Why does anyone like the Fall?

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!"

Check the twitter, check the twitter, check the guy’s old twitter

He

is not

TRENDING

lol just catching up with more recent posts. yesterday 2 v good. and yes, he could be v charming.

know absolutely what NV means about late Smith. there was a cult of personality which was boosted by media and fans, and which in his largely repetitive and often tedious interviews (that late biographical book he did a good example) he didn’t do much to put any distance from.

but i think the late music is often v good, both live and on record (tho oddly often the bad records were good live and vice versa, and by god there were some mediocre gigs - i stopped going for a while).

and occasionally the charm would come through again, in his christmas messages to fans, things which he’d written himself.

pretty good goth joke from MES at 7:30 in that interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHYGNCRW50Y

godhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp3b_YeqZeo

young(ish) Mark is very brooding and wholesome

That period when Brix was probably styling him out a little, he looked pretty good.

lol at them having to deal with the musical wasteland that was 1988