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songs that sound like "No bulbs" by the fall...

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any sugestions?
(note: this is maybe one of the greatest songs ever)

flavio.pessoa, Friday, 5 December 2008 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

No Bulbs 3?

Song for song, Call for Escape Route is my favorite Fall record: Draygo's Guilt, No Bulbs, Slang King 2. And No Bulbs is definitely my favorite Fall song. Dunno what sounds like it though. I'll hunt and I'll tryta find...

contenderizer, Friday, 5 December 2008 06:34 (seventeen years ago)

I'll namecheck "FM" by the Slits, even though I know it's a poor comparison.

¡¡¡¡¡inverted exclamation!!!!! (unregistered), Friday, 5 December 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

(the Peel Session version, natch)

¡¡¡¡¡inverted exclamation!!!!! (unregistered), Friday, 5 December 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

maybe like a sonic youth song, daydream nation era?!

Zeno, Friday, 5 December 2008 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

No Bulbs 3 is the single edit of No Bulbs.

Mark G, Friday, 5 December 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

"Call for Escape Route is my favorite Fall record"

I don't even know what album this is, one of the comps?

akm, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

such a great track...i might head for the Three Johns. see The Three Johns c/d, s/d etc

nerve_pylon, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

It's an EP (xp)

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 5 December 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

... well, really just a 12" single rather than an EP

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 5 December 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, but it comes with a bonus record baby. Smaller than.

Suggest Ban Permalink (contenderizer), Friday, 5 December 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

Did it? What was that?

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 5 December 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

Oh right, googled it. So it did. It's almost a mini-album!

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 5 December 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah. 3 song 12-inch w/ "Draygo's Guilt" & "Clear Off" on the A-side, "No Bulbs" on the flip. Bonus 7-inch with "No Bulbs 3"/"Slang King 2" (i.e., versions). Imagine all that stuff in on convenient CD format by now. Only reason I call it my favorite is that I like all the songs. A lot, and without reservation. And, probably not coincidentally, it was one of the 1st Fall records I bought/heard (in '86/'87, along with Palace of Swords, Domesday Pay-Off, the Rollin' Dany 12").

Suggest Ban Permalink (contenderizer), Friday, 5 December 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

Roadrunner Roadrunner?

Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

"Baptist Blacktick" by Pavement is a pretty shameful "No Bulbs"/Fall rip.

(*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・)   °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

Bogshed sound a bit like this sometimes.

everything, Friday, 5 December 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)


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