Why does anyone like the Fall?

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

I know, so weird seeing ppl like Lydon on that show trying their best not to be hateful about Nick Kamen or Glass Tiger.

of course, there was one other Kinks cover in 1988 that unfortunately seems to have failed to have made that show

(watching MES respond to Is This The Life would have been sweet haha)

I feel Kirsty would have been down with that :)

Just realised that she covered 'Days' a year later.

https://i.imgur.com/QjRNJf1.png

https://i.imgur.com/QjRNJf1.png

https://washyourlyrics.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2586300751542222848.png

lol

https://i.imgur.com/TglPepB.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=CiL06yHiMwo&feature=emb_logo

https://youtu.be/CiL06yHiMwo

ARGH-uh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiL06yHiMwo

Incredible btw!

thx lbi

That was unexpected... on many levels.

Voice as instrument, indeed.

april fools

The unutterable truth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Np_3kiqp1M

killjoy

Booo

https://thequietus.com/articles/28202-the-fall-totales-turns-grotesque-anniversary-review

^Totale's Turns is my go-to/"pick-one-only" Fall album (and I'm on intimate terms with their entire catalogue through Extricate).

Well that's different!

I mean, Hex and PBL are world-class, gold-standard albums... but I'm reaching for some Fall, Totale's is what I hit Play on.

Post-Extricate Fall are clearly worth getting intimate with. Only fair-weather fall fans listen to the first 12 albums and ignore the final 19! ;)

I've bought a few over the years, but nothing's really Clicked (that's a clever album-title pun)... I fully admit I'm like the Star Wars fan who's only seen the big movies, etc.

love star wars

Aren't all Star Wars films big movies?

I mean, hasn't read any of the books or watched the animated TV series, like next-level SW fans. If it's unfair to compare '90s/'00s Fall appreciation to that level of fan devotion, choose yr own analogy!

Post-Extricate Fall has many, many great songs but I find their albums inconsistent. Even the mighty "Unutterable" falls down the last 4 or so tracks. But a cherry-picked 90s/00s/10s playlist will take your head off.

Aren't all Star Wars films big movies?

the fourth one didn't even get a theatrical release in the US tbf

Country on the Click is all killer nó filler imo

yep

Listened to The Unutterable again and yeah, there is a tail off towards the end. Also however, Octo Realm/ Ketamine Sun is even more strange than remembered, it's like some sort of bitter foodstuff which is also bad for you but is somehow completely addictive, Each of its three parts is terrible in it's own way, and also I love all of it and have probably listened to it more than any other post-80s Fall, what is wrong here?