4:29 - "Colin! Turn those... stop those lights flashing before I break yer fucking neck! Keep them still for like three seconds!" [continuing lyrics] "The stylish purge, he tried to induce an epileptic fit but I, in my strong personality, was having none of it! I cursed, from the bottom of my heart, the Camden organisation was censored by the tube-friendlies." Incredible! RIP
"..When it comes, will it come without warning Just when I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes? Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? Oh tell me the truth about love."
I wonder if any member of that audience actually realised the brilliance of what they were hearing. ‘The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose’ Godspeed Mark.
@@dominicchaplin7686 Wow you were there!!!??? I so wish I'd been at that gig. I was at some late 1970s gigs i think at The Squat and possibly Band on the Wall. Can you tell any memories of the gig?
The Fall are my favourite band & have been since John Peel introduced them to my ears in the 70's & "Garden" is one of The Fall tracks I return to more & more, this & "New Face In Hell".........I can't get started because I'll be recalling songs into the early hours.
A bloody classic, no two ways about it, the twin drummers, three guitarists & smith's unique voice; GARDEN The first god had in his garden From the back looked like a household pet When it twirled round was revealed to be A three-legged black-grey hog See what flows from his mushy pen Garden Garden That person is films on TV five years back at least He's the young generation dancing troupe Try'na perform Country And Western Do a dance here Never since birth not eaten in a day Never since courtship stayed up some nights He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book He was contrite like that See what flows from his slushy pen Garden Garden Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption Crooked traitor past revealed at last Godzone Godzone (Jacob's Ladder) Godzone Godzone ... can be erased. This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears. When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from a book. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Varney [1] The same thing [?] could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [?]. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun The best firms advertise the least The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp He knew the evil of the phone He knew the evil of the phone The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear He's on the second floor Up the brown baize lift shaft He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike He's here I saw him I swear Up the brown baize lift shaft Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike (He does improvise on-stage)
i so envy that red haired lad at the front of the stage! Must be in his sixties now like me. Wonder if he ever watches this now and thinks by heck that was a brilliant night!!!! if you read this please respond!
Brix Smith is a great role model! Have you checked out the first album Live at the Witch Trials? , Grotesque and Slates? The track English Scheme is full of cutting Manchester humour.@@toyetix
It’s clucking unique & it’s definitely talent. It’s absolutely hypnotic, too. Creative, clever, never quite losing it, but like a drunken high wire act, you feel sure it’s going down, then it just continues.
Simple cloche-bells rang out angular to the credence of rangers - and that's the best I can do to find my bank-o-mack jive for ME-S. Longing living and chime to the pallets. Ha-hey...
The first god had in his garden From the back looked like a household pet When it twirled round was revealed to be A three-legged black-grey hog See what flows from his mushy pen Garden Garden That person is films on TV five years back at least He's the young generation dancing troupe Try'na perform Country And Western Do a dance here Never since birth not eaten in a day Never since courtship stayed up some nights He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book He was contrite like that See what flows from his slushy pen Garden Garden Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption Crooked traitor past revealed at last Godzone Godzone (Jacob's Ladder) Godzone Godzone this entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every window sill in close proximity to my ears. When friends ring and are inconvenient to readers, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Barnes The same thing could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun The best firms advertise the least The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp He knew the evil of the phone He knew the evil of the phone The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear He's on the second floor Up the brown baize lift shaft He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike He's here I saw him I swear Up the brown baize lift shaft Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike (I always thought it was "chew on a motorbike", which I prefer to the actual lyric)
Probably my favourite but it has been hijacked by intellectual middle class half wits who read the guardian.I do not even understand what they write and shake my head most of the time.The annotated fall is bollocks.
Given the context of other lyrics in this song, and the title, I think "a Jew on a motorbike" is some oblique reference to a scruffy Jesus but who knows. Question answered below by some amateur British historians.
@@gg_riderI figure the same - always sounded to me like it's about the second coming, except this time, Jeezus is rippin' around earth on a crotch rocket, reaping souls, and he's pissed. Just conjures an apocalyptically frightening yet inherently hilarious mental image... I'd like to think that's what Mark was going for 🍻
Such talent wasted. He looked like he was wasting away and his drinking just brought down more and more. but they say "That is the way he wanted to go" stubborn, talented and well loved! however if "You liked Mark E. Smith you probably never met him before"
As good as it gets folks. You can't beat this.
