Something Better Change – The Stranglers (1977)

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An individual, limited edition, example of vinyl record silhouette art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single, Something Better Change from 1977, by The Stranglers. Released on the United Artists record label, this vinyl single has been reworked into a silhouette of a sewer rat that is a shape that has become synonymous with The Stranglers.

A great framed gift for a friend or family member who is a fan of The Stranglers, punk rock, rats or has a special memory linked to the song.

Presented in a satin black box frame
Limited Edition of 100, signed and numbered by myself, the artist

Title: Something Better Change
Media Artist/s: The Stranglers
Record Label: United Artists
Medium: Mixed media, hand cut from an original 7″ vinyl single
Era: 1980s
Genre: Punk Rock

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Additional information about this, The Stranglers vinyl art.

The Stranglers – The Artist

The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most “continuously successful” bands to have or they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock, gothic rock and pop. The original personnel were drums / Jet Black, bass player/vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year.

Something Better Change – The Song

Something Better Change is a single by the English rock band, The Stranglers from their 1977 album No More Heroes. It made No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart and was a double A-sided release, with the song Straighten Out, which was a non-album track.

The Rat – The Shape

Modelled into a sewer rat running along a drainpipe which is a similar image to the rat on the record sleeve of their album Rattus norvegicus .

The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat, Parisian rat, water rat or wharf rat, is one of the best known and most common rats. One of the largest muroids, it is a brown or grey rodent with a head and body length of up to 28 cm (11 in) long, and a slightly shorter tail. It weighs between 140 and 500 g (4.9 and 17.6 oz). Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America, making it by at least this particular definition the most successful mammal on the planet alongside humans. With rare exceptions, the brown rat lives wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas.

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Weight 1030 g
Dimensions 25 × 4.5 × 25 cm

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