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October 12, 2023: Hellraiser Special: FallCon 2023: Various Times; feat. The Fall
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The Fall | English Scheme | Grotesque (After the Gramme) (Expanded Edition) | Rough Trade / Castle | 1980 / 2004 | Again, from The Annotated Fall (English Scheme Page) "A note from the Orange Lyrics Book in MES's hand: RE: 'English Scheme' -- "This was one of the songs that started it off, in a way, both 'Slates' E.P. and 'Lie Dream of a Casino Soul'. -'English Scheme' was one of the few songs I’ve written that have sparked off genuine reactions. Boys I’d known for years on and off but never talked to would come up and proclaim its accuracy. -This prompted me to look further into England's 'class' system. -Indeed, one of the few advantages of being in an impoverished sub-art group in England is that you get to see (If eyes are Peeled) all the different stratas of society--for free." //////// "Sic" throughout, as near as possible, including all quotation marks. /////// "Scheme" is often used in England to describe a public assistance program...people who live in public housing are sometimes referred to as "schemies":" | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
White Lines |
Oxymoron |
Receiver Records Limited |
1997 |
Seemingly an instrumental outtake of the classic rap song Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) (Official Video) -- Was this intended to be a full-blown cover? Was Mark E. Smith considering vocalising over this at one point? (Unlikely?) Also features vocal loops (one sounding like a voice exclaiming "cocaine". This loop was also buried within the cover version of another cautionary song about cocaine which they actually did officially release; that being the Johnny Paycheck song "Stay Away (Old White Train)" on 1996's "The Light User Syndrome.) Both songs are presumably from roughly the same era. |
0:02:46 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | (Jung Nev's) Antidotes | The Marshall Suite | Artful | 1999 | One of the examples of The Fall managing to surprise even 20+ years into their career. A string arrangement of symphonic proportion bookends a song that sounds more akin to Led Zeppelin than The Fall. The 1999 album was unexpectedly strong, showing a new configuration of the band providing a set of solid songs, Mark E Smith's fall risen up pheonix-like after the bleak & unstable days that preceded the album... By the end of 1998 and beginning of 1999, it looked as if their career might be on the rocks. They had lost most of their lineup (esp. ones with longstanding histories to the group) due to the increasingly erratic and volatile antics of front-man Mark E. Smith. This had culminated in his arrest near the end of that extremely troubled tour. More can be read here: "a href="https://thefall.org/gigography/gig98.html" target="_blank">thefall.org (gigography), ie. our current topic: "Wednesday, 8 April 1998 Brownies, New York City, New York - cancelled / Gig cancelled due to Mark's arrest at around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, at the band's hotel in Gramercy Park. He was held in jail until Friday due to a mixup with the forms and the posting of the $1000 bail, and appeared in court on third degree assault and harrassment charges on Monday, 14 April. He was ordered to undergo an alcohol treatment program and anger management counselling." | 0:07:46 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Totally Wired | A Part Of America Therein, 1981 | Cottage Records | 1982 | By far and away my favourite Fall performance of this song, far superior (in my opinion) to the original recorded version. The song itself sounds like it is wired, demonstrating how the studio version lags in comparison. This was recorded in New York in 1981. One of my favourite Fall live performances of all time, this version. Skittering, edgy guitars, sending out bursts and barbs of rhythmic entanglements, unrelentingly, unforgivingly. | 0:11:14 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Wise Ol' Man (edit) | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red Records | 2016 | A late example of one of The Fall's more melodic, poppy, chipper songs. "Wise Ol' Man is an EP by the Fall, released on 19 February 2016 by Cherry Red Records. It features two new songs, "Wise Ol' Man" and "All Leave Cancelled", as well as alternate versions and remixes of songs from the band's 2015 album Sub-Lingual Tablet, and a rare live performance of "No Xmas for John Quays" (from the Fall's first album Live at the Witch Trials), recorded at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on 28 November 2014." //// All tracks are written by Mark E. Smith, Elena Poulou and Dave