“The Gospel According To The Meninblack” by The Stranglers - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1981 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s |
With last years “The Raven” they took a bit of a backwards step in my affections and the follow-up, delivered in February, 1981, continues the downward trend alarmingly and comes complete with smurfs-like vocals to 'enhance' the concept affair; we're to imagine that men in black suits from another planet are coming to take us away, ha-ha hee-hee ho-ho. They sound like a poor man's Devo on this one and, whilst it's not a terrible album by any means, by Stranglers standards it's a disappointment. That's heroin for you.
The Jukebox Rebel
12–Aug–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:38]  The Stranglers - Waltzinblack (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) New Wave |
| A2 | [03:55] The Stranglers - Just Like Nothing On Earth (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) New Wave |
| A3 | [04:22]  The Stranglers - Second Coming (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) New Wave |
| A4 | [03:44]  The Stranglers - Waiting For The Meninblack (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) New Wave |
| A5 | [04:35]  The Stranglers - Turn The Centuries, Turn (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) Dubbeat |
| B1 | [02:32]  The Stranglers - Two Sunspots (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) New Wave |
| B2 | [03:40]  The Stranglers - Four Horsemen (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) Pop |
| B3 | [03:30]  The Stranglers - Thrown Away (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) New Wave |
| B4 | [03:17]  The Stranglers - Manna Machine (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) Electronica |
| B5 | [07:26]  The Stranglers - Hallow To Our Men (Hugh Cornwell, Brian Duffy, David Greenfield, Jean Jacques Burnel) Electronica |
