IV (The Stranglers album)
IV is a compilation album by the Stranglers, released on 24 September 1980 on I.R.S. Records and only available in the US and Canada.
The Stranglers previous album, The Raven, had not been released in the US. IV contained, on side one, a selection of tracks from The Raven. Side two contained the following tracks, which were previously unreleased on any Stranglers album: "5 Minutes" and "Rok It to the Moon", "Vietnamerica", "G.m.B.H" and "Who Wants the World?". The previously unreleased "Vietnamerica" was written and recorded during sessions for The Raven.
The original release also came with a free single containing "Choosey Susie", "Straighten Out" plus "Ode to Joy / Do The European", and "White Room", a Cream cover from the Nosferatu album by Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams.
Track listing
;NoteThe extended version of "G.m.B.H" is not the full six-and-a-half-minute version of the track as it is faded out earlier, lasting just under four minutes.
;Free single
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album liner notes.;The Stranglers
- Hugh Cornwell – guitar, vocals
- Jean-Jacques Burnel – bass, vocals
- Dave Greenfield – keyboards
- Jet Black – Drums
- The Stranglers – production
- Alan Winstanley – production, engineering
- Martin Rushent – production
- Steve Churchyard – production, engineering
- Gary Edwards – engineering
- Laurence Diana – engineering
- John Pasche – art direction
- Shoot That Tiger! – design
- Phil Jude – cover photography