I was Dave Greenfield’s keyboard tech for a number of years, miss him hugely. RIP Dave and Jet Black 🖤🖤🖤 wish you were both still with us. IMHO ‘Walk On By’ is by far the greatest cover of a track ever, just imagine standing behind Dave as he takes us through this brilliant solo whilst simultaneously drinking a pint of rum and Coke, Legend. As all Stranglers fans would know, this was a key part of the whole performance.
It is. It's one of the best covers of a track ever. Probably the best. Incredible. I remember buying it for ten bob as an ex-chart single from the local Woolworths, coming home, putting it on the Ferguson music centre's platter, headphones on and bam. Mind blown. The transition from keys to guitar solo. Good lord above.
A world without The Stranglers...unthinkable. I just love 'em!. "Black And White" and "The Raven"...yes please. Great reaction JP (Written by Bacharach and David and recorded in 1963 by Dionne Warwick)
I love that we live in a world where we can have both Dionne Warwick's and The Strangler's version of this absolute classic. Both totally different and both completely brilliant.
Great reaction to a great album! Black & White is amazing. If you intend to listen to more songs from this album, I recommend "Sweden", "Tank" and "Toiler on the Sea".
Hi Justin. Dave from a wet London (Waiting For The Sun). Really like their version of this classic penned by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. Do I prefer it to the Dionne Warwick 60s hit? Dave's organ break tips the balance for me. P.S. my song ref Waiting For The Sun is by The Doors (I wonder why that came to mind!)
So great to see your enjoyment in listening to music by the Stranglers , a band I have loved since their first album. I think its time for you to take the next step and listen to their third album 'Black and White' cited as being the first 'post punk' alum.
Considering your massive Stranglers output on your channel, I can hardly believe this song hadn't popped up already sooner! 😅 And it's the longer album version too, yay! 🤩👍 As already mentioned, this is a great cover of a Dionne Warwick song composed by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, in the style of The Doors' song 'Light My Fire' 😊 Played in an awesome way, especially that bass 😍 And Hugh proves all those wrong who claim he's not good on guitar 😁 Another great cover that I'm recommending to you is 'I Who Have Nothing' by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from the early 80's, originally a Ben E. King song from the 60's 😀👍
The sweet spot where a soulful easy listening original is transformed by a psychedelic/proggy/classic rock approach. And to think that The Stranglers were regarded as a punk band. They're just a great band.
Burt Bacharach meets The Doors in an acid nightmare. It's Dionne Warwick's song laid on top of Light My Fire's arrangement and structure with that distinctive Stranglers feel.It originally came as a free 7" singe included in the original pressing of the third album, *Black and White*.
The Stranglers played this cover in their early days before signing with United Artists. Hugh Cornwell on "Walk on By": "We never considered it as a single until it started getting a lot of airplay when it was given away. We really thought it was just something for the fans because they always loved hearing it." "I originally suggested that we play the song and as we kept playing it live, the middle developed into a new piece of music and the song got longer and longer. When we first played it we were doing it as a three or four minute number and it ended up at about seven minutes long, when we included that long solo. I changed a couple of words as well, to show a bit of disrespect."
Being a bass player, I LOVE The Stranglers. They are four individuals with skills that made up an amazing group. Wait until you listen to Black and White and beyond, they get a bit darker, a bit more commercial in places and also quite weird and prog. Outstanding and very original band.
You’ve finally returned to them! This is truly one of their great songs, even better live, Black And White and The Raven are both amazing albums which you need to hit soon!
@@Owlstretchingtime78oh I don’t Owl ! Black and white and this free single that came with it is simply mind blowingly cracking - the Raven sucks Donkey Balls - I thank you 🙏 👍🏴
@@Owlstretchingtime78 I was SEETHING with The Raven … I was on the broo at the time it came out and as the first 3 were gold plated I assumed this would be too 🙄 … absolute cack-fest of puss filled sputum which I couldn’t afford to buy at the time and Ive been hell bent on keeping the hate for it fresh in my mind ever since 😡so as you can see I won’t be changing my mind any time soon 🫣 👍🏴
An absolute monster of a cover. Obviously the extended solo's were a nod to The Doors and 'Light My Fire, but they were big fans and it's great to hear them really stretch out!
@Paul-Martin_67 The general consensus is that Greenfield had really not heard of him. It's not so strange, considering his big heroes were Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman whose respective bands were nothing like The Doors.
