The Fall - "Theme from Sparta F.C."

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  • @MrLepiBren
    @MrLepiBren Рік тому +33

    And, this is officially the 547th time I have played this video!

  • @SrMoreno
    @SrMoreno Рік тому +23

    That crowd don’t deserve that performance.

    • @markmummery8765
      @markmummery8765 11 місяців тому

      Too right.

    • @stephenpowers51
      @stephenpowers51 7 місяців тому

      That's just silly. Be happy for them, that they got such a good show. Do we deserve your resentful opinion?

    • @NetanyahuWarCriminal
      @NetanyahuWarCriminal 3 місяці тому +1

      They were probably waiting for Fall Out Boy.

  • @DOAJAM
    @DOAJAM 12 років тому +46

    The Fall amaze and delight me, no matter what line up, what year. A real band. Thank you Mark E. Smith.

  • @chebss
    @chebss 27 днів тому +2

    Featured in SAS Rouge Hero's season 2...very apt .

  • @ianknealy2843
    @ianknealy2843 2 роки тому +33

    I've only got into The Fall after Mark died.
    Id always known about them but knew nothing about them . They seemed too aloof when I was doing my thing in the 90s and I had no mates that were remotely interested in them and regrettably I never took a leap of faith and bought one of their records or went to a gig. After mark died I was out for a run and I thought I'd listen to some Fall songs to see what they were all about , after a bit Sparta FC came on. It went straight into my top 10 favourite ever tunes, I wanted to scream and smash something to bits I loved it , still can't get my mates into them.

    • @MichaelShawcross
      @MichaelShawcross 10 місяців тому +3

      Hey Luciani was the song that got me and the album that it was on. The Brix years were the best, in my opinion.

    • @Itsyrm8
      @Itsyrm8 5 місяців тому +2

      it all about each ones experiences. then one can relate. some might express it, some might not, and the rest never felt it

    • @craig3627
      @craig3627 4 місяці тому +1

      You missed early UA-cam fall, it was all there! Original plasticine video to this, was boss!

    • @t.o.408
      @t.o.408 3 місяці тому

      @@MichaelShawcross Same for me. Hey Luciani was on the US release of Bend Sinister (Domesday Payoff Triad Plus). I heard the song, rushed out to buy the cassette, and I was hooked. I'm with you, that 84-89 period with Brix was the best, although I like all of the different eras.

  • @Himonsayne
    @Himonsayne 3 роки тому +21

    Fkn epic . You don't know what you got til it's gone .

  • @stephensaunderson237
    @stephensaunderson237 7 років тому +74

    The only band on the planet who get better as time goes on. As Peely once said The Fall are all you need. How right he was.

  • @kevinadamson5768
    @kevinadamson5768 2 роки тому +9

    Never heard this till last week and I have to say it's one of the catchyiest tunes I've heard in a long time. Loved them in the early days but never heard them much after that.

  • @Monkey_Joe_Tokyo
    @Monkey_Joe_Tokyo 4 роки тому +10

    Christ....is this the best ever?

  • @herculesrockefeller8969
    @herculesrockefeller8969 26 днів тому +1

    "Take your fleecy jumper,
    You won't need it anymore
    it is in a carboot moving away,
    'Cause where you are going
    clothes won't help
    stay at home with TV set".
    Great!

  • @staggerlee6794
    @staggerlee6794 2 роки тому +12

    I've seen them do this song many times but this has to be the best ever performance.

  • @MadderMel
    @MadderMel 7 років тому +27

    R.I.P. The most influential rock God of them all !

  • @davidosullivan8160
    @davidosullivan8160 7 років тому +11

    Why the fuck is no-one moving ? How can you stay still, listening to this ? It should move the most withered soul - even in Norway.

  • @boosh1988
    @boosh1988 12 років тому +10

    As much as it is possible to have a favourite song from a band with that many albums, this, for me, would be it. And as much as it is possible to have a favourite live video of that song from a band with so many videos, this, for me, would be it.

  • @pau1ant
    @pau1ant 11 років тому +22

    Thank gawd that was recorded - the reports from the audience might not have been too reliable.

  • @stephenpowers51
    @stephenpowers51 7 місяців тому +4

    I love the clips from this gig. The band look like they're really having fun, each in their own way.

  • @MickDickinson
    @MickDickinson 7 років тому +36

    as usual the bass keeps it together

  • @lavvuwildcamper
    @lavvuwildcamper 4 роки тому +4

    That track was Super tight with a brilliant Guitar Riff to boot THE FALL simply Superb 👍 R.I.P. MES

  • @srebuck
    @srebuck 3 роки тому +4

    Brilliant version of a brilliant song.

