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No Xmas For John Keys because:

It opens with 'The X in Xmas is a substitute crucifix for Christ', stops in the middle for a brief rendition of Good King Wenceslas before descending into horrendously atonal 'ahhhhh, ah-ah ah AHHHHHHH's for pretty much for the rest of the song, and because the (possibly aforementioned) live version features Mess shouting 'CANYERFUCKINGEDDIT T'GETHER INSTEAD'OSHOWINOFF' at the bassist for pissing about too much.

― Ferg (Ferg), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i never answered this thread because i couldnt choose then and i still cant

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"Leave the Capitol" because, in your brain, in your brain:

It will not drag me down
I will leave this ten times town
I will leave this fucking dump
One room, one room
Hotel maids smile in unison
Then you know in your brain
You know in your brain
LEAVE THE CAPITOL
EXIT THIS ROMAN SHELL

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tempo House" live on the Speed Trials comp, cause of them cowbells. And cause it's long and wonderfully drawn out.

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:38 (twenty-three years ago)

post-posting, wondering if Aaron A.'s Fall collection is still "meager" 9 months later?

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

impossible task but at the moment "STOP MITHERING" - one of his best diatribes

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

post-posting, wondering if Aaron A.'s Fall collection is still "meager" 9 months later?

I have since bought Grotesque. I would probably go with "Pay Your Rates" now, but that 2nd unnamed track on my CD copy of Grotesque is great, too. I am so clueless on the Fall that I don't even know what the song is called.

I had heard and loved "Totally Wired" before I bought Grotesque, but on the album it fairly pales next to "How I Wrote Elastic Man". What a fecking great album.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Rollin' Danny

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

GARDEN

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 July 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to third 'Leave the Capitol'.

― holojames (holojames), Sunday, 18 July 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cruiser's Creek" you bastards.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriosly, there's no denying that riff. I just have to get up and frug embarassingly (is there any other way to frug?) everytime I hear it.

Second choice: "Mr.Pharmacist".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Classical"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 18 July 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

When you're asked to pick just one song by a band you love this much, who have produced so many extraordinary things, you either arbritrarily pick one of the many defining high points of their career, yeah - something that does its best to exemplify what makes them unique.

Or you can make a choice that seems all wrong by the above criterion, but which in the concealed, outlawed context makes the only kind of coherent sense.

So I'm picking a bloody cover version of all things.

'I'm Going To Spain'

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Middlemass

― ttt, Sunday, 18 July 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Fit and Working Again

― sherm, Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hey! student

― f ath, Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

At my college radio station we got the new Fall hits cd and there aren't many people djing for the summer. So there is a bunch of mp3s on a computer playing on repeat. I managed to sneak about 12 Fall songs on there. Right now "Hip Priest" is playing so I might as well big that even though it only rocks out there it has a great creepyness vibe as evidenced by it's use in the Silence of the Lambs.

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

green eyed loco man

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

If w/ a video clip; then 'Container Drivers' off the end of the Perverted By Language Bis tape. Great clips from transport strikes, outtakes from other clips and a plain rockin' song. 2nd for video clip would be either 'Hit the North' (Brix's Dancing) or 'Eat Y'Self Fitter'. Or 'Wings'. Or 'Kicker Conspiracy'. Oh shit.

At the moment, for song alone, I'd say 'Tempo House'. That rhythm kicks my arse, and the lyrics are great; "Winston Churchill had a speech imp-p-pedament, and look what he did; erased half of London..." "Hooray hooray". At one stage though, I used to dance around my room in my underwear doing air guitar to 'Hip Priest'.

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wintergarden

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheater. Though, you could get away w/ the live version of Winter that joins Hostel-Maxi & Pt. 2

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I think posting about the Fall here is really just gratuitous for me at this point (yes Tempo House rules, btw). But this thread encouraged me to pull out Hex Enduction Hour last night just for fun, so because choosing one Fall song is impossible I'll simply give a nod to "Who Makes The Nazis?" since it sounded particularly amazing to me last night.

