Still coming back to this class act in 2024. Miss the Fall. Always the same, always different, and always there. Except now. Assumed they would always be around in some form. Rip MES.
Rest in eternal Power Al my Pal. Mark recognised your individuality and let it be seen on this night. I hope you are both partying in the after life. You both Rock! RIEP Mark E Smith and Al G AKA Mad Al!
The Fall were a notoriously mixed bag Live but on nights like this when they are all plugged in to the same current you can feel the surge and the static. So lucky to have caught more of these nights than the disappointing ones.
Simon Wolsencroft used to set up a fake bass drum mike on Mark Smith's side of the drum kit, and the actual microphone was hidden inside the bass drum, well away from Smith's drunken tinkering. Smart move considering! Steve Hanley had a more direct approach....the first time Mark Smith fucked with his amp during the gig, Hanley threatened to rip Smith's lungs out if he ever touched it again. And he never did!
That drunken crap only ever happened later on in The Fall. I saw them hundreds of times in the 70's, 80's and early 90's, and he never did that rubbish. In fact, the last time I saw them live was on the Glasgow Renfrew Ferry, and it was the first time I'd seen them in years, and Smith was wasted, walking off stage for ages, and coming back on and fucking about with everyone's amps, totally destroying the sound. He just looked and sounded like a drunken buffoon. That's was the last time I saw them live, and it was embarrassing.
Doing the half time scores at main road. Taking the piss in the Salford boozers. Blowing smiths and new order away. Miles ahead. On form best band in the🎶world
It pays to talk to no one just one line from the brilliant post punk poet Mark E Smith truly fantastic always was and will always be missed RIP hope your having a Pint and a cigarette see you on the other side one day
Great band must have been a nightmare being in the band wondering when you were getting dropped with all changes in the line up RIP Mark E Smith I was a fan from day one and will be till I shuffle off this mortal coil...We are The Fall ahip, now Pay your Rates
"Grotesque..." is the L.P I recommend to anyone who asks: "where should I start?" with The Fall...I love the way it starts with what is ostensibly a "straight-up" "punk" song and then goes: "WA-HEY!", does an 180 degree turn and becomes, dare I say it, wonderfully melodic but still off-kilter enough to not alienate the "avant-garde" aspect of the band. And there is not ONE duff tune on it, it's just banger after banger: New Face In Hell, English Scheme, Container Drivers, Impression of J. Temperance, The N.W.R.A...in fact I think it's as "poppy" as the reductionists/pigeon-holers say about the Brix-era stuff (which I don't really accept, tbh--she wrote some great songs and made the band a bit more visually "stylish" and played some smashing guitar but that's it, and I'm not trying to denigrate her contributions AT ALL because SHE RULES!). "I Am Kurious Oranj" could easily be pre-Brix records, same as a lot of the Cog Sinister EP's like The Dredger or Plan For Escape Route.
@@epiphanyx3705 Amen. Up until his death it was only really Nick Cave who'd SUSTAINED an artistically viable career coming out of punk. Not sure if Cave released an album a year but in terms of sheer output and LONGEVITY I'd put him second behind the Great M.E.S. Not many bands can sustain a career for that long, AND make some of their best work in the final decade-and-a-half of it's existence, AND keep touring...it's remarkable, really. What was there, one, possibly two years when The Fall didn't release an L.P?! Other than that it was a new record every year, accompanying tour, then do it all over again. Not content to entertain the "look-back bores" he (and the band, of course) were doing gigs of brand new material, in many cases material that hadn't seen an official release, but we lapped it up! How many other bands could get away with doing that?! Nope, they're just content to play the hits and the crowd pleasers over and over again like fucking automatons. For good or ill The Fall always came with FRESH material on tour with one or two "crowd pleasers" (Mr. Pharmacist, Big New Prinz and latterly Blindness)...nah, we'll never see their like again. Even Nick Cave doesn't make an album a year. And in spite of all that, he STILL was not appreciated!
Hilarious! Yes, he does! I figured he turned down the volume, but it was too quick - you were right - and (Pritchard?) takes it calmly, turns it back on. Mark just didn't know how to talk to people onstage - he talked to the amps and mikes more - jesus I have Never seen anyone fk with his mikestand so much! OCD...
Been on a Fall tear recently, bought a bunch of EP's, prromos, I bought this single and my two "Grails": Fall Heads Roll and the baby blue The Real New Fall LP on vinyl. Not to mention the excellent Cherry Red reissues (Hex sounds amazing across four sides of vinyl), Dragnet, Room To Live, about 30 LP's, EP's and singles. I ggggot the great I Am Kurious Oranj Beggars reissue on orange vinyl and the New Big Prinz promo 12". I was talkig to this lucky sonuvabitch who bought the UK pressing of The Real New Fall L.P for $17:99 from a bargain bin--AND he owns the original artwork to the "Grotesque"! Worth every penny, one of the best lyricists of all time fronting one of the most orginal bands of all time. M.E.S is dead, long live M.E.S!
