POO -- The Fall

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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)

two years pass...

DKTR FAUSTUS

Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

where did the official site go?

http://www.thefall.info/

StanM, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

wot's a computar?
wot's a computer??

sleepingbag, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

marquis cha-cha

6335, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

any other day it would be New Face in Hell, but screw it..."Rowche Rumble."
IT'S ABOUT VALIUM!!! WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??!

Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck yeah.

Bimble, Saturday, 19 January 2008 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'", certainly.

Millsner, Saturday, 19 January 2008 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

that's in reference to me being totally hammered at some new year's eve party with complete strangers, trying to explain The Fall to them

Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

and failing miserably, of course...barely succeeding in walking home to grab my Dragnet CD (where I promptly passed out )

Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 06:39 (eighteen years ago)

"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'", certainly.

well done

Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 19 January 2008 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Still "Wings". 'cassionally "Bill is Dead".

Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 January 2008 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

No, still "Cruisers Creek".

Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 January 2008 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

The only Fall song I have is their cover of "The Legend of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

It's really good.

felicity, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I started this thread and now I have all this Fall album.

It's just an impossible task but I'll go with "Paint-work" now even though it omits so many element of the band's greatness.

begloved smoked salmon sandwich (wanko ergo sum), Sunday, 9 November 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

Various Times

Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 9 November 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

Bend Sinister is the shit cousin

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:27 (nine years ago)

Oh man do i disagree

his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:49 (nine years ago)

Toss up between Iceland and New Puritan for me

Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:57 (nine years ago)

Couldn't Get Ahead

everything, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:36 (nine years ago)

Still "Wings". 'cassionally "Bill is Dead".

― Noodle Vague

I can get w/this

sleeve, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:38 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-wmTOeuTJw

timellison, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:50 (nine years ago)

Oh man do i disagree

― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, December 28, 2016 12:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u don't like bend sinister?????

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:37 (nine years ago)

Oh haha nm
I thought you were saying it was the shitty cousin of the other fall albums of that era

his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:39 (nine years ago)

I love it and hope it doesn't get the short end of beggars' dwindling remasters program

his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:40 (nine years ago)

Banana!

dlp9001, Friday, 30 December 2016 02:42 (nine years ago)

I recall David Bowie (love him, RIP, etc.) dissing Bend Sinister in some interview at the time, and thinking what the fuck.

dlp9001, Friday, 30 December 2016 02:44 (nine years ago)

I DRANK A JAR OF COFFEE AND I TOOK SOME OF THEEEES-A

a but (brimstead), Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:08 (nine years ago)

Today if I could pick only one it'd be Big New Prinz. One of Hanleys finest hours. It'd probably change tomorrow.

Dan.S., Monday, 2 January 2017 12:25 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

Despite rumours of Mark's ill health fuelled by last night’s mental 100 Club gig, The Fall’s new album is excellent. https://t.co/sgFyrysNIH pic.twitter.com/DglvyzGB88

— MOJO Magazine (@MOJOmagazine) July 28, 2017

What happened? Anyone know?

heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:41 (eight years ago)

New Facts Emerge is on Spotify....digging it...Mark E is super unhinged, this is probably their "heaviest" album ever, "Couples Vs. Jobless Mid 30s" riff is stoner metal

Mark E's smoking ravaged voice almost sounds like auto-tune sometimes

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:32 (eight years ago)

half the time i'm literally just what the fuck kind of music is this supposed to be?

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:34 (eight years ago)

oooh excited

sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:34 (eight years ago)

http://includemeout2.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-fall-at-100-club.html

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:47 (eight years ago)

Left the stage and sang from the dressing room?!?!

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:50 (eight years ago)

huh....hope he's ok but i guess he probably isn't

that Gutters band mentioned in the blog is pretty good!

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:55 (eight years ago)

sounds very much in character tbh

sleeve, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:55 (eight years ago)

What happened? Anyone know?

― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:41 (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinl

Sounds like a woman called Pam was fronting the group for much of the gig, with Smith out of sight. When I saw them in Manchester recently, in what was an excellent gig, Smith looked like a thousand-year-old witch, with buboes and lank, sparse hair, and though often in full force, would periodically suddenly grimace and sway slightly as if in that sort of full body pain you get with serious operations or illness. Plenty of rumours about ill-health.

It was a remarkable gig though. I was laughing at how lopsided and half-assed the album was earlier (these are not necessarily bad things), but i need to listen again, as that's two people now who have said they really like it. One thing i'd concur with upper missisippi sh@kedown though is that much on the album barely qualifies as songwriting if at all. Again, not necessarily in a bad way.

Fizzles, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:58 (eight years ago)

If he has osteoporosis, and it seems he does, it wouldn't be too easy to get from the stage at the 100 Club to the drssing room, certainly not without people realizing and how you would sing from there, I have no idea, unless it had been set up beforehand.

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:59 (eight years ago)

Sounds like a woman called Pam was fronting the group for much of the gig

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VhzsUgaiL._SX357_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 17:05 (eight years ago)

I pick "In My Area" for its acoustic grooviness --or-- "Oswald Defense Lawyer" for how bemused i become when i play it for my grandma.

bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:00 (eight years ago)

Ummmm.... https://www.instagram.com/p/BXER51PjzHH/

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:44 (eight years ago)

"This is actually a flattering photo"

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:44 (eight years ago)

Uh oh. I have a ticket to see The Fall in NYC in September, on the LAST night of the residency. I'm not sure he'll make it.

JRN, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:51 (eight years ago)


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