You said it. Amen
🚬🥴💞
Truth
Abba?
Awful, out of tune and boring!
4:29 - "Colin! Turn those... stop those lights flashing before I break yer fucking neck! Keep them still for like three seconds!" [continuing lyrics] "The stylish purge, he tried to induce an epileptic fit but I, in my strong personality, was having none of it! I cursed, from the bottom of my heart, the Camden organisation was censored by the tube-friendlies."
Incredible!
RIP
fkn brilliant
🎉 this shit saved my life
any ideas who was the "jew on a motorbike"?
@@diveinnjim Steve McQueen
It's that good it brings a tear to one's eye😢.. Gone forever but never forgotten Mark the master of music art. 👌
Just absolute ART
Just absolute FART
This is the best thing in the damn WORLD.
Karl Burns and Paul Hanley, best drum duo ever
Agreed.
And God on bass.
You can't get it right and you can't get it wrong: you either get it or you don't. Clearly the fall got it.
Monster drum section
It can so easily go bad, the Glitter Band, early Adam and the Ants, late KIng Crimson, three bloody drummers.
I saw them 3 years before in mcr and they were totally didfeeern but two drummers and transistor radio. This is brilliant, too.
"..When it comes, will it come without warning
Just when I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my toes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
Oh tell me the truth about love."
Simply amazing. Fall at their best.
I wonder if any member of that audience actually realised the brilliance of what they were hearing. ‘The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose’ Godspeed Mark.
I was there and realised!
@@dominicchaplin7686 Wow you were there!!!??? I so wish I'd been at that gig. I was at some late 1970s gigs i think at The Squat and possibly Band on the Wall. Can you tell any memories of the gig?
The Fall are my favourite band & have been since John Peel introduced them to my ears in the 70's & "Garden" is one of The Fall tracks I return to more & more, this & "New Face In Hell".........I can't get started because I'll be recalling songs into the early hours.
A bloody classic, no two ways about it, the twin drummers, three guitarists & smith's unique voice;
GARDEN
The first god had in his garden
From the back looked like a household pet
When it twirled round was revealed to be
A three-legged black-grey hog
See what flows from his mushy pen
Garden
Garden
That person is films on TV five years back at least
He's the young generation dancing troupe
Try'na perform Country And Western
Do a dance here
Never since birth not eaten in a day
Never since courtship stayed up some nights
He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book
He was contrite like that
See what flows from his slushy pen
Garden
Garden
Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption
Crooked traitor past revealed at last
Godzone
Godzone (Jacob's Ladder)
Godzone
Godzone
... can be erased. This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears. When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from a book. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Varney [1]
The same thing [?] could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [?]. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last.
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
The best firms advertise the least
The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
He's on the second floor
Up the brown baize lift shaft
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
He's here
I saw him
I swear
Up the brown baize lift shaft
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
(He does improvise on-stage)
@@TonyMoult if only Joyce could've played bongos.
My favourite Song by the Fall. Pity though no word from Mr Reg Varney . R.I.P M.E.S
man this is some peak. genius.
i so envy that red haired lad at the front of the stage! Must be in his sixties now like me. Wonder if he ever watches this now and thinks by heck that was a brilliant night!!!! if you read this please respond!
22 yo american girl looking to understand the mastery and divinity of The Fall and Mark. I have a great teacher. ❤️
Brix Smith is a great role model! Have you checked out the first album Live at the Witch Trials? , Grotesque and Slates? The track English Scheme is full of cutting Manchester humour.@@toyetix
It’s clucking unique & it’s definitely talent. It’s absolutely hypnotic, too. Creative, clever, never quite losing it, but like a drunken high wire act, you feel sure it’s going down, then it just continues.
Genius and malevolence rolled into one.
best FALL song ever, hanley brothers !
Tunes like this almost make me believe that there is a God.
Steve Titley there is, and he's called Mark E Smith
The great God Pan?
This is amazing and beautiful
I would wish I could write down what this means to me, and should mean to every soul
Wild Bill Hick shaves & charts at last.
Genius
It actually is! :)
Gorgeous thanks
proper gigg that...
