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Rattus Norvegicus: IV | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stranglers
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6055
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 34406
UPC: 724353440626
EAN: 0724353440626
ASIN: B00005MAG8
Release Date: August 20, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Sometimes | | • | Goodbye Toulouse | | • | London Lady | | • | Princess Of The Streets | | • | Hangin' Around | | • | Peaches | | • | Get A Grip (On Yourself) | | • | Ugly | | • | Down In The Sewer | | • | Choosey Susie | | • | Go Buddy Go | | • | Peasant In The Big Shitty |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Stunner! Best Album EVER! November 15, 2008
Title says it all really. This is my favourite album ever.
I bought it in 1977 and have played it ever since. Have been to see the Stranglers 14 times and they were superb pre-Hugh leaving.
The 7 1/2 minute Down in the Sewer is my favourite track of all time.
This CD also has the extra free EP tracks on it - excellent vfm!
Welcome to the world of 'in your face' October 27, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Stranglers were regarded by some as bandwagon jumpers, though they were among the first of the new wave bands to hit the upper reaches of the singles and album charts. Those accusations had something to do with age and occupational history, though it was also obvious that they had far more musical ability than the likes of The Clash or The Banshees.
With JJ Burnel's emphatic bass and Dave Greenfield's thrilling keyboard runs standing out, 'Rattus' is an exhilarating musical experience. Hugh Cornwell's affected and provocative vocal delivery also gives the band an identity. The lyrics are a different matter. Articulate, confrontational, often tasteless and offensive, they set the tone for the band's ongoing conflicts with the objects of their rants. On this album, they alienate the female population with half of their songs.
There is no denying, however, the emotional brilliance of 'Hanging Around,' the sleazy humour of 'Peaches' or the chilling ride, 'Down In The Sewer.' Of the bonus tracks, 'Choosey Susie' is an earlier effort and 'Go Buddy Go' is one half of the double a-side hit with 'Peaches,' the side the BBC dared broadcast, and good fun, though most fans probably bought it for 'Peaches.'
Ratty October 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A great album for taking you back to the days of drainpipes and Doc Martens boots!
Perhaps the best album for raucous bass-lines and 'space' to hear the fantastic keyboard playing of Dave Greenfield.
Having said that, some of the tracks display a crass vindictiveness,(Sometimes, Ugly), that don't sit well alongside some of the more 'melodic' tunes.
A 'must-have' in any Stranglers/ punk collection.
The Start of a Dream September 17, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rattus Norvegicus is one of half a dozen LPS that are the punk movement, for thoes of us that were already hanging Around prior to its release it is a culmination of what the rejected side of Punk was all about, Dark, ugly, nasty, rejected.Oh and how the world lapped it up.
Today listen to Princess of the Street, Hanging Around, Sewer, Grip and Somtimes. There is no off tracks on this LP and every track makes bands of today look like meer children, it weas a start of an avalance of the finest music to grace the vynal and cd era and by the looks of Suite 16 the download era will have to bow to this band as well.
It will only be in latter years when Relentless time has taken the Stranglers from us that, like a great old master painter the Stranglers will be mentioned in the same sentance as the Beatles and the Sex Pistols for producing the greatest songs of the last 32 years.
 HISS AND MAKE-UP May 18, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Nice front cover. For supposed men's men, it's a debut appearance that comes across as somewhat, er, gay; an hilarious post-modern ironic PUNK/GLAM ROCK statement - smothered under too much blusher, lipstick and eyeliner. Ha ha...OH DEAR. But it's not finished yet. Turn to the inside cover and there's ANOTHER shot guaranteed to send any red-blooded male's tasteometer into freefall. Was the photographer pointing at gun at you on that day or did you just owe someone a lot of money? Flip (quickly) to the back of the album, however, and there's no mixed messages there, just a neat study of a mean lookin' rodent against a setting sun. Now that's what I call a RATTUS NORVEGICUS.
Because it's the first album, there's nothing really to compare it to, except in hindsight, but I want to decribe how it felt when I originally bought it almost thirty years (a third of a lifetime!) ago.
The initial thing to notice is the heavy DOORS' influence on the proceedings, particularly in the keyboard department; however, DAVE GREENFIELD's is a gritter touch and perfectly in keeping with HUGH CORNWELL's snarling guitar and JEAN-JACQUES BURNEL's equally snarling bass. Solidly held together by JET BLACK's workmanlike drumming, this album wants you not so much to sing-along as to cop for each track's quota of musical phlegm. Very punk rock.
Production-wise, what the sound lacks in style is generally made up for in energy. Check out HANGING AROUND and LONDON LADY, fine examples of thrusting rock, while UGLY, on the other hand, is just that; a twisting and unpleasant little number, not easy to listen to even today. DOWN IN THE SEWER, the standout track - and the song most responsible for the above star rating - is positively epic in length by the genre's standards. Broken down into musical segments and accelerating to a breathless climax, it ends the album in a superbly sweaty flourish, deliberately foreshadowing a positional pattern evident in subsequent releases. A first listen to this one song alone had me wanting more from THE STRANGLERS and thus it succeeded in its intentions, even in spite of the dire SCHOOL MAM on the disappointing follow-up, NO MORE HEROES. Proof that, once hooked, they could be forgiven anything. Almost.
So, what you have here is an excellent debut from a band who emerged at the advent of the punk rock era. Although they never liked being called punks, to me they were never really anything else and their mysoginistic pose was just a calculated part of their public image and not to be taken seriously. Which brings me back to that front cover...
Buy this album and experience for yourself where it all started.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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