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I was sitting in my car, drinking coffee, watching some folks working, and I started thinking about my childhood. Not any incident in particular....
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Play…Shake your hair girl with your ponytail
Takes me right back (when you were young)
Throw your precious gifts into the air
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“The Release of The Wonderful and Frightening World was the Eternal September of The Fall”
Listen to yourself, you unsufferable jelly
We are the Fall
Northern white crap that talks back
We are not black. Tall.
No boxes for us.
Do not fuck us.
We are frigid stars.
We were spitting, we were snapping “Cop Out, Cop Out!”
as if from heaven.
Happy Birthday MES
Hey hey hey hey - Soul Train vs The Fall
To Oprah Winfrey
She studied bees
Will you cry for our lost childhoods?
But remember how you hated it
And here’s a new trick, Mr. Smith….
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on Brix and blocks.
Brix and blocks on Smith on box.photo : chris buck
The Fall’s Albums In No Order At All; No. 8 of 29(ish) - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall
Let’s just take in that title for a minute. There had always been a self-awareness to The Fall (for example, playfully quoting their own reviews on “Dragnet”) but there’s a real pride in there. And I’d have to agree that it was justified.“TWAFWOTF” has aged particularly well; although essentially transitional, it sounds fresh, clear, focused. If “Perverted By Language” stripped The Fall down to its skeleton, this is the sound of new meat growing on the bones. It’s Brix’s first full album (she contributed to a maximum of 2 tracks on “PBL”) and she integrates well - she sings no more than any other member and her guitars blend well with Craig Scanlon’s - spindly but robust, like strong wire. There’s a bounciness to “2 by 4” and “Stephen Song” that could almost be described as cheerful - in fact, there’s a relative dearth of cynicism on this album, MES preferring to build scenes and stories; the neighbour downstairs has one eye, the bugs are rising and the elves of Dunsimore are not to be trusted. Although still sporting two drummers, Paul Hanley and Karl Burns both multitask brilliantly - the lead bass Burns adds to “Lay Of The Land” is one of the album’s highlights and Hanley’s sparkling keyboards certainly lift “Slang King”.I had a few problems with this album when I first got it, around 1988-ish. It felt cold, arid. I have no idea why as it couldn’t feel better to me now - it’s the sound of The Fall taking in some light, some space. And why not? It suited them, freshened them up. They were heading somewhere different with this album. After all, if they had still been doing what they were doing 2 years ago, they certainly shouldn’t be making a career out of it… C-Mac Rating - 9/10
For many it seems that their first love is their greatest love and for me and The Fall this is the one. This is the first The Fall album I bought and it is my favourite. This is where it started and where I go back to most. This is the sound of something extraordinary on the waves.
marquis
I’m becoming everything I used to hate
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Mark E Smith by Charles Jameson, 1982
“When The Fall toured NZ in 1982, Helen Collett, accompanied by photographer Charles Jameson, tracked down Mark Smith and wrote the following piece for my self-published magazine, IT.
I saw the band thundering away at their gig at Victoria University, with their powerhouse of two drummers helping to make it an exceptionally memorable gig. Somehow, those drums provided just the right accents, and the right groove, for Smith to rant and rave in his inimitable, sour-puss fashion” - Gary Steel
Many thanks to pointthatthing for sending in the link
I got no nerves left Monday morning
And I think I’ll cut my dick off
The trouble it got me in
mark e
