Albums > Kaleef > Golden Brown

Golden Brown , Kaleef

This page contains Kaleef, Golden Brown album songs, videos and lyrics.

GOLDEN BROWN ALBUM INFO

Artist: Kaleef
Album: Golden Brown
Release Date:

"Golden Brown" is a song by the England|English rock band The Stranglers. It was released as a 7" single in January 1982, on Liberty Records|Liberty.

Overview
Originally featured on the group's album ''La Folie (album)|La Folie'', which was released in November 1981, and later on some pressings of ''Feline (album)|Feline'', "Golden Brown" was released as a single in late 1981, and was accompanied by a video. It reached #2 in the official UK singles chart in February 1982, behind "Town Called Malice" by The Jam.

The comparatively conservative BBC BBC Radio 2|Radio Two, at that time a Middle of the road|middle-of-the-road <small>(MOR)</small> music radio station, decided to make the record the single of the week, a surprising step considering the band was almost as notorious as Sex Pistols only a few short years before. The fourth line of the song, "With my mind she runs," is a common source of mondegreens.<ref>[http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/goldenbrown.shtml "Golden Brown"] at amiright.com</ref>. The band claimed that the song's lyrics were akin to an aural Rorschach inkblot test|Rorschach test and that people only heard in it what they wanted to hear, although this did not prevent persistent allegations that the lyrics alluded to the narcotic heroin (although in an interv

Track list:

Kaleef top 10 albums

Golden Brown

Other Kaleef albums

Videos