"Never a frown, with Golden Brown"
From The Stranglers (1982) featuring lead harpsichord and an unusual, for rock, varying time signature of 6/8 and 7/8. The song was a hit in many European countries, though not in the U.S. The Stranglers started as a UK-based punk band in the mid-70s and are still making music today. Here is the band looking rather dissolute and dissipated in their video.
The song was also featured on the sound track of Guy Ritchie's entertaining 2000 film, Snatch, featuring many British actors with unintelligible accents, a great cameo by the late Dennis Farina and Brad Pitt stealing the show as a Gypsy boxer who does not say an understandable word (his dialogue not even rising to the level of unintelligible) during the entire movie.
I first remember hearing The Stranglers on the excellent post-punk compilation set Sorry For Laughing. It was "Walk On By", which sounds a bit like Deep Purple covering a Brian Wilson tune; pretty sophisticated for a punk outlet. Their early stuff was about as good as pub punk got.
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