"People get ready, strip down your houses because it's the FALL TRACKS BALLOT ROLL- OUT!" - PART TWO The Tracks (Pre-wray)

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Hi,

Once again, thanks to all for the considered ballots supplied, in all there were 36 supplied ballots involving top twenty favourite Fall tracks

In this thread, we roll-out the Top Fifty tracks. And yr favourite Fall members.

Apologies for lack of lovely banners like some of the more recent ballots roll-out, but there's a lot to crack out here.

First up, without too much fanfare, your favourite Fall members, in order and complete:

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	146	Steve Hanley	18	6
	116	Craig Scanlon	15	2
	76	Mark E. Smith	8	7
	54	Brix Smith	7	2
	42	Karl Burns	5	2
	28	Martin Bramah	3	2
	20	Marc Riley	3	0
	18	Paul Hanley	3	0
	16	julia nagle	2	
	14	Eleni Poulou	2	0
	10	Mark Hanley	1	1
	10	Your Granny On Bongos	1	1
	8	Simon Wolstencroft	1	
	8	Una Baines	1	
	6	Kate Themen	1	
	6	Marcia Schofield	1	
	6	Michael Leigh	1	

damn right

And now, the independent chart moneyspinners COMMENCE!

99. Where's The Fuckin Taxi? Cunt Points: 0 Votes: 0 Number Ones: 0

http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/d9d9b57b82750645253daf382aba16c8?s=48
"Oops!"

50. Free Range Points: 98 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

49. Glam Racket Points: 102 Votes: 4 Number Ones: 0

Smith only 3rd in favourite fall members. That should royally piss him off

48=. Kurious Oranj Points: 106 Votes: 4 Number Ones: 0

48=. Hotel Bloedel Points: 106 Votes: 4 Number Ones: 0

xpost not as much as when he was langiushing behind Marc Riley, about halfway through the count...

46. Fortress/Deer Park Points: 109 Votes: 4 Number Ones: 0

Nice live version in Iceland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJPEAmuaT4

45. Rebellious Jukebox Points: 110 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 1

44. City Hobgoblins Points: 112 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 0

43. Bremen Nacht Points: 112 Votes: 3 Number Ones: 1

um, tie-splitter = 'whichever has the most number ones, then the most votes'..

(It is now, anyway!)

42. Bonkers in Phoenix Points: 114 Votes: 4 Number Ones: 1

41. English Scheme Points: 117 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 0

Great song, though there are 4 or 5 tracks from Grotesque I would place higher. Similarly, there's a lot of Hex, nothing yet from Slates or Dragnet, and lots of singles still to place.

O look, there's my number 1. Smith breaches reality, strangles the rules, transcends the recording process, queues for a meat burger

I voted for BiP too. Glad to see it in the top 50.

Bonkers is my first to make it. Also: hell yeah Shanley!

It's also an incredibly poignant metaphor for his relationship with Brix

Wonder who else voted for Nagle, too...

40. Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers Points: 118 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 0

38=. Marquis Cha-Cha Points: 120 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

38=. LA Points: 120 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

I failed to vote for band members in my ballot, but c'mon people 0 votes for Dave Bush?

37. Guest Informant Points: 122 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 0

36. Middle Mass Points: 125 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

35. Smile Points: 127 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 1

34. Slates, Slags, Etc. Points: 131 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 1

Woah! Are you rolling them all out this morning?

Might get to half-way, then sttretch the rest out..

LA only 38? Had that pegged for top 10 :/

But still, lots of great tracks showing that didnt make my ballot :D

33. Impression of J. Temperence Points: 134 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

32. Tempo House Points: 144 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

Wow, Tempo House is too low! It came very very close to being my #1, but was instead my #2.

31. Blindness Points: 145 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 0

MES attempts to shut jools holland up (fails)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_mND4HpTg

Wonder who else voted for Nagle, too...

Hello there! She makes that era wrong and impossible in all the best ways.

46. Fortress/Deer Park Points: 109 Votes: 4 Number Ones: 0

The transition here is my favorite moment in their discography (though "Deer Park" kind of lets it down imo) - condenses that emergent quality of Hex, something broken rearranging itself into working order.

34. Slates, Slags, Etc. Points: 131 Votes: 5 Number Ones: 1

This missed my academic male slag ballot but is a v. worthy number one vote.

"Blindness" is a great song I still haven't heard a definitive reading of; would actually say the same of "Sparta." Each version gets one thing right and fucks up something else. I have pretty complicated feelings of MES as a frontman post-Frenz; he's gotten places he couldn't have gone with the old persona, but a charitable reading of say, taking out his teeth (see: "Way Round") gets impossible in places, and makes Doran's picture of the "peak of his power decline" hard to ignore.

I was just thinking about Way Round; he really takes out his teeth. Thats freaking hilarious

Uh there shd be a q mark at the end of first sentence

30. Prole Art Threat Points: 147 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

29. Container Drivers Points: 152 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 0

28. Spectre Vs Rector Points: 153 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

27. Jawbone and the Air-Rifle Points: 158 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 0

26. Weather Report 2 Points: 158 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 1

Tune in tomorrow for some more, u skinny rats...

Whoa. How is my #1 (Slates, Slags) so lowwwwww?

Prole Art Threat too low!!! (Regrets not voting for it...)

Ah, the best song of 2010. Smith inverts mortality: now death fears him

dang, this is going way too fast. goodbye, large raft of fall songs, we hardly knew ye. voted for these:

38. LA - so fucking spooky, i could live for days on just an arpeggiator and delay pedal, mark heeding his own r-related dictate for once
32. Tempo House - first fall song i ever heard, live version on homestead's speed trials comp, was so baffled by the amazing lyrics, goddam the pedantic welsh
31. Blindness - guess i like the groovy ones, one of my favorite songs of the last 10 years, nothing to do w mark, only nu-fall song on my ballot
30. Prole Art Threat - PINK PRESS THREAT! unlike the others here, not actually a good song, a tonic nonetheless

Some pretty great stuff in the lower reaches. Sorry I didn't get around to submitting, a few of these would've been bumped up ('Free Range', 'Slates...', 'Container Drivers' all on my definites list on my drafted ballot, quite a few more on my longlist).

I had Spectre Vs. Rector at 2. I'm v. fond of the noisy ones on Dragnet (S Vs. R, muzorewi's daughter)

culled: jawbone and, marquis cc, container driv, slates slags, gross chap, fortress/dp. glad to see they made the crossing.

