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10 (The Stranglers album)

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Released
  
March 1990

Release date
  
March 1990

Label
  
Artist
  
The Stranglers

Producer
  
Genres
  
Rock music, Post-punk

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Recorded
  
1989-1990 the Netherlands

10(1990)
  
Stranglers In the Night(1992)

Similar
  
The Stranglers albums, Rock music albums

The stranglers sweet smell of success from the album 10


10 is the tenth studio album from The Stranglers and was the last to feature guitarist/lead singer Hugh Cornwell. The album was released in 1990. 10 peaked at No. 15 and spent four weeks in the UK Albums Chart.

Contents

There was a big band sound to this album, possibly due to the production work of Roy Thomas Baker and the continued use of a horn section. One of the highlights was the cover version of Question Mark & the Mysterians hit "96 Tears" (which reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart). Cornwell has expressed satisfaction with the way this album turned out, whereas the rest of the band, including live guitarist John Ellis, who joined the band on the next album, have all expressed negative feelings about 10.

The album sleeve shows the members of the band dressed up as ten of the most notable world leaders of the time (l-r: Yasser Arafat, Rajiv Gandhi, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, George H. W. Bush, Fidel Castro, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Benazir Bhutto and Joshua Nkomo)

Despite the album's American-friendly sound and the moderate success of "Sweet Smell of Success" in America (reaching No. 5 on the US Modern Rock Chart), the band did not undertake an American tour. Cornwell, feeling the band had come to a halt in their artistic evolution, decided to leave the band following the last gig on the supporting tour.

Singles released in the UK for this album were "96 Tears" (peaked at No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart) and "Sweet Smell Of Success" (which peaked at No. 65 in the same chart).

The stranglers where i live from the album 10


Track listing

All tracks composed by The Stranglers; except where indicated

Side One
Side Two
Bonus Tracks on 2001 CD

Personnel

The Stranglers
  • Hugh Cornwell - guitar, vocals
  • Dave Greenfield - keyboards, vocals
  • Jean-Jacques Burnel - bass, vocals
  • Jet Black - drums, percussion
  • Additional personnel
  • Alex Gifford - saxophone
  • Sid Gauld - trumpet
  • Chris Lawrence - trombone
  • Stuart Brooks - trumpet solo (1)
  • Simon Morton - congas (1)
  • Technical
  • Timm Baldwin - engineer
  • Grant Louden, Jean Luke Epstein - sleeve design
  • Songs

    1Sweet Smell of Success3:21
    2Someone Like You2:54
    396 Tears3:05

    References

    10 (The Stranglers album) Wikipedia


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