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October 26, 2023: Hellraiser Special: FallCon 2023: Happy Fall'O'Ween
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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The Fall | Pumpkin Soup & Mashed Potatoes | The Unutterable | Eagle Records | 2000 | The Fall happily hack their way through light jazz in the most off-kilter, absurd way. From Annotated Fall: "This song, which is kind of a novelty for the Fall, is done in a lounge jazz style." -- Lyrics: "Parmesan carrots with mushrooms / Frankly that I've never been keen / It's pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / That's for my Hallowe'en tea / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / That has always been my dream / / Physicians moan about the guarantees of vegetables / But to be frank what I'm keen on is that same old scene / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / That is my Hallowe'en tea / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / That's why I'm always keen / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / They'll keep me clean / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / / I'm old, not much, but I'm going mad / Because of the starvation that I've had / Clouds rush by / But I always have my dream / / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes / That is my hallowe'en tea / Pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes" | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Pumpkinhead Xscapes |
Ed's Babe (Single) / Code Selfish [Expanded] |
Phonogram / Mercury Records |
1992 / 2007 |
This song is often stuck in my head, there's a vocal part in that it annoys the hell out of me. Unfortunately, it's the part that's stuck in my head. Even more weirdly, I sort of like it, too. "According to Simon Wolstencroft in You Can Drum But You Can't Hide, this song 'started out as a joke about Craig's cat going missing.'" |
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Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Pumpkinhead Escapes |
Sinister Waltz |
Receiver Records Limited |
1996 |
A remixed instrumental version from one of the mid-90's era "Receiver Records" rarities+live compilations. (A series of releases oft-maligned due to quality and quantity concerns... The floodgates burst open regarding the reissue scene for the Fall in the 90's) I very much enjoy this. It exists nowhere else except on this comp. |
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The Fall | Wolf Kidult Man | Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded] | Cherry Red Records | 2008 | An excellent opening for an excellent song. The first album from the last regular lineup of The Fall, the most stable lineup in the band's history, withstanding 10 uninterrupted years of consecutive Fall service. "Recorded at Mouse On Mars' St. Martin Ton Studio, Duesseldorf, May-June 2007 and Gracielands Studio, Rochdale late 2007. / There are some quite noticeable edits, particularly in track 5, that may sound like mastering faults - they are intentional." Pedantic fact: Released a full 18 years prior to "Extricate!", this would be the second album to feature artwork from Anthony Frost; the two albums sharing a very similar style, look & palette. Unusual, for Fall albums, to have two such strikingly similar covers by the same artist, so many years apart. | 0:08:28 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Sing! Harpy | Extricate | Phonogram | 1990 | "In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, Ancient Greek: ἅρπυια, romanized: hárpyia, pronounced [hárpyːa]; Latin: harpȳia is a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems. Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness. Pottery art depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures. //// To Hesiod, they were imagined as fair-locked and winged maidens, who flew as fast as the wind: [T]he Harpyiai (Harpies) of the lovely hair, Okypete (Ocypete) and Aello, and these two in the speed of their wings keep pace with the blowing winds, or birds in flight, as they soar and swoop, high aloft. //// Aeschylus - Even as early as the time of Aeschylus, harpies were described as ugly creatures with wings, and later writers carried their notions of the harpies so far as to represent them as most disgusting monsters. The Pythian priestess of Apollo recounted the appearance of the harpies in the following lines: Before this man an extraordinary band of women [i.e. harpies] slept, seated on thrones. No! Not women, but rather Gorgons I call them; and yet I cannot compare them to forms of Gorgons either. Once before I saw some creatures in a painting, carrying off the feast of Phineus; but these are wingless in appearance, black, altogether disgusting; they snore with repulsive breaths, they