― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
thats about it, really!
― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Part of the problem is that they don't a single point of entry- a Village Green Preservation Society or a London Calling a Daydream Nation that lets you get your feet wet. The Fall catalog is an endurance test to some extent- I'd say the last few albums are as good a place to start as any, though others will disagree and are just as correct. The Fall are argument. I needed to hear about six albums, including a few that were flat, before I really started to love them.
― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Do you start with a 'commercial' type, like "This Nation's Saving Grace", or a full on one like "Perverted by Language"? Or a best seller like "Cerebral Caustic", or a big plunge like "Peel Sessions".
There are many ins.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― moxie alvarez, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Harrison Barr (Petar), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
It's ok not to like them though. I've got pretty much everything since "It's the New Thing" (couldn't get Bingo Masters Breakout in Leamington Spa, those of you who know Leamington Spa in the late 70s will understand why...) but my beloved cannot listen to them for more than 30 seconds. And then only if it's Bill is Dead. Actually "Extricate" is as good a place to start as any. I'm gonna put The Littlest Rebel on right now.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 19 January 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― DDDDDD, Thursday, 19 January 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Sorry, I meant "The Infotainment Scan"
9 Fall Infotainment Scan May 1993
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
this sounds about right, although i was hooked somewhere around the fourth one i heard.
― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
If I needed that much convincing I wouldn't (didn't) bother.
― Niall, Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
To quote the wise men above, many ways in and no way out, but small samplings and drive-by listenings are definitely not going to get you in. It helped me to focus on Smith's lyrics; if you can get a beam on his worldview the rest falls into place (hah).
Given your current situation I'd recommend their more sonically challenging outings such as Dragnet or Perverted By Language. One of the comps like Palace or 50,0000 Fans is a good place to start as well.
But if you're looking for killer bands with amazing production, The Fall are not really what you're after.
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
This compendium of Mark E. Smith’s onstage observations has the ‘journal of record’ feel of Alan Bennett’s diaries pic.twitter.com/9rdIjArJFb— Ben Thompson (@btfoshizzle) February 27, 2021
chuckled at: Good evening. This one is for Mark Ellen and his stinking breed.
― calzino, Saturday, 27 February 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
You can get it here:https://www.atlastbooks.com/shop/p/slangking-nickas-planck
Or you can just scroll through the gigography and read snippets from different gigs, here's 1982:https://thefall.org/gigography/gig82.html
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
Thirty quid?
― Mark G, Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
wasn't this band just some bloke talking over a racket
― no (Left), Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
not just any racket
― oscar bravo, Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
Not just any talking.
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
ffs Left
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Monday, 1 March 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link