What will the general attitude towards The Fall be in fifty to seventy years?

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Either taught in schools or forgotten completely...

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

They'll still be releasing albums, I'm sure. Mark will be in a wheelchair, but he'll still be at it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Cult band loved by some, often cited as influential, ignored by many many more.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

im just looking forward to the "The Mark E. Smith" chain-pubs

― b b, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

"Cult band loved by some, often cited as influential, ignored by many many more."

So, in summary, no change.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

yes!!!

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

They'll still be releasing albums, I'm sure. Mark will be in a wheelchair, but he'll still be at it

Mark Smith will be 116 years old by this time.

Wonder how many band members he'll have sacked by then?

I think the attitude will in general be pretty similar to what it is now but the music press (in whatever from it exists) will see The Fall as one of the most important artists of all time, above Lennon, Radiohead and Zappa but slightly behind Chic, MBV and Arthur Russell.

― Formerly Kris England!, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

So, in other words, just below Captain Beefheart.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

So, in summary, no change

Yep.

So, in other words, just below Captain Beefheart

Fast 'n' bulbous-uh

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

So, in other words, just below Captain Beefheart.
-- Stewart Osborne.

Actually very similarly placed to Beefheart. If the world of music is a huge chest freezer, Beefheart and Smith lie side-by-side at the bottom, waiting to be discovered and devoured once the hungry realise that what is above, though appealing to the eye and quick to prepare, is mostly indigestable or contains way too many additives.

― Formerly Kris England!, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Global warming will change the seasons dramatically. You won't even recognize the fall then.

― drewo (drewo), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

The world will realize how great they are and entire radio stations will be devoted to them.

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

They'll love them at age fifteen but at age seventeen find them uninspiring and tame.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

They'll still be releasing albums, I'm sure. Mark will be in a wheelchair, but he'll still be at it.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), June 1st, 2005 1:13 AM. (later)

He was already in a wheelchair last year! (or was it the year before?)

Either way, he'll also have lost most of his teeth. Wait a minute.

http://ideashak.typepad.com/ideashak/images/mark-e-smith-thumb.jpg

Is it possible for him to age any more?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

"There's a mouth somewhere only partly filled..."

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

forgotten....

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

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