Dudes who listen to The Fall

[DB_Cooper]

Are there folks who are Fall completists? Fall enthusiasts? They have something like fifty albums, which makes it really hard to pick a place to start. I've heard a bit here and there and have owned a 10" by them, but their sheer mass of output makes it seem more trouble than it's worth to get involved. If any of you dudes truly and throroughly ride, please to provide a sketch of their lengthy career and an album or two that's good for a starting point.

 

[skel]

I asked the same a while back and was seen right by LazarusO dude.





Speak!

 

[HarveyCanal]

These 2 I've found to be the only Fall albums I need...

I don't doubt that there are others I would like, but I'm good with these.

 

[DB_Cooper]

HarveyCanal said:I don't doubt that there are others I would like, but I'm good with these.




This is the vibe I get from them. I kinda like some of the stuff I've heard, but I've never been really grabbed by one of their songs. Couple that with more albums than most folks have in their entire CD collection, and I am hesitant.

 

[Jimster]

Heh.

 

[skel]

The North will rise again!





@jimster

 

[DB_Cooper]

I thought I was exagerrating when I said 50 albums, but I just counted and they appear to have 39 studio albums and at least 5 live albums. That'stoo much.

 

[DJ_Enki]

Essential heads know the transaction

 

[DB_Cooper]

DJ_Enki said:

Essential heads know the transaction




Being surface of broken eye.

 

[Snapping]

 

[DB_Cooper]

:beerbang:



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[Casteneda]

The Fall have a consistent catalog. Most of their albums are solid, but not necessarily spectacular. I ended up getting rid of most of my Fall albums, but this album still blows my mind on occasion, featuring two drummers on a majority of the album:



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[toby.d]

All the people I know who are into The Fall are very into The Fall. I bet there are loads of completists. I've never been able to work out where to start either.

 

[edith head]

Of the ones not mentioned so far, I love "This Nation's Saving Grace."





Also if you like Pavement's "Slanted & Enchanted" then you might like the Fall album they ripped off "Grotesque"

 

[james]

My personal favorite is Dragnet, but my feeling is that This Nation's Saving Grace is probably the one record to listen to if you want to decide whether or not you really like The Fall. All the DNA is there. If you like something on that record, you can follow whichever of its threads interest you (broadly speaking, go back in the catalog for the bug-out stuff, forward for the groovier stuff [such as it is]), and if you don't like anything on that record, I think you can step out of the enterprise without having to worry about whether or not what you heard was the truly representative shit.

 

[LazarusOblong]

DB_Cooper said:Are there folks who are Fall completists? Fall enthusiasts? They have something like fifty albums, which makes it really hard to pick a place to start. I've heard a bit here and there and have owned a 10" by them, but their sheer mass of output makes it seem more trouble than it's worth to get involved. If any of you dudes truly and throroughly ride, please to provide a sketch of their lengthy career and an album or two that's good for a starting point.




I was a Fall completist for a while but gave up sometime during the 90s. I've heard some of their stuff since then but declining quality (mostly due to band instability) just made it a bad percentage move to try to keep up.





Fifty albums is way low, I think, since there are also tons of comps and EPs, and over 20 live releases.





My favorite is still the 1st I ever heard, Early Years 77-79. After that I'd recommend Dragnet, Live at The Witch Trials, Fall in a Hole (early live stuff from New Zealand), The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, Grotesque, This Nation's Saving Grace, and Hex Enduction Hour.





There's a 6 CD set of their complete Peel Sessions! Some might say that's excessive...





From a mid-80s EP:





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From Perverted By Language (which should be on the above list, too):





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[HarveyCanal]

edith head said:


Also if you like Pavement's "Slanted & Enchanted" then you might like the Fall album they ripped off "Grotesque"




Okay, so sounds like I'll soon have a 3rd Fall album. Thanks for the reco.

 

[Possum Slim]

As an intro I agree with This Nation's and Hex Enduction Hour.





For me most of what they released in 70's/80's is very good and also 3 or 4 of the releases from 2005 have been a good return to form also.





In terms of completists, I have a friend who is only missing 3 original releases all of which were during the dip in the form they had in the late 90's I think. He's been to see them live around 12 or 13 times.

 

[HarveyCanal]

HarveyCanal said:edith head said:


Also if you like Pavement's "Slanted & Enchanted" then you might like the Fall album they ripped off "Grotesque"




Okay, so sounds like I'll soon have a 3rd Fall album. Thanks for the reco.




Okay, I'm too much of a fan of Slanted and Enchanted to just now be realizing that this is uncanny...





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[Possum Slim]

Unsurprisingly Mark E Smith was never particularly gracious about Pavement "paying homage" to them.