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michaelicious:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 13 Jan 2010, 11:53 ---Where to start query two: Where do I start if I wanna listen to this The Fall all the kids these days are going on about?
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I am no expert on the Fall, but I think the two albums most commonly cited as major touchstones are Hex Enduction Hour (1982) and This Nation's Saving Grace (1985). Personally, I think the Fall is a band best discovered chronologically. I started by listening to Live at the Witch Trials and Dragnet, which were both released in 1979. Dragnet is one of my personal favourites. Basically everything from 1979-1986 is unfuckwithable, after that I am a bit hazy. If you want to check out what they are up to these days, their most recent album Imperial Wax Solvent is pretty solid.
De_El:
Unlike the Machine, Tommy IS a Fall expert. He knows his shit.
My small contribution, as far as the Fall goes, is that I actually fell in love with the band after I heard their two tracks on Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus. Seriously, "Stepping Out" and "Last Orders" are fucking ace and made me want to grab more by The Fall immediately.
tricia kidd:
i can say this about The Fall:
if you ever decide to listen to all of John Peel's Festive 50 countdowns, and you thought you were a Fall fan, prepare to get utterly fucking sick of them very quickly.
i would recommend one of their most underrated/forgotten 90s albums, "i am kurious oranj", for their later stuff. otherwise stick to their 80s albums, unless you really want to hear a lot of forgettable aimless/tuneless songs with mark e. smith vaguely rambling over them as if he couldn't be bothered to actually "sing" in any kind of relation to the music.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: tricia kidd on 13 Jan 2010, 14:14 ---i would recommend one of their most underrated/forgotten 90s albums, "i am kurious oranj", for their later stuff.
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That's actually from '88. And it's not that forgotten for a Fall album, even inspiring and providing the theme for The Curious Orange on Lee and Herring's short lived but fondly remembered This Morning With Richard Not Judy (Stewart Lee is an enormous Fall fan).
onewheelwizzard:
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 13 Jan 2010, 07:59 ---Seriously, fuck Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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