🎵 The Stranglers - No More Heroes REACTION

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[@richgates]

There isn't a single Strangler's song that I don't like. What a classic!

[@DazzleMonroe]

Dave's keyboard are what set The Stranglers apart from the other bands who got roped into the punk bracket. The Damned also used a keyboard to some extent, but it was never an integral part of the song in the way Dave Greenfield played it.

[@djmull63]

First Live band I ever seen I was 14 years old, they were supported that night by the Skids May 1978 Glasgow Apollo.

[@timholder6825]

I saw The Skids at City Hall Newcastle 78 or 79 can't remember now. Punishment of Luxury, was the support. The Skids rocked the house.... literally. Everyone was dancing, going mental. I was in the upstairs gallery, I thought it was going to collapse. Great gig.

[@motionoutoftime]

Brad, if this is your first time listening to The Stranglers, you are starting on an epic musical journey, sir. This band is the real thing. A pair of great songs to check out from this era of the band are "(Get A) Grip (on Yourself)" and "Hanging Around" from their debut album, Rattus Norvegicus. They also do a scorching cover of Dionne Warwick's "Walk on By" that is absolutely legendary. Enjoy!

[@mcbikeman5673]

Hanging around a true classic....sex pistols or the stranglers give me the stranglers every time

[@carlgibson285]

(Get A) Grip is one of the greatest songs ever written.

[@stephenbingham5935]

Plus ''Down In The Sewer'' for me.

[@marje8249]

Aww, love The Stranglers 😊 specially their version of Walk on By, that’s a good one.

[@MrSirusDvirus]

Lol..they did like subtly pointing out they were miming 👍 that's JJ Burnel miming to Hugh Cornwells ( guitarists) voice..if you lip read he says something totally different to no more heroes 👍 you must listen to their cover of walk on by tho...its just plain and simple a work of art 😁

[@saintdon4461]

love it they not even pretending to be playing live

[@37dreamer37]

This epitomises why reaction videos are so compelling. To be able to see the facial expressions of someone experiencing for the first time, the things that have been, for so long, the soundtrack to our lives, is almost like hearing it for the first time again ourselves. Thank you for doing this.

[@philstevens9914]

Note Dave Greenfield's keyboard playing. He is soloing all the way through each songs. This guy was by far the most talented musician in the band!

[@MusicMissionary]

You just keep getting more and more sophisticated 😊

[@malcolmbell5266]

Check out Peaches by them

[@NealeSmithy]

Soundtrack of my youth. Shit I'm old!

[@macker33]

Great tune.

[@richardnewton638]

Before this appearance they were told they could not play live so they just messed around ,I seen this band many times as a young kid of 16 or so

[@patcow9999]

Looks like JJB is miming as lead singer!

[@deanmaynard8256]

I saw them live a year ago -- they are still great!

[@alex-E7WHU]

Brad.. same band - walk on by, the Dionne Warwick classic. Do it bro, you won't be disappointed.

[@timholder6825]

The Stranglers trolling the BBC....again. In this the guy singing (Jean Jacques Brunel) isn't the guy who sings this song, that's the guitar player (Hugh Cornwall). Top of the Pops made artists mime and pre punk era the artistes went along with it, but many punk bands resented it and would make it obvious they were being forced to mime and make a mockery of it. The first time The Stranglers performed on TOTP, they mimed the track without strings on the guitar or bass.

[@jum101sell]

I think it's a show from Belgium, maybe, but not BBC. Top Pops is an old show too.

[@simongodfrey3765]

@@jum101sell Nope, Top of the Pops sign in the background. And a masterclass in trolling from the Stranglers!

[@0055Micky]

@@simongodfrey3765 Nope, it's Top Pop not Top of the pops. Even says so in the description. There is also the first take somewhere on youtube where they take the piss even more kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4aXZYNqqp2ih7s

[@MajorLeap-ww6bf]

​@simongodfrey3765 It's Dutch tv called Top Pop. They were not happy with this so asked the band to do it again, the other version almost makes this one seem serious lol

[@sixlegged]

The Doors on speed.

[@johncrwarner]

I think this song was the first Stranglers song I heard. I was fifteen and they performed this on BBC Top of the Pops as part of the punk explosion that happened in the UK. It is one of those songs I still know all the words to as they are so clearly enunciated and sums up my generations nihilist attitude to "heroes".

[@dealyboy]

Great reaction ... minimalist ... just right 💙.

[@jamesdamiano8894]

You want a good freak out then check out Down In The Sewer.

[@musekidd]

PEACHES!!!!!

[@hotblackdesiato3022]

More Stranglers!!

[@drewshine627]

I really only listen to the cover version by the violent femmes. But the original is so very good

[@SKYSAW59]

Top 10 of British bands, of all time.

[@Spludgeroo]

You young people are lucky. Us old farts had to wait all day for all the cool stuff to happen in real time. You lot can get it all at once.

[@perryedwards4746]

The hero's never fight or write for crappy ppl!! JS

[@Shaun.ALAW.]

BBC who did Top of the Pops, had their own orchestra, and so bands appearing weren't allowed to play live or the orchestra would go on strike. 😅

[@MajorLeap-ww6bf]

This is from a Dutch tv show called Top Pop.

[@Shaun.ALAW.]

@MajorLeap-ww6bf OK thanks....but comment is still correct 👌 👍

[@MajorLeap-ww6bf]

@Shaun.ALAW. Yeah it is, by the way top pop were not happy so asked them to do another take and they hammed it up even more it makes this one look almost serious lol

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

They didn't seem quite as pedestrian in the 80s, they're almost easy listening muzak nowadays!

[@malcolmbell5266]

The lame miming was their objection at not been able to play live in this show

[@Ninang363]

This is SSOOOOOO 80s

[@Drinckx2]

Except it’s from 1977.

[@Ninang363]

@@Drinckx2 Still sounds very 80s

[@Drinckx2]

@@Ninang363 Then they were ahead of their time.

[@MrSirusDvirus]

Dont think this was on TOTPs tho..might have been Top pop or some european music show

[@pete975]

Stranglers taking the piss out top of pops who demanded miming hugh sings this song not Jean Jaques

[@jeffreekoch9298]

Heres your prog punk lol

[@jonibz1456]

This was (Top of the Pops) a tv show that it felt like everyone in England watched on a Thursday night, most bands had to mime on it, which led to some bands just taking the piss doing their performance.

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

It's NOT 'TOTP'. I believe it's a Dutch show,or similar. Their actual TOTP performance of this song is far better & not as bad "lip-syncing". By the way,it's JJB miming Cornwell's lead vocal.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

​@@normandavidtidiman9918 I think you're right, it looks like AVRO's Top Pop, presented by Ad Visser.

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

A little bit of an embarrassing "performance". I can only assume they wanted to play live,but wasn't allowed. Bass player Jean Jaques Burnel miming Hugh Cornwell's lead vocal & then everyone starts acting stupid (except keyboard player Greenfield).

[@jemwand2530]

It was the late 70's, they were a British New Wave/Punk band... there was no way that they would ever mime to their own song.... Hugh and JJ were just...Nope!

[@patrickholt2270]

It's the same kind of message as Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine. "Whatever happened to those heroes?" - the system killed them. It's got that anger because their heroes were destroyed, the same way RATM were talking about the fact that MLK was murdered by the FBI using a local KKK-type guy working in co-operation with the police. Look at what happens to the heroes, this is why you should be angry.