The Fall: The Third set of ten singles POLL

Have only heard about half of these, and don't know a lot of the B-sides, but of the ones I know I'd go with "Free Range."

'Telephone Thing'.

I'm utterly powerless when that bassline drops.

White Lightning, for Blood Outta Stone.

haven't heard all of these, but I like Jerusalem and Wrong Place, Right Time, so I voted that.

they had not counted on ...

I'd like to hear Telephone Thing again. It's been way too long and I do remember that bassline. Still, I'm going for High Tension Line as "Don't Take The Pizza" was mega classic Fall (complete with a nice gothicness as well) and worth the price of the Shiftwork expanded CD alone. The A-side of that single was pretty strong, too.

its hit the north

because it goes; 'hit the north'

and thats amazing

yeah I'm going "telephone thing"

when do we get to "birmingham school of business school"?

telephone thing just beats hit the north, but just barely

Man, they really went downhill. The best tracks here are barely as good as the worst ones in the last poll. But anyway...."Hit The North," I guess.

when do we get to "birmingham school of business school"?

I don't think that was ever a single. It is, however, stupendously awesome.

they had not counted on ...

yer right, I could've sworn the first time I heard it was in a record store that was playing a 7" of it

unreliable memory-ah victim-uh

xp

chuck sadly otm...the second disc of 50000 Fall Fans is kinduva drag compared to the first one...High Tension Line (my vote) is good, and I've grown to love Feeling Numb and Free Range, but its not until Touch Sensitive that that disc begins to pay dividends...

still the Fall's Trouser Press article makes The Knight The Devil and Death out to be one of the greatest songs ever written by a member of the homo genus, and Guest Informant is a barrelful of awesomeness...

its hit the north

because it goes; 'hit the north'

and thats amazing

― Sandy Blair, Friday, February 20, 2009 2:57 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

God, "Twister" is fucking me up right now. I haven't heard these b-sides in a long ass time. When I left my parents' house in 1995 I did take a fair amount of Fall, but any 12" b-sides got left behind.

I can't remember what the hell was on that damn Domesday Payoff Triad thing, either and it's really bugging me.

I agree about '50,000 Fall Fans' being a bit of a drag for stretches of Disc 2. Oddly enough, the Peel Sessions box doesn't seem to suffer in the same way, despite having an even greater preponderance of post-'87 material. On a 14-hr flight back around the new year, I remember listening to the whole set straight through for the first time and being pretty impressed with how well the '90s stuff held up.

Free Range is my favourite Fall single of all time, from my favourite Fall album of all time, so ... that.

It's Hit the North
Because it goes.....

Ed's Babe is just so strange. Every time I listen to it. And The Knight, The Devil, The Death is great as well. So I'm going for that even thought it should really be Jerusalem.

Acid Priest 2080 is fucked up little clockword gem of a temporal box puzzle, as well. Actually should really have voted for that, but it's Ed's Babe.

Hit the North

Hit The North, but Victoria and White Lightening have the best B-sides.

Lightning.

rescuthread.

...

Hey, I tried!

Fuck the complainers. That's what I say. Fuck 'em. You want a good run of singles. Here it is. Stop griping.

What do they want, a session musician?!

hahahha DAMN RIGHT! Session musician, man. I've got it on my iPod now.

merseybeat...

Telephone Thing
matron thing
how dare you assume I wanna parlez vous with you?

SESSION MUSICIAN for the Fall addicts, give it to the Fall addicts

It's all your fault that John Peel is the most amazing human being in music. It's all your fault.

THE PEOPLE WANT WHAT THEY KNOW

VIDEO REACH

STEREO BOG

Mark'll Sink Us is so much more goth than any one of you had ever imagined.

I do like -

I am desolate. I live the black and blue of the night.
Friend depression comes now and again,
Once in a blue moon, it points backwards THUS.

When I am dead and gone
my vibrations will live on

by the way, you know Mark'll Sink Us is about as goth as it gets.

This is the thread where I learn that the lyrics are not "talking like a thesaurus" but "talking like I've got Tourette's / and everything hurtz". Which makes more sense, but is less pleasing somehow.

I've alwiz heard it as Tourette's. Sorry.

My comment makes more sense if you read the lyric quote in MESish

passing on this one, cuz too many of these are unfamiliar. would vote for "cab it up" or "jerusalem", but that seems unfair, somehow. fall requires troo dedication

Hit The North!

BAZDAD! SPACE COG! ANALYST!

It pays to talk to no one. NO ONE!

Alright, I feel bad I didn't vote for Hit The North. I admit it.

was just listening to the peel session of New Puritan on BBC6 last night from 1980 (except the presenter insisted on calling it new face in hell). Fucking hell. It reminded me some of their best stuff was done for peel. The version of Hip Priest is particularly devastating.

There was a period when everything they did for Peel was better than the released versions, IMO

The version of Hip Priest is particularly devastating.

It is. The early versions of Hip Priest, especially the one on the Leeds dvd that came with the Perverted by Language bis reissue, are so sparse and primal. It doesn't even really sound like music. Incredibly powerful.

I just love scanlan's guitar on that one

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Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

amazing

MY CAT SAYS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooW

HIT

THE

NORTH

The weird thing about their cover of "Victoria" is that they chop off the first line of the first verse. Instead of "long ago, grass was green, sex was bad, called obscene" they just start off with "It was bad, called obscene." I'm guessing MES made a special point of not listening to the original recording, so they wouldn't be influenced by it.

That's apparently what happened with their remarkable cover of War. They had the Henry Cow sleeve with the lyrics but no record. So they just made the music up. To great effect.

And the single version of "I can hear the grass grow" has it as "I hear rainbows in the evening", even though they get it right more often on the Peel Sessions version.

(i.e. "I see rainbows in my arp faust"

Hit The North gives me goosebumps, it really does. But if you put it up against Cruiser's Creek then the universe might explode.