― Jody c., Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
I used to do Fall tribute radio shows while on WFMU. You can check one of them out here.
― mosurock (mosurock), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's exciting stuff.
I picked up the Rough Trade years anthology when it came out not long ago and it comes off like a perfect mix tape. I listen to it all the time. Definitely a great starting point.
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― abeta, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
You should get Dragnet. It's the best Fall album AND it has 'A Figure Walks' and 'Muzorewi's Daughter' which I think you'd like.
It also has a really grainy, monochrome sound and lots of Mike Leigh's 'a row of terraced houses falling down' drum rolls. If anyone tells you it's really badly recorded they're nuts. It's PERFECT.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mosurock (mosurock), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
You guys will not appreciate this, but it occurs to me: I've never seen anyone writing about Beat Happening mention how Fall-like they can be. Primitive tom-thump, gorilla-handed repeating riff, singer moaning and sneering . . . throw "Bewitched" into a Fall playlist and it sits comfortably. I mention this mostly because I imagine many of you don't like Beat Happening.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Early Fall - help me make a definitive C90Fall (post-1985 / compilations): Search & DestroyWhat are the best 10 Fall tracks of all time then?best Fall album for starters
Felcher, you might be interested in this:
Are The Fall the most overrated band in the history of music?
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
But maybe you just need to jump ahead on the CD until it starts to click. On This Nation's Saving Grace (one of the best records ever made) .. just listen to L.A. and Gut of the Quantifier.. two pretty accessible tracks.
Also, listen to it on Vinyl. The ordering on the CD sucks and the extra tracks ruined it.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
A request for MES:
we are in a band called the fall from norfolk, va and we are signed to an independent label..just wanted to let you know....maybe you can change your name to the fall uk so it does not conflict..thanks for your time
― Sam J. (samjeff), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
okay, but put a gun to my head? probably the wonderful and frightening world, prolly because it was really the first full album i got into back when it came out...still trying to find the peel mix of c.r.e.e.p...okay i haven't looked that hard, but it's the best one.
it would be a better world if the same attention endlessly lavished on, say, pet sounds, was spread like thick marmite on this nations saving grace.
long live the mighty fall!
skip
― skip bosco, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
it's really not a matter of opinion --it's a fact that if you don't dig the fall, well, you're really somehow...how you say....deficient.
― skip bosco, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like the Fall, and I like Beat Happening.. and I like the former far more than the latter. And you do have a point, in relation to more mid 80s Fall, though I think there's still this question of ferocity and layers that Beat Happening don't have (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but certainly a crucial difference IMGO)
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― svend (svend), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― amanda lear (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The best thing about this thread is how you know there's going to be a revive later saying 'ah, wait, I got it!'.
― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Can someone invent a word for this?
― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Btw, can anyone think of a best-of that puts its subject in a better possible light than 50,000 Fall fans?
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Live at the Witch TrialsDragnetGrotesqueHex Enduction HourPerverted by LanguageThe Wonderful and Frightening World of the FallThis Nation's Saving GraceBend SinisterThe Frenz ExperimentI Am Kurious, OranjExtricateShift WorkCode: SelfishThe Infotainment ScanMiddle Class RevoltCererbral CausticThe Light User Syndrome
That takes us up through the end of the Scanlon/Hanley/Brix/etc. eras, at least.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I would happily shell out for a Fall boxset of Peel Sessions from then to now.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 17th, 2003.
How nice that my prediction is coming true.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
That makes for a curious x-post. "How nice for the Fall box!" "I TREMBLE IN MOCK TERROR!"
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
"OH I'M SCARED NOW LONGHAIR SHOEGAZE FREAK!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), January 28th, 2005.
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not many. ChangesOneBowie and Star Time are the immediate ones that come to mind--taking really good catalogues and trimming them down to blindsiding ones. I think JB and Bowie and the Fall are all terrific but there's lots of fat on all of them. (The Bowie is qualified by its coming out in 1976) -- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...), January 28th, 2005.
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link