00002 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (country, funk, single, albums)

simplephysics · 04-11-2009, 04:18 PM

Seeing as I only own This Nation's Saving Grace and enjoy it to bits I'll be grabbing that link. FANK OO.

Molecules · 04-11-2009, 04:32 PM

No problem, just enjoy it. And then download part two

4ZZZ · 04-11-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

The Fall are one of those bands I've always wanted to check out but never knew where to start. So it will be nice having you two doing all the hard work for me.

Me too.

Piss Me Off · 04-12-2009, 07:26 AM

Got my fave track on there (Deer Park), win.

Molecules · 04-12-2009, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships

I hope the live version of "Rowche Rumble" is in this... the keyboards in the album version kinda make it hard to get into.

EDIT: HA!!! I knew it!

of course what do you think I am a... not Fall fan?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piss Me Off

Got my fave track on there (Deer Park), win.

very good choice for a favourite, I included it on the assumption that even people who don't have Hex will have heard 'the Classical', and it captures the approach of that album perfectly, takes no prisoners!
This was fun to compile so I hope people get something out of it, I was saying to Urban earlier there are a thousand variations of the track listing that would have worked just as well (or better, there's a alot of scope for division amongst Fall fans), but unfortunately it had to be narrowed down to one!

**Janszoon** · 04-12-2009, 11:44 AM

Just listened to the first comp last night. Definitely something that's going to require repeat listens to fully digest. I liked it though, especially the tracks toward the end.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-12-2009, 04:24 PM

Apologies getting this up late. I have been stuck at my nephews birthday party all day, but now I have finally got this finished.
I decided to go with a much more conventional track listing for my compilation than Molecules did for his because I believe that The Fall's post 1990 work doesn't get anywhere near as much attention as their 70s & 80s albums do even though quite a few of these albums such as Extricate , The Infotainment Scan and others are just as good as any of the more well known albums that came earlier.
Without further ado I give you............

00002 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (1990-2008)

I'm Frank
Craig Scalon's frank tribute to Frank Zappa, hence the title 'I'm Frank' But MES explains this at the end of the song anyway.
Like some of Zappa's stuff It could also be seen as a parody of generic stadium rock with Smith filling the song with dumb sexual lyrics like Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby , Shh ,Ahh , Unh Unh Anh Anh.
It is a very catchy song though and it does contain some nice flute work.

Telephone Thing
The basis of this song comes from an old Lisa Stansfield song called 'My Telephone' where she collaberated with DJing duo Coldcut. Smith hated the song itself but loved the bassline so he recruited Coldcut to work on the song & wrote a totally different song around the existing bassline. It also features some nice 70s style Waca-Waca guitars from a returning Martin Bramah playing on his first Fall album since the bands 1978 debut 'Live At The Witch Trials'.

Idiot Joy Showland
MES has always written songs showing his utter contempt at the music industry and this song is probably the most vicious of them with the whole Madchester scene happening at the time. A scene that he made no secret of his contempt for. The song begins with the diatribe 'Idiot groups with no shape or form ,Out of their heads on a quid of blow , The shapeless kecks flapping on the storm , Look at what they are: a pack of worms' it then continues Hey you imitators, come on up , Hey little singer, come on up Show us your house and Show us your cock The working class has been shafted So what the fuck you sneering at?

Free Range
One of the most popular songs of the bands output in the early 90s. The song was written about the growing tensions he felt when the band played in Zagreb shortly before the outbreak of the war there. There are also lots of references in the song to 2001 which originally comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the music that novel inspired by Richard Strauss (The theme music to 2001 A Space Odyssey if you didn't already know).

Why Are People Grudgeful?
The Fall do reggae ... sort of.
This is a sort of cover version but it's based on two songs rather than one. You Crummy by Lee Scratch Perry and People Funny Boy by Joe Gibbs. I can't comment on the originals because i've never heard them but as far as this song goes this is pure dance pop with a reggae flavour and one of the bands best ever singles.

