― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have since bought Grotesque. I would probably go with "Pay Your Rates" now, but that 2nd unnamed track on my CD copy of Grotesque is great, too. I am so clueless on the Fall that I don't even know what the song is called.
I had heard and loved "Totally Wired" before I bought Grotesque, but on the album it fairly pales next to "How I Wrote Elastic Man". What a fecking great album.
― Aaron A., Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 July 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― holojames (holojames), Sunday, 18 July 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Second choice: "Mr.Pharmacist".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 18 July 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Or you can make a choice that seems all wrong by the above criterion, but which in the concealed, outlawed context makes the only kind of coherent sense.
So I'm picking a bloody cover version of all things.
'I'm Going To Spain'
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― ttt, Sunday, 18 July 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― sherm, Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― f ath, Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
At the moment, for song alone, I'd say 'Tempo House'. That rhythm kicks my arse, and the lyrics are great; "Winston Churchill had a speech imp-p-pedament, and look what he did; erased half of London..." "Hooray hooray". At one stage though, I used to dance around my room in my underwear doing air guitar to 'Hip Priest'.
― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm also about to revisit Grotesque after not hearing it for a very long time. Not necessarily one of my favourite Fall albums, but it should be fun nonetheless. I can't wait to refamiliarize myself. I do recall Stop Mithering and J. Temperance with affection.
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 July 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 19 July 2004 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and the best video clip is "Eat Y'rself Fitter." It has Brix dancing AND MES dancing. And it acts out the lyrics.
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 19 July 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Is it possible to truly love this band despite having virtually no clue what the hell MES is going on about 90% of the time?
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Can I just say Grotesque's "New Face In Hell"? Please? Why doesn't anyone care about "New Face In Hell"?
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I honestly never expected to be so delighted just to pull out old Fall. I stand corrected. I thought I was over it. Really, I thought I was pretty much over it.
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
or possible, that's what makes them so great.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― etc, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
DKTR FAUSTUS
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
where did the official site go?
http://www.thefall.info/
― StanM, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
wot's a computar? wot's a computer??
― sleepingbag, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
marquis cha-cha
― 6335, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link