1. Paintwork
2. L.A.
3. Blindness
4. Deadbeat Descendent
5. Theme from Sparta FC
And tomorrow it’ll no doubt be different. Touch Sensitive, Early Days of Channel Fuhrer, Midnight in Aspen, Cruisers Creek, H.O.W., Hit the North. Mmmm…
Very interested in this thread as I’ve finally decided to Properly Listen To The Fall.
I’ve got a history of there being a lonnnng gap between me deciding to listen to a record/band and actually getting round to it (my favourite discovery of 2017? Megatop Phoenix by Big Audio Dynamite… an album I earmarked for future investigation when it came out just after my GCSEs)
Being an avid Peel listener during the period when the Fall were at what’s now regarded as their peak (late 80s-early 90s) I’ve heard quite a lot of their output. It is not strange to me… he is not strange to me. I went to school with guys like MES, offstage at least. I’ve always been “on their side” in a vague sort of way and admired them but only now do I feel READY.
I have a copy of 50,000 Fall Fans… and I’m going in. I’ve probably heard nearly all of it before, but still. Wish me luck
I’m not a great fan of that album myself, but then I’m more of a mid and late era fan. I’d give This Nation’s Saving Grace, Fall Heads Roll and Hex Enduction Hour a listen and work around whichever era takes your fancy.
I think the turning point was listening to an old Peel tape from ’87 not long ago and the session version of Australians In Europe, and then @minibreakfast revisiting their terrific version of A Day In the Life on the CBVD podcast. Something about it said to me …. GO!!!
Maybe it was the context. Between I Know You Got Soul, Strangeways and Rebel Without a Pause it’s probably always going to be 1987 in my head.
Not uncoincidentally, that was the summer that I started wanking. For this excess of information, you are welcome!
I came across them (not in your sense) at 18 when flicking through a seemingly nice University girl’s record collection, expecting to sneer at the usual Tina Turner, Bryan Adams Pretenders, U2 etc. Instead her music sneered back and (I found), perfectly accompanied the voice in my head which is always telling the world to fuck right off. 30 years later, I’m still smitten and they alone scratch the same itch.
1) The one that goes “Shwark, urgle, wah, boing- uh”
2) That one that sounds like “weargh, ung, bibble, bongle- uh”
3) The one which sounds like a tramp with multiple personality disorder having a fight with himself.
4) Lost In Music
5) That other one which goes “Wargh, urgh, bleargh, urgh- uh”
Three listens in to disc 1 of 50,000 (^see above^) I’m finding myself reaching for the “enlouden” control when No Bulbs comes on. It just thunders along like a bastard satanic locomotive. Marvellous!
I think I may be falling in love.
(*I realise that this looks like a Fall album title)
No expert and my obvious faves Sparta/Classical/Bill etc all getting tick, tick, ticked…
I’d like to put in a word for Living Too Late/Living Too Long and the reanimated Peel Sesh version of Numb At The Lodge:
Leicester Bangs says
The Classical
Blindness (Peel session version only)
My Ex-Classmates’ Kids
Fortress/Deer Park
Mod Mock Goth
Uncle Wheaty says
I have 1:
Mr Pharmacist
that is enough for me.
Unless Pat Trip also worked in a pharmacy.
Bartleby says
Nice one. Right here, right now, it’s:
1. Paintwork
2. L.A.
3. Blindness
4. Deadbeat Descendent
5. Theme from Sparta FC
And tomorrow it’ll no doubt be different. Touch Sensitive, Early Days of Channel Fuhrer, Midnight in Aspen, Cruisers Creek, H.O.W., Hit the North. Mmmm…
biggles says
Oh wow, “Stevie G”…
…this may take me some time, but I will be back – maybe more than once!
fitterstoke says
Mr Pharmacist
Australians in Europe
Cruiser’s Creek
Hip priest
Blindness
duco01 says
Okey-dokey. Let’s see now…
Lie/Dream of a Casino Soul
Fortess/Deer Park
Edinburgh Man
Container Drivers
Eat Y’self Fitter
Stephen G says
Damn, I forgot “Wings”!
biggles says
(typing as I listen to the third best “girl group” of all, as at 22:10 Guernsey time):
– Container Drivers
– Hip Priest
– Bill Is Dead
– L.A. (live at the G-Mex, during the Festival Of The 10th Summer, 19/7/86)
– 50 Year Old Man
Carl says
Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble
Rowche Rumble
Stephen G says
Give that man some valium (kish kish)
Tony Japanese says
Totally Wired
Eat Y’self Fitter
New Face In Hell
Mr Pharmacist
Hip Priest
Moose the Mooche says
Very interested in this thread as I’ve finally decided to Properly Listen To The Fall.
