Genial THE FALL mastermind MARK E. SMITH passed away 1 year ago, on 24th January 2018. To remember the legend here are three of his countless, cracking quotes…
About political journalists…
About his stage fright…
About The Fall’s succes…
The best of the past…
Every week Turn Up The Volume! jumps into the past! Relive 25 Killer Crackers
and 3 Top Albums per year/per week. Let’s turn it up this week for: 1986.
The 25 Killer Crackers
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The 3 Top Albums
– BROTHERHOOD by NEW ORDER –
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– BEND SINISTER by THE FALL –
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– YOUR FUNERAL MY TRIAL by NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS –
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The best of the past…
Every week Turn Up The Volume! jumps into the past! Relive 25 Crackers and
3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s another firework year to remember: 1979.
The 25 KILLER TRACKS…
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The 3 TOP ALBUMS…
– Unknown Pleasures by JOY DIVISION –
Stream here…
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– Metal Box by PUBLIC IMAGE LTD –
Stream here…
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– ‘London Calling’ by THE CLASH
Stream here…
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See/hear you next week for the year of 1980…
Striking vibrations that good we play it on…
FOURTEEN KNOCKOUTS I played on repeat in JANUARY!
A versatile mix of electric eruptions and firework strokes
that energized all my senses and limbs this past month!
TURN UP THE VOLUME! Here’s plenty of sonic dope…
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1/ ‘Fol De Rol’ by THE FALL (Manchester, UK)
From the troubled genius’ final 2017 album – rest in peace…
Album: New Facts Emerge
2/ ‘Black Habit’ by MIEN (US, UK, Canada)
Supergroup hits it big psych time with debut single…
Debut album: out 8 April – info here
3/ ‘Love’ by ANTEROS (London, UK)
Striking pop pearl, as catchy as flaming hell…
5/ ‘Current Affair’ by SEXTILE feat SIENNA (Los Angeles)
Hyperkinetic electro whirlwind to go totally apeshit to…
Album: Albeit Living
6/ ‘The Gift’ by THE LIMIÑANAS feat. PETER HOOK (France/UK)
Sensual psychedelia with a sultry touch and legend Peter Hook on bass…
New album: Shadow People – just out now
7/ ‘Jukebox Babe’ by MOON DUO (Portland, US)
Portland’s mind-expanding pair covers Alan Vega in swinging style…
8/ ‘The Great Chain Of Being’ by KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Another heavy eruption by the Aussie psych junkies…
Album: Gumboot Soup
8/ ‘Bubbilicious’ by TOKYO TABOO (London, UK)
Pschodelic glam punk, hot as an exploding volcano…
Album: 6TH Street Psychosis / Interview with TUTV!
9/ ‘Skin Spilling’ by BONNE APARTE (The Netherlands)
Weird and eccentric paranoia post punks…
Album: Scalps – out 2 February – info here
10/ ‘Ballad’ by NO FRIENDZ (London, UK)
Funky scream along indie kick for all useless people on this planet…
Album: split LP with Chupa Cabra – all info here
11/ ‘Luxury Animals’ by MUSH (Leeds, UK)
Jingle jangle noiseniks fronted by Lou Reed‘s ghost…
12/ ‘Black Smoke’ by BLACK FUN SURGERY (London, UK)
Glimmering disco ball electronics with a spell-binding edge…
New album: PATCHES – to be released soon
13/ ‘Serpent Speak’ by AURAL AIR (Dublin, Ireland)
Poetic guitar euphony and Laura Rai‘s remarkable voice…
EP: The Torpor OF Minds
14/ ‘I Didn’t Belong’ by HIGHLAND KITES (California, US)
Tremendous voice to solace your troubled heart and hurt soul in times of love sickness…
Debut EP: to be released this year
See/hear you next month, music junkies…
The Jukebox Series: only the greats can fill a Wurlitzer…
25 January 2018
This episode was actually planned to be featured in a couple of weeks. But by now all fans definitely now that Mark E. Smith, the wayward mastermind of incomparable Manchester post-punk outlaws THE FALL died yesterday – 24 January – only 60. Smith was no less than a troubled genius. A fascinating wordsmith, a modern poet and made more records in his short lifetime than Radiohead would ever be able to complete in a full century. In memory
of this once in a lifetime artist and the countless brill line-ups of his band here are not the 15 usual picks, but 25 standout eruptions. R.I.P. Psycho Mafia Smith.
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MARK E. SMITH: Biography – The Fall Discography – Facebook
Manchester’s post-punk icon MARK E. SMITH, mastermind of THE FALL
died today, 24 January, he was 60. Another idol is gone. Sad, sad day!
MARK E. SMITH: Biography – The Fall Discography – Facebook
Going back in sonic history…
1988 was a year of versatile vibes and kicks
Here are TURN UP THE VOLUME’S ten picks…
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1/ ‘Fiesta’ by THE POGUES
Ultimate party cracker…
Album: ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’
2/ ‘Wrote For Luck’ by HAPPY MONDAYS
Eight miles high…
Album: ‘Bummed’
3/ ‘Sidewalking’ by THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Psych pop pearl…
Album: ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’
4/ ‘People Have The Power’ by PATTI SMITH
Sing it loud, maybe it’ll help…
Album: ‘Dream Of Life’
5/ ‘Gigantic’ by PIXIES
Kim Deal on a roll…
Album: ‘Surfer Rosa’
6/ ‘Hit The North’ by THE FALL
You can dance to The Fall…
Album: ‘The Frenz Experiment’
7/ ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’ by PUBLIC ENEMY
Just believe Public Enemy…
Album: ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’
8/ ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ by GUNS N’ ROSES
Massive rock and roll riffs…
Album: ‘Appetite For Destruction’
9/ ‘Orange Crush’ by R.E.M.
R.E.M. becoming a big alt act…
Album: ‘Green’
10/ ‘Christine’ by THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Pure pop melancholia…
Album: ‘The House Of Love’
THE DAMNED / VICE SQUAD / THE DICKIES /
RAMONES / THE FALL / BAD RELIGION /
THE VANDALS / STIFF LITTLE FINGERS /
THE DOLLYROTS / DROPKICK MURPHYS
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HAPPY XMAS EVE!
‘The Wonderful And Frightening World Of…’
Seventh LP by THE FALL
Released: 8 October 1984
Saturday 20 May 2017
Looking back in time… memorable moments in sonic history!
‘Code: Selfish’ by THE FALL
Released 22 march 1992
What the press said…
NME
“‘Code Selfish’ is harsh and uncompromising, although there is a doffed cap to melody amongst the steaming rubble, the detritus. Despite critical laurels and garlands, real and lasting, commercial success has always eluded The Fall and subsequently they’ve become bitter, cynical and twisted as opposed to mellowing with age. This album is a triumph of the imagination.”
Score: 9/10
ALL MUSIC
“An underrated and hard-to-find Fall album, this 1992 release returned to a harder, more caustic band than found on the previous year’s ‘Shift Work’. Smith’s writing was beginning to pare itself down to the essence, relying on repetition and imagery. An album that improves
with age.”
Score: 3/5
RECORD COLLECTOR
“Thankfully Smith snapped out of his post-Brix/bereavement funk and ushered in a new era of experimenting with machines and production techniques. Always different, always the same: even when they’re a bit mediocre, they’re still largely brilliant.”
Score: 4/5
Music, maestro, please. Here are 3 of the many highlights…
FREE RANGE
RETURN
TWO-FACE!