Strangled Knight Phil
Strangled Knight Phil The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. They are somehow "outside" the realm of what responsible accounts of the period consider to be…
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Strangled Knight Phil
The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. They are somehow "outside" the realm of what responsible accounts of the period consider to be worthy of chronicling. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses.
Certainly The Stranglers' seedy and intimidating demeanor, and well-deserved reputation for misogyny and violence, offer a superficial explanation for their cultural excommunication. Why is this so? However, this landmark work suggests that the unsettling aura that permeated the group and their music had much more profound origins; ones that continue to have disturbing implications even today.
The Stranglers, it argues, continue to be marginalised because, whether by accident or design, they brought to the fore the