Coup de Grace (album)

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Coup de Grace
Studio album by The Stranglers
Released	26 October 1998
Genre	Rock
The Stranglers chronology
Written in Red (1997)	Coup de Grace (1998)	Norfolk Coast (2004)

Coup de Grace is an album by The Stranglers released in 1998.

The tracks on "Coup de Grace" represent a greater writing input from Jean Jacques Burnel (JJ Burnel) than on more recent outings; he sings four of the ten tracks. Heavily influenced by the band's troop-entertaining trips to such places as the Falkland Islands and Bosnia, and (in JJ's words) "life in general", the tracks cover such topics as the ravages of war, religious conflicts, and failed relationships. Stylistically, the tracks vary from the energetic walls of sound presented by the near-techno "God is Good" and the retro-sounding "Coup de Grace" to the minimally-accompanied ballad "In the End".

Cat no/Label: EAGCD042/Eagle

[edit] Track listing

1. "God is Good"
2. "You Don't Think That What You've Done is Wrong"
3. "Tonight"
4. "Jump Over My Shadow"
5. "Miss You"
6. "Coup de Grace (S-O-S)"
7. "In the End"
8. "No Reason"
9. "Known Only unto God"
10. "The Light"