANGLED VOL2 JULY	STRANGLERS IV	SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS(3 MIXES)	THROWN AWAY
UA SINGLES 79-82	WALK ON BY / OLD CODGER / TANK	WHO WANTS THE WORLD ?	The Very Best of the Stranglers
Rattus Norvegicus	The Raven	The Gospel According to the Meninblack	Stranglers in the Night
Live (X Cert)	Suite XVI	Midnight Summer Dream	In Heaven She Walks
The Stranglers	Who Wants the World? / The Meninblack (Waiting for 'em)	Live at the Hammersmith Odeon '81	Peaches: The Very Best Of
Singles (The U.A. Years)	Greatest Hits 1977-1990	Hits and Heroes	All Twelve Inches
The Best of the Epic Years	The Stranglers and Friends Live in Concert	1977-03-01: John Peel Session	Peaches / Go Buddy Go
The 12" Tape	Decade: The Best of 1981-1990	Old Testament 1977-1982 (disc 1)	Old Testament 1977-1982 (disc 2)
Old Testament 1977-1982 (disc 3)	Old Testament 1977-1982 (disc 4)	The Collection 1977-1982	The Hit Men
The Rarities	Decades Apart	Themeninblackinbrugge	Live In Concert (with Friends)
Feline (bonus disc: Aural Sculpture)	The Early Years '74 '75 '76: Rare Live & Unreleased	Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus)	Do the European
Just Like Nothing on Earth	European Female	Friday the Thirteenth: Live at the Royal Albert Hall	10 Track Collectors Album: The Mail on Sunday
Jump Over My Shadow (disc 1)	Death & Night & Blood	5 Live 01	Live at the Hope & Anchor
The UA Singles 1977–1982