God bless this man’s spirit 🖤MES
Utterly compelling
beautiful
"Stop those lights flashing before I break your fucking neck". Harsh!
RIP Mark E. Smith
this goes like a musical safari! introspective indigo
In fucking credible. Last 2 minutes are epic
Master of his craft.
First Fall song I ever heard,on a Peel session and it was love at first hearing.Whoever said Steve Hanley not quite on form here was dead right.
I love youtube for this
so great x
wow.
Happy as Hell on His Home turf …
this video is ecstasy
At the zenith of their powers.
Why the hell did I get so fucking out of it before every gig I ever attended for I know I've missed much!! ✌️
FOREVERxx
agreed
shame they didn't get audio off the mixing board...
Simple cloche-bells rang out angular to the credence of rangers - and that's the best I can do to find my bank-o-mack jive for ME-S. Longing living and chime to the pallets. Ha-hey...
Pre-E.T. days. Mark gone home.
Ahh, the fabtastic daze of J. Totalle.
Thanks for posting this. I'm looking for Squid Lord from the Munich concert 1989. Anyone know where I can get it?
A Jew on a Motorbike - a fave 70s skoolboy joke. You wanna hear it lads, it's ultra un-PC hill hairious believe.
can't find it
Let's hear it! I'm dying to know!
OK?
Is it the one about the Black Jewish boy who comes home from school and asks his Dad if he is more Black or more Jewish ?
Craig Stratford tell the rest
So this is where At the Drive-in came from
Steve Hanley thunderstick monster
Shit day at work ? Put this on.
seance
The first god had in his garden
From the back looked like a household pet
When it twirled round was revealed to be
A three-legged black-grey hog
See what flows from his mushy pen
Garden
Garden
That person is films on TV five years back at least
He's the young generation dancing troupe
Try'na perform Country And Western
Do a dance here
Never since birth not eaten in a day
Never since courtship stayed up some nights
He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book
He was contrite like that
See what flows from his slushy pen
Garden
Garden
Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption
Crooked traitor past revealed at last
Godzone
Godzone (Jacob's Ladder)
Godzone
Godzone
this entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every window sill in close proximity to my ears. When friends ring and are inconvenient to readers, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Barnes
The same thing could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last.
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
The best firms advertise the least
The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
He's on the second floor
Up the brown baize lift shaft
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
He's here
I saw him
I swear
Up the brown baize lift shaft
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
(I always thought it was "chew on a motorbike", which I prefer to the actual lyric)
it's not "contrite like that" but "contrived like that"
@@porterhall27 i.e. "fake edgy"
You prefer chew to Jew?
He's singing about seeing Jesus and that would ruin it.
@@fuckamericanidiot out of context, chew on a motorbike is a better image than jew on a motorbike
John Peel Sessions.
Probably my favourite but it has been hijacked by intellectual middle class half wits who read the guardian.I do not even understand what they write and shake my head most of the time.The annotated fall is bollocks.
Road to Rafah
he hates us :)
K Burns misbehaving - again!
she's so small ?
at last he's here. a jew ina motorbike
Given the context of other lyrics in this song, and the title, I think "a Jew on a motorbike" is some oblique reference to a scruffy Jesus but who knows.
Question answered below by some amateur British historians.
@@gg_rider I saw him I swear! - the ever-evasive "omni-present Lord". whole song is a critique of the illogicality of religion imo
@@gg_riderI figure the same - always sounded to me like it's about the second coming, except this time, Jeezus is rippin' around earth on a crotch rocket, reaping souls, and he's pissed. Just conjures an apocalyptically frightening yet inherently hilarious mental image... I'd like to think that's what Mark was going for 🍻
Is this song about Jesus?
Who knows?
Such talent wasted. He looked like he was wasting away and his drinking just brought down more and more. but they say "That is the way he wanted to go" stubborn, talented and well loved! however if "You liked Mark E. Smith you probably never met him before"
How do you explain 31 studio LP's, countless singles and 1000's of gigs as being talent wasted?
Talent wasted? Go play your Robbie Williams nonce
We get compared to The Fall all the time. Check out our song City Friends!
Boring!
You probably think the sky is boring too.
You must be bored with life.
Just like yir maw
idiot!!!
As below