Jawbone and Container Drivers made my ballot. Third peel session might be my favorite: best thing imo about 79-83 Fall is how the band sounded basically like a garage rock band who started from scratch with every new song they came up with, and third Peel Session is the first to really show this.

The Peel version of "Blindness" is definitive for me and the single version of "Sparta #2" is as well, with the addition of Eleni and extra chants.

Quite a bit of my ballot has already appeared. Not holding out much hope in seeing my number 1 showing up at all. Glad to see Tempo House on there.

Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers is too low. I didn't care for the song at first but the driving, insistent rhythm eventually won me over.

'The Peel version of "Blindness" is definitive for me'

Otm, my vote for blindness was a vote for this one. It's all about when he goes into that high babbling tone toward the end (sounding a little like beefheart's bass clarinet playing except vocally)

I didnt vote for any Peel Sessions versions but the PS Glam Racket was the last thing cut from my ballot so I am stoked to see that slip in

I have no problem with anything so far in the track countdown. The only one I voted for was Jawbone, but these are all solid choices. I guess my heart will be broken later when half of my top ten choices don;t place.

I honestly don't get the love for "Weather Report 2", it's not even in my top 5 for that album.

This is the value, we can go "What, higher than "Slates, etc", really" and go find out

It's all about when he goes into that high babbling tone toward the end (sounding a little like beefheart's bass clarinet playing except vocally)

Ah, that helps me understand - that's my exact sticking point on the track, because I always see it as an error. I don't know if it comes down to me needing a more Catholic taste in tonality/timing (but I'll totally buy "Hurricane Edward"!) or being more willing to extend or suspend belief w/r/t intentions and capabilities.

I mean, I have the same problem with a lot of Beefheart - so much effort has gone into creating an internally whole song instrumentally and the voice just hangs back just gesturing over the damn thing. Are MES's voice and the Captain's bass clarinet using fiendishly advanced techniques? Are they just fucking around? Are they productively fucking around their limitations? Why can't MES just flow anymore? Why can't we live in England?

I honestly don't get the love for "Weather Report 2", it's not even in my top 5 for that album.

It took me a long time! Headphones help. Like a lot on OFYC, it works especially well for me because it makes thematic sense of the vocal decrepitude. Also, I mean, the track itself is OK, but then it gets fucking eaten alive by synths. It's fantastic! (The same way that "Slippy Floor" repeatedly, gratuitously, awesomely torpedoes "YFOC.")

Why can't MES just flow anymore?

i figure he's color commentary at this point. also, the way our friends become cheerful but sometimes dismayingly shabby reminders of the people we once knew/were. they're still our friends, right?

Voted Blindness for the Peel version. Maybe could do with a longer intro but once it gets going that doesn't feel like an issue.

Gross Chapel - GB Grenadiers was very high up my ballot - The Fall go goth, and do it amazingly

YFOC is a great album, regret not voting for the mighty Mexico Wax Solvent along with WR2

I also did not get round to posting but am very interested in the results of this - I would have pushed Container Drivers/ Slates / Gross Chapel and Rebellious Jukebox up further. Possibly like others? I know some parts of the Fall's oeuvre very well and other parts are basically blank it so primarilly looking at this for new avenues and places to explore. Keep up the good work people!

I have the same problem with a lot of Beefheart

Well, yes, frankly it took me years to come to terms with MES' vocals, and a further 15 to do the same for the Captain, but once you've made that adjustment it all just MAKES SENSE. I think The Fall could actually be more broadly enjoyed by the public but that warm-up period is something most people just won't give it.

Re: Gross Chapel - GB Grenadiers - I'm not certain the Peel version surpasses the studio, but they certainly compliment one another, if that makes sense. And, yes, the whole Fall-as-goths treatment of "Bend Sinister" is what makes it unique in their catalogue and made me vote it number 1 on the albums section.

the PS Glam Racket was the last thing cut from my ballot

I had the Peel Session "Glam Racket" at number 15 on my ballot. After getting off the bus in the early 90s, that song and "Chiselers" were what made me reconsider the error of my ways.

Whoa, that's 8 of my ballot represented already (Fortress, Jukebox, Hobgoblins, English Scheme, Middle Mass, Smile, Prole, Spectre), which could be a good OR bad sign. "Prole Art Threat" was my #2, so TOO LOW, etc, for that at the very least.

re: fall members list - i'm guessing "mark hanley" is a mistake there?

25. Lie Dream of A Casino Soul Points: 163 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

Reckon the biggest curveball in the top 25 will be my number 2, a song notable for its drumbeat and the use of the word 'faaarmhaaaand'

24. An Older Lover etc Points: 165 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

TOO FUCKEN LOW

23. Hit The North Points: 173 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 0

22. (Theme From) Sparta F.C. / Sparta 2XX Points: 190 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 0

Hmmm, is it possible my ballot was lost? Should have at least one #1 vote for "Lie Dream".

Hmm, seems there are actually five votes and one number one.

Anyways...

"he.. is .. nottt"

21. New Big Prinz / Big New Prinz Points: 190 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 0

20. The N.W.R.A. Points: 196 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 1

dunno why i didn't vote for "an older lover etc". should have. another of my early-on favorites, along with "putta block".

19. Cruisers Creek Points: 202 Votes: 8 Number Ones: 1

18. Eat Yrself Fitter Points: 206 Votes: 13 Number Ones: 0

17. Bill Is Dead Points: 208 Votes: 8 Number Ones: 2

Ok, maybe Hurricane Edward won't make it. Wailing, gnashing of teeth etc

16. The Man Whose Head Expanded Points: 214 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 0

of this he was con vinced

Eat Y'self Fitter is some magic. Lots of songs here that I've mostly avoided due to presumptions of conventionality, which are presumably sodomising me as I type. Will return.

Mark, down to 11 today then top 10 tomorrow, aye?

Yeah, that's it.

15. I Feel Voxish Points: 217 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 0

NO ONE WILL FUCK WITH ME AGAIN

top 20 = PBL era, top 10 = Hex era

Garden had best make the top 5 tho

xpost so where does that put...

14. Rowche Rumble Points: 219 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 0

13. Gut of the Quantifier Points: 239 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 0

Rowche! Rumble!

CHIP!

12. New Face In Hell Points: 248 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 1

Huh! In my head, I'd predicted that New Face would win this!

New Face was my #1

Lots of my top flying out fast right now: Lie Dream, Older Lover, Rowche was #3

Officially amazed that I Feel Voxish beat out Fitter, The Man Whose etc., Cruisers, which I thought was a,sure bet for top 3

I'd be eternally grateful to anyone who turned these results into a Spotify playlist.

Would that make it the...