Strychnine (Peel Session)
A straight up cover of the classic song by The Sonics that rocks like a bastard. What more can I say?

Glam Racket - Star (Peel Session)
This to me sounds like an attack on hangers on & music industry insiders. A lot of people wrongly think this is an attack of Britpop due to the mention of Suede , but he's referring to the fabric , not the band. I've gone with the Peel Session version of this song because it includes an added monologue by a recently returned Brix Smith in the middle of the song.

Hey! Student
One of the bands earliest songs which began life as Hey! Fascist finally gets recorded for the Middle Class Revolt album in 1994. And he take the piss out of Pearl Jam fans in it as well ......... BONUS.

Feeling Numb
The only saving grace on the otherwise bloody awful Cerebral Caustic album. Has some nice vocal harmonies from Brix.

He Pep
The Light User Syndrome doesn't seem to attract as much hatred as the Cerebral Caustic album amongst most fans of the band but to me it's only marginally better than that album. And surprise surprise my favourite song off this album is another song slagging off the music industry. Lyrical highlights of this one go as follows.. 'I believe there's a new drug out , It's called speed , I wrote a song about it , Conceptually a la Bowie. But it's been lost in the vaults of the record company, By our manager. So instead our new 45 is 'Girlies'

Masquerade
The Levitate album divides opinion like no other Fall album. Primarily because the band decided to ditch the rock music and make an electronica album (3 years before Kid A , Suck on that Radiohead fanboys). This song , the second track of the album is probably the best of the bunch. It was a toss up between this & the album opener 'Ten Houses Of Eve' but this song has slightly more structure and is the best example of The Fall doing a 'bangin' dance tune.

Touch Sensitive
This is the most obvious track on this compilation and probably The Fall's most heard song due to it appearing on television on a regular basis. But there was no way I couldn't include this song because I love it so much. The song itself with it's simple riff & loud drumming sounds like a return to the bands early days reminiscent of songs like Rowche Rumble but with the added bonus of a string section over it giving the song a much bigger & bolder sound.

This Perfect Day (Peel Session)
Another cover , this time by Australian punk legends The Saints. I went for the Peel version because it's just so goddamn loud , abrasive & raw and so much better than the version that appeared on The Marshall Suite album. This is how garage rock is SUPPOSED to sound.

Two Librans
The main riff from this song sort of rips off Pink Floyds 'Intersteller Overdrive' somewhat and adds a bone crunching bass line to it that dominates the song. After the bands self destruction in 1998 and a few hit & miss albums with unstable line ups this is the first signs that Smith was starting to get things back together.

Theme From Sparta F.C.
With his new wife in the band (Her greek ancestry inspired this song) and the bands best line up since the mid 80s. The band put out the cracking 'The Real New Fall LP' in 2003. This was the lead single from the album as became the sound of the BBC's football results. Molecules pointed out to me that I should have used 'Sparta 2' instead of this version , as used on American pressings of the album. It's a bit less polished than this version & has different backing vocals and in retrospect he was probably right too...Dammit.
But it's still a great song.

Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. (Peel Session)
I begged Molecules not to use the version of the song included on 1982's Hex Enduction Hour album on his compilation. The band re-recorded it for John Peel in 2003 and this version is far far superior to the original. The original version seemed a bit too patchy & ramshackle to my ears and i've never liked it. On this version the riff is much more solid and the song just flows so much better.
If only they could have given the whole of the under-developed 'Room to Live' album this treatment as well.

Blindness (Peel Session)
I love the version thats on the Fall Heads Roll album. But to me the Peel version of the song just has that extra crunch in the bass that this song really benefits from. This song was used in a U.S. ad campaign for Mitsubishi so it may be familiar to some people when they hear it again.

Reformation
The title track from 2007's Reformation Post TLC album. Picked pretty much for the same reasons I chose Blindness. Crunching bassline , driving riff and proof that after 26 albums The Fall have lost nothing and can still be more uncompromising & relevant than most bands could ever dream of being

Taurig
A nice little instrumental outro from the bands last album to be released , 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent.

