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Originally posted by Spotnick If anyone is willing to give me either the titles or the mp3s of a compilation (1 CD only), I'm willing to give it a try.If I love it, I'll start buying ;)I've tried, found nothing on WinMX..
E-mail me a postal address and I'll burn you a compilation (and the Homage stuff for the covers archive !).
just got 'this nation's saving grace' last week. enjoy it. i always wanted to buy fall albums but i was frightened by their output and didn't know where to start. now i've got two in me little pocket.
Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes > Originally posted by Spotnick> If anyone is willing to give me either the titles or the mp3s of a compilation (1 CD only), I'm willing to give it a try.> > If I love it, I'll start buying ;)> > I've tried, found nothing on WinMX..
E-mail me a postal address and I'll burn you a compilation (and the Homage stuff for the covers archive !).
I did.. if you ever check that email box.
Checked. I'll burn and send CDs rather than sending you MP3s, as file size restriction on what I can send thru e-mail !
I shall have some fun putting a Fall compilation together, I can tell you !!
Went with Hex Enduction Hour, basically because it's the only one I've heard most of.
When I was a punk I bought 'It's the new thing'. I liked their sound when Brix was in the band, but was never really enough into them to buy in bulk.
Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes Well, I can't imagine a Cure obsessive to even think about listening to a Fall album....
Cure fans should try Bend Sinister, that's the most likely album to appeal to them. On Fallnet this would be a race between Hex Enduction Hour, Perverted By Language and Grotesque and none of the later ones would get a look in.
I would rate Hex Enduction Hour as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. The new 24 bit remaster of it sounds simply stunning. It also contains the infamous line "Benny's cobweb eyes", which translated into everyday English means pop music is dead (explanation available upon request). Bernard Sumner could write albums of lyrics without coming anywhere near the genius of those 3 words!
Originally posted by Conway Paton > Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes> Well, I can't imagine a Cure obsessive to even think about listening to a Fall album....
Cure fans should try Bend Sinister, that's the most likely album to appeal to them. On Fallnet this would be a race between Hex Enduction Hour, Perverted By Language and Grotesque and none of the later ones would get a look in.
I would rate Hex Enduction Hour as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. The new 24 bit remaster of it sounds simply stunning. It also contains the infamous line "Benny's cobweb eyes", which translated into everyday English means pop music is dead (explanation available upon request). Bernard Sumner could write albums of lyrics without coming anywhere near the genius of those 3 words!
My quote above was a somewhat tongue in cheek riposte to Dave Barrie's identical comment about Fall fans on his "Best Cure album" thread......
Now they all know why I chose the name I did !!
Originally posted by Spotnick > Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes> > > > Originally posted by Spotnick> > If anyone is willing to give me either the titles or the mp3s of a compilation (1 CD only), I'm willing to give it a try.> > > > If I love it, I'll start buying ;)> > > > I've tried, found nothing on WinMX..
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E-mail me a postal address and I'll burn you a compilation (and the Homage stuff for the covers archive !).
I did.. if you ever check that email box.
Compilation CD burned.....
Tracks are No Bulbs (single B-side) Way Round (from The Unutterable) 2 x 4 (from The Wonderful and Frightening World of...) Sing, Harpy! (from Extricate) Idiot Joy Showland (from Shiftwork) Guest Informant (from The Frenz Experiment) M5#1 (from Middle Class Revolt) Pinball Machine (from Seminal Live) The Classical (from Hex Enduction Hour) Eat Y'self Fitter (from Perverted By Language) Ketamine Sun (from The Unutterable) Mr Pharmacist (from Bend Sinister) Two Librans (from The Unutterable) Couldn't Get Ahead (single) Who Makes The Nazis? (live from Hip Priest and Kamerads, includes Benny's Cobweb Eyes!) The NWRA (from Grotesque)
I'll post it this afternoon, along with the Homage CDs.
So, where should I go from Frenz Experiment, Middle Class Revolt, Extricate, and Totally Wired?
That's playing it far too safe, Benny! Early Singles, Light User Syndrome & Hex Enduction Hour.