11. No Bulbs Points: 253 Votes: 11 Number Ones: 1

BIGGEST LIBRARY YET!!!!

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alright, six of my picks! Older Lover is TOO LOW, yes.

14. Rowche Rumble
13. Gut of the Quantifier
11. No Bulbs

that's my shit right here. bulbs got the second slot on my ballot (beam me up white man), and rowche went top 10. didn't vote for gut, but i should have. a masseuse with hands of ripe cement.

"And he's gonna make an appearance..."
I'm sure THAT will be top 10, but I'm beginning to wonder about non-appearances. A lot of Hex (The Classical, Iceland, Winter, Nazis), plus Look, Know, Elastic Man, Totally Wired; the incredible New Puritan, more from the first 2 albums (No Xmas... found talking to the cigarette machine???), Slates (Fit and Working, Leave the Capitol). No room to live for all of them...

12 of my 20 have placed already, and some others on my ballot are surely still to come. I'm not sure what the top 10 will contain -- hip priest, totally wired, ????

xp

enjoying the unpredictability here tbh

xp yeah, hip priest, the classical, elastic man & tot wired all on solid lock. new puritan, fit & working, no x-mas seem like reasonable guesses. new face in hell, repetition, industrial enstate? plus there's this one big undropped shoe.

Creep hasn't placed yet right?

Id say Lay of the Land, Hip Priest, Classical, Damo SuUki, My New House, Spoilt, Totally wired all locks. Be cool if Elastic Man, Winter, and Leave the Capitol made it

Paintwork is a likely lock

Garden has to be in the mix surely.

Lay of the Land, Damo Suzuki, My New House, Elastic Man

― I'm sorry I said anything (Drugs A. Money)

duh, yeah, these are way more likely than most of my suggestions. you should see my new house.

six of mine have placed:

marquis
container drivers
jawbone
eat y'self fitter
deer park
#1 the n.w.r.a.

i have another eight or so i expect to show but who knows? i thought no bulbs was a minor track and am surprised it's placed so high.

I supposed there's no chance backdrop will place, which is sad. My #7.

Also, if new puritan doesn't place I will reach into my computer and destroy ilx.

New Puritans, Hip Priest, and Winter... now we're talking.

My New House and Spoilt VC weren't even on my first run-through of 40 tracks.

My new house top 5 for me. One of the definitive fall joints ime.

top 10 for me, but yeah

i can't be the only person who makes a point of playing that whenever i move?

i can't be the only person who makes a point of playing that whenever i move?

You are not! It is what got me into this band in the first place; 15 years ago later or thereabouts and it is still lodged in my head.

Lol I made a the fall spotify mix for la lechera a couple of weeks ago and put mnh first because it is top fall and catchy and arresting to boot and only later did I realize it was also a perfect opener bc she is in the middle moving!

Middle OF moving

WilliamC: Does this work? Have not tried to share Spotify playlists yet, but this is mine (some Peel versions substituted for album versions).

do people rate wings? one of my favorites which i'm wondering will even show now.

I think there's a lot of love for wings on ilx, so it could still show.

bentelec -- thanks for making that playlist!

***SPOILER**

that was my #1 xxp

***/SPOILER***

oh yes, wings, another from my list i've not seen yet. A list of incorrect things....

Cellar Door 2 months ago
the greatest song ever written. Blah blah, Hey Jude, blah blah Like A Rolling Stone, blah blah Stairway to Heaven, blah blah Purple Haze, blah blah Sympathy for the Devil, blah blah Heard it on the Grapevine, blah blah White Rabbit

Mark E Smith wakes up can't find a belt, goes out, comes home, lights blown, no bulbs, 8 MINUTES LONG!

Pay attention Ed Sheeran and the rest of you singer-songwritter twats with your 'social commentary' this is how you pen lyrics.

If Iceland does not place I will walk out into the snow, Capt Oates style....

New Puritans, Hip Priest, and Winter... now we're talking.

add in Garden and that's half my top 8

an extraordinary four songs' worth of art. and they're all going to be in the top 10! :D

I gave a hefty number of points (#3) to "Wings" too. Sounds like it might be a contender. "Rowche" and "Voxish" brings me to 12/20 of my ballot making it already. I might be Mr Consensus Picks to an even greater extent than usual.

Thanks for the Spotify playlist, bentelec!

i don't see new puritan making it.

It's funny, but I was looking at the songs mentioned tonight, and there's one I'm thinking "um, that might have actually got no votes at all!"

I'm not at my source spreadsheet so I can't say for certain, but.

creep?

I'm not entertaining guesses, cough cough...

could be look, know or lay of the land or

oh alright, it was creep.

Any way, lots of good stuff to come tomorrow....

Creep, huh? That's pretty surprising. It's a pretty good song, but I certainly didn't ever consider voting for it.

I preferred Hey Luciani from that era, but I'm not expecting that to make top 10.

Don't recall hearing "Weather Report 2" before today. Now realising I should probably have paid more attention to YFOC generally.

it's really good!

it's amazing. as said upthread I'm really regretting leaving Mexico Wax Solvent off my rushed ballot - it'd probably be in the top 15. but yeah the whole album is probably the loosest, rangiest, Krautiest thing they've done other than PBL, and it has no real weak spots. plus Weather Report 2 is just utterly beautiful

Streaming most of it now, it does indeed sound solid! Boy, is my face red.

Speaking of slow-burning album-closers, I was under the impression "Disney's Dream Debased" was widely beloved. Not top 10 material but...

Am kicking myself for forgetting Disney Dream Debased

Disney's Dream Debased just was crowded off my ballot as much as I like song.

Reading this talk about Wings is making me optimistic!

unless the aforementioned lay of the land places - i don't think it will - that means no bulbs is the only wonderful and frightening track to place. i have a disliking for no bulbs, mostly thanks to its position at the end of the cd. coming after the lovely disney's dream debased it's quite jarring ... and then draaaaags on.

Well, no bulbs is a bonus track. DDD should be the last track.

And no bulbs is amazing! The highest brix-era track on my ballot, I think

yeah i know it was tacked on the end but i think for most people the cd tracklistings for the beggars albums *are* the albums. i can enjoy no bulbs out of that context.

nah, i always think of no bulbs as being a call for escape route track. 3 versions! two for the pricea! w slang king and draygo!

shit, that's far and away my favorite fall record, and i didn't even vote for it :(

FWIW, No Bulbs was on the original US vinyl of W&F. I always thought it made a good opening to side 2 (which is where it was when I first heard it). Bummed that Bug Day didn't make the cut.

