Iggy wasn't bragging, he was lamenting.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 5 March 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Iggy is apparently 5'7"...and Smith is actually 5'9". Which goes better with his temperament than 6'1".
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 March 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
I am 6ft 1 if that helps.
― Mark G, Saturday, 5 March 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
mark g smith
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Saturday, 5 March 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
xpI can already tell by your 6'1" temperament.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 March 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
in other news, Superior Viaduct is reissuing their 1st two singles:
http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/2016-punk-singles
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Saturday, 5 March 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Saturday, 5 March 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
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?
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Saturday, 5 March 2016 23:19 (eight years ago) link
I'm 6'2" and Blixa Bargeld is pretty close to my height. (Interviewed him in person once. Felt grossly under-dressed.)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 6 March 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
Why does anyone like anything?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 6 March 2016 01:56 (eight years ago) link
Felt grossly under-dressed.
to be fair I think he makes everybody feel that way all the time
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Sunday, 6 March 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link
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."
― everything, Sunday, 6 March 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Isn't Cave like 6 4?
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 March 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
i'm 6'4" and i spoke with cave once and he was not as tall as me. 6'1-2" sounds about right.
― new noise, Sunday, 6 March 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
Is anyone taller than Jim Sclavunos?
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 6 March 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
Why does anyone like The Tall?
― StanM, Sunday, 6 March 2016 05:19 (eight years ago) link
There's no way Iggy is 5'7"
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 7 March 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Mark is short. The Fall are short.
― dlp9001, Monday, 7 March 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
Can we leave Lawrence out of this please?
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Monday, 7 March 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
Eric Bachman from Archers of Loaf/Crooked Fingers is really tall
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 March 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
this thread has taken an incredibly amusing turn
― bernard snowy, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
if you think about it there's an incredibly wide range of height among people who do music, from really short to kind of short and then you've got tall, regular tall, very tall
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
"when I sit down to listen to them, all I hear is an unrehearsed band with a tone deaf lead singer, and absolutley no hooks."
this is why we like them
― akm, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
those reasons and also the heights of the various members of the band
DID YOU KNOW? If you take the average height of all of the members of The Fall over the years, that equals... the same height as MES #spooky
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
I read that book The Fallen and I forgot who it was but one former member didn't even have a height
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I really can't believe that average. Nobody's been as much taller than MES as Brix was shorter have they?
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
For a couple months in 1997 or 98 Tommy Crooks and Neville Winding were exactly the same height, that didn't last
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
if the fall were in a hole, what would the minimum depth of the hole be if you cannot see the top of mark's head when observing it from a distance? assume that he is not standing on the face of one of his bandmates
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
you've got to provide a distance—curvature of the earth etc.
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
And the answer is.. Mark Riley!https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Fallinahole.jpg/220px-Fallinahole.jpg
― Mark G, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
"Ten times my age, one tenth my height"
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Monday, 7 March 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Finally!!!
RECORD STORE DAY 2016 > The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2016 Release Date: 4/16/2016Format: 12" Colored VinylLabel: Narnack RecordsCatalog: NCK 7067Release type: 'RSD First' ReleaseMORE INFOHaving not been avail outside of a 2k pressing in 2004 – Narnack Records represses for Record Store Day of one of the strongest The Fall albums in the band’s 30 year existence. This re-mastered, limited edition, features red/black a/b-side vinyl and a download card as well as two new tracks and two alternate mixes.
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
wary of colored vinyl but I have been waiting for this
cover of this rsd release is very wtf:
http://recordstoreday.co.uk/media/2224/fall-bingo-masters-at-the-witch-trials.jpg
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
sorry for hueg
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
Gross.
Is this just another random comp?
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
hard to tell what it is, but strongly do not want
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Here's the track list, assuming it's an early show
1. Repetition2. Psycho Mafia3. Rebellious Jukebox4. Frightened5. Steppin Out6. I Like To Blow7. Mess Of My8. Mother Sister9. Industrial Estate10. It's The New Thing11. Futures And Pasts12. Music Scene13. Bingo Masters Break Out14. Brand New Cadillac
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
I am assuming it's this July 78 show, with the two missing tracks restored and the three anomalous ones removed. Nothing to get excited about.
https://www.discogs.com/Fall-Live-At-Deeply-Vale/release/3285430
― everything, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
And the two missing tracks are not unreleased either. Who's going to want this on vinyl with that terrible cover?
― everything, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
omg that cover
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
EMERGENCY EYEWASH STATION
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Thank you
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
$50 for reproduction / unlimited print run, seems resonable
http://www.canstockphoto.com/bingo-winner-3019929.html
― soref, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
Never thought I'd say this about a Fall song but Auto Chip 2014-2016 is revelatory through earphones
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Thursday, 2 June 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Definitely my favorite from the last album.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 2 June 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
OMG dying at emergency eyewash station, had not seen that before.
― Dan is a #VegetablePuppet, he is NOT REAL. #flatearth (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 June 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
Hearing that MES and Elena split up :(
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 2 June 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link