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The Stranglers

The Stranglers is a group from the UK, active since 1974.

Group GB since 1974 new wave post-punk alternative rock
TOTAL PLAYS
2,863
SONGS PLAYED
161
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 10:31 · 6 Music — "Hanging Around (BBC session)"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Walk on By"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 2,052 72%
Radio 2 800 28%
Radio 1 11 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 14:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Golden Brown 405 2026-08-02
2 No More Heroes 388 2026-08-20
3 Hanging Around 238 2026-05-13
4 Skin Deep 176 2025-12-12
5 Peaches 171 2026-08-01
6 Strange Little Girl 155 2026-01-10
7 Always the Sun 145 2026-08-12
8 Duchess 144 2026-05-04
9 Something Better Change 131 2025-11-03
10 Nice 'n' Sleazy 106 2025-08-11
11 Always The Sun 101 2011-11-10
12 (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) 90 2011-11-19
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-24 14:53 Walk on By 6 Music
2026-08-20 04:48 No More Heroes 6 Music
2026-08-12 17:34 Always the Sun 6 Music
2026-08-10 06:53 No More Heroes 6 Music
2026-08-06 09:45 Walk on By 6 Music
2026-08-02 18:44 Golden Brown Radio 2
2026-08-01 01:04 Peaches Radio 2
2026-07-26 16:04 Peaches Radio 2
2026-07-23 04:19 No More Heroes 6 Music
2026-07-15 21:52 (Get a) Grip (On Yourself) 6 Music
2026-05-22 17:55 Always the Sun 6 Music
2026-05-18 05:48 No More Heroes 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