It's a bit sad. I can imagine happily including almost any of these W&FTOTF-and-associated tracks in a top thirty ("Oh! Brother" too). That old 16-track CD issue is surely amongst my most played discs. As it is I only squeezed "Disney" in.

W&FWOTF rather.

yeah, i placed it second on my albums ballot. it's the album that took me the longest to get into though. i had the cassette originally, and all those tracks were just *too much* to take in.

i'd forgotten the love for no bulbs.

so nice that every track from that album got a vote there. I was the lone vote there for "Stephen Song", which just barely missed my ballot here (yet I put "No Bulbs" on this time, go figure).

and like dlp the US PVC LP version of this is what I fell in love with initially, the cassette came later.

argh "this" being Wonderful & Frightening" etc., g'night.

Yeah, I got W&Fetc on cassette, and No Bulbs is um in the middle I think.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lVCC9aDALT4/SXa475qzMrI/AAAAAAAAGbo/KgA7LvT6vDI/s400/dylan_triumph.jpg

10. Garden Points: 257 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 2

You know, I post one, with a nice pic of tangential relevance, we have a bit of a chat about it, and 30 mins later I post another one.

Ha! Was literally just now listening to that song. Which version's better? They both are. I SWEAR

http://www.realreview.ie/uploaded_images/dr_zaius-796265.jpg

9. New Puritan Points: 271 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 3

Was also listening to this one earlier. Introduced my wife to it and Garden in excited anticipation. She declared that she was starting to think that 'The Fall are geniuses'. Where Garden is paranoid incantation, this is declamatory steamroller.

http://shop.countdown.co.nz/Content/ProductImages/big/9400561060993.jpg

8. Hip Priest Points: 275 Votes: 11 Number Ones: 1

aw, looks like none of my votes will make the top 5 :(

(unless Paintwork does, although I'm now banking on that being #7)

Kinda nice that they're all together in one glorious place though

oh wait, Winter

well, that'll be #6 :D

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb271/fugly2006/img054.jpg

7. Paint Work Points: 332 Votes: 16 Number Ones: 0

Smith's psychic paranoia has rubbed off, clearly

I have listened to Paintwork too much.

http://thewire.co.uk/images/artists/smith__mark_e/The-Fall-wings.jpg

6. Wings Points: 381 Votes: 13 Number Ones: 4

Leaving Hip Priest off my ballot was my biggest ballot regret

NEW PURITAN SAYS, "COFFEE TABLE LPS NEVER BREATHE"

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/Slides/CapitolRecords(far).JPG

5. Leave The Capitol Points: 385 Votes: 15 Number Ones: 2

i laughed at the great god Pan

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r256/acegadgets/2008/4_lights.gif

4. Winter Points: 404 Votes: 15 Number Ones: 2

Wings was my number 1, just an epic tale married to a driving rhythm. Was it the last of his song-stories?

surprised by several of these. my favorite fall tracks are not those of others.

i didn't vote for Wings or Leave The Capitol. I had Winter high up though.

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3. How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' Points: 438 Votes: 18 Number Ones: 1

ps: This might answer one question you might have... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Man

errybody knows jack cole!

We're down to the last two!

so the real numbers 1 & 2 ended up at 6 & 7 you dolts

TW and TC?

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2. The Classical Points: 512 Votes: 17 Number Ones: 2

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/cd84f19ed8323b78df1dce755d02565c/104717.jpg

!!!

1. Totally Wired Points: 513 Votes: 21 Number Ones: 0

i can't be mad at any Fall song i don't think but still, smdh

While collating the results, I would (obviously) sort on the votes, descending, and The Classical was away in front by about half-way through.

Then other tracks started catching up, almost inpereptively, until the very last ballot, at which point "Totally Wired" sneaked in by one point, and I was like "Whoa?"

Yes, it's nobody's favorite (apart from Brix), but it did get the most individual votes.

So, hey.

Interesting that it was the only track with a clear (though still fairly slender) majority of folks voting for it.

Only real surprise in top 10 for me: had no idea "New Puritan" was so popular!

Thanks for your work, Mark!

btw, the tiger bloke = Mike Leigh

Seems I was wrong about "Creep", it did get two votes...

