These are my selections wot didn't make it:
7. It's The New Thing11. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot17. Flat of Angles18. I Am Damo Suzuki19. Disney's Dream Debased20. Ludd Gang
Some not that far out of contention, I see. But I'm quite alone with my "It's the New Thing" luv.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
I did this:
01. Smile02. City Hobgoblins03. Athlete Cured04. Guest Informant05. Gut of the Quantifier06. Lay of the Land07. 2x408. I Feel Voxish09. Bremen Nacht (LP version)10. Totally Wired11. Frightened12. The Steak Place13. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot14. The Classical15. The Man Whose Head Expanded16. New Face In Hell17. I Am Damo Suzuki18. Shoulder Pads #1B19. Riddler!20. Bill Is Dead
..but really agonized over some of the tracks I left off.
― Kent Burt, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Also, NO ONE else voted for Shoulder Pads?!? What is wrong with you people etc.?
― Kent Burt, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
i know, i wrestled w myself over that one. since i tried to skew pop, i should have made room. it really is a favorite. hey! luciani too. tbh, i cruelly shortchanged bend sinister/domesday payoff, my real first fall LP.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
New Face in HellHow I Wrote 'Elastic Man'Rowche RumbleLeave the CapitolFlat of AnglesPsykick DancehallLAAn Older Lover etc.Container DriversJawbone and the Air-RifleLie Dream Of a Casino SoulBonkers in Phoenix4 1/2 InchBefore the Moon FallsIcelandWings Fiery JackHurricane EdwardWinterKicker Conspiracy
― I'm sorry I said anything (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 May 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
Total points by year:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_points_by_year_zps006e9f47.png
Dates generally assigned by first appearance of studio version on album or single, or of live album release when no studio version exists. Exceptions/notes:-- "Blindness", "Job Search": 2004 Peel session broadcast date used.-- "Stepping Out": Taken as the 1978 Live at the Electric Circus track.-- "Session Musician": Date of live recording (1981) used, rather than 2005 live album release.-- "Antidotes": As the Peel session is specified, assigned to 1998 (date of broadcast) rather than 1999 (when it appeared on The Marshall Suite).-- "Hot Cake": Taken as the 2010 album track, as the 2009 single track has a "Part 2" in the title.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
That's pretty far from SD
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
"Container Drivers" and "Dr Faustus" also twice in list, the former should thus be pushed up to #21 if I calculate correctly.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
Also "2 x 4".
Number of tracks per year:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_count_by_year_zps5538bde3.png
Average score of each track by year:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_avg_by_year_zps232c2459.png
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
where the hell is fizzles??
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Good question. Might be under cosh at work?
feel like i haven't had time to sit in this thread.
I enjoyed glancing at every ballot and thinking 'yes, great ballot'. In other polls I think, 'no, come on, really?'; not here.
Thinking I should have done a post-90 or 95 ballot myself. I've enjoyed listening to that end more.
― woof, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Funny how even a band as long-lived and multi-faceted as the Fall emerges with a huge emphasis on the early years.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
That IS interesting.Even though many (most?) of us have loads of time for much of their last 30 years, I guess when push comes to shove...
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Most bands' golden 'early years' don't last as long as that though.
― Moron Tabernacle Chior (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
The longer the fall go on for, the longer time period the "early years" takes up.
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ well put
― Moron Tabernacle Chior (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, don't fizzle out, this thread needs you
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot to thank Mark for taking on the mammoth task of a fall ballot.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
fizzles has taken a pilgrimage to marcelo trotta's birthplace which he will desecrate with two sainsbury's shopping bags of his own excrement iirc
― have a nice Blog (imago), Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Having a "Fall" time...
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
Kinda look back bore
― CerebralCaustic, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 05:00 (one year ago) link