That's a Kinks song, Mike!
Anyway, I think the hype is a bit overblown, and they sound like absolute shit on pot, but they have their moments. Eh.
― Farmer Al (King Kobra), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
1) “steppin out”2) “rebellious jukebox”3) “dice man”4) “rowche rumble-live”5) “pay your rates”6) “fit and working again”7) “totally wired”8) “the classical”9) “room to live”10) “lie dream of the casino soul”11) “i feel voxish”12) “c.r.e.e.p.”13) “rollin’ dany”
14) “couldn’t get ahead”15) “living too late”16) “frenz”17) “wrong place, right time”18) “dead beat descendant”19) “black monk theme part I”20) “free range”21) “strychnine”22) “hey student!”23) “life just bounces”24) “spinetrak”25) “touch sensitive”26) “hands up billy”
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
Ah, lovely. I would happily shell out for a Fall boxset of Peel Sessions from then to now.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Pitchblender (Pitchblender), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
Would you believe... USA Today?
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 02:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 17 June 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
that said i still like tons of their songs, for reasons stated elsewhere in this thread.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 06:16 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 06:37 (twenty years ago) link
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― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
I used to do Fall tribute radio shows while on WFMU. You can check one of them out here.
― mosurock (mosurock), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
It's exciting stuff.
I picked up the Rough Trade years anthology when it came out not long ago and it comes off like a perfect mix tape. I listen to it all the time. Definitely a great starting point.
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:40 (twenty years ago) link
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― abeta, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
You should get Dragnet. It's the best Fall album AND it has 'A Figure Walks' and 'Muzorewi's Daughter' which I think you'd like.
It also has a really grainy, monochrome sound and lots of Mike Leigh's 'a row of terraced houses falling down' drum rolls. If anyone tells you it's really badly recorded they're nuts. It's PERFECT.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― mosurock (mosurock), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
You guys will not appreciate this, but it occurs to me: I've never seen anyone writing about Beat Happening mention how Fall-like they can be. Primitive tom-thump, gorilla-handed repeating riff, singer moaning and sneering . . . throw "Bewitched" into a Fall playlist and it sits comfortably. I mention this mostly because I imagine many of you don't like Beat Happening.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
Early Fall - help me make a definitive C90Fall (post-1985 / compilations): Search & DestroyWhat are the best 10 Fall tracks of all time then?best Fall album for starters
Felcher, you might be interested in this:
Are The Fall the most overrated band in the history of music?
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
But maybe you just need to jump ahead on the CD until it starts to click. On This Nation's Saving Grace (one of the best records ever made) .. just listen to L.A. and Gut of the Quantifier.. two pretty accessible tracks.
Also, listen to it on Vinyl. The ordering on the CD sucks and the extra tracks ruined it.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
A request for MES:
we are in a band called the fall from norfolk, va and we are signed to an independent label..just wanted to let you know....maybe you can change your name to the fall uk so it does not conflict..thanks for your time
― Sam J. (samjeff), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
okay, but put a gun to my head? probably the wonderful and frightening world, prolly because it was really the first full album i got into back when it came out...still trying to find the peel mix of c.r.e.e.p...okay i haven't looked that hard, but it's the best one.
it would be a better world if the same attention endlessly lavished on, say, pet sounds, was spread like thick marmite on this nations saving grace.
long live the mighty fall!
skip
― skip bosco, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link
it's really not a matter of opinion --it's a fact that if you don't dig the fall, well, you're really somehow...how you say....deficient.
― skip bosco, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
I like the Fall, and I like Beat Happening.. and I like the former far more than the latter. And you do have a point, in relation to more mid 80s Fall, though I think there's still this question of ferocity and layers that Beat Happening don't have (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but certainly a crucial difference IMGO)
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It is wild how much stuff seems to get added to the pile every time I take a look - there’s a 4-disc reissue of Are You Are Missing Winner?
― JoeStork, Friday, 12 April 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
One of those sets has four renditions of "Das Boot". I mean, yeah, but
― Mark G, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:42 (one month ago) link
Even if there WEREN’T any outtakes from Re-Mit, they’d still have to make an outtakes ep called O-Mit
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:42 (four weeks ago) link
We could use a good live album of the fall heads roll tour from before the explosion of that lineup
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:44 (four weeks ago) link
that would be great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:57 (four weeks ago) link