Oh, and the fact that I wrote the sleeve notes for Early Singles is irrelevant. Some great great songs on that CD and they sound fabulous with the 24 bit remastering.
Any feedback on your Fall compilation, Spotnick ? Have you rushed out and bought the entire back catalogue ? Or do you have a new coaster/ashtray with "The Fall" neatly etched into it with a black felt tip pen ?
As a connoisseur of only 0,0000000001% of Mark "With an E, please-ah" Smith's work, my vote went for "Extricate-ah"!
They're due to play here in July, Benny, should I bother to check their actual line-up?
It'll be worth seeing in Porto, if MES can continue his recent vein of form. Can't wait for the new album !!
Originally posted by Benny and the Cobwebs It'll be worth seeing in Porto, if MES can continue his recent vein of form. Can't wait for the new album !!
Thanks Benny!
I plumped for Shiftwork, in the end. It's probably the most consistent album from start to finish - anything could have been a single. Although my favourite tracks are on "This Nation's Saving Grace", "Bend Sinister" and "Frenz Experiment".
There seems to be a new Fall compilation released every month now. Peel Sessions compendium just released. M.E.S. must be running out of money.
I went for Grotesque but Hex Enduction Hour has almost the same brilliance i must say though The New Real Fall.... is possibly the best thing mark has done in ten years as far as fav compilations........... the palace of swords reveresed is a goody and there is a strange one just called The Fall Collection on castle records i think one of the few places you will get the cover of A Day In The Life......... i could could go on for hours about this band...
Originally posted by HaciendaThat I plumped for Shiftwork, in the end. It's probably the most consistent album from start to finish - anything could have been a single. Although my favourite tracks are on "This Nation's Saving Grace", "Bend Sinister" and "Frenz Experiment".There seems to be a new Fall compilation released every month now. Peel Sessions compendium just released. M.E.S. must be running out of money.
Its the 25 year aniversery reissues time the compilations are usefull because there is so much there but they are put together so badly sometimes there pointles we are finally seeing the best quality cd re-issues of early Fall material Live At The Witch Trials etc before this year most of them had been mastered from scratched vinyl...
Damn, must've been drunk when I voted for Light User over Hex Enduction, definitely no duff tracks on that album, and an awesome opening brace of tracks in Classical, Jawbone, and Hip Priest.
Oh yeah, massive 
to Pavement for their "cover" of The Classical.
Originally posted by DC Only one vote for Dragnet! You fooking lightweights-ah.
Make that two-uh. This has to be the most impossible poll ever. I might have voted for the new one, had it been recorded when this thread started! It is definitely a class act Fall album. Special mentions also for Grotesque/Hex Induction/Extricate. Best compilation: 1977-1979 cos it's got Rowche Rumble and Totally Wired (amongst other briliance) on it.
Finally got my tickets for the rescheduled York dates. He is not appreciated!
Originally posted by death of art > Originally posted by DC> Only one vote for Dragnet! You fooking lightweights-ah.
Make that two-uh. This has to be the most impossible poll ever. I might have voted for the new one, had it been recorded when this thread started! It is definitely a class act Fall album. Special mentions also for Grotesque/Hex Induction/Extricate. Best compilation: 1977-1979 cos it's got Rowche Rumble and Totally Wired (amongst other briliance) on it.
Finally got my tickets for the rescheduled York dates. He is not appreciated!
So MES is back on track
Originally posted by DC Only one vote for Dragnet! You fooking lightweights-ah.
Probably because it is unmitigated shite ?
Originally posted by Detweiler 3.63 > Originally posted by DC> Only one vote for Dragnet! You fooking lightweights-ah.
Probably because it is unmitigated shite ?
Spectre vs Rector? Muzorewi's Daughter? Unmitigated shite? I think not Timbo. This is the stuff of genius, surely! Now "Are You Are Missing Winner", that's fairly shite. Otherwise, never a duff album to these ears.
What about that singles compilation that had only numbers as its title? Anybody remember that and the accompaning b-side collection? That was my first proper introduction to The Fall.