Spurr (according to the credits.) This would be the second-last release by The Fall (Mark E Smith died almost exactly two years later) and was the last to feature his third wife, Elena Poulou (AKA Elini), who had been contributing to the band since 2001. (Artwork at first, then keys & vocals.) "It was in December 2000 that Mark met Elena Poulou in Berlin. She would become his third and final wife. Elena joined The Fall as the keyboardist in 2002 and was a member until 2016 when she resigned. The pair split in 2016, with Mark saying at the time: ‘Things happen. To be honest I’m happier now. It was just like: “Why am I doing this?” And then you think you’re going to go back feeling sorry for yourself but actually it’s all right. ‘People go “oh here you go again”, but I’ve been through divorce, I’ve seen families divorce. I don’t see it as a bad thing.’ //// Mark didn’t have any children." | 0:15:26 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | That Man | Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) [Expanded Deluxe Version] | Rough Trade / Sanctuary | 1980 / 2004 | From one of my favourite "live" albums. This song, of course, is a studio track. This is how it works in the world of The Fall... "Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) is a (mostly) live album by the Fall, released on 5 May 1980. //// The first of the band's many live and part-live albums, it was mostly recorded at gigs in the north of England, but the track "New Puritan" was recorded at Mark E. Smith's home and "That Man" is a studio recording, an outtake from the recording sessions for the "Fiery Jack" single." | 0:19:01 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Telephone Thing | Telephone Thing Single / Extricate | Phonogram / Mercury Records | 1990 | After Mark E. Smith & Brix E. Smith's divorce & her departure from the band, The Fall signed to their first major label & the first release was something of a departure, a collaboration, "written by Mark E. Smith with Coldcut members Matt Black and Jonathan More. Produced and mixed by Coldcut, it was released as a single in January 1990 and reached number 58 on the UK singles chart. It also featured on the Fall's twelfth album, Extricate." Not only was the song (and album) generally unlike anything the band had done before, this era was also notable in that it saw the return of original co-founding member (guitarist / one-time vocalist Martin Bramah.) Though he wouldn't last much longer than a year, he contributed significantly during this time, co-writing much of the album, several singles & one song on the follow-up album. //// Back to the song itself -> "Smith said: [Coldcut's recording] was a misjustice to the tune. That single was a flop and it was rubbish. You see, they compose all their shit on machines, so I got the band to learn it, played naturally. So it's very different indeed. I just think it's topical - like all Fall singles. I think it's good to have a go at things like that - British Rail and British Telecom. It's a natural gripe. One time, I was using the phone a lot and I dialled a number and I could hear people munching sandwiches and talking about my last phone call. I actually rang up the operator and said 'Lookl I'm trying to dial a fucking number here and I can't get through because people are talking about my phone calls! Have you got a bleedin' license to do this? //////// Smith's lyrics include the lines "How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you / Gretchen Franklin, nosey matron thing...". Gretchen Franklin was the actress playing the part of Ethel Skinner, an elderly busybody in the BBC TV soap opera EastEnders. Smith claimed: I thought I'd made up that name. Coldcut and Craig Leon were going to me 'That's a great name to make up, Gretchen Franklin', it just came out of nowhere. And then I was watching EastEnders and ... it was terrible! Maybe she'll be flattered, you usually find people are flattered. I don't even watch fucking EastEnders. I hate it! It must've just lodged there somewhere, out of the blue. It's subliminal - I've nothing against her - I can't even remember what she looks like now.... OH NO! It's not the woman with the dog is it? It's not!" | 0:20:46 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Trust In Me | Fall Heads Roll | Narnack | 2005 | Fall Heads Roll is the 24th studio album, released Oct 3, 2005, produced by Mark E. Smith, Simon Archer & Tim Baxter, and recorded at Lisa Stansfield's Gracieland Studios in Rochdale, UK and at Gigantic Studios in New York City. Though it's hardly common, there are a few Fall songs that don't feature Mark E. Smith on vocals. This is one of them: "The album's closing track, "Trust in Me", features guest lead vocals from Kenny Cummings of the band