  • @MrStinkpot64
    @MrStinkpot64 11 місяців тому

    So good memories wstching this madness...i miss it do much ❤

  • @christophmiessler5459
    @christophmiessler5459 3 місяці тому

    I saw them in the early 80,first 90 in Berlin my born city.Fanstastic shows and a fanstastic band.😚

  • @heytheregeorgeygirl
    @heytheregeorgeygirl 4 роки тому +7

    I would have loved to have been here. This was a really great set.

  • @keithbentley6081
    @keithbentley6081 3 роки тому +3

    Some of them would have remembered them and it stuck in their minds. When I was a kid in the 80s I went to see the Smiths, actually New Order where top of that bill, but the Fall were on before both of them and they always stuck in my mind. I started buying their stuff.

  • @graemelake657
    @graemelake657 2 роки тому +1

    Another one of their classics.....

  • @chrisfryer3118
    @chrisfryer3118 4 роки тому +6

    he's 49, that's a hard life, embodied

  • @Stiffkittens01
    @Stiffkittens01 7 років тому +12

    You were unique, Mark. R.I.P.

  • @fredhandy2063
    @fredhandy2063 9 років тому +6

    These guys are great!!!!!!!!!

  • @bobbycormier
    @bobbycormier 9 років тому +20

    I love this. the fall are amazing. started listening to them in the '80s. bragging rights there; but it doesn't matter when you started to listen to them.

    • @flyinspirals
      @flyinspirals 8 років тому +6

      that info is more history than bragging. no loves like the old loves.

    • @andrewstorey9419
      @andrewstorey9419 5 років тому +2

      I know this isn't a competition but 1979 me.😂

    • @MadderMel
      @MadderMel 5 років тому

      Saw them at Trinity Hall Bristol !! Before Brix joined , and at students union Clifton after Brix joined !!

    • @lewiswyndham9285
      @lewiswyndham9285 5 років тому +4

      Just started listening to the fall lasted year when Hex Enduction Hour popped into my recommended videos. I mean it when I say the experience was life changing

    • @suncoast1977
      @suncoast1977 4 роки тому

      Starting listening in the 80s. Rediscover last year through Spotify. Created a Fall playlist that is so fascinating.

  • @bobbins53
    @bobbins53 2 роки тому +2

    God this is still sublime!

  • @yoochoobb
    @yoochoobb 15 років тому +2

    Fucking hell, this is one of the rockingest Fall songs since the early days.
    M. E. Smith still got his mojo 30 years later!

  • @fordprefect4345
    @fordprefect4345 19 днів тому

    The audience are having a picnic with tea and scones and maybe some daring strawberries and cream later😮

  • @inova11901
    @inova11901 13 років тому +3

    Best Fall production evah. And I've been with MES from the primordium. We live on blood.

  • @jadrankobucar5868
    @jadrankobucar5868 Місяць тому

    Everything you need is The Fall

  • @kikidee3204
    @kikidee3204 3 місяці тому

    I see them in the 80s at folkestone leas cliff still listening in x

  • @peternumber19
    @peternumber19 3 роки тому +1

    I came here from John Cooper Clarke's book 'I wanna be yours'. Great show in Oslo.

  • @modjohnsenglishdisco
    @modjohnsenglishdisco 2 місяці тому +2

    Check out "Sparta FC" with Jan Svankmejer animation, a brilliant mash up. I once lived in a flat overlooking the Sparta FC grounds in Prague, I wonder what inspired the Fall? Half Man Half Biscuit does "All I Want For Christmas Is A Prague Dukla Away Kit". Is there another song out there about a Prague football club to complete the triumvirate? Perhaps I'll write one about FK Viktoria Žižkov.

    • @tractorboy
      @tractorboy 10 днів тому

      It refers to the Greek side, Sparta FC (Greek). Eleni Poulou (Greek) came up with some words which MES embellished into the theme

  • @mooville32
    @mooville32 2 роки тому

    Got to see them at The Channel in Boston on The Frenz Experiment Tour and the rest has been history, grateful just about everyday

  • @philhuw88
    @philhuw88 2 місяці тому

    "We are the Fall from the long long days of your past" Epic!

  • @FadGadget1
    @FadGadget1 4 роки тому +2

    Class.

  • @annenorth6329
    @annenorth6329 10 місяців тому +1

    Absolutely fekin marvelous.

