(I'm) Stranded (song)

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"(I’m) Stranded"

Single by The Saints
from the album (I'm) Stranded
Released	September 1976
Format	7" single
Recorded	Bruce Window Studios, Brisbane, Australia June 1976
Genre	Punk rock
Length	3:25
Label	Fatal Records (Australia) MA-7186 Power Exchange (UK) PX-242
Producer(s)	The Saints, Mark Moffat
The Saints singles chronology
	"(I’m) Stranded" (1976)	"Erotic Neurotic" (1977)

"(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",^[1] and pre-dated vinyl debuts by contemporary punk acts such as the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Damned and The Clash.^[2] In 2001, it was voted among the Top 30 Australian Songs of all time by APRA.^[3]

Written by guitarist Ed Kuepper and vocalist Chris Bailey, the track was originally released on the band's own Fatal Records label, with an initial pressing of 500 copies. In the UK, where the single was available at the time only on import, Sounds magazine called it "Single of this and every week", continuing: "The singing's flat and disinterested, the guitars are on full stun. There's no such thing as a middle eight. It's fabulous."^[4]

On the strength of the single, The Saints were signed in November 1976 to a three-album deal by EMI in the UK,^[2] the first of which was also called (I'm) Stranded. As well as featuring on their debut album, both "(I’m) Stranded" and single's B-side, "No Time", appeared on a split EP with Stanley Frank in 1977.