drip from their eyes hateful drops; their attire is not fit to bring either before the statues of the gods or into the homes of men. I have never seen the tribe that produced this company, nor the land that boasts of rearing this brood with impunity and does not grieve for its labor afterwards. //// Virgil - Bird-bodied, girl-faced things they (Harpies) are; abominable their droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger insatiable //// Hyginus - They are said to have been feathered, with cocks' heads, wings, and human arms, with great claws; breasts, bellies, and female parts human. //// Functions and abodes: Mirror with figure of a Harpy, 11–12th century CE, Termez, Uzbekistan. The harpies seem originally to have been wind spirits (personifications of the destructive nature of wind). Their name means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers', and they were said to steal food from their victims while they were eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their families) to the Erinyes. When a person suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it was said that he had been carried off by the harpies. Thus, they carried off the daughters of King Pandareus and gave them as servants to the Erinyes. In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were depicted as vicious, cruel, and violent. The harpies were called "the hounds of mighty Zeus" thus "ministers of the Thunderer (Zeus)". Later writers listed the harpies among the guardians of the underworld among other monstrosities including the Centaurs, Scylla, Briareus, Lernaean Hydra, Chimera, Gorgons and Geryon. Their abode was described as either the islands called Strofades, a place at the entrance of Orcus, or a cave in Crete." | 0:11:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Elf Prefix | Seminal Live | Beggar's Banquet | 1989 | On the album this is grafted as an intro onto the live version of L.A. ("Elf Prefix / L.A." - Live in Vienna April 16, 1989") Here we've uncoupled it for your singular enjoyment. Makes more sense an an intro to "Elves", anyway. | 0:17:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Elves | The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall | Beggar's Banquet | 1984 | Notes from Annotated Fall [Elves]. This cops the riff from The Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog." According to Brix and Hanley (via Reformation): Quotes from the booklet accompanying The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (re-release of the album by Beggars Banquet, 2010): Brix Smith "Elves was mine. I think it was I Wanna Be Your Dog, of which at the time I was truly unaware. I must have heard it and not even realised what I had done. Until later, and at which time I went to dig a hole in the dirt!" Steve Hanley: "This is I Wanna Be Your Dog...what we used to do is try to hide that kind of thing...and make it your own. But by the time we finished with Elves it sounded nothing like The Stooges." //////// MES also says that Brix had never heard the song at the time. //////// Embarrassing or not, the Stooges' riff makes a return on the Peel rendition of "Clasp Hands," and can be heard in a somewhat altered form in "Rememberance R." //////// The CD notes for this song say "a Tubby commotion at the feet" Lloyd "brain and face made of cow-pat" Cole?, not scotch but scot-based" | 0:17:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | City Hobgoblins | How I Wrote Elastic Man 7" | Rough Trade | 1980 | "MES in Tapezine self-interview, 1980: "...City Hobgoblins which was originally called Case for the Jews, not that that's got anything to do with the song...it's good. It's a paean to paranoia number 1097. We've got a new drummer on it called Paul Hanley...can't be here at the moment because he's got school." "The Case for the Jews" is the name of a 1930 essay by Louis Judah Gribetz, and also a 1948 essay by WEB DuBois" //// Lyrics: "Spiders know these things / Gremlins know these things / Tap, tap, tap, tap / You think it's the pipes / But who turns on the lights? / Our city hobgoblins / Our city hobgoblins / Ubu le Roi is a home hobgoblin / And at nights all ready / Our city hobgoblins / Our city hobgoblins / Infest my home at night / They are not alright / Ten times my age / One-tenth my height / Our city hobgoblins / Our city hobgoblins / Buzz of the all-night mill / Ah but evil / Emigres from old green glades / Pretentious, eh? / Our city hobgoblins / Our city hobgoblins / They'll get yer / So Queen Victoria / Is a large black slug in Piccadilly, Manchester / Our city hobgoblins / Our city hobgoblins / And they say / We cannot walk the floor at night in peace / At night in peace" | 0:22:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Fibre Book Troll | Sub-Lingual Tablet | Cherry Red Records | 