POO -- The Fall

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Wintergarden

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Cheater. Though, you could get away w/ the live version of Winter that joins Hostel-Maxi & Pt. 2

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I think posting about the Fall here is really just gratuitous for me at this point (yes Tempo House rules, btw). But this thread encouraged me to pull out Hex Enduction Hour last night just for fun, so because choosing one Fall song is impossible I'll simply give a nod to "Who Makes The Nazis?" since it sounded particularly amazing to me last night.

I'm also about to revisit Grotesque after not hearing it for a very long time. Not necessarily one of my favourite Fall albums, but it should be fun nonetheless. I can't wait to refamiliarize myself. I do recall Stop Mithering and J. Temperance with affection.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

The Container Drivers! Pay Your Rates! In The Park! The NWRA! Grotesque is a keeper.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The live version of 'Who Makes The Nazis' on Hip Priests & Kamerads is best. I forgot about 'C'n'C -S Mithering'. Grotesque truly is great.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Garden, garden...

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 July 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone have video of the 1984 IRS Cutting Edge show that did a segment on the Fall? All I can recall is "Pay Your Rates" being performed in a record store in LA or somewhere. I'd love to see that segment again...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 19 July 2004 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No Xmas For John Quays or Fiery Jack

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Um, "Hip Priest" or "Eat Y'rself Fitter" or "What You Need."

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

POT -- The Fall

Oh, and the best video clip is "Eat Y'rself Fitter." It has Brix dancing AND MES dancing. And it acts out the lyrics.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

'Bill is Dead'
because I'm a softy

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

this will change every day for me. right now, i think its "slags, slates, etc" or "lie dream of casino soul"

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"Why Are People Grudgeful?"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 19 July 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Another cover (not that that bothers me, some of their best tracks are covers).

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Paintwork

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

M@tt beat me to it. So I'll choose "Wings".

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"Fortress/Deer Park" and its 2-note "Sister Ray"-droning organ come close, but I finally gotta choose "No Xmas for John Quays" due to its breathtakingly atonal 2-chord riff, numerous false endings and Mark E. Smith's verbal nonsense complete with hilarious, hopeless Frankie Lymon "imitation".

Is it possible to truly love this band despite having virtually no clue what the hell MES is going on about 90% of the time?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, Myonga it is. Full comprehension not even nearly necessary. Don't worry about it all. I've had people tell me if you don't come from the U.K. you're just fucked trying to understand the lyrics, but then I've also seen a quote from Julian Cope saying The Fall's lyrics are all nonsense anyway. Really, man it doesn't matter. I appreciate the parts I DO understand, and what I don't, well...it's just poetry.

Can I just say Grotesque's "New Face In Hell"? Please? Why doesn't anyone care about "New Face In Hell"?

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Sasha, thanks for reminding me of the live version of Who Makes The Nazis on Hip Priest & Kamerads. I must revinvestigate promptly. I do also recall the live version of Mag Pseud Editor there in a favorable light.

I honestly never expected to be so delighted just to pull out old Fall. I stand corrected. I thought I was over it. Really, I thought I was pretty much over it.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I just realized the "John Quays" pun a week ago. I've owned the album since high school. SIGH!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't feel bad! I felt the same way when I figured that one out! I don't remember when it was, but I do remember the feeling! Isn't he just too much?

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

It is a plus of the Fall that I'm constantly being sideswiped by a lyric I never noticed before.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Full comprehension not even nearly necessary.

or possible, that's what makes them so great.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I confess I loved the Cocteau Twins for the same reason, but that's another subject entirely.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm into C.B.!

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"Some people think if they had a job they'd be well...helll.....
FANTASTIC LIFE!!!!!"

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Today I think it's 'That Man' offay Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never). Punky love song that takes a shot at trad-jaz players and ends with a kazoo solo. Awesome!

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

**Why doesn't anyone care about "New Face In Hell"?**

Oh it's great, but the defining version is the Peel Session vers - less kazoo, more organ.

My Pick : 'Stepping Out'

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

"Service" - house is a feeling-ah. Wistfully, weightlessly propulsive.

― etc, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

"Lie Dream of the Casino Soul" today. Because of the way it's already swingin' while contemplating cutting "mien Dyckhoff!" etc, but is still forced up a gear during each queasy organ/sax twin attack!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

DKTR FAUSTUS

― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link

where did the official site go?

http://www.thefall.info/

― StanM, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link

wot's a computar?
wot's a computer??

― sleepingbag, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link

marquis cha-cha

― 6335, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

any other day it would be New Face in Hell, but screw it..."Rowche Rumble."
IT'S ABOUT VALIUM!!! WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??!

― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Fuck yeah.

― Bimble, Saturday, 19 January 2008 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link

"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'", certainly.

― Millsner, Saturday, 19 January 2008 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link

that's in reference to me being totally hammered at some new year's eve party with complete strangers, trying to explain The Fall to them

― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link

and failing miserably, of course...barely succeeding in walking home to grab my Dragnet CD (where I promptly passed out )

― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link

"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'", certainly.

well done

― Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 19 January 2008 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Still "Wings". 'cassionally "Bill is Dead".

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 January 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link

No, still "Cruisers Creek".

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 January 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

The only Fall song I have is their cover of "The Legend of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

It's really good.

― felicity, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I started this thread and now I have all this Fall album.

It's just an impossible task but I'll go with "Paint-work" now even though it omits so many element of the band's greatness.

― begloved smoked salmon sandwich (wanko ergo sum), Sunday, 9 November 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Various Times

― Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 9 November 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Bend Sinister is the shit cousin

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link

Oh man do i disagree

― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link

Toss up between Iceland and New Puritan for me

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link

Couldn't Get Ahead

― everything, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link

Still "Wings". 'cassionally "Bill is Dead".

― Noodle Vague

I can get w/this

― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link

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