	Score	Track	Vote
			
1	513	Totally Wired	21
2	512	The Classical	17
3	438	How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'	18
4	404	Winter	15
5	385	Leave The Capitol	15
6	381	Wings	13
7	332	Paint Work	16
8	275	Hip Priest	11
9	271	New Puritan	9
10	257	Garden	10
11	253	No Bulbs	11
12	248	New Face in Hell	10
13	239	Gut of the Quantifier	10
14	219	Rowche Rumble	9
15	217	I Feel Voxish	10
16	214	The Man Whose Head Expanded	10
17	208	Bill Is Dead	8
18	206	Eat Yrself Fitter	13
19	202	Cruisers Creek	8
20	196	The N.W.R.A.	7
21	190	New Big Prinz / Big New Prinz	9
22	190	Theme From Sparta F.C. / Sparta 2XX	9
23	173	Hit The North	7
24	165	An Older Lover etc	6
25	163	Lie Dream of A Casino Soul	6
26	158	Jawbone and the Air-Rifle	7
27	158	Weather Report 2	7
28	153	Spectre Vs Rector	6
29	152	Container Drivers	7
30	147	Prole Art Threat	6
31	145	Blindness	7
32	144	Tempo House	6
33	134	impression of j. temperence	6
34	131	Slates, Slags, Etc.	5
35	127	Smile	6
36	125	Middle Mass	6
37	122	Guest Informant	5
38	120	LA	6
39	120	Marquis Cha-Cha	6
40	118	Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers	5
41	117	English Scheme	5
42	114	Bonkers in Phoenix	4
43	112	Bremen Nacht	3
44	112	City Hobgoblins	5
45	110	Rebellious Jukebox	5
46	109	Fortress/Deer Park	4
47	106	Hotel Bloedel	4
48	106	Kurious Oranj	4
49	102	Glam Racket	4
50	98	Free Range	6
51	96	Frightened	3
52	96	Kicker Conspiracy	5
53	96	Spinetrak	5
54	95	Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. 	4
55	94	Frenz	4
56	93	Iceland	3
57	91	Your Heart Out	4
58	89	Edinburgh Man	3
59	88	I Am Damo Suzuki	5
60	88	Spoilt Victorian Child	4
61	87	and this day	3
62	87	Touch Sensitive	6
63	84	I'm into C.b.	4
64	84	Just Step Sideways	4
65	82	My New House	3
66	80	Slang King	4
67	78	Hurricane Edward	3
68	77	Telephone Thing	4
69	73	Psykick Dancehall	4
70	71	Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot	4
71	70	M5	3
72	70	Service	4
73	70	Victoria	4
74	67	Athlete Cured	3
75	67	Flat of Angles	3
76	66	A Figure Walks	2
77	66	Fit and Working Again	3
78	66	The Chiselers	3
79	64	Mr Pharmacist	3
80	64	pat-trip dispenser	3
81	63	Hard Life in Country 	4
82	63	Oh! Brother	2
83	63	u.s. 80's-90's	3
84	61	Barmy	2
85	61	Lay of the Land	3
86	61	look, know	3
87	60	c'n'c / stop mithering	3
88	60	Midnight in Aspen	3
89	60	Telephone Thing	3
90	59	Australians in Europe	2
91	59	Words Of Expectation	2
92	58	Various Times	2
93	56	4 1/2 Inch	3
94	54	Before the Moon Fals	2
95	53	Why Are People Grudgeful?	2
96	52	Couldn't Get Ahead	2
97	52	No Xmas for John Quays	2
98	51	Fiery Jack	3
99	49	2x4	2
100	49	fantastic life	2
101	49	Ludd Gang	3
102	49	Stephen Song	2
103	48	Deer Park	2
104	48	What You Need	2
105	47	Cab it Up!	3
106	47	Who Makes the Nazis?	3
107	46	Bombast	2
108	46	R. O. D	2
109	44	C.R.E.E.P	2
110	44	Hey! Student	2
111	44	Pay Your Rates	3
112	44	The Mixer	3
113	43	Dr. Bucks' Letter	2
114	43	Putta Block	3
115	42	Behind The Counter	2
116	42	There's A Ghost In My House	2
117	41	The Container Drivers	2
118	40	Just Waiting	1
119	40	Lost In Music	2
120	40	Repetition	2
121	40	Room to Live	2
122	39	Susan vs Youthclub	2
123	37	Hey Luciani!	2
124	36	Contraflow	1
125	36	Hilary	1
126	36	Ladybird (Green Grass)	1
127	36	Vixen	2
128	35	Bingomasters Breakout	2
129	35	Ten Houses of Eve	2
130	33	Boxoctosis	1
131	33	Papal Visit	1
132	33	Psycho Mafia	1
133	33	Stepping Out	1
134	33	Time Enough at Last	1
135	31	disney's dream debased	2
136	31	living too late	2
137	31	Riddler!	2
138	30	Copped It	1
139	30	Two Steps Back	1
140	28	High Tension Line	1
141	28	Job Search	1
142	26	Backdrop	1
143	26	Session Musician	1
144	26	Sing!Harpy	1
145	26	The Reckoning	1
146	25	50 year old man	2
147	25	Carry Bag Man	1
148	25	It's The New Thing	1
149	25	Masquerade	1
150	25	Twister	1
151	23	CnC Hassle Schmuck	1
152	23	Craigness	1
153	23	In My Area	1
154	22	2nd Dark Age	1
155	22	Gentleman's Agreement	1
156	22	HOW	1
157	22	Put Away	1
158	22	Shift-Work	1
159	21	Antidotes (Peel Session)	1
160	21	Bury Pts. 1 & 3	1
161	21	Cyber Insekt	1
162	21	Don’t Call Me Darling	1
163	21	Futures & Pasts	1
164	21	Ol' Gang	1
165	21	Pacifying Joint	1
166	21	The Littlest Rebel	1
167	21	Y.F.O.C. - Slippy Floor	1
168	20	Extricate	1
169	20	Feeling Numb	1
170	20	Green Eyed Loco Man	1
171	20	The Steak Place	1
172	19	Blood outta stone	1
173	19	British People In Hot Weather	1
174	19	Bug Day	1
175	19	Get a Hotel	1
176	19	Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun	1
177	19	To NK Roachment: Yarbles	1
178	18	Choc-Stock	1
179	18	Hot Cake	1
180	18	Lucifer Over Lancashire	1
181	18	Muzorewi's Daughter	1
182	18	Oswald Defence Lawyer	1
183	18	The Birmingham School Of Business School	1
184	18	The Crying Marshall	1
185	18	The War Against Intelligence	1
186	18	White Lightning	1
187	17	industrial estate	1
188	17	Live At The Witch Trials	1
189	17	Mark'll Sink Us	1
190	17	Reformation	1
191	17	Return	1
192	17	Two Librans	1
193	16	Can Can Summer	1
194	16	He Pep!	1
195	16	Pinball Machine	1
196	16	Stay Away (Old White Train)	1
197	15	das vulture ans ein nutter-wain 	1
198	15	Dr. Faustus	1
199	14	2 * 4	1
200	14	Bournemouth Runner	1
201	14	Latch Key Kid	1
202	14	Midwatch 1953	1
203	14	rose	1
204	14	Shoulder Pads #1B	1
205	14	Tommy Shooter	1
206	14	Wrong Place, Right Time	1
207	13	A Past Gone mad	1
208	13	Clear Off! 	1
209	13	Dr Faustus	1
210	13	Idiot Joy Showland	1
211	12	a day in the life	1
212	12	And Therein	1
213	12	I'm a Mummy	1
214	12	Kimble	1
215	12	Shake-Off	1
216	12	Systematic Abuse	1
217	12	Xmas with Simon	1
			

Ah, forgot the number ones..

Just those, then...

	Score	Track	Vote	No:1
2	512	The Classical	17	3
3	438	How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'	18	1
4	404	Winter	15	2
5	385	Leave The Capitol	15	2
6	381	Wings	13	4
8	275	Hip Priest	11	1
9	271	New Puritan	9	3
10	257	Garden	10	2
11	253	No Bulbs	11	1
12	248	New Face in Hell	10	1
17	208	Bill Is Dead	8	2
19	202	Cruisers Creek	8	1
20	196	The N.W.R.A.	7	1
27	158	Weather Report 2	7	1
34	131	Slates, Slags, Etc.	5	1
35	127	Smile	6	1
42	114	Bonkers in Phoenix	4	1
43	112	Bremen Nacht	3	1
45	110	Rebellious Jukebox	5	1
56	93	Iceland	3	1
72	70	Service	4	1
76	66	A Figure Walks	2	1
91	59	Words Of Expectation	2	1
116	42	There's A Ghost In My House	2	1
118	40	Just Waiting	1	1

Half of me wants to kiss whoever voted for their version of 'I'm a Mummy', half of me wants to smdh and tell them to listen to the Bob McFadden version instead.

Their version of 'There's a Ghost In My House' does rule, though.

xpost it was me, and I alredy knew/had the Bob & "Dor" version.

