Least Amazing (But Still Quite Delightful) Record by the Fall

Funny, nobody's mentioned "Seminal: Live", it's half and half.

"Witch Trials" got no love in the other poll?!?!?!?

No, Witch Trials was mentioned by somebody in t'other thread.

if anyone votes Levitate I am reporting them to the police

Damn right.

anyone voting live at the witch trials will be burnt at the stake

anyone voting The Marshall Suite will be marshalled into a suite, and shot

Would like to hear a proper defence of AYAMW, aside from "Ibis Afro-Man is quite cool" which would be my defence - it falls within the Second Golden Period but doesn't seem to have much going for it

anyone voting room to live will be denied such

Levitate may end up in limbo. No votes here & no votes in the "best of" either.

if I'd voted in the "best of", which I didn't, I'd have VERY likely thrown it a vote - either it or The Unutterable for me

if anyone votes Light User Syndrome their power will be shut off

Live at the Witch Trials, Extricate, Fall Heads Roll would all make my top ten Fall albums. Room to Live, I Am Curious Oranj both great also. Of the 3-4 others I've heard, I'm voting Are You Are Missing Winner, which never made much of an impression on me.

I Am Curious Oranj : 's actually I Am Kurious Oranj

if anyone votes...

OK - We have strong-arm tactics by lobbyists for certain records. Fall fans are a passionate group indeedah. (Yeah, OK. I'll stop with the "ah" thing. But I do love it so!)

Sorry for the mis-spelling of IAKO.

Are You Are Missing Wiener:

http://www.everything-about-dachshunds.com/images/Lost-dachshund.jpg

http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/files/2010/01/louise-wener1.jpg

Are you .,,

ilxor is ye royal PUNdit.

fall heads droll

i've always loved curious oranj. it's so fantastically strange. it was also what really got me into the fall. i bought 458489 b-sides first (as it was cheap), but it was a few years before i bought another, and that happened to be curious. the b-sides were plenty weird for me, but curious just had this incredibly warped pop thing going. i really couldn't figure who or what they were making it for. incredibly bonkers stuff.

if anyone votes...

― Mark G, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:44 (Yesterday)

^this, really :)

replace all c's with k's: i've always loved kurious oranj. it's so fantastikally strange. it was also what really got me into the fall. i bought 458489 b-sides first (as it was kheap), but it was a few years before i bought another, and that happened to be kurious. the b-sides were plenty weird for me, but kurious just had this inkredibly warped pop thing going. i really kouldn't figure who or what they were making it for. inkredibly bonkers stuff.

ANyone voting I Am Kurious Oranj will no longer have anything that rhymes with them.

so are we voting worst here? or best of worst? best of worst here is Light User Syndrome. Worst is probably Shift Work because it's completely forgettable.

kurious oranj was the first fall album I ever owned, how could anyone hate it?

code selfish and cerebral caustic also completely boring except for 'life just bounces'.

kurious oranj is, like, top five fall record for me.

Code Selfish has "Birmingham School of Business School" and "Free Range"! It's better than you think.

Gah, I thought we were voting for best of these so you'll see one inexplicable vote for "Room To Live", which is glorious including "Papal Visit"s screeching violin!

akm - we are voting for "worst" or "least excellent" in the case of the Fall. ;-)

Would like to hear a proper defence of AYAMW, aside from "Ibis Afro-Man is quite cool" which would be my defence - it falls within the Second Golden Period but doesn't seem to have much going for it

Bourgeois Town is my favorite of all their covers (though I've never heard the original) and could easily fit on any sort of best of, for my money. Crop Dust and My Ex-Classmate's Kids also excellent, and I do love the change-up in Kick the Can. The second half is pretty dull/bad, not a lot of redeeming qualities. Still, good enough not to get my vote here.

Worst is probably Shift Work because it's completely forgettable.

AUGH I really don't understand why people don't love this album, it would be in my top ten easy. Right off the bat I love "Lotta Wind", "Rose", "Edinburgh Man", "Pittsville", "High Tension Line", title track, and opening track.

but there ya go, kinda proves the point of the poll/thread.