Absolutely one of the best cover versions of any song ever. Remember my older brother buying Black and White when I was about 12 or 13 and this was the free single always loved them since Get a Grip still go to watch them one of the best bands ever
As great as Dave's keyboard playing is on this, I think Hugh's guitar solo deserves a lot of credit too. He was never the most technically complex guitarist, but i think his style is very engaging.
They were lumped in with the punk movement but they were both too old to be accepted by the elitist punks and far too good at playing their instruments to have any street cred at all. The Police had a similar problem. The musical journalists of the day excoriated them as fake punks. They were really punk but their wellspring was the Doors rather than the Sex Pistols. That of course didn't play well with the Year Zero, Kill the Hippies, everything that has come before punk is rubbish mentality prevalent at the time. They ploughed a lonely furrow but released some great tunes and to this day still play live. This is a very different take on the song than the Dionne Warwick version which is easily as good as the Stranglers version but feels emotionally needy where Cornwell sings from his anger. RIP Jet and Dave.
@@Owlstretchingtime78 ...and in 1977 The Police still participated in the second edition of the Mont-de-Marsan punk festival (with The Clash, The Damned, The Jam etc.).😉
Oh goodness I love The Stranglers version of Walk On By so much. I'd recommend you listen to Dionne Warwick singing it - it is beautiful and very mellow and soulful and you'll see where The Stranglers jumped off from and made it entirely their own. I always think of this as not just a cover, but as one of 'the covers'. Thanks for reacting to it JP, that made my day.
Justin, to add a little, ....back in the day the 2 main music papers in the UK were Sounds and New Musical Express (NME). End of the year the inevitable awards. If memory serves me correctly, Greenfield twice won best keyboardist - me thinks 77 and 78 from NME. [NME covered the breaking Punk and New Wave scene, Sounds were more into scenes - mods, punk, metal]. Also pretty sure JJ won best bassist one year. BTW - brilliant reactions - you should have waaaay more subscribers
This is from the Black and White period, just where you're up to in their catalog, and a fantastic album, as are the next few. The single cover is from the B&W album photo shoot, with Dionne Warwick's head pasted on Hugh's. You do know this song was a monster R & B hit for Warwick in 1963, written for her by Bacharach and David. (If you've never heard the original, you must try that, it's a classic!) Just pick up where you left off, and do Black and White, I think you'll love it, and be surprised. Their first two are similar, but B&W is where they really start branching out and bending your mind with even riskier unexpected creative territory. And it's got all the punch you loved about this single.
Always loved this cover, you're right, very Doors sounding in places (although on a Vox not a Hammond as pointed out below - cheers). I love the JJB bass throughout, the melancholy singing and of course Greenfield smokes it!
@@hfhifi6878 Thanks for clarification, I've edited note. I grew up listening to Hammond exponents such as Rod Argent, Keith Emerson, Tony Kaye, Jon Lord and of course, Dave Greenfield. I always thought the similar sounding Doors keys was the same!
@@patcow9999 Me too. I grew up on OG Prog. I saw Greenfield with the original Stranglers a number of times. . The old Hammond's were a bitch to take on tour, especially the classic B3. BTW, I recently came back to an old Atomic Rooster record. Great B3 on it.
@@hfhifi6878 I too saw original Stranglers line up at Nottingham's Rock City, then the Battersea Park concert with the strippers during Nice n Sleazy and at a nightclub venue in Ilford. Great times! As regards the Hammond organ, I saw the late Keith Emerson doing his valve wrecking routine with ELP at the Royal Albert Hall.
Back in 1979 I had never heard of The Stranglers. Then I won an album from my college radio station. I walked over to the station to get my album without knowing what it would be. They handed me a copy of The Stranglers album Black and White. Still clueless, I walked back to my dorm room not knowing what I would hear. The record was pressed on a really cool black-and-white-swirled-together vinyl. Forty-five minutes later I was a Stranglers fan. Actually, it only took 3 minutes as they had me with the very first song, "Tank".
JP , this is what you Yankee Doodle Dandies call FIRE ! It was a free single with the Black and White album… It’s one if those great covers that do justice to the original but abs stand alone and unique .. Burt Bacharach didn’t rate it but he was a gifted old fart so he doesn’t count - love it ✊ 👍🏴
Thank you thank you, you have just made my Xmas. Unfortunately I'm going to have to start asking for other stranglers tunes 5 mins and the black and white album. But for now thank you so much for the review.
