The other side of the A…
6 October 2020
Band: The Fall
B-side: Australians In Europe
A-side: Hit The North
Released: October 1987
Australians in Europe
Never ever breathe
Australians in Europe
Get a whiff of Air and Helium to breathe.*
Australians in Europe
Higher! Australians in Europe
RIP Mark E Smith…
The A…
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23 September 2020
Band: The Fall
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace – 8th LP
Released: 23 September 1985 – 35 years ago today
The Guardian wrote: “As vital as any of the Fall’s 29 studio albums, 1985’s ‘This Nation’s
Saving Grace’ finds them operating just on the edge of the mainstream and at the peak of
their accessibility and yet strangeness. One of the great Fall lineups (Brix Smith and classically trained Simon Rogers augment the holy Hanley/Scanlon/Burns triumvirate) rampage through pop to avant garde to electronica to rockabilly to krautrock, often simultaneously. The band
are so tightly drilled that not a second or sound is wasted, or innovation missed.” Score: 5/5.
Mark E. Smith: “When I was 18, the vision was to make music that
didn’t exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.”
Full album…
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Striking single sleeves…
17 July 2020
BINGO-MASTER’s BREAK-OUT by THE FALL
The title track – and one of the double A-side songs, with
Psycho Mafia being the other one) of the debut EP.
Released 11 August 1978.
Bingo…
Mafia…
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Old and new albums to make your day…
27 April 2020
YOUR FUTURE OUR CLUTTER is the twentieth-eight album – released on 26 April 2010, ten years ago – by the late great infamous Mark E Smith and his ever-changing backing band THE FALL. An overall striking and accessible record with several catchy rockers (O.F.Y.C. Showcase / Bury Pts. 1 + 3 / Hot Cake / Funnel Of Love) and the usual vintage Smith sneers. Not their best, but a classic compared to many other poor releases of that era.
AllMusic said: “This album is going to feature some esoteric references to their previous work along with some other oddball moves that are best appreciated… Too insider to cross over or consider one of their classics, but an otherwise solid Fall effort offering everything fans require.” Full review here
Album in full…
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21 March 2020
Thirty years ago, on 20 March 1990, turbulent post-punk legends THE FALL, the late
great MARK E SMITH‘s combo, released their 12th album ‘EXTRICATE’. Probably the
only LP where Smith actually tries to sing instead of spitting and sneering and somehow succeeds. It’s also the longplayer with one of their best-known songs ‘Telephone Thing‘.
AllMusic wrote: “Working with producers Rex Sergeant, Craig Leon, and Adrian
Sherwood, the post-apocalyptic sound of the ’70s had been smoothed to a sheen.
There were still moments of anarchy and dissonance, but generally they were
swaddled in synth-driven beats and high-tech production that smoothed out any
remaining rough edges.”Full review here. Score: 4.5/5 .
Full album…
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Old and new albums to make your day…
23 January 2020
Band: The Fall
Album: Bend Sinster – the band’s ninth LP
Released: September 1986 – produced by the famous John Leckie
Note: NME ranked it as the seventh best album of 1986
Album in full…
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Back sleeve
Great magazine covers from the past…
MARK E. SMITH
The Fall
September 1988
NME
26 October 2019
40 years ago today, on 26 October 1979, THE FALL released their second LP called ‘DRAGNET‘. Probably one of their messiest, rawest, grimmest and most chaotic longplayers ever with the late MARK E. SMITH spitting and sneering viciously and mercilessly from start to finish. Most of the critics loved it despite the minimalistic
and shrill production. Mark E. Smith and Marc Riley were the only two members of the original line-up who remained after the release of debut LP Live At The Witch Trials
which appeared in March of the same year. The beginning of countless different
The Fall line-ups had started.
Stream the recalcitrant album here. Turn up the turmoil and blow up your ears…
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From ‘Totally Wired’ by THE FALL
(A 1980 stand-alone single that appeared later on a reissue
of their 3rd album ‘Grotesque (After the Gramme)’
Somebody combined the song with a hilarious video clip on YouTube…
