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product_id: 63264127
title: "Giants And Gems: An Album Collection"
brand: "stranglers"
price: "KSh28365"
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reviews_count: 8
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# Giants And Gems: An Album Collection

**Brand:** stranglers
**Price:** KSh28365
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Giants And Gems: An Album Collection by stranglers
- **How much does it cost?** KSh28365 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- stranglers enthusiasts

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## Description

The Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most ‘continuously successful’ bands from the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s, with 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums. Giants and Gems: An album Collection includes 8 albums from the UA/ Liberty years (1977-86) plus ‘Live At The Hope And Anchor 1977’ (1992), and the more recent albums ‘Suite XVI’ (2006) and ‘Giants’ (2012). Giants and Gems: An album Collection contains the hit singles: (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) / Peaches / Go Buddy Go / Something Better Change / Straighten Out / No More Heroes / 5 Minutes / Nice 'N’ Sleazy / Walk On By / Duchess / Nuclear Device / Don’t Bring Harry / Thrown Away / Let Me Introduce You To The Family / Who Wants The World / Golden Brown / La Folie / Strange Little Girl / Grip '89 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (remix) / Big Thing Coming / Long Black Veil.

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## Customer Reviews

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    One for the completists and for thiose neglecting their IV studies...
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 May 2014*

Being a bit of a Strangs completist (at least in terms of having to own every recorded song in both vinyl and digital format since mid 77), I was in two minds about buying this. However, I was swayed by the fact that it contains the first UK issue (in the original sleeve design) of the b sides and oddities collection 'Off the Beaten Track' (plus I didn't have card sleeve issues of 'Xcerts' and 'Hope & anchor'). The release date was, however, going to coincide with the 24 bit remaster reissues on Culture Factory of four of the five Epic era albums, which meant a £100 month to help fill the boys' coffers for the 40th anniversary. Having decided to NOT attend the tour this year - I'm sick of hearing sets comprised of virtually nothing but hit singles I've seen the band play dozens of times in concert (come on, guys, play sets of album tracks and b sides, you're playing to the converted 99% of the time after all and most of us go to the toilets when 'Duchess' starts), I thought 'Why break a habit that's lasted for over 35 years?' and ordered the lot.Unlike some other reviewers here, I didn't have high expectations for £30-£40. After all, you get 11 CDs, so lack of a booklet came as no surprise (plus the new book by Robert Endecott with the unimaginative and pointless title 'Peaches' is due - except that it, like the Culture Factory remasters, is late being issued). So being a hardcore Stranglers nutter, I was happy with a nice little clamshell and some budget card sleeve editions for the archives.For casual listeners, this is an excellent buy: you get all of the UA albums, which are the truly essential flawless works (my only misgiving here being a few cuts on "La Folie" that have never really impressed me), two live albums, an unusual and interesting b sides album and the last two waxings by the 'new' four piece lineup, which is the best marque of the band since Hugh scarpered in 1990. Despite what many of the faithful will claim, these are patchy albums, but much better than pretty much anything around these days, though for me 'Suite XIV' is the better of the two.Some reviewers in the music press have praised the collection and the band, reminding casual punters how amazing the band are and how they were commercially and artistically peerless in their first 5 years of recording, but have bemoaned the lack of Epic era material here and mentioned the equal absence of tracks from the Paul Roberts marques. Well, be realistic, there were probably licensing issues and in my opinion, this set does contain the bands' best work.Regarding unreleased/rare stuff, I think what most of the fanbase would like is the following;1) A CD issue for 'Social Secs', not some cruddy download.2) A CD issue of the Owen Morris version of '10'- we all want to hear this.3) A CD issue of the original UA live recording that would have been the bands' first album (the recording that yielded the live version of 'Peasant') but that was vetoed once the tapes we listened too - even if it was disdappointing, I for one would love to see it issued as 'Dead on Arrival' as originally planned, even if only for historical reasons.4) A date for the issue of 'Here and There', the epic B sides compilation.5) 5.1 versions of some (all would be nice, but it ain't gonna happen) of the albums on BRA, DVDA, SACD - or if not really good Blu Spec CD2 or SHMCD issues for those of us who like a bit of hi def.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great way of collecting their classics
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 November 2018*

I used to have most of these, but over the years they got lost, stolen or were just on vinyl. There's some really terrific material here and the general standard is very high - even toward the end of this run [IMO]. I've knocked off a star because I am generally listening to these through encoded files rather than the CDs themselves. The major oversight so far as I'm concerned is that the albums are titled CD1, 2, 3 and so on rather than by their original album titles which I find a little frustrating. My attempts at renaming them so far has caused a further bit of scrambling as the splits don't appear to have come in the right places. Possibly my own fault, but at some point I'm going to have to go through again and do a more careful job. I wish it wasn't necessary.

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    A Bit Disappointed
  

*by A***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 March 2014*

Well it just arrived and I thought the parcel looks a tad small.....opened it to find a tiny little box....which I opened to find 11 cardboard covers with the CD's in. I was hoping for a little booklet with some pictures maybe even notes on the recording of each CD, but no...just 11 CD's in cardboard covers.On the plus side....I now have the first 7 Stranglers albums on CD as well as vinyl (Rattus Norvegicus / No MOre Heroes / Blackk N White / Live X-Cert / The Raven / The Gospel According To The Meninblack / La Folie also included are Live At The Hope And Anchor / Off The Beaten Track / Suite XVI & Giants) all in all am happy I have it just a bit disappointed.I will reccommend for those fans like me that only had a couple of greatest hits CD's and the rest are on vinyl. Time to put mine away now.

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