Stranglers, The - The European Female Lyrics






I knew she was a feline
She moved with ease and grace
Her green eyes they held mystery

No emotion on her face
She speaks her lips are kissing
The air around her face
I don't always understand her
But I love her air and grace

The European female she is here
The European female's here
We'll be together for a thousand years
And do you really fear
That you might fall

I saw her in the Strasse
And in the Rue as well
Pursued her in the high street
She had me in her spell





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  1. L.... C....

    Would have made a better theme for Cat People than David Bowie...

  2. t.... q....

    fantastic song , so Strange , like a night dream ,

    t.... q....

    Not typical of the Stranglers' style, but still a very good song.

  3. D.... ....

    Such a brilliant band loved them for years.

  4. P.... L....

    Such a captivating line bass.....

  5. P.... O....

    In the early days of the UK Channel 4 (1982-3) when they were really struggling for advertising, they would play Music Videos in place of the adverts. European Female was played quite often. There were only 3 other TV channels in the UK at that time, and they often stopped broadcasting for several hours of the day and night...Channel 4 was, at that time, the more "Avant-Garde" version of BBC 2. Now it is, what exactly?

  6. V.... D....

    The Eighties brought a lot of crap The Stranglers were not one of them We need more of this

  7. j.... s....

    It ain't like this when I get off The Eurostar.

  8. J.... S....

    epickie

  9. j.... s....

    Excellent ! Je ne connaissait pas... Le son est de très bonne qualité...Merci !

  10. J.... A....

    De mis favoritas con Golden Brown

  11. I.... L....

    J J Burnel good French bass

  12. R.... J....

    Played this in the local pubs juke box ...........cost me a packet .....love it

  13. R.... R....

    This song will ever remind me of a, oh so Continental, wine bar opening up in my Welsh valley town of Caerphilly. Needless to say, the dream soon died thanks to the locals who used it as a free for all fight club! 😂

    R.... R....

    Which year did you set up the wine bar? 1983?

    R.... R....

    @Andy JS Yes! The same year that the Stranglers released the album and single Feline. That Spanish guitar was well suited to the early ambience of the wine bar.

  14. p.... ....

    1:05 - my cat does that too.

  15. T.... S....

    Great song but I do hope they didn't keep that wild cat in a cage for too long. Beautiful creature should be in the wild where it belongs.

    T.... S....

    It probably had a break from being in a zoo when this video was being filmed. I agree with you about cages.

  16. G.... J....

    Jack Irwin, you're so right !!
    I can't believe they've never been inducted into it !!

  17. S.... P....

    i love this song i like jj when he does the lead vocals shines he does.

  18. C.... F....

    Gotta be up there with the best ever.

  19. H.... M....

    Classic stranglers song which proves why they are the unsung heroes of the british new wave

  20. K.... R....

    Soon to be the British female.

    K.... R....

    Nope, this song is for European females.

  21. R.... J....

    I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this video, I've loved the Stranglers since I was 16 , I'm now 59.

    R.... J....

    me too never seen & i'm 59 & massive fan......wierd

    R.... J....

    Never too late. One of my favourite songs and bands in my adolescence.

    R.... J....

    In the early days of the UK Channel 4 (1982-3) when they were really struggling for advertising, they would play Music Videos in place of the adverts. European Female I was played quite often. There were, as you know, only 3 other TV channels in the UK at that time, and they often stopped broadcasting for several hours of the day and night...

    R.... J....

    I am 59 too. Ciao from Italy.

    R.... J....

    Well I was 21 and now I'm 61, and this song still gives me the goose bumps. From Italy too

  22. B.... B....

    Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Stranglers and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.

  23. L.... /....

    R.I.P Jimmy Mac!

  24. J.... A....

    Que paso en Europa y Estados Unidos en los 80s , fue la década de mayor creatividad musical de la historia incluso en España , grupos como the stranglers se dieron como una bendita plaga, por cierto mi temas favorito " european female " .

  25. p.... k....

    great band

  26. A.... M....

    Oh that chorus.

    Oh.

  27. S.... G....

    #scorpio song

  28. H.... S....

    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vierge_%C3%A0_l%27Enfant_avec_saint_Pierre_martyr_(Lotto)

  29. D.... F....

    I would love to see the original line up reunite again.

  30. M.... S....

    Blimey!, I had forgotten about this Brilliant Track until it was shown on T.O.T.P's BBC 4 Re-Run's!, The Understatedness/Low Key Style makes it a Gem in My Opinion!.

  31. C.... M....

    The European females have gone...coz a brexit....

  32. d.... ....

    Anti-Brexit song by European JJ Burnel

  33. J.... P....

    Mysterious and sensual.

  34. g.... ....

