best of The Fall studio albums

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so?
i mean,this is a really importend poll!!

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1982 - Hex Enduction Hour	25
1985 - This Nation’s Saving Grace	16
1983 - Perverted By Language	7
1981 - Slates	5
1980 - Grotesque (After The Gramme)	4
1984 - The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall	4
1986 - Bend Sinister	4
2003- The Real New Fall LP	3
1979 - Dragnet	3
1988 - I Am Kurious, Oranj	2
1988 - The Frenz Experiment	2
1979 - Live At The Witch Trials	2
1990 - Extricate	2
1993 - The Infotainment Scan	2
1996 - The Light User Syndrome	2
2000- The Unutterable	1
1991 - Shift Work	0
2005 - Fall Heads Roll	0
2001 - Are You Are Missing Winner	0
1999 - The Marshall Suite	0
1982 - Room To Live (Undilutable Slang Truth !)	0
1997 - Levitate	0
1995 - Cerebral Caustic	0
1994 - Middle Class Revolt	0
1992 - Code : Selfish	0
2007 - Reformation ! Post-TLC	0

― Zeno, Sunday, 22 April 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

Definitely importend poll!

I gotta think about this one for a bit. I've got 3 in mind to pick from

― van smack, Sunday, 22 April 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

This is impossible! Their records're too similar AND too different. Voted "Real New Fall Lp" cos I heard it most recently.

― President Evil, Sunday, 22 April 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, this one's kinda silly cuz clearly that Peel Sessions box or the two-disc greatest hits thang are the way to go. It's like picking which part of a half-foot sub you're going to eat. I mean, aren't you gunna eat it all?

Still, I voted for The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall since I just discovered that I have three (3!!) copies of the thing.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 22 April 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Despite the Fall being my fav band I am yet to own one!

― President Evil, Sunday, 22 April 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

the peel session is great but the greatest hits?!
i mean,seriously..90% of their best stuff is their least accesible,least well known songs.

― Zeno, Sunday, 22 April 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

Well not really. "The Classical"!

― President Evil, Sunday, 22 April 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

it's on the 10%

― Zeno, Sunday, 22 April 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hex Enduction Hour

Easy.

― SeekAltRoute, Sunday, 22 April 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

bend sinister

― stephen, Sunday, 22 April 2007 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

You are out of yr mind. In a cool way, albeit

― President Evil, Sunday, 22 April 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

Voted for Hex over Wonderful and Frightening World but was also tempted to go with Code: Selfish.

― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 22 April 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for This Nation, as its probably been my favourite on average the most over the years

― Sandy Blair, Sunday, 22 April 2007 06:58 (eighteen years ago)

I am always mystified that there is not more love for Perverted By Language. Who are these people???

― askance johnson, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

if thou seeketh me I are encamped at foot of pbl shrine

― Edward III, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

i ALMOST picked pbl.

― get bent, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hex edged out Perverted.

― van smack, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I picked Perverted By Language.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

This Nation is my default answer here and I'll stand by it, I think. But Hex Enduction, Wonderful and Frightening World and Bend Sinister are all right up there. TNSG is perhaps their Kraut-est and Pop-est record all at once, and it hangs as an album, and it has a ridiculous number of Key Fall Moments on it, and "Paintwork" is still my most favourite Fall Moment of the lot, the clearest grimy window MES might've ever opened in his psyche. Along with Sinister it's also the most telling account of provincial England in the mid-80s that I know.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 22 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

the clearest grimy window MES might've ever opened in his psyche

I'm curious as to why you'd say that.

― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 22 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

It feels autobiographical to me, dense as the lyrics are. It's always made me think of teenage MES scheming and fretting around the family home, beginning to strive to construct his own wonderful and frightening world. But who knows? It's just lyrics and music and sounds, it could be quite as opaque as any other Fall song. And my interpretation is heavily infected with the teenage me that first heard it, I guess.

And sometimes they say 'Hey Mark you're spoiling all the paintwork'
And sometimes they say 'Your thumbprints are on the paintwork'

I heard that a lot too, as a kid. I like how he makes it a kind of manifesto.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 22 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

what about slates?

― Zeno, Monday, 23 April 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Dragnet, obviously.