  • @leesawford
    @leesawford 7 років тому +4

    Missing a second guitarist - he is now on bass. The Fall were great. Never knew what u would get. The Fall WERE Mark E Smith. No more mark, no more Fall. Sad, sad, sad.

  • @321bytor
    @321bytor 10 місяців тому +2

    This is the Fall, Manchester's finest

  • @guillermoortega4119
    @guillermoortega4119 2 роки тому +1

    AWESOME

  • @cogsinister
    @cogsinister 15 років тому +2

    Immense.

  • @annemcfaduen6209
    @annemcfaduen6209 6 років тому +4

    riff gets me every time

  • @Jhensy2012
    @Jhensy2012 10 років тому +5

    Pretty old crowd... kids don't know what they're missing. Great clip!

  • @DavidBradley-cu5ls
    @DavidBradley-cu5ls 3 місяці тому

    Cool band line up great gig😊

  • @edwardbartlett2864
    @edwardbartlett2864 7 років тому +13

    Great performance this. RIP Mark.

  • @johnreed2242
    @johnreed2242 7 років тому +2

    Incredible!

  • @rageagainstthenumpty4608
    @rageagainstthenumpty4608 6 років тому +3

    That bass!!!

  • @venusinfurs3142
    @venusinfurs3142 11 років тому +2

    i saw this !!!!....i love the fall ...i like this one too theme from sparta fc 300 the fall

  • @dja51
    @dja51 12 років тому +3

    saw this at The Islington Halls amazingly good.......

  • @sidDkid87
    @sidDkid87 12 років тому +5

    We are NOT Galatasary we are Sparta FC!!! LOVE IT!

  • @orenatz
    @orenatz 16 років тому +1

    best fall live act i've seen for a long time.

  • @dafteverton7218
    @dafteverton7218 7 років тому +3

    Best Sparta. Rip laa.

  • @MartinBlack
    @MartinBlack 12 років тому +2

    Class!

  • @MrBradius123
    @MrBradius123 7 років тому +1

    , thank you ,mark for the songs were singing, wish my sound system went louder

  • @MadderMel
    @MadderMel 9 років тому +4

    Powerful music.

  • @perfectsoundforever4129
    @perfectsoundforever4129 4 роки тому +4

    Wow- even better than the studio version. Still, the Fall strikes me as a band to enjoy in a small sweaty club (as I did many times) and not an outdoor fest.

  • @suffern63
    @suffern63 11 років тому +2

    Thanks for the illumination

  • @colmanchester9
    @colmanchester9 4 роки тому +2

    Fookin Brilliant post , maybe in the future that crowd may get it LOL

  • @brhodes7659
    @brhodes7659 4 роки тому +1

    Utter class......

  • @akoe1968
    @akoe1968 Місяць тому

    Intense.

  • @hooblah
    @hooblah 18 років тому +3

    Awesome. Thanks for posting

  • @Itsyrm8
    @Itsyrm8 3 місяці тому

    Groups , as smith preffrred to call his bands. He was true. What an artist

  • @rebelVHS
    @rebelVHS 13 років тому +1

    Is there anyone who still hasn't heard 'Cheap Space Chant' ?
    In UA-cam, search for 'Timekode, Mark E Smith'
    and listen to the strangest and best MES/Fall
    collaboration of them all...

  • @Itsyrm8
    @Itsyrm8 4 місяці тому

    best ever spoken intro before a song , "we are the fall.... we are the love corks (?)" please correct me if hearing it wrong i m non native and pretty deaf

  • @neiltay2002
    @neiltay2002 13 років тому +2

    Much better live version when you search for this ong at Leicester Princess Charlotte. Four or five songs from that night up on here. Blindness is incredible.

  • @lewismurphy3692
    @lewismurphy3692 4 роки тому +3

    Mark E Smith is undeniable genius.

  • @transmissionggb2820
    @transmissionggb2820 Рік тому

    I saw the Fall around this time and the gig lasted about 15 to 20 minutes before Mark walked off but it was the best 15 to 20 minutes I have had, they were fucking great and played this.

  • @Bradius123
    @Bradius123 12 років тому +2

    we are the fallll :)...its sooo good

  • @WeAreTheFallPod
    @WeAreTheFallPod 10 місяців тому +1

    Love this lineup. Totally rips.

  • @mrnedthomas
    @mrnedthomas 12 років тому +2

    this is as good as it gets!

  • @drumgold23
    @drumgold23 13 років тому +2

    @MegaKevorkian Love it. Too right. X = the comfort zone. Stay in the red. We ain't running on empty.

  • @dM-ij1we
    @dM-ij1we Місяць тому

    Tim Presley on guitar. Check out his solo stuff.

