Would you join The Fall?

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I joined The Fall for my gap year. Great fun except when Mark called me a cunt for having cider at the pub one night.

Ha, I was just browsing the Domino website re the 2LP version of Clut.

In a word, no.

It's a question posed in his book, basically. MES goes around saying "You! You're in the fall NOW!" and people going "... OK" and MES going "Pack now for Bremen!"

The problem with joining now is that MES's liver will have packed up before he grudgingly gets round to admitting that he should never have kicked you out of the group, bottled you onstage or left you stranded at an airport in Valdivostock

Valdivostock

It's your own fault, you should have been in Vladivostok.

I would join The Fall. I'm unemployed at the moment, so it's not like I'm, you know, doing anything. And instead of having a 3rd party outsourced advisor tell me something like "Try cold calling two or three potential employers a day to see if they have any unadvertised vacancies", I'd much rather hear MES saying "Stop playin' that fookin' chord, you cnut!!! You're SHIT-ah!!!! <throws ashtray>". Because then at least I'd know where I was, you know.

It's a question posed in his book, basically. MES goes around saying "You! You're in the fall NOW!" and people going "... OK" and MES going "Pack now for Bremen!"

you say this like its a bad thing

I dont.

http://mimg.ugo.com/201002/36022/patton-speech.jpg

"There is one great thing that you will all be able to say after this tour is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in rock and roll, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Fall and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Mark E. Smith!"

*joins the fall*

i have decided that badg is MES and this is just a recruitment outreach program

elvis telecom makes me want to join the army and the fall

nah

Let me see your war face... You got a war face?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40465000/jpg/_40465115_smith_203.jpg
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! That's a war face! Now let me see your war face!

Someone Photoshop MES's face on this

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/I%20want%20you.jpg

...."I had to get rid of a lot of people in the group because they felt that was it, they've mastered their instrument and they think, "Oh well, I can play the same chord brilliantly for six minutes", which is, ah - you should get a bleedin' machine to do that. You know, the thing is to play it with an inflection. " - MES

counts me out, lads. i guess i'll vote No.

Missed oportunity:

http://images.productserve.com/preview/1552/10896342.jpg

Full disclosure, I'm SBing all the No votes.

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You, join the Fall then

The rest of us have things to do.

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Join the Fall then-uh
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BIG PINK BEAR HURTS ANALYST!

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I want to hear from all 27 "no" votes. What is it that you're doing that's so much better than joining The Fall?

I don't know - I'm like, employed and stuff? I like the Fall! I just think you'd have a whirlwind three months of being shouted at, unbearable at the time but obviously amazing in retrospect, then after that you'd spend yr remaining 40-50 years stumbling into bushes and smelling of urine.

I never voted in this, but I would totally go for it. Can't play an instrument for shit, but maybe that increases my chances? Even playing only two shows before getting abandoned at a bus station in the middle of Bumblefuck, Iowa would be far far more interesting than anything else I've done lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXWf1EHiMJw

I'm surprised by all the no votes

"If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards joining the Fall with me"

I want to hear from all 27 "no" votes. What is it that you're doing that's so much better than joining The Fall?

Word. "What is it that you're doing that's so much better than joining The Fall?" could be a guideline for life.

I've listened to some tunes by The Fall on Youtube, I'd rather join pretty much any other band than The Fall. Just the idea of having to listen to their "singer" day after day would be sheer torture.

I mean, here's a guy who managed to make even Mouse on Mars (one of my favourite bands) suck.

I guess Mouse on Mars don't agree with you

Who cares about Mouse on Mars?

I want to hear from all 27 "no" votes. What is it that you're doing that's so much better than joining The Fall?

I make my living on tour. When a tour goes to shit, there are few shitty jobs that are worse. It's not "well, this job fucking blows, but at least I'm seeing this exciting new place!" it's "my worst day washing dishes was better than this godforsaken tour." Which is how you would feel every day on a Fall tour.

damn, real talk

aerosmith just ruined my impossible dream

I think you can still join aerosmith

very well aerosmith, I shall start a new band that is just like The Fall except instead of abuse, I will give my bandmates hugs. I predict this will work out very well and garner success unparalleled

will favorably review the Huggers' Fall

we will play such classics as Well-Adjusted Victorian Child and Who Makes The Goonies?

The whole "miserable experience" thing, I don't get. I mean, yeah, the band has had tons of members, but there have also been members who were in the band for years and years, and various former members have rejoined the band at times. I can't imagine those things would be true if it was so terrible.

Cool man, join the Fall

very well aerosmith, I shall start a new band that is just like The Fall except instead of abuse, I will give my bandmates hugs. I predict this will work out very well and garner success unparalleled

I'm in.

Actually, I sort of already came up with this idea - me and the mister are in an imaginary band that does twee versions of ridiculously offensive tracks (i.e. DJ Assault's 'Ass'n'Titties' rendered as 'Hugs'n'Kisses') and we are called... Kitten Conspiracy.

I make my living on tour. When a tour goes to shit, there are few shitty jobs that are worse. It's not "well, this job fucking blows, but at least I'm seeing this exciting new place!" it's "my worst day washing dishes was better than this godforsaken tour." Which is how you would feel every day on a Fall tour.

Not sure about this in Britain or Europe, mostly members seem to have a gas, but totally otm when it comes to the car crash that is The Fall in the States. Really hoping this excellent new incarnation doesn't go there, despite the deprivation of US fans because if they go out, they won't be coming back.

Not sure about this in Britain or Europe, mostly members seem to have a gas, but totally otm when it comes to the car crash that is The Fall in the States. Really hoping this excellent new incarnation doesn't go there, despite the deprivation of US fans because if they go out, they won't be coming back.

I've been waiting to see The Fall five times now, but they always break up before they get to Los Angeles.

And yet they did a song about it.

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Yes

Re: post 4

I didn't buy YFOC 2LP via the Domino website. Found a copy about 18 months ago in Oxfam. That was good!

(xp) I hate to be the first to tell you but Mark E. Smith is dead.

I •would have liked* to have been in the Fall for that one gig where MES decided to do a cover of Walk Like a Man on a whim. I'd probably get fired straightaway for providing mildly coherent backing vox.