(I'm) Stranded

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From Brissie To The World - A Classic!, 2008-09-21
I was lucky to see The Saints practising 'I'm Stranded' in 1974-75 hours on end, along with all their other originals and covers. The Oxley boys, a suburb in western Brisbane, played what they loved, ...great music. They had been together since 1973 and therefore, were well ahead of the pack that was to follow.This album is a classic! You will never get tired of listening to this truely great rock'n'roll album as we Brisbanites never got tired of seeing them live! The boys reunited briefly for last years 'Pig City' Music Festival of great Brissie bands [including Go-Betweens, Ups Downs to name afew] we continue to hope and pray that the world gets to see their combined genius once again. Finally, Chris Bailey was asked what was the best thing about going to Sydney [the 'big smoke' for us back then]to spread their music, his reply "meeting Radio Birdman". The music Gods were definitely smiling on Australia.

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Stooges Continued, 2008-01-19
This is a great CD. But it is heavily influenced by The Stooges. Detroit was the first to "punk". The Saints offer up great Aussie mid 70's rock here to join AC/DC and others.

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extremely good album, 2005-09-25
This is one of the best punk albums. It is a lot like the dead boys, but actually slightly better, higher quality songs. And even more energy. If you like dead boys, you'll definetly like this. messin' with the kid is a great bob dylan-esque song. But the rest are just great intense rocknroll. Definetly buy this if you like stooges and early punk. seriously. its so good. It's way better than the clash, pistols, maybe dead boys, as good as the damned's debut. Its so good.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Top notch, brutal Aussie rock'n'roll!, 2004-08-03
This is the kind of album by the kind of band that blows stupid labels like "punk" or "pre-punk" outta the water. The Saints pretty much follow in the footsteps of all the great rock'n'roll bands who had the guts to play music with soul and play it loud. F.M. radio would be so much better today if the network dweebs who claimed to love rock'n'roll had played this type of stuff instead of inventing the lame a#%s "classic rock " genre which pretty much sentenced music fans to 25 years of Zep and Framton! In the late 1970's "I'm Stranded " set a new high water mark for red-blooded rock'n'roll. Go buy it....NOW!

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One of the original punk rock artifacts, 2003-03-30
Sure, it sounds like it was recorded on a RadioShack C-120 cassette in an aluminum shack during a hailstorm with the treble turned up to ten, but what a buzz this album still delivers! The cranked momentum of the manic title song amazingly leads into more dementia, stopping for a breather only during the six-minute stomp of "Messin' With the Kid" and the (comparatively) Dylanesque "Story of Love", and then racing to the finish line with the mind-melting Stooges-style riff-insanity of "Nights in Venice". Ed Keupper's lead guitar is all fuzz and treble throughout, spinning flashy solos where punks weren't supposed to do such things, and Chris Bailey's gruff howl attains a tuneful charisma seemingly through the force of will. It was a pleasant surprise in '77; it sounds even more surprising now.