Live is a live album by The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

 released in 1979. It contains tracks recorded at The Roundhouse

The Roundhouse

The Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England, which has been converted into a performing arts and concert venue. It was originally built in 1847 as a roundhouse , a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was only used for railway...

, Chalk Farm

Chalk Farm

Chalk Farm is an area of north London, England. It lies directly to the north of Camden Town and its underground station is the closest tube station to the nearby, upmarket neighbourhood of Primrose Hill....

 in June and November 1977 and at Battersea Park

Battersea Park

Battersea Park is a 200 acre green space at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in England. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea, and was opened in 1858....

 in September 1978.

It captures the raw punk sound of the band prior to the more experimental music of their fourth album, The Raven. It also contains some amusing between-song audience baiting and provides a fairly accurate picture of the Stranglers' live sound during this period.

CD Reissues were augmented with extra live tracks recorded at The Nashville in 1976 and The Hope and Anchor, Islington

Hope and Anchor, Islington

The Hope and Anchor is a public house on Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. During the mid-1970s it was one of the first pubs to embrace the emergent, but brief, phenomenon of pub rock...

in 1977.

The album spent 10 weeks on the UK album charts, peaking at no.7. It was the band's fourth album release and their fourth consecutive top ten album in the UK.

Track listing

1. "(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)"
2. "Dagenham Dave"
3. "Burning up Time"
4. "Dead Ringer"
5. "Hanging Around"
6. "I Feel Like a Wog"
7. "Straighten Out"
8. "Curfew"
9. "Do You Wanna?"
10. "Death And Night And Blood (Yukio)"
11. "5 Minutes"
12. "Go Buddy Go"

CD Bonus Tracks:

1. "Peasant in the Big Shitty" (originally a free 7" with the Rattus Norvegicus album)
2. "In the Shadows" (originally included on the Don't Bring Harry EP)
3. "Sometimes"
4. "Mean to Me"
5. "London Lady"
6. "Goodbye Toulouse"
7. "Hanging Around"