Shelby, who had first met Smith and Elena Poulou at the Gigantic offices earlier on the day it was recorded, with additional vocal contributions from Phil Schuster of Shelby, and recording engineers Billy Pavone and Simon "Ding" Archer." | 0:24:59 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Kimble | A World Bewitched Best of 1990-2000 CD 2 | Artful Records | 2006 | A cover of a Lee Perry song, with M.E.S. channeling the idiosyncrasies of dub-wizard Perry while maintaining all of his own. The following year, The Fall would double down on the dub/reggae Lee Perry connection, with a cheery cover of "Why Are People Grudgeful?", a 1993 single based on two Jamaican recordings from 1968, "People Funny Boy" by Lee Perry, and its answer record, "People Grudgeful" by Joe Gibbs, which are regarded as being among the first reggae records. //// As for this song, Kimble, it is from John Peel session 15; Recorded 19 January 1992, first broadcast 15 February 1992 //// Produced by Dale Griffin, engineered by Mike Engles & James Birtwistle. Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studio 3. Mark E Smith - vocals; Craig Scanlon - guitar; Steve Hanley - bass; Dave Bush - keyboards; Simon Wolstencroft - drums. Kimble has been released on the Kimble single (7', 12" & CD) and also on the 2CD compilation, A World Bewitched. | 0:28:26 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
The Boss |
Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] |
Cherry Red Records / Fall Sound Archive |
2020 |
This one was performed live at least once, on Mon March 20, 2006 @ Carling Academy Bristol, UK. From the expanded version of Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] on Cherry Red Records, which came out in 2020. This track is from the disc of "Early Rough Mixes 2006", many of which are instrumental... Some would be used on the album proper, some would not. |
0:32:14 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
60's Wack |
Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] |
Cherry Red Records / Fall Sound Archive |
2020 |
It's unclear if the early 2006 outtakes were from the former lineup or not, certainly one of the songs was cowritten by Steve Trafford and played live during his tenure. Regardless, "Smith was quick to de-bunk what had been recorded already - "Ben talks about how they recorded all these great tracks in Lincolnshire, just before the tour. They recorded shit - a few lame incarnations of what they thought The Fall should sound like... 'the great lost album', what a load of shit." |
0:35:06 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
The Vine |
Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] |
Cherry Red Records / Fall Sound Archive |
2020 |
Early Rough Mixes 2006 (A series of instrumental tracks were part of this expanded release, some would be used on the album proper, some would not) |
0:38:43 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Blonde |
Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] |
Cherry Red Records / Fall Sound Archive |
2020 |
This one is actually an early version of what would become "Coach and Horses" on Reformation! Post-TLC. From disc 3 of the expanded set - "Early Rough Mixes 2006" |
0:41:39 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Over! Over! [Early Rough (Instrumental) Mix 2006] |
Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] |
Cherry Red Records / Fall Sound Archive |
2020 |
Self-explanatory -- An instrumental version of Over! Over!, a song that borrows so heavily from "Coming Down" by The United States Of America that it should be credited as a cover version, which, for some reason, it is not. |
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The Fall | Psykick Dancehall | Dragnet | Step-Forward | 1979 | Dragnet is the second studio album by English post-punk band the Fall, released on 26 October 1979 through Step-Forward Records. Appearing less than eight months after its predecessor, Live at the Witch Trials, Dragnet established at an early stage two key patterns characteristic of the group's future: that of high productivity and that of a regular turnover of group members, with only 2 of the OG members remaining. Dragnet's sound was notably muddy and lo-fi – Riley has claimed that this was a deliberate contrast to the sharp, clean sound of Live at the Witch Trials, while Smith claimed that the recording studio was so appalled by the sound that the group were asked to remove the studio's name from the album sleeve. In Simon Ford's book 'The Fall,' Kay Carroll explained the origin of the song's title: her mother opened a psychic centre 'on the corner of Gardner Road and Bury New Road in Prestwich. "It was over a row of shops that consisted of a bakery, hairdresser's and a shoe shop...It had