rfi : Fall tracks that are keyboardy danceable technoid (guitarless?) &c

"LA"? sort of

A very big chunk of The Infotainment Scam eg. "Lost In Music" obv.

cover of Lee Perry's 'Why are People Grudgeful'

You may be interested in 'The Unutterable' and 'Levitate' albums

The songs 'Ten Houses of Eve' & '4 1/2 Inch' on Levitate have the Fall going IDM and glitchcore. Big-ups to Julia Nagle who not only is the keyboardist and programmer on aforementioned albums (and others), but also sent me a Fall tshirt.

Tim right. "Service", def "Lost in Music", "A Past Gone Mad", maybe "It's a Curse" but I don't remember how it goes that well. Off the v similar and great "Middle Class Revolt", um prob "M5#1" (one of their best tracks ever easy), "Surmount All Obstacles", maybe "Middle Class Revolt", "City Dweller", "15 Ways". Off other things the "There's a Ghost in My House" cover, "The Mixer", "Birmingham School of Business School", "Free Range", probably a lot else

(people always forget about The Infotainment Scam when they talk about albums that The Rapture's Echoes sounds like, even though it's closer than anything else!!!)

Hey what do you think of "MCR"? I like it even more than "Scan"

I actually don't have Middle Class Revolt - I like The Fall a lot but they have a gazillion albums so my collection falls short. That said Infotainment Scam is the Fall album I listen to most so perhaps I should invest in it...?

Definitely. It's less "Fall" tho, a lot more assuredly pop/keyboard oriented mostly. Hey btw it really is "Scan", not that it matters

Shut Up! off Middle Class Revolt rocks the house.

Oh yeah that's got heaps of kbd! Actually now I think a bit "MCR"'s still pretty Fall in lots of places (not that they're all that homogenous really), it's got a Mark fucks around w/a tapedeck track and stuff

They should play it during baseball games.

k-thanx for all the recommendations. "Immortality" is pretty good, too.

Amazingly Tim's comparison is the first thing that's made me even vaguely interested in buying 'Echoes'.

Paranoia Man
LA
Cruisers Creek

Free Range
Janet vs Youthclub
Masquerade (The cd single #2 has an amazing "Sister Ray" style take on Ol' Gang that's a lost classic if there ever was one)

ahhh, my very favourite 'in my area'

It's not a Fall track, but if you can find 'Plug Me In' by DOSE (featuring Mark E Smith), that totally fits the bill.

yeah, picked up the original & the DOSE remix. haha, I've d/l-ed seventy-eight fall tracks so uh I'll be busy sorting through them for a while. thanx for yr help, everyone.
(ps andrew wanna borrow echoes, then? & can I have total 3 & total 4 back?)

Even the more guitar rock bits on The Unutterable, The Marshall Suite and Levitate are mostly made with up using loops and are heavily edited. It still sounds like The Fall and it all works, but the tunes don't sound tracked together like a live group.

Haven't heard the last two albums, but I doubt that the production style has changed. It probably works better for MES this way as having members come and go doesn't disrupt things as much.

IT'S THE NEW THING! Lyrics

My boys take what I say
Do it the studio way
New equipment all clean
New gear
Clothes mean
I answer and take the calls
No trouble with the law
Turn it up for interviewers
Oh yeah prime movers
I wonder what is next year's thing?
Crash smash crash ring

They've got another side
Pop heroes of the mind
While you suckers queue or work
Money for us and play it up
We have never sold out
Spent hours on a clever act
Phoney advertising quotes that make you buy some raise your hopes
That it's the new leather thing
Crash smash crash ring

The broken backs of the real bands
A million closed minds
Weep for the old glam
Year of the average man
The Worst died because of you
Along with some others too
Erasing off our rainbows
We are men, we have big toes!
It's the new leather thing
Crash smash crash ring

Houdini believed his tricks
That is why he died
Oh I'm not coming out
There may be a film on tonight
Or Eliot's Untouchables
As for new hotels
Look like science fiction films or revival gothic pigswill
Watch the skies, what to think
Crash smash crash ring
[Bramah:] Rocket! / Rock it!

It's the new leather thing
Ba ba ba doo.....
New leather thing

Yow!

Yow indeed!

This far in, no mention of "Touch Sensitive". For shame.

"A World Bewitched" 2CD comp has a lot of the hard-to-find technoid one-offs MES perpetrated in the 90s.
including:
Fireworks
which is the ultimate combo of Fall techno and MES "in-front-room-fiddling-about-with-handheld-tape-recorder" genres