For some I maybe late to the party but yesterday I was listening to The Stranglers and all I can say is "WOW!" Adam wasn't wasn't kidding when he said he was influenced by them. I always new he was influenced by Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order (as was I) but you can really hear it in this punk/new wave band from the seventies.
(Gee, do you think Franz Ferdinand might have listened to them?)