  • @froschisuperfrosch1766
    @froschisuperfrosch1766 7 років тому +4

    Mark WE don't forget you....

  • @llenlleawch
    @llenlleawch 13 років тому +2

    @brownowl70 okay, yeah, muddy, not sandy. But I wish I'd seen them in Castlefield too!

  • @andreaneilcmc
    @andreaneilcmc 9 років тому +4

    ""You mug old women in the paper shop." LOL!!!

  • @huji891
    @huji891 12 років тому +2

    Oh, the energy.

  • @Simon72Victoria
    @Simon72Victoria 4 роки тому +22

    Jesus. Any ounce of rhythm in that crowd?

    • @christopherwelch136
      @christopherwelch136 9 місяців тому +2

      Must be Amerika.

    • @JoelAdams-j9x
      @JoelAdams-j9x 8 місяців тому

      ​@@christopherwelch136u.k.

    • @graemelake657
      @graemelake657 6 місяців тому +6

      Mate. One of the great British bands playing to basically cabbages.... Must be frustrating for them.

    • @AndyMcnally-v3x
      @AndyMcnally-v3x 4 місяці тому +4

      Clueless. Best band ever and stood gawping like dead fucks.

    • @arborwerks1
      @arborwerks1 3 місяці тому

      @@christopherwelch136Oslo

  • @ciatangallaghe2485
    @ciatangallaghe2485 2 роки тому +2

    People liked the idea of the fall better than liking the fall

  • @paulelliott3220
    @paulelliott3220 9 років тому +2

    Great post

  • @iamtheilluminator
    @iamtheilluminator 11 років тому +6

    the guitarist now does his own project called 'white fence', its pretty good, sort of 60s psychedelia. not sure about the bassist though

    • @McDoinky
      @McDoinky День тому

      I didn’t know Tim Presley was in the Fall, that’s cool

  • @philp2088
    @philp2088 3 роки тому +2

    FUCKING AWESOME

  • @orenatz
    @orenatz 16 років тому +2

    killer bass

  • @IDASOFAR
    @IDASOFAR 7 років тому +20

    Rest in Power Mark

  • @andymanberge
    @andymanberge 16 років тому +2

    its always like that on Øya

  • @stevencruickshank1846
    @stevencruickshank1846 7 років тому +1

    Fuck me the crowd are proper into this!!!

  • @paulc9574
    @paulc9574 7 років тому +3

    WE ARE THE FALL!!! RIP MES.

  • @citizenerased1974
    @citizenerased1974 6 років тому +6

    RIP Mark.

  • @ThePegasus101
    @ThePegasus101 3 роки тому +4

    sparta fc is a dutch football team they shud use it as a walk on song

  • @tomscotland
    @tomscotland 4 місяці тому +1

    Even George Harrison was in The Fall in 1966.

  • @michaelstmark
    @michaelstmark 13 років тому +1

    Yeah. Like Lemmy said about Canada when on tour with Motorhead... "you need to bring your own crystal (speed) up here".

  • @andrewstorey9419
    @andrewstorey9419 8 років тому +3

    love the audience...very very cool....

    • @flyinspirals
      @flyinspirals 8 років тому +2

      yes, cool.
      the crowd makes me want to move to Norway. tomorrow.

  • @suereed
    @suereed 15 років тому +1

    The Fall Live, in my house that's what any music is judged against. Yes storming version.

  • @patrickahearne8770
    @patrickahearne8770 4 роки тому +1

    Base & Primal. Fucking Great!

  • @t3l3phasicworksh0p
    @t3l3phasicworksh0p 4 роки тому +4

    The Cardiacs brought me here after The Fall sent me to the Cardiacs who sent me to The Fall who sent me to the Cardiacs - logic of the universe-ah!

    • @pilgrim....
      @pilgrim.... 3 роки тому

      We need to cut our own trails now I've woken up I see I was often following carefully laid trails of crumbs non of them leading to truth goodness or lasting beauty just mamon. I will now sharpen my machete then salve my head wound and pray for mercy ✌

  • @AndreLykke
    @AndreLykke Місяць тому

    It feels kind a strange to see a 70 year old man playing with a bandmembers who all are ca 30 years old.

  • @liamjwolves
    @liamjwolves 15 років тому +3

    how many versions are there of this song?
    iv heard one with the lyrics ''i dont have a jacknife, it went up the hill.....''

  • @lotuslena08
    @lotuslena08 13 років тому +1

    This lot is just standing there holding their beers !!! I'm in my bedroom watching this and I'm doing cartwheels...