Instantly identifiable as a trademark Bacharach melody - despite the Stranglers really bringing their own unique take to it, with a very liberal dose of the Doors on top! Bacharach and long-time collaborator and lyricist Hal David wrote this for Dionne Warwick who had the original hit with it in the early sixties before it was covered by a number of soul stars. I can definitely recommend going down a Burt Bacharach rabbit hole some time, though my favourite work of his was his collaboration with Elvis Costello in 1999 on an album called 'Painted From Memory'.
Love this version of the classic song, so different from Dionne Warwick's also brilliant version, but this ones packed with attitude, masculine but sensitive too, it captures that wistful longing in the lyric. Black & White album has some fantastic bass driven tracks, Nice N Sleazy, Sweden, Toiler on the Sea are all top tier, and of course trademark keyboards !
this song is so magic!! every part : drums, organ, guitar, bass, vocal...... And the way they reverse the mood with this agressive approach! (vs Dionne Warwick or Hayes version) @JustJP you must try the Isaac Hayes version now !!
Well, I remember listening to Dionne Warwick's original version of this song on the radio as a kid in the '60's. When Punk came along I thought it was a breath of fresh air. The Stranglers, though, were something else. Among the various other Stranglers' albums that I bought, 'Walk on By' was on an EP ( Extended Player ) vinyl thatwas given away free with the 'Black and White' album. It's easily my favourite song by The Stranglers.
Im happy you are becoming a Stranglers fan , You have to check out the Raven , the Stranglers fourth LP in particular a track called , Genetix , Dave Greenfield sings on this one like a mad professor , JJ Burnell Bass is amazing , in fact everyone is doing something playing as it builds , with everyone playing different time signatures , as a Stranglers fan myself I thought about this a lot and decided this is my all time favourite , they are at the peak of their game on the Raven IMO enjoy .
I was one of the many who suggested you listen to this track. Definitely Top 5 by The Stranglers and imho one of the Top 5 cover versions of any track ever.
Since having the white 45 that came with the Black and White lp this is my favourite cover ever. Sounds as great now as it did in 78. Funnily enough Dave Greenfield was not Doors influenced. It was JJ Burnel, the bassist who recognised it, he was a fan, and the Doors didn't have Burnel type bass, Ray Manzarek played the bass notes on a keyboard.
Dave* was not a fan of the doors. Remember The Doors where not a big deal in the UK. Shuggie and JJ loved them. But the daemon of the keyboards? No. Dave....is....Dave. In all his progtastical glory. * May he ever travel the cosmos. Having returned to the mothership. Hallowed be from all the MeNaNDWOmENinBlACk
Justin your music education is missing Burt Bacharach, it seems. He is not Rock by any means but he is a GREAT songwriter. Have a delve in to his oevre. 🙂
As regards Burt Bacharach, there's the 2006 mash-up compilation titled "Dirt Bacharach" by R.I.A.A. _aka_ Robotic Intergalactic Astro Artists. That is, if Bacharach songs chopped into collage with Nine Inch Nails, Alanis Morrissette, Sex Pistols, Public Enemy, Cranberries, Korn, NWA (among others) would tickle your curiosity.
Deffo in my top 5 stranglers track sublime! Ray M is a great call very doors. Amazing how New Wave can have a prog keyboard player and no one notices 😂
I'm interested in where you get your track choices from, as you seem to be working through my music collection! The Stranglers, Yes, Rush, Zeppelin, David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Elbow. Thanks for the channel!
In all sincerity, while I can see why people say this reminds them of The Doors, to my ears this is far, *far* better than anything The Doors ever did. Why? Firstly, because unlike The World's Most Overrated Band, there's a proper bass player on this, and my god Jean-Jacques Burnel is absolutely *killing* it with his trademark filthy yet melodic growl. Secondly, I much prefer Dave Greenfield's keyboard playing, getting the most out of his Hammond, rather than Manzarek's interminable noodling on his Farfisa. Thirdly, this is a superb song (thanks to true legends Bacharach & David), better than anything the Doors came up with. Nothing much wrong with the Doors' drummer and guitarist, but but Jet Black and Hugh Cornwell are just as good IMO. For the record, I don't think the Doors are anywhere near the worst band ever (I like a handful of their songs), just the most overpraised. The Dionne Warwick version of this song (which I'm pretty sure *is* the original) is so very different to this, and is fantastic, the epitome of cool, and would make a great contrast if you fancy doing it Justin!
