Why does anyone like the Fall?

Early Fall - help me make a definitive C90
Fall (post-1985 / compilations): Search & Destroy
What 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?

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.

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

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!

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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.

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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)

The best thing about this thread is how you know there's going to be a revive later saying 'ah, wait, I got it!'.

Can someone invent a word for this?

Btw, can anyone think of a best-of that puts its subject in a better possible light than 50,000 Fall fans?

Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Grotesque
Hex Enduction Hour
Perverted by Language
The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace
Bend Sinister
The Frenz Experiment
I Am Kurious, Oranj
Extricate
Shift Work
Code: Selfish
The Infotainment Scan
Middle Class Revolt
Cererbral Caustic
The Light User Syndrome

That takes us up through the end of the Scanlon/Hanley/Brix/etc. eras, at least.

I would happily shell out for a Fall boxset of Peel Sessions from then to now.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 17th, 2003.

How nice that my prediction is coming true.

That makes for a curious x-post. "How nice for the Fall box!" "I TREMBLE IN MOCK TERROR!"

"OH I'M SCARED NOW LONGHAIR SHOEGAZE FREAK!"

not many. ChangesOneBowie and Star Time are the immediate ones that come to mind--taking really good catalogues and trimming them down to blindsiding ones. I think JB and Bowie and the Fall are all terrific but there's lots of fat on all of them. (The Bowie is qualified by its coming out in 1976)
-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...), January 28th, 2005.

Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Grotesque
Hex Enduction Hour
Perverted by Language
The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace
Bend Sinister
The Frenz Experiment
I Am Kurious, Oranj
Extricate
Shift Work
Code: Selfish
The Infotainment Scan
Middle Class Revolt
Cererbral Caustic
The Light User Syndrome

That takes us up through the end of the Scanlon/Hanley/Brix/etc. eras, at least.

-- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), January 28th, 2005.

Oh, I like the music; it's just that voice. For precisely the same reason, I can't listen to LCD Soundsystem, despite liking the music. Oh, and they're definitely overrated.