The Fall are the greatest band of all time
Based.
Favorite album? Normie pick but I'll have to go with Hex.
*calls out poptimism in 1981*
>It’s sickening, you go to Rough Trade now and all the bands, the London bands are all getting into Tamla Motown. They’re just getting into it now, you know? I mean, people in the North are brought up on that from 12 or 13, you know. And you get all these art college guys about 24 going “We’re going funk! We’re going soul!” These guys who’ve been playing like, fuckin’ Henry Cow type material and think they’ve discovered what nobody else knew! I mean, Tamla have sold millions of records to the working classes of the world! (Laughing.)
Hex. Grotesque holds a special place in my heart too. Your Future Our Clutter is the best of the more recent ones.
Hex is great, but it’s got to be Perverted By Language for me.
free range is a fooking banger
They definitely were the one chance I had to see them live, can hear me and friends hollering in the background.
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Hell yeah, Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room is another fave from the 90's. Sparta FC from the 00's era, too.
same here, Garden is a fucking masterpiece. Also got a soft spot for Sub Lingual Tablet
live at the witch traisl
best artist ever for me
>Your Future Our Clutter is the best of the more recent ones.
fav 2010 record
all of them
>Also got a soft spot for Sub Lingual Tablet
what do you think of that album? my second favourite record of the 10's. sad we won't get more fall records
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Didn't he have issues with pavement?
they were heavily indebted with the fall
yes
yeah Hex is just otherwordly, MES always would admit it was their best album. Grotesque is my #2 but Dragnet has been growing on me pretty steadily, love Flat of Angles and Dice Man.
Still these guys are so good that at any given moment any of their albums could be #2. Idk how they were so consistent for so long.
shoutout to Tempo House too, what a track
and as someone who had a speech impediment MES' line in that song about winston churchill is inspirational.
not a die hard fan but i fucking love this song. any more like it? youtube.com
R.O.D, LA, Theme from Sparta F.C., Pilsner Trail
Frenz for me, Shift Work my pick for most overlooked
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a tune that's pure elation for any Northerner
I Am Kurios Oranj is fucking great and pretty overlooked as well. Dog Is Life / Jerusalem is one of their best songs.
whole 88 - 92 falls under that umbrella really
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Mines either room to live or perverted by language. What’s a good post 80’s album? Haven’t listened to much from that era, the production kinda turns me off
BA DA DA DAAA BA DA DA DAAA, the most prolific post punk band I can think of
I like Extricate, Shiftwork quite a lot. There are House influences that are really interesting and shows how versatile MES was as a songwriter.
The Light User Syndrome, Levitate and The Marshall Suite are great as well.
And you'll like their 2000s output if you like their 70s and 80s album. Pretty good albums for the most part. The Unutterable and Your Future Our Clutter being highlights.
>the production kinda turns me off
As much as I love the Fall their production was never their selling point but it never bothered me personally. I think it's part of their charm because it works for them. If Wire or Gang of Four had Fall's production they would suck.
>"We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers."
Are there any musicians more based than MES?
Yeah, def Kurious Oranj for me. Every single track is amazing. Live At The Witch Trials is a close second.
No, he's the definition of based. God made him an alcoholic anglo manlet so the rest of us could have a chance.
I met him years ago. He's 5'10"/11". Average height master race.
>when you discover that MES was a Beatles fan and even did a cover of ADITL
>Shift Work my pick for most overlooked
produced by rob gordon, founder of warp records btw
>What’s a good post 80’s album?
extricate, infotainment scan, marshall suite, country on the click, fall heads roll, your future our clutter and tromatic reflexxions for starting
>There are House influences that are really interesting and shows how versatile MES was as a songwriter.
yes he was very eclectic in their taste, sad that those electronic oriented records are underrated by look back bores
I thought he was 5'9". Like me :(
he wasn't a fan actually. he liked some songs. what shocked me was that he dig asian pop music
such as?
He's probably talking about City Pop.
They ripped some songs on their first album
>Oddly, though, he expresses a relatively new-found fondness for Indian pop music, and includes a recent purchase of a cassette, Jag Wala Mela, by a duo called Heera.
>”I don't like Indian classical music at all, I hate all that sitar shit, but I'm getting quite into this Indian pop. It's really good, especially the drums. I'm sick of hearing records with drum machines on them. It's all on one level. These guys speed up towards the end. And I like the way they repeat lyrics. You know how if you get your standard blues and they go, 'l woke up this morning and me head was bad, I woke up this morning and me head was bad...', they sing it four times? These guys sing it 16 times!
>"I'm not like a bloody ethnic music fan – I don't like African music and all that – but this stuff has struck me. Indian pop is cool, especially now that all these musicians have been influenced by pop groups, Michael Jackson and all that, crossover sort of stuff."
the fall are a bunch of poofters
mark e smith died with african cock up his arse
why so insecure about black people little cunt?
i guess he was refering to far east also
I remember seeing the column you’re probably referring to but in bongland “Asian” usually refers to South rather than East Asians
>to but in bongland “Asian” usually refers to South rather than East Asians
they call them pakis
>I often felt left out. The boys once went to a brothel in Hamburg in an underground car-park. The girls there wore big heels and a belt. I was fascinated! I wasn't asked along so yet again I sat in the hotel bar with the bad piano player, ordering another Diet Coke
Hex, Grotesque, and Witch Trials would be my top three. Dragnet is also pretty underrated.
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Can never get into the fall. Am I just too stupid for his lyrics? Don't know what his blabbering on about most of the time.
lyrics are interesting but is also about the sounds of the words, he's voice
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No, your ego just isn't wounded enough that you have to pretend to find value in emotionless pseudo-intellectual critic-rock.
Even Mark E Smith couldn't stand The Fall fans. Whenever he got new band members, he looked for dudes who only listen to Motörhead or something.
I’ve probably read all Mark E Smith’s interviews and often contribute quotes and scans of articles to these threads (like ), not really a fan of the music though
He also deeply respects Pete Waterman
Another of his prouder moments
He just had a hard on for William Blake.
>some drunk geezer rambling over an everchanging cast of some of the worst musicians in Britain
>greatest band of all time
Those are all positives.