No More Heroes (Album)

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No More Heroes
The Stranglers studio album

Publication
(s)

1977

admission

1977

Label (s) United Artists

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

punk

Title (number)

11

running time

44:25

occupation Hugh Cornwell (vocals, guitar)

Jean-Jacques Burnel (vocals, bass)
Dave Greenfield (keyboards)
Jet Black (drums)

production

Martin Rushent

Studio (s)

TW Studios

chronology
Rattus norvegicus
1977 		No More Heroes Black and White
1978

No More Heroes is the second album by the British band The Stranglers . It was released on September 23, 1977 by United Artists and reached position 2 on the British album charts, making it one of the most successful albums of the British punk era.

Track list

  1. I Feel Like A Wog (3:16)
  2. Bitching (4:25)
  3. Dead Ringer (2:46)
  4. Dagenham Dave (3:18)
  5. Bring On The Nubiles (2:15)
  6. Something Better Change (3:35)
  7. No More Heroes (3:27)
  8. Peasant in the Big Shitty (3:25)
  9. Burning Up Time (2:25)
  10. English Towns (2:13)
  11. School Mam (6:52)

"The Stranglers" (Cornwell / Burnell / Greenfield / Black) are named as authors of all pieces.

History of origin

Three songs on the album ( Something Better Change , Bitching and Peasant in the Big Shitty ) had already been written for the previous album Rattus Norvegicus , but were only released on No More Heroes . The tracks No More Heroes and Something Better Change were released as singles and reached positions 8 and 9 respectively in the British charts. In 2001 the album was re-released on CD, with Straighten Out , Five Minutes and Rok it to the Moon as bonus tracks pressed. Five Minutes was a single release that came after the appearance of No More Heroes and reached position 9 in the UK singles charts, but was not represented on any album.

As with the previous album, Martin Rushent was the producer . The brass plate on the front plate cover was designed and engraved by Steven Stapleton .

reception

The album stayed in the British album charts for 18 weeks and reached position 2. This makes it, together with its successor Black and White, the most successful Stranglers album.

Allmusic described the album as "faster, vicious and better" than its predecessor Rattus Norvegicus . Trouser Press saw the difference to the previous album in the fact that the band had given up any restraint and released their best album with rough lyrics about indecent topics and with "even better music".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freakier Zone (BBC 6) September 29, 2012
  2. ↑ No More Heroes on Chartarchive.org
  3. ↑ Review on AllMusic.com. Retrieved March 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Tape retrospective on TrouserPress.com. Retrieved April 2, 2015 .