    Dentro de mil años se seguirá hablando de la música de los 80.

  35. T.... R....

    Hey StranglersVevo upload Golden Brown please. I mean it's the single that got the highest in the Charts for The Stranglers.

    T.... R....

    What, so therefore it must be the best single?!! The Stranglers did much better stuff than Golden Brown although I agree it's a good single. As with most artists, it's usually their less commercial stuff which is more interesting.

  36. n.... ....

    great track - crap vid.

  37. K.... E....

    My song x 💋

  38. A.... c....

    Grande banda.......

  39. W.... H....

    One of my Top 5 Stranglers songs for Sure~

  40. M.... P....

    Great thanks you,, pukka

  41. C.... T....

    BEST BAND OF THE PUNK/WAVE WASTED-GENERATION!

  42. J.... I....

    The Stranglers really need to get inducted into the Rock And Roll hall of fame they really do deserve it!

    J.... I....

    They do, but they've got no chance. Seems to me you have to have made an impact in America - or at least kissed some yankie ass - in order to get inducted. ..Which means that fantastic bands like The Jam, Dexy's The Smiths and The Stranglers, won't get near it. Total travesty, but, ask them if their arsed?

    J.... I....

    I disagree, this is one of the best Punk band the U.K ever produced, the Rock And Roll hall of fame is for the Posh kids pretending to be what they aren't :Musicians

    J.... I....

    they're too good for that shit

    J.... I....

    It's amazing really — they released Golden Brown about a year before this and then they followed up with another incredible song like this. And in between they did Strange Little Girl which is also very good.

    J.... I....

    We don’t really go in for that sort of thing

  43. P.... S....

    35 years ago

  44. P.... S....

    I knew she was a feline
    She moved with ease and grace
    Her green eyes they held mystery

    No emotion on her face
    She speaks her lips are kissing
    The air around her face
    I don't always understand her
    But I love her air and grace

    The European female she is here
    The European females here
    We'll be together for a 1,000 years
    And do you really fear
    That you might fall

    I saw her in the Strausse
    And in the Rue as well
    Pursued her in the high street
    She had me in her spell

    (Chorus)

  45. r.... t....

    Thanks very much for this video clip. Never seen it before (May 1 th 2017, my birthday). A beautiful gift for my birthday...47 today...

  46. y.... m....

    that bass riff. love it

  47. G.... M....

    Who is the singer on this one? The bass player?

    G.... M....

    Jean Jacques Burnel is the singer/ bass player of this song, he is a very great musician ;)

    G.... M....

    Gabriel Mansilla https://www.landelijkwonen.nl/aanbod-agrarisch.html

  48. t.... ....

    Sounds a bit like Kraftwerk - The Model.

    t.... ....

    Are you joking?

  49. p.... ....

    LOVE THIS

    :+}

  50. S.... S....

    loved this!

  51. M.... T....

    Intense sexy <3
    fan forever

  52. S.... C....

    MC plisken if I can do it you can do it mate thanx .

  53. W.... J....

    THE WORLD OF TUBANTIA FEMIALE ESPREX IS RIDINDINGDANK JE WEL WOUTERJOANNES DONT WORY DEAR FRIEND STRANGLERS

  54. S.... C....

    My wife is like the woman in this video . love the stranglers

    S.... C....

    Stephen Campbell luv them 2...

    S.... C....

    Stephen Campbell
    nice one Stephen, wish I had a woman like that.

    S.... C....

    sto poutso mas

    S.... C....

    European feline.

  55. A.... J....

    toinou !!!

  56. O.... O....

    One of my favourite Stranglers songs. Moody video too.

    O.... O....

    Having a panther knocking over glasses of champagne is certainly an original idea, and probably hasn't been copied since.

  57. J.... L....

    jeeeez jj is fucking hot

  58. P.... M....

    never knew this had a video

    P.... M....

    @Chris A. Wasn't talking to you.

    P.... M....

    Filmed under the Festival Hall on the Southbank in London. The area is now used as a skate park. Round that time, it was part of 'cardboard city' with loads of homeless living there.

    P.... M....

    It wasn't shown on Top of the Pops. There was a studio performance on 6th Jan 1983 which was repeated on 20th Jan 1983. After that the song went down in the charts so it wasn't shown again. They probably would have shown the video if it had gone up in the charts for another couple of weeks.

    P.... M....

    I don't think the cardboard city came into being until the end of 1983, just after this video was shot.

    P.... M....

    Yes it was, in addition to the studio appearance.

  59. W.... R....

    I got one better than a European female, I got a Russian beauty queen.

  60. H.... D....

    The European Union's here. We won't be together for very much longer, hopefully.