@@Owlstretchingtime78 Well there we are. I'm with David Crosby on the merits of the Doors: "basically sucked ...guitar and drums pretty ok ...keyboard was awful ..his bass with left hand was abysmal, horrible ...square wheel bad ...and Morrison was no effing good as a singer or poet ..poser ....sorry"
Anyone notice when Dave started the keyboard slide at 4:30 Pacman started on the record deck then finished when Dave ended 😂 T I M I N G!!! Another good review from the band of my youth!
OMG... I honestly think Justin needs to do Black and White, raven, meninblack and la folie, and any missing singles from the UA yers, then the b-sides and out takes album from 1977-82, then he can start of the solo stuff, starting with Hugh's first and Euroman by JJ.
I was Dave Greenfield’s keyboard tech for a number of years, miss him hugely. RIP Dave and Jet Black 🖤🖤🖤 wish you were both still with us.
IMHO ‘Walk On By’ is by far the greatest cover of a track ever, just imagine standing behind Dave as he takes us through this brilliant solo whilst simultaneously drinking a pint of rum and Coke, Legend. As all Stranglers fans would know, this was a key part of the whole performance.
It is. It's one of the best covers of a track ever. Probably the best. Incredible. I remember buying it for ten bob as an ex-chart single from the local Woolworths, coming home, putting it on the Ferguson music centre's platter, headphones on and bam. Mind blown. The transition from keys to guitar solo. Good lord above.
Dave was a gentleman and an incredible keyboardist, 'really put Rick Wakeman in the shade' !!!
@@jonathansteadman7935 steady on, Wakeman is a fantastic player too. Both awesome characters too
@@Kung_Fu_Jesus Nah mate.... is all I'm saying, they ain't gonna be playing the same venues in the here after!!!
The punk rock / Dionne Warwick crossover you never knew you needed in your life. Also, Black & White is a really great album.
How long have i been waiting for the full black and white reaction (then la folie and men in black!)
@@gartgreenside3657 love it, yes!
Yes, but try The Raven first
@@doncornholio7996 absolutely, a deeply underrated Stranglers album
Correct on both counts.
An utterly filthy bass tone
Straight from the _sewer._
Big, dirty, stinking bass- dizzee rascal.🤣
Nice 'n' sleazy.
Barracuda bass.
Just DIG that Bass 🔊 wow, its so down n dirty, laden with menace, fantastic
A world without The Stranglers...unthinkable. I just love 'em!. "Black And White" and "The Raven"...yes please. Great reaction JP (Written by Bacharach and David and recorded in 1963 by Dionne Warwick)
Unthinkable indeed. Not even a teenager when their debut landed, but it's still fresh as a daisy in 2023!
I love that we live in a world where we can have both Dionne Warwick's and The Strangler's version of this absolute classic. Both totally different and both completely brilliant.
Utterly utterly fantastic. As you say, could listen to this all day!
Great reaction to a great album! Black & White is amazing. If you intend to listen to more songs from this album, I recommend "Sweden", "Tank" and "Toiler on the Sea".
Yes I can DRIVEDRIVE myveryowntankyesican
Hi Justin. Dave from a wet London (Waiting For The Sun). Really like their version of this classic penned by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. Do I prefer it to the Dionne Warwick 60s hit? Dave's organ break tips the balance for me.
P.S. my song ref Waiting For The Sun is by The Doors (I wonder why that came to mind!)
Lyrically, what incredible lyrics they produced,as musicians brilliant, together we got the stranglers
I will now listen to 'Old Codger'. I suggest you do too.
So great to see your enjoyment in listening to music by the Stranglers , a band I have loved since their first album.
I think its time for you to take the next step and listen to their third album 'Black and White' cited as being the first 'post punk' alum.
You must hear the Issac Hayes version.
Yess
JP, glad you enjoyed your stroll in the trees...
brilliant cover one of the best covers out there
Down in the sewer, live in paris on youtube 😊
Considering your massive Stranglers output on your channel, I can hardly believe this song hadn't popped up already sooner! 😅 And it's the longer album version too, yay!