I like Ibis Afro Man better than Blindness actually (though not by much) (and Peel Session Blindness > 2G + 2 Ibis) and Crop Dust is really awesome...I have lots of goodwill for Kick the Can, Bourgeois Town and Ex-Classmates Kids leftover from their cracking live versions on 2G + 2...

also the Castle reissue has a song on it called Where's the Fuckin' Taxi Cunt? (<=is this any good, fellow true believers???)

never mind...from theWiki article:

The final track was taken from the controversial "Rude (All The Time)" EP issued by Voiceprint in 2005 and is little more than a recorded discussion amongst the credited personnel.

still,may be one of MES' finest song titles...

I gotta throw my love at "Birmingham School of Business School" and that record in general. I don't think I could vote for it as weakest Fall. In fact, I didn't...

No, Where's the Fuckin' Taxi Cunt is no good. I like Are You Are Missing Winner. Vote wd go to Reformation I guess. Kurious Oranj is an amazing album. I will just keep writing. In sentences of this length. For maximum. Tedium.

Another observation from recent Fall listening. For me, 'Fall Head Roll' is a decent enough rekkid, but "Ride Away" fails to fill me with joy, especially as an opener.

My first exposure to Kurious Oranj was the Michael Clark doc "Hail The New Puritan", the music + dance is wonderful wonderful wonderful. Brix E Smith is hard to watch. The album is good.

Mark E. Smith needs no introduction.
Mark E. Smith never loses the remote.
Mark E. Smith is too perplexing to sleep.
Mark E. Smith is always on the right side of the road.
Mark E. Smith's magic carpet is made from frayed windscreens.
Mark E. Smith rides a scooter made of femurs.
Mark E. Smith's blood type is funk.
Mark E. Smith's favorite sexual position is gravel.
Mark E. Smith can make microphones out of ashes & gravy skins. But he doesn't.
Mark E. Smith spent the night in Margaret Thatcher's eyeball once.
Mark E. Smith's other car is a rabid badger.
Mark E. Smith once fashioned a guitar from a pharoah's skull, 2 paperclips & a bunch of goat hymen.
When Mark E. Smith is asked "paper or plastic," he replies "ball gag."
Mark E. Smith has eaten his own head. Twice.
Mark E. Smith de-veins prawns with his manhood. From over there.

...or perhaps not.

http://twitter.com/Markesmith/status/4529468972

Mark E. Smith's favorite ice cream topping is new car smell.
Mark E. Smith flosses his teeth with funeral directors.
Mark E. Smith has a pet heart attack named Hodgepodge Nutmonkey.

wtf is Room To Live doing anywhere near this poll?

Mark E. Smith's favorite part of the eel is the personality.
Mark E. Smith once beat up Yoda. With Chuck Norris.

Mark E. Smith's arm hair is beef jerky.
Mark E. Smith knows no bounds.
Mark E. Smith eats dental equipment & poops scooters. With stickers on them.

http://thequietus.com/articles/03925-the-fall-and-mark-e-smith-as-a-narrative-lyric-writer

New book: http://www.amazon.com/Mark-E-Smith-Fall-Politics/dp/0754668673/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276536880&sr=1-6

Each one of Mark E. Smith's blood & sperm cells has its own penis.
Mark E. Smith frequently drives an old Rambler covered in jelly dongs & mustard.
Mark E. Smith has been struck by lightning 17 times. Each time he calmly exhaled black smoke & said "boom boom-ah."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

The correct album won.

I find it hard to argue with the results of this poll. If I had it to do over again, I'd prolly vote R!PTC myself. Live & learn.

imo the second place album is also correct, all the others are debatable (Witch Trial wtf that album is killer).

xp 4 votes for Witch Trials is surprising...I mean, it's nowhere near my favourite album, but it's definitely full of moments...

(beat me to the punch sleeve)

Suspect a lot of people have heard Witch Trials and haven't heard other albums in this poll

I'm having trouble getting my head around the Witch Trials votes myself. That's as strange as my mistaken vote for Extricate. ;-)

Confession time, possible I voted for "Witch Trials" by mistake

I've been listening to Heads Roll...I definitely shortchanged it; it's better than Missing Winner. I still like Country, IWS, and Unutterable better, but it's a very cool & punchy record...

Bend Sinister has definitely been kickin my arse lately. Gotta be among their best.