The Stranglers - Gone Are Those Days Demo - How To Find True Love & Happiness In The Present Day

[@allyplumb]

This is actually a solo JJ Burnel demo not a Stranglers one, and this one one of a bunch of songs which was intended as a second solo album following Euroman Cometh. When the project was abandoned The Stranglers used the melody and Hugh wrote some new lyrics and became the track "How to find true love and happiness in the present day" on the 1982 album La folie.

[@dawnwhyman]

I like this version. Not heard it before.

[@pappabagge]

It's fantastic to follow the development of a song from humble beginnings like this to the full-blow Stranglers track it became.

[@ketoking9435]

Great,,I still have mirror badges of Stranglers,,I saw them at Forum Kentish Town circa 90 also Bulldog bash 97,,,Ellis joined from Vibrators he was Edgware,,,get days

[@thisisbob1001]

Their live version is one of best

[@WayOfTheWatervole]

I like this version.

[@tdxi124]

I think "younger" folk don't realise the whole European thing. These were the days before the Berlin Wall met Tommy Walsh and being "european" was risque to say the least. And how euro is this? And the album it eventually ended up on?

[@jon62punk]

They wrote songs of such quality back then that they discarded as not good enough - songs that most other bands would have been happy to use . IMO the BEST British band EVER . Another that is under rated and maybe should have been used - Social Secs . Became Yellowcake UF6 as a B-side to Nuclear Device . I wonder what other material from 1978/79 lies around deemed not good enough .

[@alanhawley8900]

the birth of a sculpture.

[@oblongfan1]

awesome. this sounds great. im guessing its JJ singing

[@atomicFlyer]

interesting how much this changed. basic rythm and bass stayed in, but not much else.