originally been a dance studio, you know tap, ballroom dancing, things of that nature" MES says of the tune: "That was written at a time when we were in a really bad state, financially and everything. So I wrote this song about this dancehall, which does sort of exist in Prestwich...or doesn't anymore...they were going to have a disco with no music. Just old psychics, you know, like 50-year-old women... | 0:46:05 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Pay Your Rates | Grotesque (After The Gramme) | Rough Trade | 1980 | Grotesque (After the Gramme) is the third studio album by English band the Fall. Released on 17 November 1980, it was the band's first studio album on Rough Trade. It reached #1 on the independent charts and remained on the charts for 29 weeks. This was the first album for drummer Paul Hanley (Steve Hanley's younger brother), who joined the Fall earlier in the year aged 15. Kay Carroll, singer Mark E. Smith's then-girlfriend and the band's manager, played kazoo on "New Face in Hell" and added backing vocals. The Fall's music at the time was described as "Mancabilly", and by Smith himself as "Country 'n' Northern". The album opens with "Pay Your Rates", the lyric described as one that "excoriates small-minded conformity" He goes on to say of the council estates referred in the lyrics "But now with these estates, it's like rat experiments. Essentially what it is. You're closing people up. I used to go out with girls when I was a lad, and they'd live on these estates, they'd just be unbearable, man. You'd go in these houses...they'd all be the same. They all have gardens and shit, little gardens. But you go in, all the wallpaper is the same, the smell is the same, like being in prison, very, very similar." | 0:49:54 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Ludd Gang | The Man Whose Head Expanded [Single] / Peverted By Language [Expanded] | Rough Trade / Castle Music | 1983 / 2005 | Perverted by Language is the sixth studio album by English post-punk group The Fall, released in December 1983 on Rough Trade Records. The record gave the band their first number one album on the UK Independent Chart since Grotesque (After the Gramme) in 1980, and spent fourteen weeks on the chart. Perverted by Language is the first Fall album to feature Brix Smith, then-wife of Mark E. Smith. The Luddites were English textile workers who, in the early 19th century, banded together and fought against the loss of jobs resulting from the mechanization of the industry. They were known for destroying machines, but they also got into numerous skirmishes with milll owners and British military and law enforcement. The Luddites were named after a (probably mythological) character called Ned Ludd, whom they often referred to in their missives as "King Ludd" or "General Ludd." MES also refers to the "Gang of one"...possibly a dig against Gang of Four "They preach the leftist ideas. They went to University and belong to the privileged class. The problem is that they pretend to know what the working class wants. But they haven't got a clue. Sham 69 however knew what they were talking about and they were good. The English working class (including myself) find the music of the Gang of Four offensive, insulting, hurtful. I listed to their first singles a lot in those days. Later on I saw them live, too and then you could tell they lacked the feeling when they got to the heart of the matter. I mean, how could they talk about problems and changes in the world when they play like that. Maybe I am being cynical but it's more important to me to be honest to myself. I don't like the music of the Gang of Four. I prefer rock'n'roll bands." | 0:52:53 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | 2 X 4 | The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall | Beggars Banquet | 1984 | The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... is the seventh studio album by English musical group the Fall, released in October 1984. It was the band's first album after signing to the Beggars Banquet label. Newcomer Brix Smith co-wrote three of the tracks, ushering in a relatively pop-oriented sound for the group. Paul Hanley left the band immediately after the accompanying UK tour, ending the group's distinctive "twin drummers" period. 