Didn't mean to imply that you didn't know it, just that the Bob version is inimitable and should be listened to regularly.

Mark - 'Telephone Thing' is in the long list twice, at #68 and #89

hate to say, but i gave "totally wired" my #1 slot. i'm always glad to hear it. perhaps you discarded my ballot in curdling disgust?

nbd, maybe i sent it to the parole board by mistake

Will check

Yep. add 1 to the "Number One" amount for "Totally Wired"

I did collate your votes, otherwise..

hmmm, I'm with Noodle on these results.

the definitive #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3i4U6DwhBw

the biz. "my heart and i agree..."

can't imagine anyone not loving that song and wanting to muss it's greasy little hairs up down by the molesting station

totally wired is undeniable. I once even caught my non-fall-loving wife singing it.

"fortress/deerpark" and "deerpark" entries should have been collected?

yeah..

Consider it up from 46 to 28

Same with Dr. Faustus, i was not the ONLY one to vote for it. Only bumps it up to 28 points though. You fools! BANANA!

STUNNED by lack of support for Kicker and My New House!!!

with the exceptions of Iceland and John Quays, I was surprised at how my top choices reflected majority taste in this poll. Here's my ballot:

1. New Puritan (Peel session)
2. Iceland
3. Totally Wired (live, A Part of America, Therein)
4. Leave the Capitol
5. No Xmas for John Quays
6. New Face in Hell
7. Hip Priest (Peel Session)
8. Winter
9. How I Wrote Elastic Man
10. The Container Drivers
11. Wings
12. The Classical
13. New Big Prinz
14. No Bulbs
15. The Man Whose Head Expanded
16. An Older Lover, etc
17. Putta Block
18. Gut of the Quantifier
19. Hey Luciani!
20. The Mixer

oh boy, sharing time! note slots 1, 6 & 12:

1. Totally Wired
2. No Bulbs
3. Psycho Mafia
4. Copped It
5. The Classical
6. Hit the North Pt. 1
7. Rowche Rumble
8. How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
9. L.A.
10. My New House
11. Blindness
12. Cab It Up!
13. There’s a Ghost In My House
14. Riddler!
15. Big New Priest
16. Putta Block
17. Prole Art Threat
18. Tempo House
19. Slang King
20. Vixen

i think my new house suffers from sitting next to paintwork on tnsg.

Winter 1
My New House 2
Kicker Conspiracy 3
Garden (Peel version)4
Impression of J Temperance 5
Guest Informant 6
Gut of the Quantifier 7
What You Need 8
Blindness (Peel Version)9
Middle Mass (Peel version)10
No Bulbs 11
Mere Pseud Mag Ed (live, Hip Priest & Kamerads) 12
Free Range 13
Hard Life In Country 14
Ten Houses of Eve 15
I Feel Voxish 16
Weather Report 2 17
Look, Know 18
Dr Faustus 19
Frightened 20

Almost 50% of my top 10 did not place ;_;

Regret not voting for psychomafia!

Thanks Mark G.!

1. The Classical
2. Spectre Vs Rector
3. Bonkers in Phoenix
4. I'm into C.b.
5. Garden
6. Winter
7. Your Heart Out
8. I Am Damo Suzuki
9. Rowche Rumble
10. New Puritan
11. The NWRA
12. Paintwork
13. Hotel Bloedel
14. Muzorewi's Daughter
15. How I Wrote Elastic Man
16. Eat Y'Self Fitter
17. Totally Wired
18. Smile
19. Fit And Working Again
2o. Container Drivers

I actually dont like Totally Wired but 2-10 is amazingly unfuckwithable. Great job ILM!

Here's my ballot. 17 of the 20 placed. Can't believe I was the only one to vote for Backdrop, that song is a fucking monster.

1.New Puritan
2.Tempo House
3.Rowche Rumble
4.Totally Wired
5.Deer Park
6.Backdrop
7.Hip Priest
8.Gut of the Quantifier
9.No Bulbs
10.The Impression of J.Temperance
11.Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
12.Leave the Capitol
13.Wings
14.Container Drivers
15.Slates, Slags, etc.
16.Eat Y'Self Fitter
17.Spectre vs. Rector
18.Wrong Place, Right Time
19.The Man Whose Head Expanded
20.Hard Life in the County

Gotta admit I'm surprised the classical did so well. While I can ignore the first lines when playing Hex, it does kind of damper its click-pick status in my book

then again I've got "Jew on a motorbike" on my ballot so don't take that to be too pious a stance

1. Hip Priest
2. Garden
3. Cruiser's Creek
4. Tempo House
5. The Classical
6. Leave The Capitol
7. Paint Work
8. 2x4
9. Middle Mass
10. I Feel Voxish
11. Bury Pts. 1 & 3
12. I am Damo Suzuki
13. Bug Day
14. Pat Trip Dispenser
15. Mark'll Sink Us
16. He Pep!
17. Dr. Faustus
18. Totally Wired
19. Free Range
20. L.A.

1. Winter
2. Mere Pseud Mag Ed
3. Stepping Out
4. Life Just Bounces
5. Hey! Student
6. I Feel Voxish
7. How I Wrote Elastic Man
8. Totally Wired
9. Free Range
10. Big New Prinz
11. Paint-Work
12. Frenz
13. Words Of Expectation
14. The Birmingham School Of Business School
15. Oh! Brother
16. Stay Away (Old White Train)
17. Pay Your Rates
18. Theme From Sparta FC
19. Touch Sensitive
20. Garden

Wings was my #1 and it looks like it received the most #1 votes. I almost left Totally Wired off my ballot but once I remembered, I placed it at 10. Can't believe No Xmas for John Quays did not place in the top 50. I thought it was more well-liked around here.

1. Wings
2. Jawbone and The Air Rifle
3. The Classical
4. Fortress/Deer Park
5. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
6. Gut of The Quantifier
7. Mere Pseud Mag. Ed.
8. No Xmas for John Quays
9. Gross Chapel/British Grenadiers
10. Totally Wired
11. Marquis Cha-Cha
12. Slates, Slags, Etc.
13. I'm into C.B.!
14. Room to Live
15. Big New Prinz
16. Paintwork
17. Tempo House
18. 2 * 4
19. Clear Off!
20. Cab it Up!

righteousmaelstrom u did not vote for the song from which yr dn derives!

iirc

I think the only thing in this poll that surprised me was Wings placing above Voxish, Garden and (way above) Tempo House. But I've changed opinions about the PBL tracks a lot over the years, so maybe that'll be the next one...

lol I know. I actually pulled it from the live stage rant at the end of Putta Block.