2015 | Alternately called Facebook Troll (there are different versions of the song, including an extended vinyl-only one [under this title] that is twice the length.) "MES has said that this song is about how he "can't get anyone to get rid of my imposters in the internet." In fact, there is a Facebook page under the name "Mark E. Smith," but the account holder doesn't post as MES; this actually seems quite common with famous people, for instance Jimi Hendrix has a Facebook page, but it doesn't seem that the intention is to bamboozle people into thinking he's communicating from beyond the grave. There is a Twitter page under MES's name which does purport to be the man himself, although it seems clear to anyone paying a modicum of attention that it's a spoof (which hasn't stopped certain journalists from occasionally quoting "Mark E. Smith"!)." | 0:25:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Fiend with a Violin - Vox |
Fiend With A Violin |
Receiver Records Limited |
1996 |
Fall fans familiar w/ "2x4" will identify this as an outtake / alternate. The expanded/deluxe archive version of "The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall" has some alternate versions of "2x4" that are titled "New Fiend". The song references a fiend. As for the comp. this appears on; the Receiver Records compilations that were released in the mid-90's are generally agreed to be of dubious quality, but they did indeed contain many rarities and curiosities, otherwise unavailable in times previous or henceforth. |
0:31:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Fiend with a Violin |
Fiend With A Violin |
Receiver Records Limited |
1996 |
The instrumental version of "Fiend with a Violin" -- From the liner notes of the comp: "The title track "Fiend With A Violin" which has never been heard before pushes the envelope of creativity to the extreme and finds Mark E. Smith in the usual role of violin player." Two notes: 1) Though M.E.S. scraped violin strings discordantly on quite a few tracks, it was never his 'usual' role. 2.) I, personally, very much doubt the player on this track is Mark E. Smith at all. |
0:32:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
Sinister Waltz |
Shiftwork |
Phonogram |
1991 |
The instrumental, moody (monotonous?) closing track of 1991's stripped-down Shiftwork album. The band had been stripped down to just 4 core members at that time, w/ Dave Bush playing "Machines" on some tracks. He would later become an official member of the band from '92-'95, then go on to join Elastica for their second (and final) album. |
0:35:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | (We Are) Mod Mock Goth | (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas | Action Records | 2003 | Fall superfans and "experts" say that the Mod Mock Goth was an actual person...Mod Mock Goth is not about Ed Blaney. It's about a young hot-shot talent agent based in London who briefly took over managing the group while Ed was out of the picture for a bit. The Mod Mock Goth during his tenure came very close to signing the Fall to Mute/EMI along with a lucrative publishing deal for the Country On The Click album - both sabotaged by MES. Mod goth is apparently a subset of goth, which incorporates elements of mod (short for "modernist," a term that is in this context derived from the jazz scene and is the term complement to "trad" or traditional jazz). Mod started in Britain in the late 1950s and was, like goth, a very fashion-conscious scene, involving bespoke suits and attention to hair, although mod styles are generally more mainstream than those associated with goth. The mod goth look, it seems, involves putting a darker (both literally and figuratively) and somewhat more outré emphasis on mod-style clothing. The character(s) in this song seems to be a bit older and more slovenly than your average conscientious mod goth, but of course the "mock" must also be taken in to account. In fact, the phrase "mock goth" isn't MES's creation either, as the term seems to have been used, predating this song, to describe poseur goths. | 0:40:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Taurig [Britannia Row Recordings 21/09/07 version] | Imperial Wax Solvent (Expanded Version) - Disc 2: Britannia Row Recordings 21/09/07 | Sanctuary | 2008 / 2020 | There are two versions of this, it has come to light. The original version on the original 2008 album; has (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. This is the version of this song there where vocals are very much up front, from both Mark E. Smith & also Eleni Poulou. As mentioned before, In old Germany, old Dutch, and old Norse, word "traurig" means bloody, sad or gloomy. And this track is indeed rather gloomy and unsettling! | 0:45:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Scareball | Masquerade Single | Artful | 1998 | Lyrically, MES is very cryptic on this one. His text is particularly fragmented, too. After some initial "Bah bah"s, which seem to hold no recognisable tune or have any other relevance to the song ("No different to any other Fall song!", I hear you cry), he encompasses rabbits, handkerchiefs, Chinese business practices and shrimps into his narrative. And no, I have no idea what he's going on about. Julia Nagle provides some vocals on this, and it's driven along by Karl Burns' high hat. The musical concision of a three-piece Fall (with Julia on guitar), and a remarkable measure of restaint from Hanley, makes this a pretty enjoyable (but still creepy) three minutes. | 0:48:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | There's A Ghost In My House - BBC Session | The Frenz Experiment [Expanded Edition] | Beggar's Banquet | 2020 | A BBC session for Janice Young yields this excellent version of GIMH. Originally penned by R Dean Taylor and Holland Dozier Holland....It was released as a single on the Motown subsidiary V.I.P. label in April 1967, but was not a hit. However, after it had become a popular dance song in Northern soul clubs in Britain, such as the Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino. True Northern Soulies are often put off by this version of their beloved song (the horror! the horror!) but MES does a great job of capturing the original vibe. | 0:51:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | C.R.E.E.P. | C.R.E.E.P. | It has often been assumed that this song is about Marc Riley, who apparently was nicknamed "creep" as a youth. RIley himself has stated that the song is about him. Both Mark and Brix Smith, however, deny this. 'I'm so proud of that song. I didn't see it as pure pop because it hasn't been accepted like that. It's got good words in it and that throws people off - their brains are so degenerate now, that if they hear something they don't understand ... they just drop it. I always thought it would appeal to children and it does. A lot of very young kids (seven or eight) seem to like it. I never thought, though, that the creep was the guy who smelt bad at school; it was always the most popular guy in the class, 'cos you knew damn well he wouldn't do well in life, the sort who'd cry when the exam results came out.' Brix:- "Everyone always thinks that Fall songs are about themselves and that was especially so with "Creep." Some people thought it was about Morrisey which it wasn't. Marc Riley, our old guitarist, thought it was about him, which it wasn't. It's about every creep in the world.'" In her autobiography, she comes clean with this admission: 'Everyone assumed it was about Marc Riley, but Mark's lyrics were a takedown of the previous tour manager, Scumech ("He is a scum-egg, a horrid trendy wretch").'" He was a trendy and Mark referred to him as a 'dickhead'. For some reason, Mark took great offence at Scumech. Perhaps it was because he would keep the tour money in his briefcase and handcuff it to radiators. He was robotic, which also annoyed Mark, He had the facade of being hip, but was actually quite bureaucratic, in a German way." | 0:54:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
The Funeral Mix - 12" Version |
White Lightning 12" |
Cog Sinister |
1990 |
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The Fall | Jawbone And The Air-Rifle | Hex Enduction Hour | Kamera Records | 1982 | Now we enter deep into Fall dense narrative / horror story territory. This song presented itself fully formed in sets from 1980 onwards, it did not find its way to an album or single for two years, but was not reworked from the original. (A rarity for a long standing 'road tested' Fall song.) //// --- Many detailed notes & full lyrics on the song here, as always, at: Annotated Fall: [Jawbone And The Air-Rifle], including this tidbit: "Paul Hanley's "Have a Bleedin Guess" book quotes Marc Riley (125): Mark said to Craig that he wanted something like 'Run Rabbit Run' to fit his lyrics. We wrote it in my bedroom. "Run Rabbit Run" is a song by Flanagan and Allen from the World War II era. The melody can be discerned in the riff here." | 1:07:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Spectre vs. Rector | Dragnet | Step-Forward | 1979 | "From the "Dragnet" handout/insert of song explanations: Part of this was recorded in a damp warehouse in M/CR-maybe industrial ghosts are making spectres redundant." //////// From the comments section of this excellent AV Club article about this song, user 'Yoga Fire' asks: "Is this the song with the bassline that goes "DERM. DERM. DERM. DERM. DERM. DERM. DERM. DER-BA-DER-BA" for 7 minutes? That's the shit.", then responds to own question: "I checked, and it is. Oh fuck yeah" //////// This is a dense, rich epic, the first half recorded in a factory, sounding intentionally distant, echoey and submerged. There are too many lyrics & interpretations therein to mention here, but of lyric influences and references within the song: "M.R. (Montague Rhodes) James (1862-1936) was an influential author of ghost stories."//////// ""The Haunted Palace - directed by R Corman, is an adaptation of HP Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward story. In it, Vincent Price is trying to bring his old mistress back from the dead by using a Latinate incantation which concludes with a repeated 'vivat...vivat.'"? //////// "Yog Sothoth, in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), is an "Outer God" who appears as "a congeries of irridescent globes...malign in its suggestiveness" ("The Horror in the Musem")." //////// "Ray Milland (1907-1986) was a Welsh actor with an extemely long career, and many of us remember him from The Lost Weekend, in which Milland's harrowing portrayal of an alcoholic writer was probably largely responsible for the ascendence of the cliché "harrowing portrayal" in movie criticism. Milland became a major star in the afermath of The Lost Weekend, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor (also sweeping Cannes, The National Board of Review, and The New York Film Critics circle). After about a decade at the top of the mountain, Milland became a director, and took on more minor roles as well as major roles in minor (in terms of popularity) films. This brings us to the early 60s, when Milland took the lead role in two films by Roger Corman ("R. Corman,"), Premature Burial and The Man With The X-Ray Eyes." ///////// "Peter Van Greenaway (1929-1988) was an English author who wrote thrillers, some of which had elements of horror." //////// "Chorazin was a village in Galillee, cursed by Jesus in the Bible." //////// "In Bram Stoker's Dracula, upon discovering that she has been bitten, Mina Murray exclaims: "Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh!..." //////// "The idea that one can "drink oneself sober" is a persistent myth among drinkers and hence a fairly common phrase... ...It occurs in one of MES's favorite books, Under the Volcano: "Yes, leaning over just like this, drunk but collected, coherent, a little mad, a little impatient - it was one of those occasions when the Consul had drunk himself sober..."" <--- Please refer to Annotated Fall [Spectre vs. Rector] for many more elaborate details. | 1:11:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Impression Of J. Temperance | Grotesque (After The Gramme) | Rough Trade Records | 1980 | Again, from Annotated Fall [Impression Of J. Temperance] "A weird tale, but one not hard to get the basic gist of; a dog breeder conducting odd experiments, or, if you like, throwing himself into his work and taking the "breeding" part a bit too literally. In one way or another, he produces a dog/thing which resembles him closely enough that Cameron, the vet, runs from the scene of the birth in terror. On the Legendary Chaos Tape (recorded in December 1980 in London) MES reveals that 'J' stands for "Jermyn" (this is corroborated by leftover liner material for Grotesque). This is an apparent allusion to the early H.P. Lovecraft story "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family," which similarly has a theme of interspecies breeeding; Arthur Jermyn commits suicide when he discovers he is descended from a sort of ape goddess whom an ancestor of Jermyn's, an explorer, met in an African city of white apes. //////// From the Grotesque press release: "'Impression' is the oldest song on the album and was written during the 'Totales Turns' period in a bed and breakfast in Retford miles from anywhere when the locals got suspiciously friendly and there was a huge man-sized one-eyed teddy bear on the landing." /////// [there is a] similarity between this song and the main theme of Rossini's "William Tell Overture"; the bass line follows the rhythm, and a quite similar pattern of notes. Paul Hanley confirms the William Tell Overture debt in his book Have a Bleedin Guess (p.27, footnote 14): The drum pattern's nicked from Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture, or more correctly the theme from The Lone Ranger."" | 1:19:28 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Lucifer Over Lancashire | Mr. Pharmacist (Single) | Beggar's Banquet | 1986 | "From the notes reproduced in the blue lyrics book: Companion track 'LUCIFER OVER LANCASHIRE' would not fit onto [Handwritten: "Domesday Payoff"] but it is too good to store. The subject of much debate 'LUCIFER OVER LANCASHIRE' could refer to: A. Recent Commie cloud and complaints of aching bones in the health-conscious Fall camp. [Dan suggests this may be a reference to the April 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, which