'his girlfriend' is no way to refer to Julia Nagle, architect of their sound during my preferred period for the band (Levitate through Unutterable) and my clear favourite 'other' Fall member
also, *I* am extremely wrong? I was simply presenting another user's opinion, one which has stayed with me through the years, as counterpoint to your own
The Crying Marshall is indeed superb, the Nagle era is noticeable for each album having a monster-banger dance remix on it (4 1/2 Inch, TCM, Serum)
― imago, Thursday, 30 December 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
I note also that Shift-Work is the only one with the violin player
on Extricate too!
― visiting, Thursday, 30 December 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
Code Selfish and Levitate are my favorite 90s fall, followed by Infotainment ScanDisc 1 of A World Bewitched is ridiculously essential as well
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 30 December 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
damn, haven't been watching the Fall discography since MES' death, but I count 24 live sets plus a 10 show/11 CD set released since 2018? any recommendations from that flood?
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 30 December 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
The 1982 box is great stuff I’m not sure about all the other live releases, some of them have certainly looked pretty half assed. Clitheroe Castle is a great concert but shitty sound
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
There's some excitement on the Fall Forum about two recently discovered archival recordings: the full Electric Circus gig (along with all the other bands' EC gigs recorded by Virgin), as well as what's purportedly the first or second Fall gig, recorded to a reel-to-reel.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:02 (two years ago) link
yeah I would avoid the live cash-ins, except for the St. Helens 1981 set on Castle Face which iirc is the only legit one?m also very good.
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
have been spending some time with middle-class revolt recently. pretty unloved album i gather but i saw them around that time and thought it was really great - this very gig in fact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rx2Y956Oq0
reckoning, m5, hey student, 15 ways, behind the counter - they’re pretty good! maybe bad fall songs? I dunno i am no fall scholar clearly
(I also saw them sometime in the 2010s and thought it was pretty awful)
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 30 December 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
Always and forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNe1NeFzRE
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 31 December 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
I defy Anyone (that’s Anyone) who hates, or is indifferent, or the rest of us, yeah?, to not acknowledge that this is brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIZ7AhqflYM
― Mark G, Friday, 31 December 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Never liked "No Bulbs" much and that long version has always tested my patience (though Wonderful and Frightening is one of my favorite Fall albums).
― visiting, Friday, 31 December 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Oh the long version is one of my favorite tracks evah!!
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
The extra long No Bulbs is the Fall’s own Marquee Moon
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Wow
― Me IRL, U URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
have been spending some time with middle-class revolt recently. pretty unloved album i gather but i saw them around that time and thought it was really great - this very gig in fact 📹reckoning, m5, hey student, 15 ways, behind the counter - they’re pretty good! maybe bad fall songs? I dunno i am no fall scholar clearly (I also saw them sometime in the 2010s and thought it was pretty awful)
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 December 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
I'd say MES had already gotten pretty personal on the Fontana albums (Bill Is Dead, Edinburgh Man).
MCR is a weird one in that about half of it is really good, or at least fun, but as a whole it just kind of drags. Infotainment is one of the most consistently excellent Fall albums, but it almost goes down too smooth. (Their lone top 10 album!)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 31 December 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
I think I agree with that, I don't dislike MCR by any means but it's uneven
that live version of "War" from the Phoenix set linked above is really good
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 31 December 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
I always took Bill is Dead as kind of ironic and, due to the unavailability of the other Fontana albums in the uUS never heard Edinburgh Man until years later— and I didn’t even know until he’d died that he had relocated there briefly.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 December 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Is this the best Fall thread?
Just found this footage of them playing Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie" in 2015 and had to share.
Youtube link - track starts around 28:30 if the timing doesn't work.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 24 February 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link