Fall (post-1985 / compilations): Search & Destroy

I only really know 80s fall, is it ok if I ask here what are the can’t miss post-80s fall albums? I might get to them all eventually.

i'm not any kind of expert on that period but "fall heads roll" is a real good one

I only really know 80s fall, is it ok if I ask here what are the can’t miss post-80s fall albums? I might get to them all eventually.

Excellent post.

just cobbled together a slightly capricious sample of tracks from the 90s onward *not* included in the list above.

Reptilian! Mythical! Sea-Tremors!

confined myself to one per album but allowed myself some latitude for singles not on the original album tho now on “deluxe” streaming album listings eg Ed’s Babe, Calendar and I Wake Up in the City (Calendar important for the whole “mirror psychosis” refractive reflection motivs in later Fall) (I Wake Up in the City important for uh the lyric “Even Jesus had a tail, General Custer was the same, and that old dollar bill came out backwards in the machine”)

tried to avoid obvious generally compiled stuff like Free Range but didn’t stick hard and fast to that.

oh also included a track off The Post Nearly Man, which i love, but isn’t strictly a Fall album, tho it uses the Ol’ Gang theme from Levitate on this particular track.

real new fall lp is a barnstormer absolute classic
the unutterable is excellent
imperial wax solvent is excellent
also have soft spot for infotainment scan / your future our clutter

the peel sessions box set released during this time and covering their whole career is wall to wall astonishing

coming round on are you missing are winner / Marshall suite /new facts

I love the fall though and would never write off any record you find great stuff on everything

thank you!

yeah I think "The Real New Fall LP" is maybe their best album overall, but I do get frustrated with the different mixes. like why does the American version just delete the bass line on "Recovery Kit"? it's so good!!

The albums mentioned above are the best of the post-1990 crop but I still find all of them an odd combination of absolute bangers and complete misses. I go for the two 90s compilations, "A Past Gone Mad" and "A World Bewitched". No overlap and they collect almost all the best stuff from that decade. I've put together my own 21st century comp in lieu of something official.

A World Bewitched is especially useful for containing a disc of B-sides and MES collaboration one-offs, many of which are not collected elsewhere.

I can't be the only one that did a double-take at this:

twenty years pass...

For me:
Code Selfish
A World Bewitched
Levitate
The Real New Fall LP
Your Future Our Clutter

The Peel Session with Blindness/Clasp Hands/What About Us/Grass Grow is so blindingly strong it preempts Fall Heads Roll almost completely

Special shoutout to the batch of bootleg recordings documenting the shambling-then-swaggering series of shows with the hastily-assembled US guys right after the mid-tour breakup, downloading each one as they happened was an incredible feeling of "news from the front"