Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
Released 2020
Describing The Fall to a new listener is a task that even the most talented wordsmith would find a problem with. A mixture of punk fury, spoken word and shamanic chanting that basks in repeated, near-cacophonous guitar riffs and tribal drum textures... it's more simple to sum the band up by stating 'that's The Fall'. Mark E Smith led the revolving door band through unrelenting decades of musical manufacture - ignorant of trend and fashion - to establish himself and The Fall moniker as a bonafide, alternative music landmark. Always at their best on stage, this collection captures them in fine form in November 1980 at the Cedar Ballroom in Birmingham, UK.
Track listing:
- Slates, Slags Etc
- The Container Drivers
- Jawbone And The Air Rifle
- Totally Wired
- New Face In Hell
- Printhead
- An Older Lover
- City Hobgoblins
- Leave The Capitol
- Pay Your Rates
- The N.W.R.A.
- English Scheme
- Underground Medicine