#1 The N.W.R.A.
Winter
Wings
Deer Park
Slang King
Eat Y'self Fitter
Jawbone and the Air-Rifle
What You Need
The Classical
Totally Wired
Lay of the Land
The Container Drivers
Paint Work
Who Makes the Nazis?
Fit and Working Again
Psykick Dancehall
Garden
Marquis Cha-Cha
Kicker Conspiracy
How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'

i threw my ballot together without thinking too much and could easily swap half these tracks for others. considering the showing for all the other slates tracks i thought fit and working again was a lock for the top 10. kicker conspiracy is great but i think being about football affects its reception - a friend of mine hates it for this reason.

My ballot. I only did songs.

01 The Classical
02 Australians in Europe
03 U.S. 80's-90's
04 Totally Wired
05 Lie-Dream Of A Casino Soul
06 No Bulbs
07 Twister
08 Guest Informant
09 Gut of the Quantifier
10 Telephone Thing
11 Futures & Pasts
12 Rowche Rumble
13 British People In Hot Weather
14 Lucifer Over Lancashire
15 The Man Whose Head Expanded
16 Paint Work
17 Fiery Jack
18 Bournemouth Runner
19 Hip Priest
20 Kimble

Well done to the other Australians in Europe voter (I know. It's shooting stereotypical fish-in-a-barrel, but it still rocks).

Aus in Europe has been stuck in my head for like a week! I maybe shd have voted for it. Several b sides of that era I regret not including. Mark'll Sink Us... Bormann...

EuuuRUP! UP! UP-UP! UP!

The Annotated Fall

Oh yay hurray, that v cool site has saved me the task of typing in the awesome ad-lib portion of the live in Iceland version of The Classical:

On live versions, variant lyrics often would appear at this point. One more or less typical example (from Austurbaejarbio, recorded in 1982): "Dear customer, prior to delivery, this fine Ford Kawasaki Excel Escort was given a thorough inspection by Fred here in the white coat...please note, um, the, um, coin-spots on the dashboard...please note the fuel exhaustion limit reader...please note the elephant house odor of the dashboard, and most importantly the axels and the hubs which are immune to snow, extreme heat, rain, hailstones, sleet, and HAIL! The Classical!"

Not evoked by transcription is the amazing phrasing but it's something like

PLEASE NOTE!
the FUEL...
EXHAUSTION...
LIMIT...
READER...
PLEASE NOTE!
the elephant...
HOUSE!
odor...

That same live album has a great variant on Look, Know:

HE
Was the first
To wear
an idiotic
JACKET
in the club...

Container Drivers and I'm Into CB were robbed

This Poll in Number One in my list of Polls by the way.

Also I think this is the type of band and catalog that you could do one of these every six months and come up with quite a different result. Can we do that?

Jeff W! 'Twas I. This was my somewhat unreconstructed response to hearing it for the first time ever:

Australians In Europe - Holy hell, so catchy! And there's a subtle chord-change. This IS the poppy post-Bend Sinister burbling and it's AWESOME. And wow, that vocal echo thing! Playing with content AND form here. I'd not expected something quite so righteously joyful! It's still heavy; the bass and drums ensure that. But it's also a romp, a blast, perhaps the blinding chords of the Ketamine Sun shining onto our damned forms. I can't quite explain how bizarre this song's alchemy is. OH SHIT! The power-chord middle section!!! What's happened to The Fall?! This is completely insane! And then the guitar builds beneath, the bass changes, and MES comes back in...it's maybe one of my favourite 5 Fall moments so far? Hahahahaha, this band NEVER fails to amaze me. WOW. This has rapidly become one of the best pop songs I've ever had the privilege to hear. And there's still over a minute left!!! It's all going a bit Complicated Game. I ain't complaining. FUCK. I have no more rational argument about this. Why isn't it automatically mentioned every time the Peel Sessions are brought up? Beautiful solo during the fade-out too. YES

Anyway, here's my ballot. Hurricane Edward was fucking ROBBED my friends! Go on, give it another listen, it's the end of time

Bonkers In Phoenix
Hurricane Edward
Winter
Weather Report 2
Hip Priest
Garden
Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers
New Puritan
Australians In Europe
4 1/2 Inch
Ol' Gang
Blindness
Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun
The Crying Marshall
Two Librans
Paintwork
Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
Midwatch 1953
50 Year-Old Man
Eat Y'Self Fitter

I tend to go for the dare I say 'more avant-garde' sort of Fall song - things like Hit The North and Totally Wired may reach me eventually - certainly I'm not going to make a distinction between 'interesting Fall' and 'boring Fall' because it's all part of the same creative process, really

REALLY REGRET NOT VOTING FOR:

Mexico Wax Solvent
The Birmingham School Of Business School
Antidotes

i forgot to vote for "autralians", stupid considering i made room for most every other would-be pop hit

it does look like a whopping great pop anomaly in my ballot doesn't it. but it's an unbelievably intense, bizarre and plain fucken rocknroll pop song, it's a righteous pop maelstrom

imago do you not fuck with Guest Informant, the other throat-shaker from that clutch of B sides?

Thanks for turning me onto that track, Aus in Eur, am listening now. It's great

would have to *gulp* hear...it...again? xp

btw you can add virtually every Levitate and Unutterable track I didn't vote for to the Regret list, especially Spencer Must Die, Levitate, Dr Buck's Letter, Devolute and Cyber Insekt

Had no time to comment

1 Wings
2 Kurious Oranj
3 Fortress/Deer Park
4 Leave the Capitol
5 Slates, Slags, Etc
6 The Classical
7 Lie Dream of A Casino Soul
8 Hey! Luciani
9 Look, Know
10 English Scheme
11 Your Heart Out
12 Jawbone and the Air Rifle
13 Blood outta stone
14 C'n'C Mithering
15 US 80s-90S
16 The man whose head expanded
17 Athlete Cured
18 Middle Mass
19 Who makes the nazis
20 Xmas with Simon

Could be v different, in fact looking now am surprised at some of my low votes.

20 Xmas with Simon

you rule

re: levitate, I wanted to vote for both Eve and Hurricane Ed, but in the end only Eve made the cut, mostly for the breathtaking transition to the hallucinatory 'if only the shards. could relocate. back. in place.' moment

Feeling da croupier's ballot for "Old White Train" and especially, uh, "Words of Expectation."

