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
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― svend (svend), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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― 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
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― 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
-- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), January 28th, 2005.
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, I like the music; it's just that voice. For precisely the same reason, I can't listen to LCD Soundsystem, despite liking the music. Oh, and they're definitely overrated.
― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 28 January 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link