― Dr.C, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

Tough to choose between Dragnet, Grotesque, Slates, This Nations SG... but ILMers are so predictable these days that "Hex Enduction Hour" is bound to win

― Tom D., Monday, 23 April 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

^_'

― 600, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

sha la la la.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

tra la la la.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

EXTRICATE!

(tschhhh)

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

That's more like it!

― Tom D., Monday, 23 April 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm... This Nation's Saving Grace, though I haven't heard it for ages.

― zeus, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

This has made me realise that, although I consider myself a huge Fall fan, I haven't listened to their last ... ten albums.

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, if Dr C is sticking with Dragnet, then I'm sticking with Grotesque.

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

alba you must hear the unutterable

― Edward III, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

also you should work on visualizing the unseeable

― Edward III, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Alba OTM

― admrl, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

I approve of the last three posts.

― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

SLATES

― ian, Monday, 23 April 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

TNSG. Tough call tho.

― mrlynch, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

G (AtG) followed by slates f/b Hex

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

I went for Hex without thinking about it thoroughly.

I listen to Real Nu Fall quite a lot still. Which surprises me.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

im voting for hex enduction hour but then im zany like that

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Noodle was a teenager when he first heard TNSG! I was too...my first Fall album.

Gosh I dunno...this is difficult. I always said it was a tossup between Dragnet & Perverted...but I'm more likely to pick other things now because I think other things are less overplayed or something (by me). I'm far more likely to pull out Witch Trials these days. TNSG is actually a pretty good middle-of-the-road catch-all choice in and of itself. That album gives you everything you could really need from the Fall, I think. Kurious Oranj is nearly perfect and deserves some kudos. Shiftwork needs much more respect as well.

But you know I think I'm just going to go wild and vote Witch Trials.

I read a piece recently in the Stranger about Wonderful & Frightening World Of...and this guy was actually complementing the production or something. And I just think that is NOT the first album I would tell people to get of them. The production is so cluttered and muddy. Plenty of good songs, mind...

― Bimble, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

Dithering between TNSG, Dragnet and HE, finally looked up the play stats on iTunes, and I clearly listen to TNSG more than any other.

Though I got that twinge of ILM contrarianism and almost voted for Oranj

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for light user syndrome only because of spinetrack which kicks every other fall song in the teeth for me

― akm, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

i think i've only made it halfway through the new album once and listened to the last one maybe three times. sad.

― akm, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:22 (eighteen years ago)

cigs smoked here.

― poortheatre, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:33 (eighteen years ago)

if it were best Fall studio album cover art, Hex Enduction Hour would win hands down.

― mrlynch, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

" ILMers are so predictable these days that "Hex Enduction Hour" is bound to win"

not sure...maybe "this nation" or "wonderfull and frightning"
the brix period is their best stuff,mark e.smith is sounds less frusrated and those brix guitars...some times i think she sounds like poison ivy (the cramps),with an upgrade.

― Zeno, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

bump

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

HEY THERE FUCKFACES

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

yay for SLATES!

― poortheatre, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

oh who was the other voter for "Extricate"?

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

ILMers are so predictable these days that "Hex Enduction Hour" is bound to win

It's not easy being right all the time ;)

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

... but, yes, highly predictable. I don't get the love for "Perverted By Language" either, that album always seems like a failure and a deadend to me... also the Peel sessions versions of the tracks are just miles better (ditto "Hex")

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

Perverted By Language was the first Fall album I bought, so I have a soft spot for it. But then I got the Castle reissue (90s version) with Wings on it, which is one of my favourite Fall songs.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

the peel session versions of everything around that time are better. the peel version of winter (hostel maxi) in particular

― 600, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

... which is why I don't like "Hex" and "PbL" as much as some do

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

the cd version of PBL has Wings and Kicker Conspiracy on it is what did it

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

They're not on the album tho

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get the love for "Perverted By Language" either, that album always seems like a failure and a deadend to me

maybe when I've got 6 hours to spare I can explain it to you.

― Edward III, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

You won't convince me

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

do you want to love it or understand the love for it?

― Edward III, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

oh who was the other voter for "Extricate"?

That would be me I guess, as much for the atypically tender 'Bill is Dead' as much as anything else.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

In case Bimble's wondering, mine was the other vote for Live At The Witch Trials.

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Did I read somewhere that "Bill Is Dead" was supposed to be about Bill Harkleroad?

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for The Unutterable only because it's the one Fall album that I'll get on a must-play-everyday jag now and then.

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

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