"People get ready, strip down your houses because it's the FALL TRACKS BALLOT ROLL- OUT!" - PART TWO The Tracks (Pre-wray)

Voted Blindness for the Peel version. Maybe could do with a longer intro but once it gets going that doesn't feel like an issue.

Gross Chapel - GB Grenadiers was very high up my ballot - The Fall go goth, and do it amazingly

YFOC is a great album, regret not voting for the mighty Mexico Wax Solvent along with WR2

I also did not get round to posting but am very interested in the results of this - I would have pushed Container Drivers/ Slates / Gross Chapel and Rebellious Jukebox up further. Possibly like others? I know some parts of the Fall's oeuvre very well and other parts are basically blank it so primarilly looking at this for new avenues and places to explore. Keep up the good work people!

I have the same problem with a lot of Beefheart

Well, yes, frankly it took me years to come to terms with MES' vocals, and a further 15 to do the same for the Captain, but once you've made that adjustment it all just MAKES SENSE. I think The Fall could actually be more broadly enjoyed by the public but that warm-up period is something most people just won't give it.

Re: Gross Chapel - GB Grenadiers - I'm not certain the Peel version surpasses the studio, but they certainly compliment one another, if that makes sense. And, yes, the whole Fall-as-goths treatment of "Bend Sinister" is what makes it unique in their catalogue and made me vote it number 1 on the albums section.

the PS Glam Racket was the last thing cut from my ballot

I had the Peel Session "Glam Racket" at number 15 on my ballot. After getting off the bus in the early 90s, that song and "Chiselers" were what made me reconsider the error of my ways.

Whoa, that's 8 of my ballot represented already (Fortress, Jukebox, Hobgoblins, English Scheme, Middle Mass, Smile, Prole, Spectre), which could be a good OR bad sign. "Prole Art Threat" was my #2, so TOO LOW, etc, for that at the very least.

re: fall members list - i'm guessing "mark hanley" is a mistake there?

25. Lie Dream of A Casino Soul Points: 163 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

Reckon the biggest curveball in the top 25 will be my number 2, a song notable for its drumbeat and the use of the word 'faaarmhaaaand'

24. An Older Lover etc Points: 165 Votes: 6 Number Ones: 0

TOO FUCKEN LOW

23. Hit The North Points: 173 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 0

22. (Theme From) Sparta F.C. / Sparta 2XX Points: 190 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 0

Hmmm, is it possible my ballot was lost? Should have at least one #1 vote for "Lie Dream".

Hmm, seems there are actually five votes and one number one.

Anyways...

"he.. is .. nottt"

21. New Big Prinz / Big New Prinz Points: 190 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 0

20. The N.W.R.A. Points: 196 Votes: 7 Number Ones: 1

dunno why i didn't vote for "an older lover etc". should have. another of my early-on favorites, along with "putta block".

19. Cruisers Creek Points: 202 Votes: 8 Number Ones: 1

18. Eat Yrself Fitter Points: 206 Votes: 13 Number Ones: 0

17. Bill Is Dead Points: 208 Votes: 8 Number Ones: 2

Ok, maybe Hurricane Edward won't make it. Wailing, gnashing of teeth etc

16. The Man Whose Head Expanded Points: 214 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 0

of this he was con vinced

Eat Y'self Fitter is some magic. Lots of songs here that I've mostly avoided due to presumptions of conventionality, which are presumably sodomising me as I type. Will return.

Mark, down to 11 today then top 10 tomorrow, aye?

Yeah, that's it.

15. I Feel Voxish Points: 217 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 0

NO ONE WILL FUCK WITH ME AGAIN

top 20 = PBL era, top 10 = Hex era

Garden had best make the top 5 tho

xpost so where does that put...

14. Rowche Rumble Points: 219 Votes: 9 Number Ones: 0

13. Gut of the Quantifier Points: 239 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 0

Rowche! Rumble!

CHIP!

12. New Face In Hell Points: 248 Votes: 10 Number Ones: 1

Huh! In my head, I'd predicted that New Face would win this!

New Face was my #1

Lots of my top flying out fast right now: Lie Dream, Older Lover, Rowche was #3

Officially amazed that I Feel Voxish beat out Fitter, The Man Whose etc., Cruisers, which I thought was a,sure bet for top 3

I'd be eternally grateful to anyone who turned these results into a Spotify playlist.

Would that make it the...

11. No Bulbs Points: 253 Votes: 11 Number Ones: 1

BIGGEST LIBRARY YET!!!!

Right, that's all for today, back tomorrow for the top ten!

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alright, six of my picks! Older Lover is TOO LOW, yes.

14. Rowche Rumble
13. Gut of the Quantifier
11. No Bulbs

that's my shit right here. bulbs got the second slot on my ballot (beam me up white man), and rowche went top 10. didn't vote for gut, but i should have. a masseuse with hands of ripe cement.

"And he's gonna make an appearance..."
I'm sure THAT will be top 10, but I'm beginning to wonder about non-appearances. A lot of Hex (The Classical, Iceland, Winter, Nazis), plus Look, Know, Elastic Man, Totally Wired; the incredible New Puritan, more from the first 2 albums (No Xmas... found talking to the cigarette machine???), Slates (Fit and Working, Leave the Capitol). No room to live for all of them...