The Stranglers - Bitching Demo 1975

[@blancaroca8786]

everytime i listen to a stranglers song it nearly always seems like the greatest song ever

[@blancaroca8786]

what did hans warmling sound like?

[@Bob-ts2tu]

funnily enough, i feel the same. I wonder if in years to come millenials will look back and think 'what great music' as they listen to some manchild rapper full of BS procrastinating, or x-factors greatest hit's - can't see it myself

[@antoninotroisi6585]

Love it !!

[@terry3881]

Aggression and attitude .. stranglers had both in abundance

[@lollyp3322]

What a great demo ❤️👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

[@JHatLpool]

This is absolutely great.

[@zypalitra8080]

This is actually pretty good. The vocalisation in the chorus works much better than the actual version.

[@donalfinn4205]

My all time favourite Stranglers song.

[@justine_holloway]

I really like JJ's vocal on this. He should have sung like this more often

[@edybuoso5175]

The growling vocals of the original version are pure gold

[@tonystephen6312]

Really like this version - almost country/psych. vocals coolas well.

[@theobjectivethinker64]

They were Punk before anyone knew what it was.

[@RaunoLehtonen]

Dave Greenfield`s Massive Swelling Organ, Best! 🎹

[@celticwarrior1365]

Fresh, refreshing and raw! The original Stranglers stripped to the bone! How can today's ( 2017 ) version even hope to compare? First time I have heard this original demo and so Thank You and God bless!

[@terry3881]

Like a totally different version ..no aggression .. 60s love version

[@TheGintyboy]

ive never heard this before and its a brilliant , fresh as fuck take on my fav Stranglers track,cheers for posting mate.

[@FromaTwistedMind]

I got this one on a portugese boot-leg single, excellent stuff! It`s called on the label - Bitch, other side is "Grip" and " Buddies".....

[@louistracy6964]

I was a 14 year old kid at Watchfield Festival in ;75 and missed this band! Life might have been different.

[@TheGwimWeaper]

Damned original. I was there!

[@Unfunny_Username_389]

Killer. I mean shit. This is incredible. But this can't be the same '75 demo that had Sewer on it - the sound is altogether different for one thing. Ace though.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Lots of slide guitar in this one...oldest punks ever short of the Vibrators! So good...1975 from pub to punk

[@OldCodgers]

sounds like a pop version to me. loved it, but it doesnt really say what the album version did. first time i heard it i thought this guys a scary b@stard . Thanks for sharing. Made my night.

[@Glassbanana]

Pretty sure this appeared on 'The Early Years '74 '75 '76 Rare Live and Unreleased' which was released on the Newspeak label in the early '90s.

[@theobjectivethinker64]

@steveobie1 Yes it does sort of, however I think that it's the peculiarity of the demo that it sounds that way ( I have a later demo that sounds completley different). Also the Version on the album sounds more like Born to be Wild by steppenwolf which is a more likely influence as JJ is a biker.

[@pappabagge]

Bar-Bitching...tellin' you the Gospel Truth !

[@merseybeast76]

Sounds like Wreckless Eric

[@atomicFlyer]

Pretty punk sounding for 75.

[@dancanabyss7952]

i just bought a promo no more heroes for 7 bucks

[@JHatLpool]

Enjoy !

[@DfactorPop]

This sounds like Ian Curtis fronting Warsaw doing "Bitching" - completely different than the final version....

[@allyplumb]

No he had joined the band by this point these demos originate from around early 76..

[@moralischeinstanz345]

Baaaaaah! DAS war noch Lebensgefühl, da schießen mir die Tränen in die Augen (den Punkrock zu leben meine ich. Arschgeigen)

[@lamper2]

is that studio even on planet Earth?

[@TenementFunster.74]

like the slide

[@Chrisamusic1]

The Stranglers are my fav ever band. But this sounds like a band waiting for a bandwagon to jump on. Luckily the one marked 'punk' came along, and this song was reworked to suit.

[@kenhughes484]

This sounds like a band leading the way and waiting for punk to catch up. The early punks went to see them.

[@SteveRes]

@martmako I found them down in the sewer! :o

[@christopherfarrington9270]

in the shadows ?.

[@dawnwhyman]

Got anything to say, no. shut up. classic :)

[@alanhawley8900]

stranglers on mogadon?

[@GriefTourist]

why don't you tell me something new

[@RobinEdgar]

Why don't you all get screwed. ;-)

[@オレンジ紅茶]

john cale ぽい感じ🌞

[@jamieclapperton2728]

Is it Hugh or JJ singing?

[@joeypatrickmullan9921]

JJ

[@jamieclapperton2728]

Joey Catalina Thanks.It's Been bugging me for five months. I prefer his voice here to the punky growl on the later version.

[@Hwral]

+Lars Fillmore : Definitely JJ on vocals here.

[@terry3881]

@@jamieclapperton2728 the later version was more aggressive and had attitude ..jj sang both .. but both different songs from different music types .. this is a far more 60s type ..where as the later version was pure punk

[@brassmonkey001]

Erm, are you listening to the same song as the rest of us?