Why does anyone like the Fall?

great. will get in touch now I've finally checked in.

the new album is terrific. much better than the last two, which i didnt care for tbh

I dunno, I'm not as sold yet. After a couple of listens the two standouts see the opener and the 10 minute track. No Elani on vocals, boo. His growly drunken old man voice isn't my favorite.

Fizzles impersonated several of the tracks at dinner Thursday night, based upon this preview I'm psyched to get it

I'm really enjoying it. "Stout Man" really the only weak track imo. Wondering if the vinyl mixes will be drastically different.

Social media seems to be a thread running through this album. "I WANNA FUCKIN FACEBOOK TROLL"

Listening to Re-Mit & SLT for the first time. Re-Mit is alright, but I'm actually getting a lot out of Tablet; it's prob the best since Y.F.O.C., though it is a bit patchy. I feel like with these last 3 LPs, the Fall album has turned into something else; you can't really compare Tablet to Imperial Wax Solvent or Country on the Click, any more than you could compare those albums to Perverted by Language or Wonderful and Frightening.

Speaking of which:

Early LPs were crammed with them but I don't think there's been a preponderance of great tracks on a single LP since... This Nation's Saving Grace for definite...

I would propose that Country on the Click absolutely fits this description.

I wish emusic would get slt but I guess if they haven't by now they aren't gonna.

preponderance of great tracks on a single EP = YFOC arguably, COTC arguably, The Unutterable definitely

SLT has Dedication Not Medication and Auto Chip 2014-16 which are both p good imo if not quite top-level material

The Real New Fall LP is pretty stacked
I think I liked The Fall Heads Roll better than most

Reformation Post TLC isn't very good
OFYC rules

Fall heads roll was a letdown after that incredible peel session of 4 of its tracks

>>you can't really compare Tablet to Imperial Wax Solvent

This is funny because both records have the same backing band! I think IWS is the last LP that felt like it had a lot of great individual tracks that overshadowed others, the last few lps seem more "level" in the overall quality of the songs.

Anyone hear Wise Ol' Man yet?

I had the synth line from "Black Door" in my head all day yesterday. Even at under two mins, that song gives me a strong Elastic Man/New Face in Hell vibe. Junger Cloth and Snazzy also work in that really vivid, loopy garage rock mode that MES & co. had moned to such great effect in 1980-81.

*mined

59 years old today. Hbd MES!

Wow. He's only 55 here but looks worse than many people do at 80: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/14/mark-e-smith-self-image

Some dispute over his age, some say he was born in 1955.

Shocked to learn (via that Guardian piece) that he's 6'1". Based on his personality I would have put him at about 5'6".

Interestingly, in that article - from December, 2013 - he says he's 55. That would have made him 58 today, so he was lying about his age then.

Or he didn't remember because he's a fuckwitted souse

He doesn't look a day over 70, that's for sure.

Haha I kinda doubt a dude who is bragging about losing his teeth is gonna lie to shave one year off his age

Or bragging about being a "fifty year old man, and I liiiiiiiiiiiike it"

Listen to "Wrong Place, Right Time." If that bass doesn't move you, you are beyond help.

if he's claiming to be 6'1" then I'm gonna start doing so too

Yeah, especially the Peel session version of Wrong Place. Devastating.

Ha Iggy bragged about being 5'1" and can't imagine he's THAT short

Iggy wasn't bragging, he was lamenting.

Iggy is apparently 5'7"...and Smith is actually 5'9". Which goes better with his temperament than 6'1".

He might have been 6'1" at some point in the early eighties, all those wraps of whizz and broken bones have whittled him down into a shorter giacometti type sculpture since!

I am 6ft 1 if that helps.

mark g smith

xp
I can already tell by your 6'1" temperament.

in other news, Superior Viaduct is reissuing their 1st two singles:

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/2016-punk-singles

I was packing to get ready for moving house and found a stop and search receipt from a few years ago and the cop put my height in as 6'1". I'm actually 6'3" so I expect Mark E. Smith is using the same tape measure.

I thought Smith was a bit taller thnan me when I met him and would have thought it was somewhere aron dthe same height as Nick Cave or Blixa Bargeld. & I think they're both 6' 1 or 2

http://shout.webring.com/people/au/um_474/fa/fall2.jpg

shorter than marc riley, about half an inch taller than bramah, towers over yvonne pawlett, karl burns is possibly a giant?

I'm 6'2" and Blixa Bargeld is pretty close to my height. (Interviewed him in person once. Felt grossly under-dressed.)

Why does anyone like anything?

Felt grossly under-dressed.

to be fair I think he makes everybody feel that way all the time

Riley is tall. And there's that Creppers song that goes "I'm a tall guy I'm taller than him but he's really bigger."

Isn't Cave like 6 4?

i'm 6'4" and i spoke with cave once and he was not as tall as me. 6'1-2" sounds about right.

Is anyone taller than Jim Sclavunos?

Why does anyone like The Tall?

There's no way Iggy is 5'7"

Mark is short. The Fall are short.

Felt grossly under-dressed.

Can we leave Lawrence out of this please?