2 x 4" features Steve Hanley's bass prominently, Nickas and Planck considering it the lead instrument on the song. There is some suggestion that this song was about his father in law, Brix's stepdad...who supposedly did not care much for Mark. However Mark later refuted that in an interview saying "I know Brix loves her stepfather and I get on really well with her real father, he comes out with sick jokes all the time." | 0:55:26 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Spoilt Victorian Child | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet | 1985 | This Nation's Saving Grace is the eighth studio album by the English post-punk band the Fall, released in 1985 by Beggars Banquet. In contrast to the band’s earlier albums, This Nation's... is noted for its pop sensibilities and guitar hooks, and John Leckie's accessible production. Guitarist Brix Smith and bassist Steve Hanley consider This Nation's Saving Grace to be one of the band's best albums, an opinion widely shared by critics. "Spoilt Victorian Child" incorporates unused lyrics intended for the Fall's 1979 debut album Live at the Witch Trials, but had been held back until the band found suitable "daft English music". The jerky and stuttering guitar riff written by Rogiers is in 6/4 time, a signature Brix initially found difficult to master. Smith's lyrics contain a number of Victorian era reference points, including Pop-up books, aqueducts, poxes and the Cottingley Fairies. | 0:59:05 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Mother-Sister! | Live At The Witch Trials | Step Forward | 1979 | Live at the Witch Trials is the debut studio album by the Fall. It was released on 16 March 1979 through record label Step-Forward. It is not, despite its title, a live album and was recorded in a studio in a single day and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant. They had 5 days booked in the studio, but MES cancelled the first 3 days due to illness....Robert Christgau of The Village Voice said he initially found it "too tuneless and crude", but later "played it in tandem with Public Image Ltd. one night and for a few bars could hardly tell the difference", concluding that "in this icky pop moment we could use some ugly rebellion." Una Baines wrote the music, and her band Poppycock released a song in 2016, "Lizard Man," which appears on the German Shepherd charity album Malawi. It begins with a man saying "Eh, what's this about?" and another man responding "Eh, nothing!" Martin Bramah says about the lyrics "I didn’t get for a while that Mother-Sister! is actually about my mother, about a story I told him. He’s describing where we lived, but I didn’t realise it at the time, it was only later that I did. That’s why he asked me to ask what the song was about, because it was about me and my mother...I had quite a pretty mum, so he may have fancied her. A lot of my friends did, because she was a pretty blond and young for a mum - a lot of lads with older mums thought mine was quite sexy, as teenaged boys do!" | 1:03:21 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Taurig |
Imperial Wax Solvent (Expanded Version) |
Sanctuary |
2008 / 2020 |
There are two versions of this, it has come to light. This is the version that was released on the original 2008 album; with (intentionally) lyrics so low in the mix that only fragments can be heard. In 2020 an expanded edition was released, featuring mixes from the Britannia Row Sep 21, 2007 Recordings. There is a version of this song there where vocals are very much up front, from both Mark E. Smith & also Eleni Poulou. I love both versions very much. |
1:06:41 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Glam Racket Instrumental Demo |
The Infotainment Scan (Expanded) |
Castle Music |
2006 |
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The Fall | Backdrop (Live 1982) | Fall In A Hole [Expanded] | Flying Nun / Cog Sinister | 1983 / 2002 | Yet another of the many hidden treasures in The Fall catalogue. This song was an abrasive, cacophonous epic that was oft performed live around '82/'83, but never gifted to the studio treatment. You can find an astounding amount of notes on this rarity on The Annotated Fall (Backdrop page). This version of the song is from what had once been one of the rarest Fall albums... Tall Dwarfs' Chris Knox arranged for the recording & release of the Fall's Aug tour of New Zealand, w/ Mark E. Smith's blessing... However... "The album was originally only released in New Zealand in December 1983. However, a small number were exported to the UK early in 1984 and, in the sleeve notes for the 2002 UK CD edition, Chris Knox, who had recorded the show, stated that Mark E. Smith had been very unhappy at copies appearing in the UK and that exports ceased at his request. The album immediately became a highly valued collector's item. Smith demanded all of the profits from the album, putting Flying Nun in a precarious financial position and delaying several of the label's other releases." | 1:17:37 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | 986 Generator | Your Future Our Clutter | Domino Recording Co. | 2010 | From The Annotated Fall (986 Generator page) -- "A slow blues with acoustic slide guitar, this sounds