Opinions on The Fall output through the 10's

@eatandoph Interesting post.
On the 2015 Glastonbury performance, for some unknown reason there's something special about it, so it became my most watched Fall performance. And I find myself always remembering that MES rant at the beginning of that gig: 'Thanks for turning the volume down, cunts on the desk'.
And I must be the only one who enjoys the song 'Greenway'.

Read my post and see that you're not!

@imago 'Rammy Taxi Illuminati' is actually one of my favourite 2019 songs. Glad you mentioned it. Here's a performance of that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20RTa2X1zXk

@imago. Yeah, i just realized it after posting my previous message. Nice to see i'm not the only one now.

I'm on a similar page with Imago, every album has at least two *great* songs. My picks for the 2010's:
O.F.Y.C. Showcase / Bury Pts. 1+3 / Hot Cake / Slippy Floor (edit) / Chino - Your Future Our Clutter
Taking Off / Nate Will Not Return / Greenway / I've Seen Them Come / Age Of Chang - Ersatz GB
Sir William Wray / Hittite Man / Victrola Time - Re-Mit
Mister Rode - The Remainderer
Dedication Not Medication (LP version) / Auto Chip 2014-2016 / Quit iPhone - Sub-Lingual Tablet
Wise Ol' Man (edit) / All Leave Cancelled - Wise Ol' Man
Fol De Rol / Brillo De Facto / O! Zztrrk Man / Groundsboy - New Facts Emerge

And for the best 2010's collaboration:
Molocular Meditation / VS Cancelled - MES & Jan St. Wener

His drunken slurring is what brings down much of the material from this era. I listen to this selection as I jump around The Fall's massive catalog from time to time, and it holds up with everything else they've done though obviously it's a very different feel from, say, the Beggars LPs which I just listened to all in a row (a very fun experience!).

YFOC > The Remainderer > New Facts Emerge > Re-Mit > Ersatz GB > Sublingual Tablet

Do also love All Leave Cancelled, but Wise Ol' Man

Re-Mit, EGB and SLT all felt like v good EP's-worth of material. Re-Mit did generally hang together the best of the lot. I think SLT, Junger Cloth aside, is pretty weak, though live it the material could be very strong!

Their gigs were frequently enough indifferent - not a word I associate with The Fall - for me to stop going anything like as frequently. Once every two years rather than multiple times in a year.

I also quite liked the vinyl versions of songs like Pledge and Dedication not Medication that Henry Rollins played, but I didn't buy the final and those versions don't seem available *anywhere* (licit or not).

I didn't like Ersatz GB much at all (Laptop Dog is one of the few songs I did like). rate Sublingual Tablet a bit higher than others here it seems though. I think I like the ones that bookend the decade the most - YFOC and New Facts Emerge.

"Nine Out Of Ten" is a very weird and effective career-closer imo

it really is. especially as it goes on for so long without him and then just ends.

and agree with the bookending: i like new facts emerge a lot in fact.