that thread about best musical experiences of 2017, btw. i gave some answer about a busker but this is the real answer
Listening to The Fall's 'Dedication Not Medication' I stumble across the Freemasons' Central Lodge and gaze up at it in horror— Louis Jagger (@louisjagger) June 13, 2017
just listened to it again. it is lore
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
from Killdozer via FB
"Mark E. Smith once told Killdozer that our live set was too long, and advised the following formula: "there are three of you, so you should play nine songs."
R.I.P., Wise One."
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
His downfall was a blonde girlBut that's none of your business
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Sometimes life is like a new bar,Plastic seats, beer below par,Food with no taste, music grates,I'm living too late.I'm living too late.
Once talking was my favourite while,But now I know a conversation's end before it's done.Maybe I'm living too long.
Thanks, Mark.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
A great anecdote from Roy Montgomery
True story:(fanboy nobody me somehow gets himself invited to RAK studios early 1982 while The Cure are recording Pornography and this conversation takes place)Robert Smith: If you aren't doing anything next weekend come to a party. Siouxsie will be there. I think you should meet her. Me: I can't. I'm going to see The Fall play in Bristol.RS: Fair enough.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
http://thefall.org/news/980222.html
He saw The Verve and concluded: "God help us if there's a war." At the Phoenix Festival the other year, he looked on as his band were introduced to Lou Reed, and he just thought: sad. What Mark E Smith does is move on, away from the past. You should just get over it. Recently, he went to an exclusive do at the Kensington Roof Gardens, and while the rest of his party mingled, Mark went over to the fountain and began bowing and paying homage. Someone asked what he was doing, and so he told them: this was the very spot, in 1972, where Lou Reed kicked the shit out of David Bowie.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
how old are the stars really?
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
"I come and stand at every door"
nice but he didn't actually write any of that, that's a poem by a Turkish poet that Pete Seeger worked on.
― akm, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
that’s true. his austere delivery is beautiful tho.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
that entire violent album (levitate) is extraordinary.
I loved that song he did w/ Mouse on Mars as Von Sudenfed with the lyric about Sven Vath pissing his bed. Flooded it was called.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
sending the best to ilxors who will be much more upset than me and i am fucking gutted so...
what a fucking hero.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Tom D made me read all of ...Stop Mithering. Jesus Christ, what a mind he had.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Mark, not Tom lol
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:04 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it is one of my favourite albums of all time and i've only ever heard it off youtube, low-quality and fragmented (like the album itself tbf). i think he got closer to representing the madness and magic of existence than any other musician i can think of
wish they'd reissue it mind
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
watching perverted by language bis. what a beautiful and fucking funny correct man.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Didn't he once have a violent altercation with some pretentious twat from a Creation indie band. And he called them a bunch of "crusty cunts". This is from deep memory, but I remember thinking thank fuck he exists.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
what’s a computer.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
only saw the Fall twice ('85 and '92), but I'm sure I bought all the records '83-94 or so. RIP you wacko.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
it was important to me that they were contemptuous of gender as a notion. who cares? smith seemed to say. and not in a good way.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
It has just come to me, it was that guy from The House of Love, but not the one that looked like a paedophile supply teacher, the one looked a typical goth.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
*sigh*
He was an absolute fucking titan in my musical world. i dont want to go to be for work tomorrow, i just wanna listen to The Fall all night
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Terry Bickers, and his band was Levitation.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
current playlist:
c'n'c-s mitheringwinterwinter 2Shift-WorkBill Is DeadVarious TimesDr. Buck's LetterPaint Work
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
o god, winter
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnwgjoTq1PM
You're historyYou've quit existationYou're green grub
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
xp that's a good list sleeve
RIP. so many people have already said anything i would try to say, but far better than i would have. I was just listening to This Nation's Saving Grace this morning. Can't even be coherent about this right now. Fuck.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
Checklist:
I never leave home without: (5)1. Sunglasses - I wear them all year around, and seem to need them more often, it’s a habitMusic - cassettes, CDs3. Palm Pilot - it’s my lifeline. I think it’s my P.A.’s computer, (6)She rules my diary and I download it4. Mobile phone5. Amex card - they made such a fuss about giving it to me but I spend more time getting it turned down!
I was in the realm of the essence of Tong.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
you don't deserve rock and roll
― cwkiii, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
hey mark
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
livin' too late
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
It hasn't hit yet, but it's starting
This is a good listen even if you're quite familiar imo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052r0l5
― mor frog bs (S-), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
Barbara Manning did a great cover of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxv1w-x21pY
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
An academic kneaded his chinSat in the dust of some cheap magazinesHis academic rust could not burn them up
A small alteration of the past can turn time into spaceSmall changes can alter more than a mere decade
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWVk3h2SA8&feature=share
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
he looks so wonderful there
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJJmdlZoPw
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
that's my number one LBI
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
maybe... of course
Oh goes without saying!
I can stumble through yt till the sun comes up. Probably asleep before that. But damn.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
just listened to Garden, now cranking "Two-Face!"
All the English groupsAct like peasants with free milkOn a routeOn a route to the lootTo candy mountainFive wacky English proletariat idiotsCalifornians always think of sexOr think of deathFive hundred girl deathsA Mexico revenge, it's stolen landThey really get it off on"Don't hurt me please"Rapist fill the TVsAnd the secret of their livesIs S.E.X..
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
50,000 fall fans cant be wrong.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
fuck, i'm just seeing this news.
i started reading the fall just the other night; weird timing (not sure if that's what the band are named after anyway). and i've been listening to the big singles compilation a lot lately, listening to a lot of the fall era that i'd always neglected ('86 - '02). so he has been on my mind quite a bit recently. RIP Mark E Smith.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
<3
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Trying not to be too sentimental because MES would have hated that. Thanks for the music, fuckface.
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link