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jackhammer · 04-12-2009, 04:26 PM

^^^

Tidy. I'm on that like a rat down a drainpipe.

Molecules · 04-12-2009, 04:58 PM

Think I'll listen to this now and read the write-up!
I drew the short straw on covering the Fall's 'celebrated' era, but these days if I am listening to them it is to Extricate onwards - so much diversity and many a gem to be found. There must be something wrong with me because I always find something like about every album, it's uncharacteristically optimistic.

Don't forget to link to this page in the first post!

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-12-2009, 05:01 PM

Done

04-11-2009, 04:32 PM	#12 (permalink)
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04-12-2009, 07:26 AM	#14 (permalink)
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04-12-2009, 11:44 AM	#16 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Just listened to the first comp last night. Definitely something that's going to require repeat listens to fully digest. I liked it though, especially the tracks toward the end. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

04-12-2009, 04:24 PM	#17 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Apologies getting this up late. I have been stuck at my nephews birthday party all day, but now I have finally got this finished. I decided to go with a much more conventional track listing for my compilation than Molecules did for his because I believe that The Fall's post 1990 work doesn't get anywhere near as much attention as their 70s & 80s albums do even though quite a few of these albums such as Extricate , The Infotainment Scan and others are just as good as any of the more well known albums that came earlier. Without further ado I give you............ 00002 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (1990-2008) I'm Frank Craig Scalon's frank tribute to Frank Zappa, hence the title 'I'm Frank' But MES explains this at the end of the song anyway. Like some of Zappa's stuff It could also be seen as a parody of generic stadium rock with Smith filling the song with dumb sexual lyrics like Gimme gimme gimme it slowly baby , Shh ,Ahh , Unh Unh Anh Anh. It is a very catchy song though and it does contain some nice flute work. Telephone Thing The basis of this song comes from an old Lisa Stansfield song called 'My Telephone' where she collaberated with DJing duo Coldcut. Smith hated the song itself but loved the bassline so he recruited Coldcut to work on the song & wrote a totally different song around the existing bassline. It also features some nice 70s style Waca-Waca guitars from a returning Martin Bramah playing on his first Fall album since the bands 1978 debut 'Live At The Witch Trials'. Idiot Joy Showland MES has always written songs showing his utter contempt at the music industry and this song is probably the most vicious of them with the whole Madchester scene happening at the time. A scene that he made no secret of his contempt for. The song begins with the diatribe 'Idiot groups with no shape or form ,Out of their heads on a quid of blow , The shapeless kecks flapping on the storm , Look at what they are: a pack of worms' it then continues Hey you imitators, come on up , Hey little singer, come on up Show us your house and Show us your cock The working class has been shafted So what the fuck you sneering at? Free Range One of the most popular songs of the bands output in the early 90s. The song was written about the growing tensions he felt when the band played in Zagreb shortly before the outbreak of the war there. There are also lots of references in the song to 2001 which originally comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the music that novel inspired by Richard Strauss (The theme music to 2001 A Space Odyssey if you didn't already know). Why Are People Grudgeful? The Fall do reggae ... sort of. This is a sort of cover version but it's based on two songs rather than one. You Crummy by Lee Scratch Perry and People Funny Boy by Joe Gibbs. I can't comment on the originals because i've never heard them but as far as this song goes this is pure dance pop with a reggae flavour and one of the bands best ever singles. Strychnine (Peel Session) A straight up cover of the classic song by The Sonics that rocks like a bastard. What more can I say? Glam Racket - Star (Peel Session) This to me sounds like an attack on hangers on & music industry insiders. A lot of people wrongly think this is an attack of Britpop due to the mention of Suede , but he's referring to the fabric , not the band. I've gone with the Peel Session version of this song because it includes an added monologue by a recently returned Brix Smith in the middle of the song. Hey! Student One of the bands earliest songs which began life as Hey! Fascist finally gets recorded for the Middle Class Revolt album in 1994. And he take the piss out of Pearl Jam fans in it as well ......... BONUS. Feeling Numb The only saving grace on the otherwise bloody awful Cerebral Caustic album. Has some nice vocal harmonies from Brix. He Pep The Light User Syndrome doesn't seem to attract as much hatred as the Cerebral Caustic album amongst most fans of the band but to me it's only marginally better than that album. And surprise surprise my favourite song off this album is another song slagging off the music industry. Lyrical highlights of this one go as follows.. 