Why does anyone like the Fall?

Yes I had an audience recording of that Palais show and that is a Blindness for the ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzAOiA4dH_o

I liked the American lineup best of all the later Fall groups. Don't know why that album seems so unpopular.

The album just sounds kinda weak compared to how those guys played live. I tried to feel it but just couldn’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1TP5EkLS4

"Totally Wired" was the first fall song i heard.

You don't have to be strange to be strange
You don't have to be weird to be weird

dammit its so good. i have always loved their writing: "Pay your rates" "Industrial estates" "Hex induction hour" so many great phrases and word combinations.

i love the messy keys too! love the noisy guitars. The Fall is so awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC9htnMBGE

really like this cover of "A Day in the Life"

The American group just had more musicality than what I've heard from the others. "Fall Sound" sounded to me like a celebration of the fact that he, at least momentarily, had some people in the band that really got it. Something like "Coach and Horses" is the kind of thing that the old band used to provide for him.

I just bought a copy of that "American lineup" DVD, thanks y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Lt4ia-PYQ

Apologies, intended for the MES thread, not being The Fall.
Or: "Von Südenfed is an incarnation of The Fall": discuss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcaaxgFJUU

Von Südenfed were the German line-up!

Sudenfed album is so great

I bought it on mp3 but then found a copy lying on the sidewalk in Chelsea a month later

dear dead friends

I was in my gaaaardennnn

Old news at this point I guess, but just learned that the rest of the group will be continuing under the name Imperial Wax.

https://www.facebook.com/Imperialwaxband/

That's nice

The Levitate reissue (my favourite Fall album!) has a killer second disc. Christmastide and a completely altered live Ol' Gang are revelatory

when did that come out?

like two weeks ago? the extra tracks are all from either the bonus disc from 1st pressings or the B-sides of the three "Masquerade" singles.

the bonus disc was always a favourite with the best version of pilsner trail/plaster on the hands and some v good remixes and minor tracks.

masquerade remixes are lasrgely yawn.

and yes imago otm about ol gang.

the name of this thread makes me mad every time I see it

Bend Sinister reissue is sounding magnificent, scrubbed of considerable murk

good to know, thanks. I kind of wish they'd stop tacking Peel Sessions on to these reissues but w/e

i like free peel sessions gimme more

no Peel tracks on the 2-LP set...second LP is singles and b-sides and they really sound great

the whole package is well done...includes a repro program for the "Hey! Luciani" play

Bob Stanley & Tessa Norton are doing a book: https://fabersocial.co.uk/2019/04/09/excavate-the-wonderful-and-frightening-world-of-the-fall/

god there used to be so much contention about Bend:Sinister production on the fall message boards. one nine eleven truther troll in particular managing to generate division about whether it was recorded a microsecond too fast or not.

need to look into this reissue more carefully. listening to it at the moment but not really getting the full vibes streaming from spotify via a hotel bluetooth speaker.

A riptide of integrity
He was a blubbering heap
He should have served himself up
Preferably in a restaurant with meat

Give it a minute...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqXyTwFt6g

Roflz

lovely work

hah love it!

Fizzles must see this.

"it's not Pavement"

DYING

"It's not shady lane" looool

This is fantastic-uh

good. but i think they missed a trick - the Fall equivalent of that one scene in the trailer with ed sheeran suggesting he rename it "Hey Dude".

(/me tries to think of an example, fails)

that is amazing

what song is at the very end?

"Sparta F.C"

it's cool that they recognize that Sparta and Blindness were two later additions to the Fall's greatest "hits"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmdpvLdMbMc

How have I never seen this before?! He's so nice here. This is gold.

What he became or what he always was has near killed his work for me. I don't really want to listen to The Fall any more and they used to be a sizeable chunk of my world.

is that simon anstall?

Amstell.

no, he would've been 9 at the time. the voice is very similar though.

good. but i think they missed a trick - the Fall equivalent of that one scene in the trailer with ed sheeran suggesting he rename it "Hey Dude".

(/me tries to think of an example, fails)

― koogs, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:39 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Ed: "How about, just a suggestion,"Hey Lucky Annie"? "

"Hip yeast!"