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As already mentioned, this is a great cover of a Dionne Warwick song composed by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, in the style of The Doors' song 'Light My Fire' 😊
Played in an awesome way, especially that bass 😍 And Hugh proves all those wrong who claim he's not good on guitar 😁
Another great cover that I'm recommending to you is 'I Who Have Nothing' by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from the early 80's, originally a Ben E. King song from the 60's
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The sweet spot where a soulful easy listening original is transformed by a psychedelic/proggy/classic rock approach. And to think that The Stranglers were regarded as a punk band. They're just a great band.
Good point, although they were quite content to be labelled as one in the early days!
Love 'em. Always a bit 'tongue in cheek.' This classic translated really well.
Awesome cover version.
A top ten cover of all time!
"No more heroes anymore"
So good.
Best band on the world
Hal David
Never heard the original? Get outta here!
best cover song ive ever heard.
Burt Bacharach meets The Doors in an acid nightmare. It's Dionne Warwick's song laid on top of Light My Fire's arrangement and structure with that distinctive Stranglers feel.It originally came as a free 7" singe included in the original pressing of the third album, *Black and White*.
Yes, Dionne Warwick's face has been superimposed on top of JJ Burnell's in the cover art!
@@GeoffCB, have another look at it.
Yeah the doors influence is definitely there. Fine by me as it sounds awesome 👏
@@GeoffCB it's actually Hugh not JJ
The Stranglers played this cover in their early days before signing with United Artists.
Hugh Cornwell on "Walk on By":
"We never considered it as a single until it started getting a lot of airplay when it was given away. We really thought it was just something for the fans because they always loved hearing it."
"I originally suggested that we play the song and as we kept playing it live, the middle developed into a new piece of music and the song got longer and longer. When we first played it we were doing it as a three or four minute number and it ended up at about seven minutes long, when we included that long solo. I changed a couple of words as well, to show a bit of disrespect."
Being a bass player, I LOVE The Stranglers. They are four individuals with skills that made up an amazing group. Wait until you listen to Black and White and beyond, they get a bit darker, a bit more commercial in places and also quite weird and prog. Outstanding and very original band.
For me, Dave Greenfield is one best keyboard players of all time, up there with Jon Lord.
Great reaction 👍
Ty Hog :)
@@JustJP Ty Hogg, had to Google that one !
Dave was a bloody genius.
@@stephencoulter-9186 yeh, gave the Stranglers their unique sound. 👍
You’ve finally returned to them! This is truly one of their great songs, even better live, Black And White and The Raven are both amazing albums which you need to hit soon!
Could not agree more.
Absolutely!!!
@@Owlstretchingtime78oh I don’t Owl !
Black and white and this free single that came with it is simply mind blowingly cracking - the Raven sucks Donkey Balls - I thank you 🙏
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@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Fair enough my man, but i've always found great pleasure in both, especially 'Black And White'. 😉 👍
@@Owlstretchingtime78 I was SEETHING with The Raven … I was on the broo at the time it came out and as the first 3 were gold plated I assumed this would be too 🙄
… absolute cack-fest of puss filled sputum which I couldn’t afford to buy at the time and Ive been hell bent on keeping the hate for it fresh in my mind ever since 😡so as you can see I won’t be changing my mind any time soon 🫣
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My favourite Stranglers track! This came on a white 7" single, free with the album.
Still have mine!
I gave my copy away in 1978 to a punk girl that I wanted to sleep with....it didn't work!
Can you remember if it was also released as an EP with 'Mean To Me' and ' s' on the other side? Or was that '5 Minutes' or something else?
An absolute monster of a cover. Obviously the extended solo's were a nod to The Doors and 'Light My Fire, but they were big fans and it's great to hear them really stretch out!
But apparently Dave greenfield always denied he was influenced by Ray manzerak
@@TheGenreman I know. When asked about his playing being similar to Manzarek's, his answer was apparently 'who'?
@TheGenreman This was when he first joined the band of course, and the other three first heard him play!
@Paul-Martin_67 The general consensus is that Greenfield had really not heard of him. It's not so strange, considering his big heroes were Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman whose respective bands were nothing like The Doors.
@@Paul-Martin_67A pleasure. 😊
Still gives me Goosebumps.
Absolutely one of the best cover versions of any song ever. Remember my older brother buying Black and White when I was about 12 or 13 and this was the free single always loved them since Get a Grip still go to watch them one of the best bands ever
Brings a tear to my eye every time it’s so powerful , I miss Dave and Jet hugely
Just incredible. JJ is the foundation to that track.