    H.... D....

    blonde7000 We didn’t have to pay hospital bills for the NHS before we joined the EU so that’s B.S. you’re saying right there

    H.... D....

    @Jack The Film Fanatic not entirely to say this NHS is still vitality free, your thinking of BUPA that has to pay for all facilities during treatment. Except sepicelist treatment which will have to cover the cost. I'm no B.S. as you may think. Ya, idiot.

    H.... D....

    @Jack The Film Fanatic You may want to check your facts, indeed you paid for the NHS a long time before the UK joined in.

    H.... D....

    @blonde7000 hahaha ha.
    Oh noessss, we lose our EU 'elf card, that about 10 Brits ever used.

    Compared to thousands of Polish immigrants milking the NHS to care for babushka and grandad from Krakow, totally free of charge, birthing their new families in British hospitals, while native Brits avoid having children due to decades of BBC propaganda telling them that its the "responsible and educated option, to help save our planet".

    Oh noes, we might lose the 'elf card, the olidays gonna be more spensive!

    Just how gullible do you think the council estate class actually are? (the ones who are always first to feel the effects of your looney lefty policies, and hence the first react like canaries in a coal mine, which your sort write off as 'bigotry' LOL!)

    H.... D....

    @Forest DenizenIgnorant people such as yourself come on here making fun of me?

    Politicians who support Brexit include Iain Duncan Smith who wants you to work until you are 75 years of age after Brexit, claiming there are not enough young workers.

    His idea is that you work until you die and get no state pension!

    This is another law after Brexit written by your Government who you support.

    He was in charge of the DWP 2010 to May 2016 that saw thousands of disabled and ill people dead after the DWP hired firms to assess them fit for work. The fact that thousand died testify they were not fit to work, or they would be alive today. THey were left with little or no money. Their illnesses made worse by stress and more. It was deliberate.

    Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself?
    Kill the sick, make you work til you drop aged 75 reads like the final solution under Nazi Germany by this right wing psychopath who has demonstrated he could not careless who dies and you support this?
    Many of the young left the UK because of Brexit since 2016 and others will not be allowed in after Brexit after the UK leaves the EU under Nazi Britain.

    Assholes like yourself come on here because you do not like immigrants in Britain.
    You are so ignorant that you prefer to see the whole UK plunged into a recession with job losses right across the board. in favour of your dislike to immigrants. If you lost your home you would think twice after losing your Job.

    Boris Johnson shutting down parliament to stifle debate so there is no input from anyone opposed to Brexit.

    His entire Cabinet full of handpicked Brexit Ministers.

    Sajid Javid of Pakistani origin
    Priti Patel of Indian origin whose parents went to Uganda and were thrown out by Idi Armin in 1972 who disliked Asians in Uganda. – They fled to Britain being welcomed and she was born in Britain. in 1972 supporting Brexit - Unbelievable.
    The Prime Minister Boris Johnson whose grandparents were Turkish descent and he being born in New York.

    Had Brexit been around years ago these clowns would not be here and Boris Johnson would not be the PM.
    Clowns like yourself who dislike immigrants in Britain would not be writing this garbage back to me.

    Another Brexiteer Jeremy Hunt stated in June 2019 live on TV Paraphrased
    Reporter asked him “What about the loss of 300 jobs at a plant”
    ?

    Jeremy hunt replies “I say this with a heavy heart, their jobs must go, Brexit first.”

    That is 300 men and women with children and homes to pay for and bills that have to be paid all affected.
    This millionaire Tory could not careless about anyone but himself and you support it because you dislike immigrants in Britain.

    So do not come on here insulting me.
    It is you that is an idiot, thinking you are clever!
    You have shown on here just how pathetic you really are.

  61. C.... c....

    miss universe winer the latin woman always.

    C.... c....

    +Charly cav
    Winer?

    C.... c....

    Yes, latin american woman always in miss universe in final, european is far...

    C.... c....

    Latinas woman big brown bag

  62. P.... S....

    Damn!! 80's music was so fucking good! Melodic, imaginative, varied!
    2000s onwards, apart from the odd exception is monosyllabic, flat-lined shit!

    P.... S....

    sort of true but there is a lot of good stuff out there. It's just now you have to dig a little deeper.

    P.... S....

    Brian Smith ...can't be bothered to sift through all the durge mate. Like looking for rocking horse shit!

    P.... S....

    I hear ya ;)

  63. a.... b....

    so easy,what a sound!

  64. M.... L....

    Claudine from Bucharest, you still owe me...

  65. c.... r....

    Love it

  66. E.... M....

    unas de las mejores bandas del punk y el new wave :3

  67. p.... ....

    Sway.......

  68. d.... w....

    Always liked this.

  69. l.... i....

    European Female

  70. A.... D....

    Cosmic Love.