Still "Wings". 'cassionally "Bill is Dead".
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 January 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
No, still "Cruisers Creek".
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 January 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The only Fall song I have is their cover of "The Legend of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.
It's really good.
― felicity, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I started this thread and now I have all this Fall album.
It's just an impossible task but I'll go with "Paint-work" now even though it omits so many element of the band's greatness.
― begloved smoked salmon sandwich (wanko ergo sum), Sunday, 9 November 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Various Times
― Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 9 November 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Bend Sinister is the shit cousin
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Oh man do i disagree
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
Toss up between Iceland and New Puritan for me
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't Get Ahead
― everything, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
― Noodle Vague
I can get w/this
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-wmTOeuTJw
― timellison, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, December 28, 2016 12:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
u don't like bend sinister?????
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Oh haha nmI thought you were saying it was the shitty cousin of the other fall albums of that era
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
I love it and hope it doesn't get the short end of beggars' dwindling remasters program
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
Banana!
― dlp9001, Friday, 30 December 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
I recall David Bowie (love him, RIP, etc.) dissing Bend Sinister in some interview at the time, and thinking what the fuck.
― dlp9001, Friday, 30 December 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
I DRANK A JAR OF COFFEE AND I TOOK SOME OF THEEEES-A
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
Today if I could pick only one it'd be Big New Prinz. One of Hanleys finest hours. It'd probably change tomorrow.
― Dan.S., Monday, 2 January 2017 12:25 (seven years ago) link
Despite rumours of Mark's ill health fuelled by last night’s mental 100 Club gig, The Fall’s new album is excellent. https://t.co/sgFyrysNIH pic.twitter.com/DglvyzGB88— MOJO Magazine (@MOJOmagazine) July 28, 2017
What happened? Anyone know?
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
New Facts Emerge is on Spotify....digging it...Mark E is super unhinged, this is probably their "heaviest" album ever, "Couples Vs. Jobless Mid 30s" riff is stoner metal
Mark E's smoking ravaged voice almost sounds like auto-tune sometimes
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
half the time i'm literally just what the fuck kind of music is this supposed to be?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
oooh excited
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
http://includemeout2.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-fall-at-100-club.html
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
Left the stage and sang from the dressing room?!?!
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
huh....hope he's ok but i guess he probably isn't
that Gutters band mentioned in the blog is pretty good!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
sounds very much in character tbh
― sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:41 (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinl
Sounds like a woman called Pam was fronting the group for much of the gig, with Smith out of sight. When I saw them in Manchester recently, in what was an excellent gig, Smith looked like a thousand-year-old witch, with buboes and lank, sparse hair, and though often in full force, would periodically suddenly grimace and sway slightly as if in that sort of full body pain you get with serious operations or illness. Plenty of rumours about ill-health.
It was a remarkable gig though. I was laughing at how lopsided and half-assed the album was earlier (these are not necessarily bad things), but i need to listen again, as that's two people now who have said they really like it. One thing i'd concur with upper missisippi sh@kedown though is that much on the album barely qualifies as songwriting if at all. Again, not necessarily in a bad way.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
If he has osteoporosis, and it seems he does, it wouldn't be too easy to get from the stage at the 100 Club to the drssing room, certainly not without people realizing and how you would sing from there, I have no idea, unless it had been set up beforehand.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
Sounds like a woman called Pam was fronting the group for much of the gig
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VhzsUgaiL._SX357_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
I pick "In My Area" for its acoustic grooviness --or-- "Oswald Defense Lawyer" for how bemused i become when i play it for my grandma.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Ummmm.... https://www.instagram.com/p/BXER51PjzHH/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
"This is actually a flattering photo"
Uh oh. I have a ticket to see The Fall in NYC in September, on the LAST night of the residency. I'm not sure he'll make it.
― JRN, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
yikes
yeah wonder if he is on steroids of some sort?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
Looks like that.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
he looks like he aged 30 years since the last album, bringing him up to an even 150
― frogbs, Friday, 28 July 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
I can't really summon any quipness right now, I really don't want MES to leave this world yet and those photos and descriptions are fucking concerning
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Friday, 28 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
^^^^^^
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 28 July 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
One of those iG comments said he was dying of cancer...??
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 28 July 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
that’s certainly been the rumour but it feels... idk, fruitless and maybe almost intrusive to speculate overmuch - not quite sure that’s what i mean tho. there’s a couple of things i wanted to post about physicality/death in the fall and also their recent vein of mundane office songs, which i’ve been enjoying, but i’m going to bed so will try and find time tmrw.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 July 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
Please do, would v much appreciate
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Friday, 28 July 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
Fantastic Life!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
MES has looked like an absolute mess for years now, but this feels different...
I can't really summon any quipness right now, I really don't want MES to leave this world yet and those photos and descriptions are fucking concerning― or at night (Jon not Jon), Friday, July 28, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Friday, July 28, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Me neither, even though I could comfortably not listen to anything the band have put out since Bend Sinister...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
As I see it MES is one of these English mystics who grew tired of his gifts finding them as much a curse as anything else and blotted them out with an insane speed intake and constant boozing. Like Jhonn Balance if he'd survived but never got better. It's a shame to see a mind which was once so sharp blundering through the clenched teeth gnomic slogans of recent Fall material. But he's got nothing to do at this point but carry on carrying on although the point was lost long ago. At the same time there's this sense he could still pull it out of the bag again if he wanted to. Just happens he doesn't. He wants to keep on going from inexplicably attractive woman to inexplicably attractive woman, drag them into The Fall, and stumble around onstage shouting. It's not to say it's not still thrilling, its just there's been this element of car-crash ghoulishness about The Fall since at least YFOC.
― Dan.S., Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
Wow didn't read the preceding posts, was simply answering original idea of thread. Man, this recent news re:MESs health issues really bums me out. He/they have been my defacto favorite gruupe for ages now. At least 30 years and it will definitely hit me hard when the time comes. For my money the most important !literary voice to emerge from the late 20th century pop scene. UK or otherwise. I know he can be a monster at times but still, I love the guy.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
I think YFOC and The Real New Fall LP and Fall Heads Roll are pretty essential
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
I could comfortably not listen to anything the band have put out since Bend Sinister
You'd be missing out. There's tons of great stuff after that high point. As much as I love his first decade of work, I often find myself drawn to his 21st century highlights. Mind, I cherry pick every album since "Extricate".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
yeah srsly, soooo much amazing stuff in the 90's alone, Extricate and Shiftwork in particular are 100% killer
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
I'd sub in Imperial Wax Solvent for Heads Roll and add in The Unutterable. The Fall were one of the best bands going in the 00s
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 July 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
I'd love them just as much based only on post-Bend Sinister stuff, so yeah. This news (well, that photo) is a bummer.
― albvivertine, Sunday, 30 July 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link