Fun fact the synthpop group A Flock of Seagulls landed their name based from the bridge section of The Stranglers’ song “Toiler on the Sea”
This is the most underrated cover I have ever heard, it is absolutely brilliant.
It's hardly 'under-rated' - it's totally famous for being amazing! 😅
What a wonderful piece of music ❤
The best cover of any song ever !
As great as Dave's keyboard playing is on this, I think Hugh's guitar solo deserves a lot of credit too. He was never the most technically complex guitarist, but i think his style is very engaging.
Along with All along the Watchtower … probably the greatest cover version of all time
@Paul-Martin_67 (I love Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush's ....)😃
Such a fantastic song, I loved the way you just sat back and took it all in half way through the instrumental part, great work 🖤👏
They were lumped in with the punk movement but they were both too old to be accepted by the elitist punks and far too good at playing their instruments to have any street cred at all. The Police had a similar problem. The musical journalists of the day excoriated them as fake punks. They were really punk but their wellspring was the Doors rather than the Sex Pistols. That of course didn't play well with the Year Zero, Kill the Hippies, everything that has come before punk is rubbish mentality prevalent at the time. They ploughed a lonely furrow but released some great tunes and to this day still play live. This is a very different take on the song than the Dionne Warwick version which is easily as good as the Stranglers version but feels emotionally needy where Cornwell sings from his anger. RIP Jet and Dave.
Agree. Much the same way American band Television got lumped into the NYC punk movement.
The Police were never on the punk circuit though,unlike the Stranglers
@normandavidtidiman9918 They had no problem being lumped in with the punk movement though!
@@Owlstretchingtime78 ...and in 1977 The Police still participated in the second edition of the Mont-de-Marsan punk festival (with The Clash, The Damned, The Jam etc.).😉
@@normandavidtidiman9918tell that to Stewart Copeland dude , it started as very much a punk band 👌
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Awesome cover. Enough said.
Great cover version, made their own.
Oh goodness I love The Stranglers version of Walk On By so much. I'd recommend you listen to Dionne Warwick singing it - it is beautiful and very mellow and soulful and you'll see where The Stranglers jumped off from and made it entirely their own. I always think of this as not just a cover, but as one of 'the covers'. Thanks for reacting to it JP, that made my day.
Justin, to add a little, ....back in the day the 2 main music papers in the UK were Sounds and New Musical Express (NME). End of the year the inevitable awards. If memory serves me correctly, Greenfield twice won best keyboardist - me thinks 77 and 78 from NME. [NME covered the breaking Punk and New Wave scene, Sounds were more into scenes - mods, punk, metal]. Also pretty sure JJ won best bassist one year.
BTW - brilliant reactions - you should have waaaay more subscribers
Dionne Warwick's original version is beautiful. However, the most incredible version is Isaac Hayes' 1969, 12 minute version. c'est magnifique
This is from the Black and White period, just where you're up to in their catalog, and a fantastic album, as are the next few. The single cover is from the B&W album photo shoot, with Dionne Warwick's head pasted on Hugh's. You do know this song was a monster R & B hit for Warwick in 1963, written for her by Bacharach and David. (If you've never heard the original, you must try that, it's a classic!) Just pick up where you left off, and do Black and White, I think you'll love it, and be surprised. Their first two are similar, but B&W is where they really start branching out and bending your mind with even riskier unexpected creative territory. And it's got all the punch you loved about this single.
Always loved this cover, you're right, very Doors sounding in places (although on a Vox not a Hammond as pointed out below - cheers). I love the JJB bass throughout, the melancholy singing and of course Greenfield smokes it!
The Door's Manzarek didn't play a Hammond. It was always a Vox.
@@hfhifi6878 Thanks for clarification, I've edited note. I grew up listening to Hammond exponents such as Rod Argent, Keith Emerson, Tony Kaye, Jon Lord and of course, Dave Greenfield. I always thought the similar sounding Doors keys was the same!
@@patcow9999 Me too. I grew up on OG Prog. I saw Greenfield with the original Stranglers a number of times. . The old Hammond's were a bitch to take on tour, especially the classic B3. BTW, I recently came back to an old Atomic Rooster record. Great B3 on it.
