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