Magazine's first 3 are all essential, but I lean heavily toward "Real Life", was just listening to it yesterday actually.
For the Stranglers, I highly recommend the Old Testament box. The group was kind of all over the place, and you get all their classic era material spread out over 5 CDs for about $30. Worth it for sure.
Magazine - Real Life (though Secondhand Daylight comes really close) The Stranglers - No More Heroes
77clash, Rays and Hail was my intro to Magazine and it is great and you get the single version of "Shot by Both Sides" which is so much better than the version on Real Life.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.