Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
Released 2020
When Mark E Smith died in January 2018, an era ended with him. The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Smith as the only constant member. First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the Fall's music underwent numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's line-up. Nonetheless, their music has generally been characterised by an abrasive, repetitive guitar-driven sound, tense bass and drum rhythms, and Smith's caustic lyrics, described by critic Simon Reynolds as "a kind of Northern English magic realism that mixed industrial grime with the unearthly and uncanny, voiced through a unique, one-note delivery somewhere between amphetamine-spiked rant and alcohol-addled yarn." They were always at their best on stage, and this collection, recorded at the Assembly Rooms, Derby in 1994, captures them in full flow!
Track listing:
- Long Intro Start!
- M5
- 15 Ways
- The Reckoning
- You're Not Up To Much
- Behind The Counter
- Surmount All Obstacles
- Ladybird (Green Grass)
- War
- Free Range
- Middle Class Revolt
- Glam-Racket
- Hey! Student
- Return
- Dead Beat Descendant
- Life Just Bounces