I'm also about to revisit Grotesque after not hearing it for a very long time. Not necessarily one of my favourite Fall albums, but it should be fun nonetheless. I can't wait to refamiliarize myself. I do recall Stop Mithering and J. Temperance with affection.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Container Drivers! Pay Your Rates! In The Park! The NWRA! Grotesque is a keeper.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The live version of 'Who Makes The Nazis' on Hip Priests & Kamerads is best. I forgot about 'C'n'C -S Mithering'. Grotesque truly is great.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Garden, garden...

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 July 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone have video of the 1984 IRS Cutting Edge show that did a segment on the Fall? All I can recall is "Pay Your Rates" being performed in a record store in LA or somewhere. I'd love to see that segment again...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 19 July 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No Xmas For John Quays or Fiery Jack

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, "Hip Priest" or "Eat Y'rself Fitter" or "What You Need."

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

POT -- The Fall

Oh, and the best video clip is "Eat Y'rself Fitter." It has Brix dancing AND MES dancing. And it acts out the lyrics.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

'Bill is Dead'
because I'm a softy

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

this will change every day for me. right now, i think its "slags, slates, etc" or "lie dream of casino soul"

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why Are People Grudgeful?"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 19 July 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Another cover (not that that bothers me, some of their best tracks are covers).

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Paintwork

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

M@tt beat me to it. So I'll choose "Wings".

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fortress/Deer Park" and its 2-note "Sister Ray"-droning organ come close, but I finally gotta choose "No Xmas for John Quays" due to its breathtakingly atonal 2-chord riff, numerous false endings and Mark E. Smith's verbal nonsense complete with hilarious, hopeless Frankie Lymon "imitation".

Is it possible to truly love this band despite having virtually no clue what the hell MES is going on about 90% of the time?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Myonga it is. Full comprehension not even nearly necessary. Don't worry about it all. I've had people tell me if you don't come from the U.K. you're just fucked trying to understand the lyrics, but then I've also seen a quote from Julian Cope saying The Fall's lyrics are all nonsense anyway. Really, man it doesn't matter. I appreciate the parts I DO understand, and what I don't, well...it's just poetry.

Can I just say Grotesque's "New Face In Hell"? Please? Why doesn't anyone care about "New Face In Hell"?

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sasha, thanks for reminding me of the live version of Who Makes The Nazis on Hip Priest & Kamerads. I must revinvestigate promptly. I do also recall the live version of Mag Pseud Editor there in a favorable light.

I honestly never expected to be so delighted just to pull out old Fall. I stand corrected. I thought I was over it. Really, I thought I was pretty much over it.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized the "John Quays" pun a week ago. I've owned the album since high school. SIGH!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't feel bad! I felt the same way when I figured that one out! I don't remember when it was, but I do remember the feeling! Isn't he just too much?

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a plus of the Fall that I'm constantly being sideswiped by a lyric I never noticed before.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Full comprehension not even nearly necessary.

or possible, that's what makes them so great.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I confess I loved the Cocteau Twins for the same reason, but that's another subject entirely.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm into C.B.!

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Some people think if they had a job they'd be well...helll.....
FANTASTIC LIFE!!!!!"

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I think it's 'That Man' offay Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never). Punky love song that takes a shot at trad-jaz players and ends with a kazoo solo. Awesome!

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

**Why doesn't anyone care about "New Face In Hell"?**

Oh it's great, but the defining version is the Peel Session vers - less kazoo, more organ.

My Pick : 'Stepping Out'

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

"Service" - house is a feeling-ah. Wistfully, weightlessly propulsive.

― etc, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Lie Dream of the Casino Soul" today. Because of the way it's already swingin' while contemplating cutting "mien Dyckhoff!" etc, but is still forced up a gear during each queasy organ/sax twin attack!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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Got to compliment on MES on the decision to cover "Rollin' Dany", love that song.

― The Olde, Old, Very Olde Man. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 February 2026 18:20 (four months ago)

xps Yeah went back to that Early Years comp recently and it's fantastic.

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 3 February 2026 18:25 (four months ago)

Oh, I got a whole bunch of singles back then, think I'm sorted for those 'early' things. But, recently I comped the cd albums and I've got most of the cd versions of the albums, maybe missing around five. So, if I get up to "Middle Class Revolt" I'll have to buy one.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 February 2026 19:14 (four months ago)

The cog sinister The Early Singles cd is even more handy, takes you through the zenith Kamera sides

― duolingo ate my baby (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 February 2026 22:44 (four months ago)

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