little like anything else from the Fall. It may be "1986" generator; numbers in Fall songs behave like they do in dreams, rarely remaining stable. The song seems to be about a time machine, maybe set for 1986. Many of the lyrics parody (or pay homage to, its hard to say) the Boz Scaggs song "Lido Shuffle," which contains the following lines: He said one more job ought to get it One last shot 'fore we quit it One more for the road [...] Sayin' one more hit ought to do it This joint ain't nothin to it One more for the road" --- Written by Mark E. Smith & Keiron Melling. Produced by Mark E Smith & Tim Robbins | 1:28:00 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Reformation! [Early Rough (Instrumental) Mix 2006] |
Reformation! Post-TLC [Expanded] |
Cherry Red Records / Fall Sound Archive |
2020 |
Early Rough Mixes 2006 (An instrumental version of the title track from Reformation! Post-TLC.) A little more vicious/jagged/teethy, the guitars on this one. |
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The Fall | Touch Sensitive | The Marshall Suite | Artful Records | 1999 | One of my favourite Fall songs! The Marshall Suite is a 1999 album by the Fall, their 20th. The album builds on the techno-influenced beats of its predecessor Levitate (1997), while also returning to a more rockabilly-influenced sound reminiscent of earlier Fall lineups. Around the time of the album's release, rumours circulated that The Marshall Suite was a concept album about the "Crying Marshal" character. Smith stopped short of denying this, telling The Wire that "I thought it would be good to do it as the story of his life, a themed LP, with a thread running through it. It's such an unhip thing to do." An unpublished section of the interview, later placed on the magazine's website, suggested that Smith was not yet finished with his creation: "I do want to continue the Marshall theme, develop it. Maybe a five-sided thing next, the return of the Marshall". | 1:40:00 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Cyber Insekt | The Unutterable (Special Deluxe Edition) | Eagle Records | 2000 | The Unutterable is the 21st album by English rock band the Fall, released in 2000. It was recorded with much the same lineup as had appeared on the group's previous album, 1999's The Marshall Suite. This was the first and only Fall 'official' studio release to be issued on CD only, without a corresponding vinyl version. According to Julia Nagle, the song was written in the aftermath of the notorious onstage incident in New York City when MES brawled with Karl Burns and the whole band (Nagle excepted) wound up quitting: "'The song Cyber Insekt, is about that time in New York in 1998. We (our lawyer. Mark and myself) said the whole incident had been incredulous [sic], and we should write a book about it. And being in America, we then laughed about making the "film of the book, of the film" etc, which in turn became the lyrics, if that makes any sense.' And on the preview of the album, Nagle says it's 'about the virtual world of communication. There was a plan behind this: to work it live, rather than program it. It's bubbly.'" I wonder if the ‘book on station rack’ that catches MES’s attention here could be Silence of the Lambs? A book made into a film that then had multiple film-related reprints widely available in all good station bookshops... The movie tie in editions featured the iconic image of the yellow deaths head moth in Clarice’s mouth. And of course, given The Fall’s presence on the soundtrack of the film, might make sense that his eye would be drawn toward it... //// Extra fun fact: Backing vocals on the chorus are by Julia Nagle and guest Kazuko Hohki from the Frank Chickens. | 1:43:15 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | He Pep! | The Light User Syndrome | Jet Records | 1996 | The Light User Syndrome is the 18th album by the Fall, released in 1996 on Jet Records. It was the group's first album to feature keyboard player and guitarist Julia Nagle and the last to feature Brix Smith, Brix Smith told Simon Ford that The Light User Syndrome was recorded very quickly, with Mark E. Smith absent for much of the recording, delivering nearly all his vocals on the final day. Brix confirns both hypothesis that this song is both about speed...and based on pep rally chants " "I loved singing the cheerleader backup on 'He Pep!', another one of Mark's odes to speed mixed with a rant about record companies." | 1:46:34 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Black Roof | Sub Lingual Tablet | Cherry Red | 2015 | Sub-Lingual Tablet is the 30th and penultimate studio album by English band The Fall, released in May 2015 by Cherry Red Records. The album was originally going to be named Dedication Not Medication, but, according