@@hfhifi6878 I too saw original Stranglers line up at Nottingham's Rock City, then the Battersea Park concert with the strippers during Nice n Sleazy and at a nightclub venue in Ilford. Great times! As regards the Hammond organ, I saw the late Keith Emerson doing his valve wrecking routine with ELP at the Royal Albert Hall.
hi greetings from the uk jj bass is amazing
Nice version. Originally done by Dionne Warwick in the early 60's. Paul Carrack did a great version as well.
Got this as a free single with the Black and White album. Please play that next.
this x 1m
Back in 1979 I had never heard of The Stranglers. Then I won an album from my college radio station. I walked over to the station to get my album without knowing what it would be. They handed me a copy of The Stranglers album Black and White. Still clueless, I walked back to my dorm room not knowing what I would hear. The record was pressed on a really cool black-and-white-swirled-together vinyl. Forty-five minutes later I was a Stranglers fan. Actually, it only took 3 minutes as they had me with the very first song, "Tank".
Like about 30 stranglers tunes I couldn't blame anyone for having Tank as their fave.
JP , this is what you Yankee Doodle Dandies call FIRE ! It was a free single with the Black and White album…
It’s one if those great covers that do justice to the original but abs stand alone and unique .. Burt Bacharach didn’t rate it but he was a gifted old fart so he doesn’t count - love it ✊
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Thank you thank you, you have just made my Xmas. Unfortunately I'm going to have to start asking for other stranglers tunes 5 mins and the black and white album. But for now thank you so much for the review.
he's done the whole first two albums - get to that search function on the channel ASAP!
Instantly identifiable as a trademark Bacharach melody - despite the Stranglers really bringing their own unique take to it, with a very liberal dose of the Doors on top! Bacharach and long-time collaborator and lyricist Hal David wrote this for Dionne Warwick who had the original hit with it in the early sixties before it was covered by a number of soul stars. I can definitely recommend going down a Burt Bacharach rabbit hole some time, though my favourite work of his was his collaboration with Elvis Costello in 1999 on an album called 'Painted From Memory'.
Love this version of the classic song, so different from Dionne Warwick's also brilliant version, but this ones packed with attitude, masculine but sensitive too, it captures that wistful longing in the lyric. Black & White album has some fantastic bass driven tracks, Nice N Sleazy, Sweden, Toiler on the Sea are all top tier, and of course trademark keyboards !
OMG... when he gets to Nice N Sleazy!
this song is so magic!! every part : drums, organ, guitar, bass, vocal......
And the way they reverse the mood with this agressive approach! (vs Dionne Warwick or Hayes version)
@JustJP you must try the Isaac Hayes version now !!
Well, I remember listening to Dionne Warwick's original version of this song on the radio as a kid in the '60's. When Punk came along I thought it was a breath of fresh air. The Stranglers, though, were something else. Among the various other Stranglers' albums that I bought, 'Walk on By' was on an EP ( Extended Player ) vinyl thatwas given away free with the 'Black and White' album. It's easily my favourite song by The Stranglers.
Definitely top 5!
Im happy you are becoming a Stranglers fan , You have to check out the Raven , the Stranglers fourth LP in particular a track called , Genetix , Dave Greenfield sings on this one like a mad professor , JJ Burnell Bass is amazing , in fact everyone is doing something playing as it builds , with everyone playing different time signatures , as a Stranglers fan myself I thought about this a lot and decided this is my all time favourite , they are at the peak of their game on the Raven IMO enjoy .
I was one of the many who suggested you listen to this track. Definitely Top 5 by The Stranglers and imho one of the Top 5 cover versions of any track ever.
Since having the white 45 that came with the Black and White lp this is my favourite cover ever. Sounds as great now as it did in 78. Funnily enough Dave Greenfield was not Doors influenced. It was JJ Burnel, the bassist who recognised it, he was a fan, and the Doors didn't have Burnel type bass, Ray Manzarek played the bass notes on a keyboard.
Dave* was not a fan of the doors. Remember The Doors where not a big deal in the UK. Shuggie and JJ loved them. But the daemon of the keyboards? No.
Dave....is....Dave. In all his progtastical glory.
* May he ever travel the cosmos. Having returned to the mothership. Hallowed be from all the MeNaNDWOmENinBlACk
Simply the best cover song ever recorded (2nd would be Stiff Little Fingers: "Johnny Was" and 3rd is Judas Priest: "The Green Manalishi...")
Dave Greenfield was the English Ray Manzarek. Stranglers were criminally underrated.
When a cover version is done right...
