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Saints - (I'm) Stranded
"(I'm) Stranded" is the first song released by pioneering Australian punk rock band The Saints. Issued in September 1976, it has been cited as "one of the iconic singles of the era", and pre-dated vinyl debuts by contemporary punk acts such as the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Damned and The Clash. Grab the hottest Saints merch around click here.
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Saints Bio
19741976: Formative yearsThe original members of the band were Brisbane schoolmates Chris Bailey (singer-songwriter, later guitarist), Ed Kuepper (guitarist-songwriter), and Ivor Hay (drummer). Their musical inspiration came from sources such as 1950s rock 'n' roll musicians such as Little Richard and Elvis Presley (an early incarnation of the group was called Kid Galahad and the Eternals, referencing the title of a Presley movie) and 1960s proto-punk bands like The Stooges and MC5.
19761977: (I'm) Stranded
In September 1976, with bass player Kym Bradshaw, The Saints independently recorded and distributed copies of their debut single, "(I'm) Stranded". In the UK, Sounds magazine declared it, "Single of this and every week", and the band was signed to a three-album contract with EMI. Later the same year they recorded their first LP, released in February 1977, also called (I'm) Stranded.
In mid-1977 the band moved to Great Britain, where it became apparent that they differed with their label over how they should be marketed. EMI planned to promote The Saints as if they were a typical English punk band, complete with ripped clothes and spiky hair. The Saints insisted on maintaining a more downbeat image. Their single "This Perfect Day" suggested the band had the potential for a commercial breakthrough when it made #34 in the UK; further movement up the charts was frustrated by EMI's failure to press enough copies of the record to satisfy demand.
19771978: Eternally Yours and Prehistoric Sounds
Later in 1977, with bassist Alisdair "Algy" Ward, The Saints recorded a second album, Eternally Yours. This showed the band moving towards a more R&B style of rock, including a brass section on songs like "Know Your Product" (Kuepper's subsequent band, Laughing Clowns, would frequently feature brass).
Another track on the album, "Private Affair", focussed on what the band members saw as the pigeon-holing, hype and commercialisation of punk:
A new profit in the same old game
We got new thoughts, new ideas it's all so groovy
It's just a shame that we've all seen the same old movies
The jazz-blues influenced LP Prehistoric Sounds followed in 1978. Its commercial failure led EMI to drop the band.
1979: Departure of Hay, Kuepper and Ward
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The Saints' first release after Kuepper's departure was the live EP Paralytic Tonight, Dublin Tomorrow in 1980. The following year saw the Kuepper-less band's first full-length, The Monkey Puzzle, in which they shifted to a more melodic pop-rock sound. The band's next album, which came out in 1982, was released in Australia as I Thought This Was Love, But This Ain't Casablanca and elsewhere as Out in the Jungle.... In 1983, Bailey recorded his first solo album, Casablanca. In 1984, the band's A Little Madness to Be Free contained one of their most popular tracks, "Ghost Ships". Kuepper briefly rejoined the band for a tour as bassist.
19871989: All Fools Day and Prodigal Son
The band eventually achieved a commercial breakthrough with All Fools Day in 1987, which sold well around much of the world, as did the follow-up, Prodigal Son. In 1989 The Saints had a top 40 hit with a cover of The Easybeats song "The Music Goes Round My Head" for the Young Einstein soundtrack.
19902006
During the 1990s, Chris Bailey released a few solo albums, including 54 Days at Sea, a melodic, melancholic side record evidencing South American influences. In 1997 came a new Saints album, Howling, a grungy low-fi recording. Spit the Blues Out in 2001 paid tribute to Bailey's blues roots. Patrick Mathι of French label New Rose played harmonica on the album.
Kuepper had grown unhappy with Bailey's ongoing use of the name and, in particular, with Glenn A. Baker's liner notes to the Songs of Salvation compilation, which he felt gave virtually sole credit to Bailey for the band's original creative direction. In response, he formed a band named The Aints, which performed versions of vintage Saints material with the motto of "Ain't no Saint". Bailey was displeased, but they later buried the hatchet and, in September 2001, the original line-up came together for a one-off reunion when they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Bailey and the current incarnation of The Saints released a new album in 2006, Imperious Delirium, undertaking a European tour to promote it. They continued to tour America through late 2007.
20072009: Reunion concerts
On 14 July 2007, Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay re-united for a one-off gig as part of the Queensland Music Festival. Caspar Wijnberg, who is in current line up of The Saints, played bass. That year, "I'm Stranded" became one of the first 20 songs to be included in the National Film & Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry.
However this was not to be the last time the trio would reunite. As part of the All Tomorrows Parties touring festival (then curated by Nick Cave), The Saints with "Archie" Larizza on bass played shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Mount Buller in Victoria. This was followed by a Melbourne show on 14 January 2009 as part of the Don't Look Back sideshow concerts, where the band performed the I'm Stranded album in its entirety.
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