1 Words Of Expectation
2 Hotel Bloedel
3 Gut Of The Quantifier
4 I Feel Voxish
5 Job Search
6 And This Day
7 Leave The Capitol
8 Impression Of J. Temperance
9 Weather Report 2
10 Room To Live
11 Y.F.O.C. - Slippy Floor
12 Prole Art Threat
13 New Puritan
14 Dr. Bucks' Letter
15 Paint-Work
16 City Hobgoblins
17 Big New Prinz
18 Service
19 Blindness
20 Spinetrak

Really, though, that whole long list just gives me a nice warm feeling inside. Favorite discoveries of poll research: "Bremen Nacht" and "4 1/2 Inch."

Updated Spotify link (w/ correct "Deer Park" placing) is here.

1. Bremen Nacht
2. Leave the Capitol
3. Frightened
4. Cruiser’s Creek
5. Hip Priest
6. Sing!Harpy
7. Container Drivers
8. New Face In Hell
9. Repetition
10. Shift-Work
11. Don’t Call Me Darling
12. Feeling Numb
13. Telephone Thing
14. Ten Houses of Eve
15. Psykick Dancehall
16. No Bulbs
17. Totally wired
18. Lost In Music
19. Eat Y’Self Fitter
20. 50 year old man

REGRET NOT VOTING FOR:

Contraflow
It’s a Curse

Thanks for the Spotify link.

I think you have two of the tracks as 'local' i.e. on your laptop/whatever. (Paintwork and Cruisers Creek), which means 'we' can't access them.

Only 4 of these ended up in the top 20. Either I have really dopey taste in Fall songs or, as Hincklepicker suggested, this poll would come out vastly different every few months (or maybe both).
Looking over all the other votes, I could make a few completely different top 20s that I'd still like more than most other bands' music.
Whatta group!

1 Slates, Slages, Etc
2 New Big Prinz
3 Container Drivers
4 Frenz
5 Hit The North
6 Bill Is Dead
7 Bremen Nacht Alternative
8 Vixen
9 CnC Hassle Schmuck
10 The NWRA
11 Telephone Thing
12 Paint Work
13 Glam Racket
14 Kurious Oranj
15 The Chislers
16 Can Can Summer
17 Touch Sensitive
18 Victoria
19 Eat Yrself Fitter
20 Sparta 2XX

I think you have two of the tracks as 'local' i.e. on your laptop/whatever. (Paintwork and Cruisers Creek), which means 'we' can't access them.

Thanks, fixed it!

Looking over all the other votes, I could make a few completely different top 20s that I'd still like more than most other bands' music.
Whatta group!

OTM

me too

Everybody needs to give a good (re-)listen to "Before The Moon Falls":

01 Wings
02 Before The Moon Falls
03 Winter
04 The Man Whose Head Expanded
05 Take An Older Lover
06 Fantastic Life
07 Various TImes
08 Leave The Capitol
09 New Puritans
10 C'n'C-S Mithering
11 Gut Of The Quantifier
12 Hip Priest
13 Sparta FC
14 No Bulbs
15 Bill Is Dead
16 Who Makes The Nazis
17 Paintwork
18 Spinetrak
19 I'm Into C.B.!
20 Totally Wired

These are my selections wot didn't make it:

7. It's The New Thing
11. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
17. Flat of Angles
18. I Am Damo Suzuki
19. Disney's Dream Debased
20. Ludd Gang

Some not that far out of contention, I see. But I'm quite alone with my "It's the New Thing" luv.

I did this:

01. Smile
02. City Hobgoblins
03. Athlete Cured
04. Guest Informant
05. Gut of the Quantifier
06. Lay of the Land
07. 2x4
08. I Feel Voxish
09. Bremen Nacht (LP version)
10. Totally Wired
11. Frightened
12. The Steak Place
13. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
14. The Classical
15. The Man Whose Head Expanded
16. New Face In Hell
17. I Am Damo Suzuki
18. Shoulder Pads #1B
19. Riddler!
20. Bill Is Dead

..but really agonized over some of the tracks I left off.

Also, NO ONE else voted for Shoulder Pads?!? What is wrong with you people etc.?

i know, i wrestled w myself over that one. since i tried to skew pop, i should have made room. it really is a favorite. hey! luciani too. tbh, i cruelly shortchanged bend sinister/domesday payoff, my real first fall LP.

New Face in Hell
How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
Rowche Rumble
Leave the Capitol
Flat of Angles
Psykick Dancehall
LA
An Older Lover etc.
Container Drivers
Jawbone and the Air-Rifle
Lie Dream Of a Casino Soul
Bonkers in Phoenix
4 1/2 Inch
Before the Moon Falls
Iceland
Wings
Fiery Jack
Hurricane Edward
Winter
Kicker Conspiracy

Total points by year:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_points_by_year_zps006e9f47.png

Dates generally assigned by first appearance of studio version on album or single, or of live album release when no studio version exists. Exceptions/notes:
-- "Blindness", "Job Search": 2004 Peel session broadcast date used.
-- "Stepping Out": Taken as the 1978 Live at the Electric Circus track.
-- "Session Musician": Date of live recording (1981) used, rather than 2005 live album release.
-- "Antidotes": As the Peel session is specified, assigned to 1998 (date of broadcast) rather than 1999 (when it appeared on The Marshall Suite).
-- "Hot Cake": Taken as the 2010 album track, as the 2009 single track has a "Part 2" in the title.

That's pretty far from SD

"Container Drivers" and "Dr Faustus" also twice in list, the former should thus be pushed up to #21 if I calculate correctly.

Also "2 x 4".

Number of tracks per year:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_count_by_year_zps5538bde3.png

Average score of each track by year:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_avg_by_year_zps232c2459.png

where the hell is fizzles??

Good question. Might be under cosh at work?

feel like i haven't had time to sit in this thread.

I enjoyed glancing at every ballot and thinking 'yes, great ballot'. In other polls I think, 'no, come on, really?'; not here.

Thinking I should have done a post-90 or 95 ballot myself. I've enjoyed listening to that end more.

Funny how even a band as long-lived and multi-faceted as the Fall emerges with a huge emphasis on the early years.

That IS interesting.
Even though many (most?) of us have loads of time for much of their last 30 years, I guess when push comes to shove...

Most bands' golden 'early years' don't last as long as that though.

The longer the fall go on for, the longer time period the "early years" takes up.

^^^ well put

where the hell is fizzles??

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, don't fizzle out, this thread needs you

Forgot to thank Mark for taking on the mammoth task of a fall ballot.

fizzles has taken a pilgrimage to marcelo trotta's birthplace which he will desecrate with two sainsbury's shopping bags of his own excrement iirc

Having a "Fall" time...

Kinda look back bore