I’ve got a history of there being a lonnnng gap between me deciding to listen to a record/band and actually getting round to it (my favourite discovery of 2017? Megatop Phoenix by Big Audio Dynamite… an album I earmarked for future investigation when it came out just after my GCSEs)
Being an avid Peel listener during the period when the Fall were at what’s now regarded as their peak (late 80s-early 90s) I’ve heard quite a lot of their output. It is not strange to me… he is not strange to me. I went to school with guys like MES, offstage at least. I’ve always been “on their side” in a vague sort of way and admired them but only now do I feel READY.
I have a copy of 50,000 Fall Fans… and I’m going in. I’ve probably heard nearly all of it before, but still. Wish me luck
-ah.
Bartleby says
I’m not a great fan of that album myself, but then I’m more of a mid and late era fan. I’d give This Nation’s Saving Grace, Fall Heads Roll and Hex Enduction Hour a listen and work around whichever era takes your fancy.
Moose the Mooche says
I think the turning point was listening to an old Peel tape from ’87 not long ago and the session version of Australians In Europe, and then @minibreakfast revisiting their terrific version of A Day In the Life on the CBVD podcast. Something about it said to me …. GO!!!
Maybe it was the context. Between I Know You Got Soul, Strangeways and Rebel Without a Pause it’s probably always going to be 1987 in my head.
Not uncoincidentally, that was the summer that I started wanking. For this excess of information, you are welcome!
Bartleby says
Ew. That’s a whole world of TMI right there.
I came across them (not in your sense) at 18 when flicking through a seemingly nice University girl’s record collection, expecting to sneer at the usual Tina Turner, Bryan Adams Pretenders, U2 etc. Instead her music sneered back and (I found), perfectly accompanied the voice in my head which is always telling the world to fuck right off. 30 years later, I’m still smitten and they alone scratch the same itch.
The Good Doctor says
Right now (ask me tomorrow may have changed my mind)
Totally Wired
Joker Hysterical Face
Wings
Bill is Dead
Mountain Energei
ganglesprocket says
I like
1) The one that goes “Shwark, urgle, wah, boing- uh”
2) That one that sounds like “weargh, ung, bibble, bongle- uh”
3) The one which sounds like a tramp with multiple personality disorder having a fight with himself.
4) Lost In Music
5) That other one which goes “Wargh, urgh, bleargh, urgh- uh”
aardvarknever says
Re 3) Almost all of them then?
(Somebody had to…)
Pessoa says
As of late (and in no particular order):
1: Garden (Peel session version)
2: Australians in Europe (Peel session)
3: Neighbourhood of Infinity (Live version)
4: No Bulbs (extended 12 inch remix)
5: Iceland
Moose the Mooche says
Moose->Fall Update*
Three listens in to disc 1 of 50,000 (^see above^) I’m finding myself reaching for the “enlouden” control when No Bulbs comes on. It just thunders along like a bastard satanic locomotive. Marvellous!
I think I may be falling in love.
(*I realise that this looks like a Fall album title)
h2triple says
Hit the North
Bill is Dead
Blindness
+ all of ganglesprocket’s list
paulwright says
No particular order,
Totally Wired
Bill is Dead
The North Will rise again
Theme from Sparta FC
Cruiser’s Creek
(Honourable mention to Mansion, which I think could fit the bill for songs that sound like other bands – in this case New Order)
Sewer Robot says
No expert and my obvious faves Sparta/Classical/Bill etc all getting tick, tick, ticked…
I’d like to put in a word for Living Too Late/Living Too Long and the reanimated Peel Sesh version of Numb At The Lodge: