Favourite Fall song/ album?

[The Groke]

Heard Pharmacist way too many times live to ever want to hear it again. And 50,000 has some curious choices/omissions. It's still the best comp I suppose (apart from the Peel Sessions, of course, which isn't really a comp ...)

I came to the Fall so late, it was really the only logical way in to the daunting back-catalogue.

Honestly, who makes that many fucking albums....

The original of Pharmacist is ace

original as in: "original version by the Fall, not the one on 50,000 Fall Fans'"

or:

"original by a different original artist, not The Fall"

 

[Dubversion]

different artist - The Other Half, if memory serves.

 

[butchersapron]

Classic indie pub quiz question.

 

[jbob]

Is it not?

It's a comp of Peel Sessions to be precise. It's not what I would neccessarily direct newcomers to The Fall towards.

 

[jbob]

different artist - The Other Half, if memory serves.

Yes. And it's on Nuggets 4, I think.

 

[butchersapron]

It's a comp of Peel Sessions to be precise. It's not what I would neccessarily direct newcomers to The Fall towards.

I meant why didn't you class it as a comp - minor point anyway.

 

[Negativland]

This comp is pushing it, I will just slsk the rarities on it I think.

 

[Dillinger4]

I just heard a brilliant Mark E Smith story!

Badly Drawn Boy and Mark E Smith at some gig, Mark E Smith mistakes BDB for a minicab driver and demands to be taken somewhere.

BDB was so afraid he did it without correcting Mark E Smith. Mark then tried to pay him by giving him his jacket.

BDB later finds a set of false teeth on the back seat of his car.

Anybody else got any Mark E Smith stories?

 

[Hi-ASL]

Wonderful and Frightening World of/ Kurious Oranj

 

[ozzie]

Hex Enduction Hour or Perverted by Language

Jaw Bone and the Air Rifle
Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
Smile
Theme from Sparta FC

 

[Dubversion]

So hands up who saw them put in a fucking storming gig yesterday?

just me, nosher and copliker then? HAH

 

[futha]

can someone tell me their 5 best fall songs. im trying to get into them but got no idea where to start! i've only heard totally wired and a couple of others.

 

[Dubversion]

Mine would change daily, though.. right now, maybe Dead Beat Descendent, Rowche Rumble, I'm Into CB, Eat Yourself Fitter and Mr Pharmacist

Tomorrow it would be 5 different ones.

 

[Dillinger4]

can someone tell me their 5 best fall songs. im trying to get into them but got no idea where to start! i've only heard totally wired and a couple of others.

In no particular order:

LA
Frenz
Theres a Ghost in my House
Hit the North
Lucifer over Lancashire
Popcorn Double Feature
British People in Hot Weather
Jerusalem
Kurious Oranj
Bad News Girl
New Big Prinz
Im going to Spain
The Classical
Hip Priest
English Scheme (one of my favorites)

 

[futha]

cheers guys. i understand its hard to name tunes by a band with such a massive career. what about albums? any favorites there? i just really dont know where to start with this band but i really wanna hear their stuff!

 

[Dubversion]

well get a compilation - there's lots out there..

 

[futha]

yeah not a bad idea that. ill have a look now

 

[Dubversion]

you could do worse than this one for the early stuff, and it's cheap

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Totally-Wir...7429458?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188863131&sr=1-1

 

[futha]

cheers man i actually just found that one browsing through. gonna download a copy now as i cant afford the cd right now. soon as i get some money ill invest in some cd's

 

[John Quays]

Song: British People In Hot Weather or Hip Priest

Album: Hex Enduction Hour or The Unutterable

Or any of the others really, come to think of it...

or No Xmas For John Quays ahem rolleyes etc

 

[Pigeon]

The 3 R's for me!

Plus "Industrial Estate", "Rowche Rumble", "Folding Money".

Aw, shitloads.