to Mark E. Smith, "it looked a bit like a Barclays advert". "Black Roof" doesn't feature the regular Fall lineup at all; instead, the bulk of it was recorded by former members Rob Barbato and Tim Presley in the United States, with Smith adding the vocals later. | 1:49:42 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Mountain Energei | The Real New Fall LP formerly 'Country On The Click' | Cherry Red | 2003 | The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) is the 23rd studio album by the Fall, released on Action Records in the United Kingdom in 2003. The album features the song "Theme from Sparta F.C.", which, from 2005, was used for several years as the theme music to the Final Score section of BBC television's Saturday afternoon sports coverage. In 2006, Smith was also invited to read out the classified football results on the BBCi interactive service "Score". When asked if Mountain Energei was a political song he said "No, not really. It's an objective song. Started off with, mmm, seeing Britain, and I think you have it here [in the US], as well....you get it on TV, y'know, "you can have endless credit" and all that. (Pause) Where I live, and I'm sure everywhere, there's people who actually believe it, y'know. But also...for instance, in Manchester, you probably get that here as well, "Water was always free" where I live, y'know." | 1:51:32 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Intro |
1970s |
Cherry Red |
2022 |
1:54:52 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Edie (Rough Mix) |
This Nation's Saving Grace (Expanded Edition) |
Beggar's Banquet |
1985 |
This song would eventually become a fully developed song (ie. w/ Lyrics) by Brix E. Smith's project "Adult Net". She released a few singles under that moniker during her first tenure in The Fall (the earliest singles featuring Fall members, including one guest collab. w/ Mark E. Smith himself.) Eventually, the Smiths' marriage dissolved & Brix left The Fall to work on a solo career, the first release being Adult Net's only full-length, 1989's 'The Honey Tangle". |
1:56:40 (Pop-up) |
The Fall | Living Too Late | Living Too Late [SIngle] / Bend Sinister [Expanded] | Beggar's Banquet / Beggar's Arkive | 1986 / 2017 | MES, in an article entitled "Semi-Detached Mr Smith (Sounds, 19 July 1986): "I thought it would be a really good idea to write a song about middle-aged people. About an ordinary guy who was really pissed off. The more I got in the frame of mind, the easier the words came. We was originally going to do a country-and-western style. Really middle of the road, you know. I was thinking about suburbia, upper working class suburbs, and I was just wondering about these guys walking around the streets, whether they ever got pissed off." | 1:57:26 (Pop-up) |
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Tom P:
Scott_Oz:
🍻😎🤙💨🍷👻🎃
Robm:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Scott_Oz:
🍻😎🤙💨🍺
ultradamno:
Robm:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Alli B:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
Mr Fab:
DJ Babs:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
DJ Babs:
Alli B:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
Tyler:
Tyler:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
VinylVillainSean:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
VinylVillainSean:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
Tom P:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
ultradamno:
DJ Nico:
gsdoubleu:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Will thee Sound Guy:
gsdoubleu:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Nico:
DJ Babs:
gsdoubleu:
Tom P:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
Tom P:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Tom P:
Tom P:
WR:
Besides the great MES and The Fall sounds y'all are bringing great info and perspective on the music and band.
If this program whets anyone's appetite for more The Fall and MES there was a couple hours plus on another WFMU program early this year:
wfmu.org...
Derek Westerholm:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
Tyler:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
laurapanic:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
ultradamno:
Tyler:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Talk about a straight line
DJ Babs:
Tyler:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Tyler:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
Tyler:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
Tyler:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻
Tom P:
Tyler:
VinylVillainSean:
gsdoubleu:
DJ Babs:
WR:
Anyway, many many thanks!
Onward.
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
Tyler:
DJ Babs: