The Stranglers - Stranglers IV (Rattus Norvegicus) mp3 album

This pressing with sun/clouds labels was also housed in gatefold cover.

Sticker says original art but it's not..."the stranglers" is not written on cover.Is it a misprint or intentional ?

The EMI 'Fame' version for 'Rattus Norvegicus' was released in 1983.

This should be merged with the main Rattus Norvegicus release

Someone please check the matrix numbers. A version I have has stamped UAG 30045 A-2U and UAG 30045 B-1U 186

Oddly enough I got an English pressing of the album with an Irish pressing of the 45.

My copy of this has A1 and A2 swapped on label and vinyl - Side 1 starts with Goodbye Toulouse, followed by Sometimes! Backcover has the usual order though, A1 Sometimes, A2 Goodbye Toulouse, etc.. Anyone in the know about this pressing?

this is a very nice original japan edition of the classic debut stranglers lp that was released back in the spring of 1977 during the uk punk explosion, the first 3 stranglers albums are my favorite, anyway for a 1977 pressing the sleeve is a bit thin but the obi rather fat and thick as was usually the case up until about 1981 or 82 in japan, this comes with a very colorful glossy two sided insert with lyrics and an essay in both english and japanese, im not 100% sure if this was ever reissued again in japan after 1977 but im almost certain this was the first and only pressing. i also belive this is the rarest of all the stranglers lps that where released in japan as this does not pop up to often with the obi, inserts and in great shape like the one i just received.............

There is another french pressing, UAG 30.045 with different labels : flat light yellow background with a brown UA logo, the songs names under that logo plus the Sacem/SDRM/SACD/SGDL stamp logo.Matrix / Runout (etched) : UAG 30045 A | UAG 30045 BGatefold sleeve.

The Stranglers IV, which it wasn’t, was their first album and it was, of course, called ‘Rattus Norvegicus’, ornery buggers the Stranglers are, but this is a brilliant debut, released in April 1977. I have a copy already but it is completely knackered so I bought another for £3.50 i the used bin at my local record store. Yes it’s sexist, misogynistic perhaps and a bit nasty here and there, well, starting the album with the lyric “Someday I’m gonna smack your face”, to a girlfriend does set the tone a bit, but if you can get past that the songs have a drive about them, a griminess, they are, as they were later to write, nice and sleazy. Give it a listen if you never have, or listen again if it’s been a while:

there is a music cassette reedition in 1983 PATHE MARCONI 1300454 Liberty barecode 5099913004545

Some cassette version credited one side as "Strangers"