― Kris England, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maryann, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr., Wednesday, 19 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
It opens with 'The X in Xmas is a substitute crucifix for Christ', stops in the middle for a brief rendition of Good King Wenceslas before descending into horrendously atonal 'ahhhhh, ah-ah ah AHHHHHHH's for pretty much for the rest of the song, and because the (possibly aforementioned) live version features Mess shouting 'CANYERFUCKINGEDDIT T'GETHER INSTEAD'OSHOWINOFF' at the bassist for pissing about too much.
― Ferg (Ferg), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
It will not drag me downI will leave this ten times townI will leave this fucking dumpOne room, one roomHotel maids smile in unisonThen you know in your brainYou know in your brainLEAVE THE CAPITOLEXIT THIS ROMAN SHELL
― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― 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
I defy Anyone (that’s Anyone) who hates, or is indifferent, or the rest of us, yeah?, to not acknowledge that this is brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIZ7AhqflYM
― Mark G, Friday, 31 December 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Never liked "No Bulbs" much and that long version has always tested my patience (though Wonderful and Frightening is one of my favorite Fall albums).
― visiting, Friday, 31 December 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Oh the long version is one of my favorite tracks evah!!
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
The extra long No Bulbs is the Fall’s own Marquee Moon
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Wow
― Me IRL, U URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
have been spending some time with middle-class revolt recently. pretty unloved album i gather but i saw them around that time and thought it was really great - this very gig in fact 📹reckoning, m5, hey student, 15 ways, behind the counter - they’re pretty good! maybe bad fall songs? I dunno i am no fall scholar clearly (I also saw them sometime in the 2010s and thought it was pretty awful)
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
I'd say MES had already gotten pretty personal on the Fontana albums (Bill Is Dead, Edinburgh Man).
MCR is a weird one in that about half of it is really good, or at least fun, but as a whole it just kind of drags. Infotainment is one of the most consistently excellent Fall albums, but it almost goes down too smooth. (Their lone top 10 album!)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 31 December 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
I think I agree with that, I don't dislike MCR by any means but it's uneven
that live version of "War" from the Phoenix set linked above is really good
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 31 December 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
I always took Bill is Dead as kind of ironic and, due to the unavailability of the other Fontana albums in the uUS never heard Edinburgh Man until years later— and I didn’t even know until he’d died that he had relocated there briefly.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 December 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Is this the best Fall thread?
Just found this footage of them playing Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie" in 2015 and had to share.
Youtube link - track starts around 28:30 if the timing doesn't work.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 24 February 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link