IV is an album by The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

, released in 1980 on IRS and only available in the US and Canada.

The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

 previous album, The Raven

The Raven (The Stranglers album)

The Raven is an album by The Stranglers, released in 1979. The album was originally released with a limited edition 3-D cover. Another limited edition was inadvertently created when the band was forced to remove an image of Joh Bjelke-Petersen from the inner sleeve artwork...

, had not been released in the US. IV contained, on side one, a selection of tracks from The Raven. Side Two contained the following tracks, which were previously unreleased on any Stranglers Album: "5 Minutes" & "Rok It To The Moon" (1978 UK single), "Vietnamerica" (which was later released as the B-side to the 1981 "Let Me Introduce You to The Family" UK single), "G.m.B.H" (an extended version of the 1980 UK single "Bear Cage", which was unavailable elsewhere) and "Who Wants the World?" (1980 UK single).

The original release also came with a free single containing "Choosey Susie" (from the 1977 UK single free with Rattus Norvegicus

Rattus Norvegicus (album)

Rattus Norvegicus is the first studio album by The Stranglers, released on 17 April 1977. The album was originally to be entitled "Dead on Arrival" but was changed at the last minute...

), "Straighten Out" (b-side to the 1977 UK Single "Something Better Change") plus "Ode to Joy / Do The European" (live Jean-Jacques Burnel

Jean-Jacques Burnel

J. J. Burnel , is a Franco-English musician producer and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist with the British rock band The Stranglers.-Life and career:...

 solo tracks, unavailable elsewhere until the CD release of his first solo album Euroman Cometh

Euroman Cometh

Euroman Cometh is the 1979 debut solo album by The Stranglers' bassist J. J. Burnel.Guest musicians were Peter Howells of The Drones , track 9 featured Brian James of The Damned , Lew Lewis and Carey Fortune of Chelsea...

), and "White Room

White Room

"White Room" is a song by British "supergroup" Cream. The song was a psychedelic rock number written by bassist Jack Bruce and poet Pete Brown. It originally appeared on the US release of their double album, Wheels of Fire, by Atco Records in July 1968 and was released as a single in September 1968...

", a Cream

Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker...

 cover from the Nosferatu album by Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...

 & Robert Williams

Robert Williams (drummer)

Robert Williams is a drummer and solo artist who has worked with Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, John Lydon and Zoogz Rift as well as recording solo.His albums include:*Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band:...

.

Track listing

Side One:

1. "The Raven"
2. "Baroque Bordello"
3. "Duchess"
4. "Nuclear Device"
5. "Meninblack"

Side Two:

1. "5 Minutes
   5 Minutes (The Stranglers song)
   5 Minutes is a 1978 single by English band The Stranglers. The dark lyrical content of the song gives an account of a rape that occurred at the flat that bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel rented at the time. The song, recorded in between No More Heroes and Black and White reached number 11 in the UK...
   
   "
2. "Rok It To The Moon"
3. "Vietnamerica"
4. "G.m.B.H"
5. "Who Wants The World?"

Free Single:

1. "Ode to Joy/Do the European" - live
2. "Choosey Susie"
3. "White Room"
4. "Straighten Out"