'I believe there's a new drug out , It's called speed , I wrote a song about it , Conceptually a la Bowie. But it's been lost in the vaults of the record company, By our manager. So instead our new 45 is 'Girlies' Masquerade The Levitate album divides opinion like no other Fall album. Primarily because the band decided to ditch the rock music and make an electronica album (3 years before Kid A , Suck on that Radiohead fanboys). This song , the second track of the album is probably the best of the bunch. It was a toss up between this & the album opener 'Ten Houses Of Eve' but this song has slightly more structure and is the best example of The Fall doing a 'bangin' dance tune. Touch Sensitive This is the most obvious track on this compilation and probably The Fall's most heard song due to it appearing on television on a regular basis. But there was no way I couldn't include this song because I love it so much. The song itself with it's simple riff & loud drumming sounds like a return to the bands early days reminiscent of songs like Rowche Rumble but with the added bonus of a string section over it giving the song a much bigger & bolder sound. This Perfect Day (Peel Session) Another cover , this time by Australian punk legends The Saints. I went for the Peel version because it's just so goddamn loud , abrasive & raw and so much better than the version that appeared on The Marshall Suite album. This is how garage rock is SUPPOSED to sound. Two Librans The main riff from this song sort of rips off Pink Floyds 'Intersteller Overdrive' somewhat and adds a bone crunching bass line to it that dominates the song. After the bands self destruction in 1998 and a few hit & miss albums with unstable line ups this is the first signs that Smith was starting to get things back together. Theme From Sparta F.C. With his new wife in the band (Her greek ancestry inspired this song) and the bands best line up since the mid 80s. The band put out the cracking 'The Real New Fall LP' in 2003. This was the lead single from the album as became the sound of the BBC's football results. Molecules pointed out to me that I should have used 'Sparta 2' instead of this version , as used on American pressings of the album. It's a bit less polished than this version & has different backing vocals and in retrospect he was probably right too...Dammit. But it's still a great song. Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. (Peel Session) I begged Molecules not to use the version of the song included on 1982's Hex Enduction Hour album on his compilation. The band re-recorded it for John Peel in 2003 and this version is far far superior to the original. The original version seemed a bit too patchy & ramshackle to my ears and i've never liked it. On this version the riff is much more solid and the song just flows so much better. If only they could have given the whole of the under-developed 'Room to Live' album this treatment as well. Blindness (Peel Session) I love the version thats on the Fall Heads Roll album. But to me the Peel version of the song just has that extra crunch in the bass that this song really benefits from. This song was used in a U.S. ad campaign for Mitsubishi so it may be familiar to some people when they hear it again. Reformation The title track from 2007's Reformation Post TLC album. Picked pretty much for the same reasons I chose Blindness. Crunching bassline , driving riff and proof that after 26 albums The Fall have lost nothing and can still be more uncompromising & relevant than most bands could ever dream of being Taurig A nice little instrumental outro from the bands last album to be released , 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent. LINK __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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04-12-2009, 04:58 PM	#19 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	Think I'll listen to this now and read the write-up! I drew the short straw on covering the Fall's 'celebrated' era, but these days if I am listening to them it is to Extricate onwards - so much diversity and many a gem to be found. There must be something wrong with me because I always find something like about every album, it's uncharacteristically optimistic. Don't forget to link to this page in the first post! __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Done __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.