Nice 'n' Sleazy

"Nice 'n' Sleazy"
Single by The Stranglers
from the album Black and White
B-side "Shut Up"
Released 26 April 1978 (1978-04-26) (UK)
Format 7" vinyl
Genre Post-punk
Length 3:11
Label United Artists
Songwriter(s) Hugh Cornwell, Jean Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield, Jet Black.
Producer(s) Martin Rushent
The Stranglers singles chronology
"5 Minutes"
(1978)		 "Nice 'n' Sleazy"
(1978)		 "Walk On By"
(1978)

"5 Minutes"
(1978)		 "Nice 'n' Sleazy"
(1978)		 "Walk On By"
(1978)

"Nice 'n' Sleazy" is a single by The Stranglers from the 'white' side of their 1978 album, Black and White. It reached number 18 in the UK Singles Chart.[1] The single's cover pictured a victim of the Boston Strangler.[2]

Strippers embellished the song during the band's headline set at Battersea Park on 16 September 1978.[3] "The Stranglers booked some strippers to up the show's visual aspect," recalled photographer Barry Plummer. "But some of the lads in the audience got a bit carried away and also stripped completely naked. Eventually the police were called and took down all of the young ladies' particulars."[4]

Cultural References

A punk festival named after the song is held annually in Morecambe, Lancashire.[5]

Cover versions

  • Therapy? released a cover at the suggestion of producer John Robb of The Membranes, whose song "Tatty Seaside Town" they also covered for 1994's "Trigger Inside" EP.
  • Polish band Buldog recorded the song, with Polish lyrics and entitled "Bedziesz z nami" (2006).

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 535. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ↑ "UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". everyHit.com. 2000-03-16. Retrieved 2012-01-03.
  3. ↑ http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_stranglers_live_performance_of_nice_and_sleazy_with_a_bunch_of_stripper
  4. ↑ "Flashback"; Classic Rock #48, Christmas 2002, p28
  5. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/25/photography-nice-n-sleazy-punk-festival-in-pictures
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