This doesn't need analysis, it's just soulful and brilliant. Oh bugger did i just analyse it
Great cover of a good Burt Bacharach song. Very different to the original song.
Love your stuff mate. Check out the Black And White and The Raven albums and their best single Imho Five Minutes.
Justin your music education is missing Burt Bacharach, it seems. He is not Rock by any means but he is a GREAT songwriter. Have a delve in to his oevre. 🙂
Dionne Warwick's version was described as bittersweet. The Stranglers versions as bitter sour!. Can't remember who said that!
It easily beats the rather effete original. Muscly bass and driving organ. I have the beige (rarer) free single with 'Black & White'.
As regards Burt Bacharach, there's the 2006 mash-up compilation titled "Dirt Bacharach" by R.I.A.A. _aka_ Robotic Intergalactic Astro Artists. That is, if Bacharach songs chopped into collage with Nine Inch Nails, Alanis Morrissette, Sex Pistols, Public Enemy, Cranberries, Korn, NWA (among others) would tickle your curiosity.
Deffo in my top 5 stranglers track sublime! Ray M is a great call very doors. Amazing how New Wave can have a prog keyboard player and no one notices 😂
One of my favourite covers of all time. I also like the original by Dionne Warwick. Maybe you should also react to this.
Perhaps their finest moment - one of these that I didn't was a cover for years after I knew it
The organ solo reminds me Dave Sinclair from Caravan. Please check it in a reaction.
The feel of the bridge is Santana-like!
Utterly tragic last few lost Dave to Covid in 2020 and Jet to old age in 2023.
I'm interested in where you get your track choices from, as you seem to be working through my music collection! The Stranglers, Yes, Rush, Zeppelin, David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Elbow. Thanks for the channel!
What no Talk Talk?
punk meet s jazz ...i love them...best bassist, after lemmy
When I was young I thought this was a bland song. But then when I caught up with it twenty years later it puts me in heaven.
A fun version of an all time classic , but doesn’t compare to the real thing
Love this song great pick.
In all sincerity, while I can see why people say this reminds them of The Doors, to my ears this is far, *far* better than anything The Doors ever did. Why? Firstly, because unlike The World's Most Overrated Band, there's a proper bass player on this, and my god Jean-Jacques Burnel is absolutely *killing* it with his trademark filthy yet melodic growl. Secondly, I much prefer Dave Greenfield's keyboard playing, getting the most out of his Hammond, rather than Manzarek's interminable noodling on his Farfisa. Thirdly, this is a superb song (thanks to true legends Bacharach & David), better than anything the Doors came up with. Nothing much wrong with the Doors' drummer and guitarist, but but Jet Black and Hugh Cornwell are just as good IMO. For the record, I don't think the Doors are anywhere near the worst band ever (I like a handful of their songs), just the most overpraised.
The Dionne Warwick version of this song (which I'm pretty sure *is* the original) is so very different to this, and is fantastic, the epitome of cool, and would make a great contrast if you fancy doing it Justin!
'Far better than anything The Doors ever did'. I love The Stranglers, but that's some statement!
@@Owlstretchingtime78 Well there we are. I'm with David Crosby on the merits of the Doors:
"basically sucked ...guitar and drums pretty ok ...keyboard was awful ..his bass with left hand was abysmal, horrible ...square wheel bad ...and Morrison was no effing good as a singer or poet ..poser ....sorry"
@@TheoZoffrok Ok, but i feel differently!
The best version imo
didnt Ray produce Stranglers records?
I'm trying to think of a better cover than that.. nothing
I still have this on single vinyl. Super great track.
This song is an adventure
They're doing a "Light My Fire" jam in the middle of the song! Great track. Love The Stranglers.
Anyone notice when Dave started the keyboard slide at 4:30 Pacman started on the record deck then finished when Dave ended 😂
T I M I N G!!!
Another good review from the band of my youth!
The best cover of any song i ever heard, but Alien ant farms.cover of smooth criminal is a.close second.
That is quite a good cover from AAF :)
Great teaction, thanks :)
When you’re listening you are hearing this we heard this 45 years ago live is even better
One of the best cover versions, although Hugh Cornwell's version of Cream's "White Room" is a blast
OMG... I honestly think Justin needs to do Black and White, raven, meninblack and la folie, and any missing singles from the UA yers, then the b-sides and out takes album from 1977-82, then he can start of the solo stuff, starting with Hugh's first and Euroman by JJ.
J.J.’s bass is a growler