ah bollocks. :c RIP.
― Ludo, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
Up here in the North there are no wage packet jobs for usThank ChristWhile young married couples discuss the povertiesOf their self-built trapsAnd the junior clergy demand more cashWe spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt
― the girl with the rub-on tattoo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
man, shit.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
I can never tell if “Bill is Dead” is genuinely tender or totally vicious satire. Maybe both, who knows.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
not
Thinking of Fizzles the Chimp, sorry for your loss.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
They obviously had their differences but Marc Riley seems properly rattled and emotional right now
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
text a v good friend and fall fan (we used to get stoned as teenagers and listen to their records):“I know you said when you saw the Fall last he looked like he was ill. And that it was one of their best ever performances you'd seen”
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
I was playing 'Fortress/deer park' in the car on the way home today (thanks to an Uncut freebie - worth the money for once but anyway) and wondered how long he had left.
Having said that, I'm never more than a month away from having played some Fall, and I made a point of playing that Singles (a's and b's) before he goes..
So, bring on the tribs. Including the News at ten..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
he may have ended with his most challenging record to date (New Facts Emerge) which is really fucking saying something
"Couples vs. Jobless Mid 30s" is such an insane piece of work
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
"Couples vs. Jobless Mid 30s"
speaking of which, greatest song/album title-r in rock history??
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
yep :) to both your posts
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Man City team must surely wear black armbands on SUnday as he was the only famous person who admitted to supporting them for about 30 years or so.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
even his crap albums were called things like Are You Are Missing Winner, making them actually not-crap. and then you listen and realise they were never crap
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
there's them gallaghers but totally agree that they should xp
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
Just chuckling away at "Cary Grant's Wedding" right now.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
Literally chuckling.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
someone on facebook said he wrote a note to be read to the crowd at the last cancelled show? is there a link to it?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
Is the Fall's 'Bill is dead' the most romantic song ever written?
Going to go with genuinely tender.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
Np YFOC really fuckin loud
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
xxpost Scott, here
A Message to All, to All. From Mark E. Smith/The Fall group. As I, like Pr Rupert leave Bristol with my tail between my legs, I wish to give my great apologies to everybody. This idiotic idea to do both shows was purely my idea, against the advice of Pamela and The Fall group, agent & promoter. Hope to replace shows within 4 - 6 weeks. In the interim we have eight new songs ready to go and will try and let you hear a few before Christmas. From head patient to you, the patients. I love you all but cannot embrace you all, Mark E. Smith
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
just said to a friend:i'm not interested in sentimentality about this. they always reached beyond, into and around death, mocking and laughing and vicious. idk. memorialise, feel sad, but stand up.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
OT M
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Hard to be sad listening to them, he was so fucking funny.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
YFOC such a classic album xp
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
yes to Fizzles, proper response here is "LOL fuk u death" IMO
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1PxKo
this will never not cheer me up
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
Completely gutted and fucked right now. Someone queue up a the live vers of "NWRA" from the Part of America Therein at brain bleeding volumes and I'll take a Laphroaig and Peroni while yr up.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
The great palimpsest
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Yarbles. To. Even.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
ilx0r: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/arts/music/mark-e-smith-the-fall-best-songs.html
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
We need an interview with MES talking abt the recently passed MES and how he, MES, never really was much of a fan of MES, though he was certainly aware of him and was a proper frontman, not dancing about
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
Gotta blast “Garden” when I get home, that song contains so much.
He’s the young generation dancing troupe, trying to perform country and western(Do a dance here)
He knew the evil of the phoneHe knew the evil of the phoneThe bells stopped on Sunday when he rose The bells, stopped, on Sunday, when HE rose!
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
"feel sad, but stand up."
in smoking and drinking years he had to be about 400, no? which is why i'm not shocked i guess. though i don't know what his final illness was.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
xp to LBI Gideon Coe playing lots of Fall on 6Music now, public service broadcasting...
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
A magnificent rebus, like Dylan on the wrong meds. (and a brief nod to Von Südenfed, one of my great faves)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
yes that Von Südenfed album is fantastic
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
"I will leave this fucking dump".
Sorry it's impossible to listen to the Fall and not quote every other line.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
I really need that Von Südenfed record, thanks for reminder
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
xxxp - part of the charm. almost felt like he'd conquered death, the way he lived
was always surprised by how *young* he was, compared to the way he looked
hard to process this one. dude was so brilliant, can't think of another lyricist quite like him, and I was always amazed how seamlessly The Fall were able to transition from one era to the next
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
Even if your granny shows up with some bongos, it still won’t be The Fall. R.I.P.
― spastic heritage, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/user/bentelec/playlist/7tbIoONKtyQtSsrsnzD0VQ
A spotify playlist, from the ILX tracks/ballot
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
"I will leave this fucking dump".Sorry it's impossible to listen to the Fall and not quote every other line.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
xp Neil, ta, blasting it now
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
The greatest lyricist in musical history, to such an extent that the word ‘lyrics’ is unfit to describe what he did. Other than miles, probably the greatest assembler-of-performers-into-something-unforeseeable there ever was.
These are close to my exact thoughts (expressed better than I could have done). He was a true "visionary" -- as overused as that term may be -- who realized his vision over & over, in a way that made both the expression, and the intent behind the expression, seem entirely sui generis.
I hope he's walking back among us soon, in an expanded / remastered / dodgy-label 2CD version. RIP forever...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
The longer late album cuts, like Couples vs. Jobless, Weather Report, Blindness, 50 Year Old Man, Dr. Bucks' Letter are probably my favorite mode of MES songwriting. Those songs are tunnels to get lost in. You emerge at the end and it's a different day.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
xP.S. -- if indeed "There are twelve people in the world / The rest are paste" -- I think we were just left with only 11...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
"Stop eating all that chocolate. Eat salad instead. In fact, you're a half-wit."
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
He was the first To wear an idiotic jacket In the pub
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Expanded and slightly rejiggered version of "50,000 Fall Fans Can't be Wrong":
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-fall-58-golden-greats-58-original-tracks-including-all-the-hits-3cd-boxset/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Huh, track list drops "Green Eyed Loco-Man" - which seems like a real loss!
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link