The Stranglers - The Gospel According to the Meninblack (1981)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Side One
"Waltzinblack" 3:38
"Just Like Nothing On Earth" 3:55
"Second Coming" 4:22
"Waiting for the Meninblack" 3:44
"Turn the Centuries, Turn" 4:35
Side Two
"Two Sunspots" 2:32
"Four Horsemen" 3:40
"Thrown Away" 3:30
"Manna Machine" 3:17
"Hallow to Our Men" 7:26
The Gospel According to the Meninblack (or sometimes referred to as just The Meninblack) is the fifth album by English rock band The Stranglers, an esoteric concept album released in 1981. The album deals with conspiratorial ideas surrounding alien visitations to Earth, the sinister governmental Men in Black, and the involvement of these elements in well-known biblical narratives. This was not the first time The Stranglers had used this concept; Meninblack on the earlier The Raven album and subsequent 1980 single-release "Who Wants the World?" had also explored it.