161 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(Don't Bring) Harry — 1 ▶
(Get a) Grip (On Yourself) — 52 ▶
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) — 90 ▶
(Get A) Grip [On Yourself] — 1 ▶
5 Minutes — 4 ▶
96 Tears — 29 ▶
All Day & All of the Night — 2 ▶
All Day and All of the Night — 10 ▶
All The Day And All The Night 1987 — 1 ▶
Always the Sun — 145 ▶
Always The Sun — 101 ▶
And If You Should See Dave — 3 ▶
Baroque Bordello — 1 ▶
Bear Cage — 2 ▶
Big In America 1987 — 1 ▶
Curfew — 3 ▶
Dagenham Dave — 1 ▶
Dagenham Dave (Paris Theatre, 24 Mar 1977) — 1 ▶
Daggenham Dave - Paris Theatre 1977 — 4 ▶
Dead Of Night To Blue (D.N.B) - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 1 ▶
Dead Of Night To Blue (D.N.B.) - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Death and Night and Blood (Yukio) — 1 ▶
Do You Wanna — 1 ▶
Do You Wanna? — 1 ▶
Don't Bring Harry — 1 ▶
Down In The Sewer — 4 ▶
Down In The Sewer 1982 — 2 ▶
Down In the Sewer (BBC Session, 24 Jan 1982) — 6 ▶
Down in the Sewer (Medley) [1996 Remaster] — 1 ▶
Down In The Sewer - BBC Session 24/01/1982 — 1 ▶
Down In The Sewer - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Down In The Sewer - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 2 ▶
Down In The Sewer 1982 — 1 ▶
Down The Sewer (Radio 1 Session, 24 Jan 1982) — 4 ▶
Duchess — 144 ▶
Duchess 1982 — 1 ▶
Enough Time — 1 ▶
European Female — 3 ▶
European Female (in Celebration Of) — 2 ▶
Five Minutes — 32 ▶
Genetix 1982 — 1 ▶
Get a Grip on Yourself — 57 ▶
Go Buddy Go — 37 ▶
Golden Brown — 405 ▶
Golden Brown 1987 — 1 ▶
Golden Brown (6 Music Prom 2013) — 1 ▶
Golden Brown (From the BBC 6 Music Prom 12th Aug) — 3 ▶
Golden Brown (Live from 6 Music Proms) — 3 ▶
Golden Brown - BBC 6 Music Proms 2013 — 1 ▶
Golden Brown - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Golden Brown - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 2 ▶
Golden Brown 1982 — 2 ▶
Golden Brown. — 2 ▶
Goodbye Toulose — 1 ▶
Goodbye Toulose (Radio 1 Session, 1 Mar 1977) — 3 ▶
Goodbye Toulose - BBC Session 01/03/1977 — 4 ▶
Goodbye Toulouse — 5 ▶
Goodbye Toulouse (BBC Session, 1 Mar 1977) — 7 ▶
Grip — 1 ▶
Hangin' Around — 1 ▶
Hangin' Around (Radio 1 Session, 1 Mar 1977) — 5 ▶
Hangin' Around - BBC Session 01/03/1977 — 4 ▶
Hanging Around — 238 ▶
Hanging Around (BBC session) — 5 ▶
Hanging Around (BBC Session, 1 Mar 1977) — 6 ▶
Hanging Around - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 3 ▶
Hey! (Rise of the Robots) — 3 ▶
How To Find True Love 1982 — 2 ▶
I Feel Like A... - Paris Theatre 1977 — 1 ▶
I've been Wild (Live) — 1 ▶
If Something's Gonna Kill Me — 2 ▶
If Something's Gonna Kill Me It Might As Well Be Love — 1 ▶
In the Shadows — 2 ▶
Just Like Nothing On Earth 1982 — 1 ▶
La Folie — 1 ▶
La Folie (Live) — 1 ▶
Let Me Introduce You to the Family — 1 ▶
Let Me Introduce You To The Family 1982 — 2 ▶
London Lady — 1 ▶
London Lady (Paris Theatre, 24 Mar 1977) — 1 ▶
London Lady - Paris Theatre 1977 — 5 ▶
Long Black Veil — 3 ▶
Midnight Summer Dream — 1 ▶
Midnight Summer Dream (Extended) — 1 ▶
Midnight Summer Dream / European Female - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Nice & Sleazy — 1 ▶
Nice 'n' Sleazy — 106 ▶
Nice 'n' Sleazy - Dominion Theatre ,London 1985 — 1 ▶
nice and sleazy (live) — 1 ▶
Nice And Sleazy 1987 — 3 ▶
Nice In Nice — 2 ▶
Nice Is Nice — 1 ▶
Nice N Nice / Punch And Judy 1987 — 1 ▶
Nice N Sleazy - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 3 ▶
No Mercy - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
No Mercy - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 2 ▶
No More Heroes — 388 ▶
No More Heroes (BBC session) — 3 ▶
No More Heroes (Live) — 1 ▶
No More Heroes (Radio 1 Session, 30 Aug 1977) — 1 ▶
No More Heroes - 6 Music Prom 2013 — 1 ▶
No More Heroes 1987 — 5 ▶
Norfolk Coast — 1 ▶
Nuclear Device — 2 ▶
Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus) — 1 ▶
Nuclear Device/Genetix (Radio 1 Session, 24 Jan 1982) — 1 ▶
Old Codger — 4 ▶
Outside Tokyo — 2 ▶
Paradise — 1 ▶
Peaches — 171 ▶
Peaches (Paris Theatre, 24 Mar 1977) — 3 ▶
Peaches - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Peaches - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 1 ▶
Peaches - Paris Theatre 1977 — 5 ▶
Princess of the Streets — 1 ▶
Punch And Judy - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Punch And Judy - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 1 ▶
Raven 1982 — 3 ▶
Retro Rockets — 2 ▶
Shut Up — 2 ▶
Skin Deep — 176 ▶
Somethin' Better Change — 3 ▶
Somethin' Better Change (Radio 1 Session, 1 Mar 1977) — 4 ▶
Somethin' Better Change - BBC Session 01/03/1977 — 3 ▶
Something Better Change — 131 ▶
Something Better Change (BBC Session, 1 Mar 1977) — 6 ▶
Something Better Change - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 3 ▶
Sometimes - Paris Theatre 1977 — 4 ▶
Somthing Better Change - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 2 ▶
Spain 1987 — 1 ▶
Straighten Out — 3 ▶
Straighten Out - Paris Theatre 1977 — 5 ▶
Strange Little Girl — 155 ▶
Strange Little Girl 1987 — 2 ▶
Sverige — 1 ▶
Sweden (All Quiet On the Eastern Front) — 2 ▶
Sweden (All Quiet On The Eastern Front) — 1 ▶
Tank — 28 ▶
The Lines — 1 ▶
The Man They Love To Hate — 1 ▶
The Man They Love To Hate (Radio 1 Session, 24 Jan 1982) — 6 ▶
The Man They Love To Hate 1982 — 1 ▶
The Men They Love To Hate — 1 ▶
The Raven — 4 ▶
This Song — 1 ▶
Threatened — 3 ▶
Thrown Away — 2 ▶
Thrown Away - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 3 ▶
Toiler On the Sea — 3 ▶
Tramp 1982 — 2 ▶
Two Sunspots — 1 ▶
Up Town - Dominion Theatre 1985 — 2 ▶
Up Town - Dominion Theatre, London 1985 — 2 ▶
Walk on By — 43 ▶
Walk On By — 17 ▶
Walk On By (Live at The Apollo, 2010) — 1 ▶
Waltzin' Black — 2 ▶
Waltzinblack — 8 ▶
Was It You / Down In The Sewer 1987 — 1 ▶
Who Wants The World 1982 — 1 ▶
Who Wants The World? — 3 ▶