puts me in mind of the obvious pun on Domesday/Doomsday--BZFGT] //////// B. The Erasure of manners and good groups in that Holy county or: //////// C. A trailer for forthcoming Pashion Religious Whodunnit due December. /////// 'I tell you no lies. ?Completely blind/are the Sentinels Eyes/At the back of his mind/? This demon's hip'." | 1:23:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Mask Search | Ersatz GB | Cherry Red Records | 2011 | Hallowe'en... Mask Search... That's the connection here, for this later era Rockabilly romp. "According to an article in Financial Times: Another [song] is based on replies to a national survey introduced by David Cameron to find out what makes Britain unhappy. “There were people in Bradford going, ‘You can’t get mushy peas any more.’ ” He hoots with laughter. “Another answer was, ‘Snow Patrol being played on the radio.’ That would annoy me.” He hits the table, delighted by the banality of the responses. He leans forward, suddenly conspiratorial. “My intelligence is vast. You wouldn’t believe what people tell me.”" | 1:29:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Mark E. Smith / The Fall |
Horror In Clay |
The Fall Box Set 1976 - 2007 |
Artful |
1998 |
Originally from 1998 Mark E. Smith solo album "Post-Nearly Man", this song was reissued on this compilation of "The Fall", and featured in some of their sets as a mixture of background tape + live stage performance. |
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The Fall | It's a Curse | The Infotainment Scan | Matador | 1993 | The Infotainment Scan is the fifteenth album by The Fall, released in 1993 on Permanent Records in the UK and by Matador Records in the USA (the first of the band's albums to get an official American release since Extricate (1990)). At the time of its release, it was considered the band's most accessible album and came when the band were experiencing unprecedented recognition in the media. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 9, making it their highest-charting album. IAC is another swipe at nostalgia and even, seemingly, the past itself, in the vein of "A Past Gone Mad" from the same album. The song, one of the highlights of The Infortainment Scan, is sometimes dismissed as lacklustre by those who seemingly can't feel the relentless one-note riff where it needs to be felt. With its poetic victorian language and mention of vampires, it's a Fall'o'ween no brainer! | 1:39:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | R.O.D. | Bend Sinister | Beggar's Banquet | 1986 | The Realm of Dusk....that misty place when time shifts from day to night...and Lovecraft's monsters come alive to find their prey...possibly inspired by Twlight Zone, a show that MES loved this is perfect creepy Fall and a perfect opening track for a record called Bend Sinister. Bend Sinister was the third and last Fall album to be produced by John Leckie. When recording began, the band was without a drummer, as Karl Burns was fired shortly before sessions began. Ex-member Paul Hanley stepped in at first before permanent replacement Simon Wolstencroft was found. However, Leckie and Mark E. Smith argued during the recording, with Smith complaining that "he'd always swamp everything, y'know, put the psychedelic sounds over it". Leckie, for his part, drew the line at Smith's insistence that some tracks be mastered from a standard audio cassette that Smith had been carrying around and listening to on a Walkman. | 1:44:27 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | Frightened | Live At The Witch Trials | Step-Forward | 1979 | MES: ""Frightened" is quite old actually. I wrote it when I was 16, just a thing I was going through. I used to be very afraid of things, like violence." The opening track of the first of many Fall albums to come..."At the time, the first wave of post-punks were taking Johnny Rotten’s “no future” rant and parsing it like surgeons, laying it bare and reducing it to its components....The Fall were no exception but, where many of their contemporaries used anesthetic and scalpels, they packed switchblades." - Jason Heller | 1:49:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Fall |
The Knight The Devil and Death [Instrumental Version] |
Sinister Waltz |
Cog Sinister |
1992 |
The instrumental version of our closing song... |
1:54:09 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
The Fall | The Knight The Devil and Death | Ed's Babs (Single) + Code: Selfish [Expanded] | Fontana | 1992 / 2007 | A b-side from the 1992 Ed's Babe single & later found on the Fontana CD reissue of Code: Selfish....this tune is the Fall doing Ingmar Bergman. Also the blueprint for Dry Cleaning.... | 1:57:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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