@@thomasroberthillmclean4638 Fall Heads Roll and The Real New Fall L.P weren't exactly cheap! Since the last comment I managed to score a U.K pressing of "The Real New Fall L.P"--and guess what?! The fucking thing was SIGNED by M.E.S!!! And the seller didn't realise 'cause he sent it out with the inner sleeve behind the cover (I store all my L.P's that way now), here's the pictures on the Fall sub: www.reddit.com/r/thefall/comments/jjst8d/the_real_new_fall_lpaction_records_uk_pressing/ The seller is a huge fan too and met M.E.S a lot because he played his Scottish home city many times and he'd get at least a couple of things signed at every gig. He must have so much signed stuff he literally forgot! I also got the new Cherry Red Imperial Wax Solvent double (I also have the previous Cherry Red RSD edition on translucent yellow vinyl that came out in 2018, I think? ) but this new copy is on 180gm "bonkers" translucent green spattered vinyl--the other disc is an unused version of the LP with a couple of extra songs, a bargain for 25 quid and £4:50 postage and a brilliant slab of post-2000 Fall music. Do you know Demon are re-issuing The Infotainment Scan, Middle Class Revolt and 24 Points on 140gm clear vinyl early next year? They've put out The Post-Nearly Man and a "bonkers spatter" RSD version of Cerebral Caustic, the latter of which was part of the first RSD drop this year along with a beautiful 180gm merged orange and yellow vinyl double of [Austerbaejarbio] Iceland, 1983, dunno if you've heard the CD version of that, it's been out a few years in that format I think? It's mostly stuff from Perverted By Language, with an incredible version of Eat Y'Self Fitter. Sorry for the blogpost! Keep rockin' records! :) EDIT: However much they cost, it's WELL, WELL worth it to me, they're my pride and joy and I coveted those records since I started collecting again, I've got one module of my record shelves that's all Fall stuff. AND my local record shop has a seperate Fall section (there's LOADS of Fall fans taking into consideration the smallish size of my town), I've had some great stuff from there--Big New Prinz 12" promo, a sealed copy of Sub-Lingual Tablet (which seems to have shot up in value recently according to Discogs but more importantly is a smashing LP), couple of LP's and a good few E.P's. He had a first pressing of Hex for 30 quid last time I was in; if it's still there when I've got the money I might get it. But I'd really like the German Line Records re-press from 1986; they reissued a bunch of Fall stuff in that year on white vinyl. I have a lovely, near mint copy of Perverted By Language from them which plays beautifully. Discogs have got several copies of it (Hex, I mean) but only one that's NM/NM and it's not cheap. Not "Real New Fall L.P" money, I think it's around fifty pounds.
@@thomasroberthillmclean4638 Btw, I didn't buy 'em all at once, I started (re) collecting about three months before the first UK lockdown. I bought all those Stereolab 3-disc remasters first, got them all on the limited (1000) clear vinyl apart from Dots And Loops which I got on regular black vinyl, then I saw Cherry Red were doing these "Fall Sound Archive" remastered reissues --the black and white spattered "Dragnet" vinyl is lovely to look at, even better to listen to, and as for Hex, Andy Pearce, the engineer (is it an engineer who remasters records? Hhmmm, I need to know the answer to this one!) on all the releases has done a fantastic job on 'em all, but the stuff he's pulled out of Hex is incredible, there's stuff I haven't heard before on there.
@@steve-bk1qd Ouch! Didja get a good price for it? And was it the first, limited edition run? The prices for even relatively recent stuff, like a first pressing of The Infotainment Scan, are insane--thank god Demon are re-issuing it in the New Year (it was supposed to be released Jan 8th now it's been put back to early March--and the first release date my go-to E-Bay record vendor got was early October of this year but they kept being pushed back and back due to "licensing issues"...doesn't bode well, they're (Demon Records, I mean) are putting out Middle Class Revolt and Twenty-Four Points all on 140gm clear vinyl...still, they did a good job with the first RSD drop Cerebral Caustic reissue/remaster. Heck, even Sub-Lingual Tablet is climbing steadily upwards to the fifty quid mark for a NM copy and I bought a sealed copy from my local record store for £15! This was a couple of weeks before RSD drop #1....oh and if you're interested Demon HAVE released M.E.S's first solo LP, The Post Nearly Man, in the same clear 140gm format. Only heard a couple tracks off it but I actually don't mind spoken word stuff at all so I might take the plunge. I remember "The Horror In Clay"--that's off P-N.M, right? Or is it from Panda, Pander, Panzer? I can't fucking remember...just bought a dreaded Ozit LP of a 2013 live show in Clitheroe...I can't believe they've "resurrected" John Peel's Dandelion label, same label art, too, cheeky bastards, is NOTHING sacred to them?! They deserve to be consigned to Record Label Hell for their crimes against Beefheart alone!
Remember The Falls song ' No Bulbs' ? well i recently created a video to go with that song, its in my recent uploads on my channel, or simply just type in The Fall No Bulbs and look for my username on the first page.
Free Range is obviously the best The Fall track ever, and only a fool would say otherwise. This is NOT the best version of Free Range by a long shot, but it IS the most solid demonstration of the M.E.S. method at 2m48 - "your instrument doesn't work anymore, find a way back"
@@68majortom I think it's certainly about that but the references to 2001 and Thus Spoke Zarathustra make me think it has multiple subtexts...unfortunately I can't access The annotated Fall site atm; is it down for you, too?! Doing my bloody 'ead in
@@68majortom Excuse my stupidity, I didn't realise it came out in 1992, I actually forgot I have the 12"! But not Code:Selfish. Yet! Someone should reissue that LP, until then I'll have to hold my breath before I go and check Discogs!
Oh man, there's a fall shaped hole in my life. The band I've seen more than any other, averaged once every 2 years or so from 86 to 2002. I've seen fights on stage, MES barely able to shamble up to the mic, canceled gigs - all those moments will be lost in time, like water in the shitty beer sold at the bar.
YES!!--He was a neighbour but my first proper bird in Brixton took me to a Fall gig on a wet Monday night in shitty Croydon. My second bird reminded me about the fall yrs later after prison in US. 20 yrs later, I returned three Xmass's on the Trot and he and tet missus happened to be in The George every time to help get my tail from under my legs, fill me with booze and a tenner each time, fix my black eyes and were consistant all three times in their advice for me to return to Mcr, and fight the assumed and unquestioned enemy from my own turf, working class turf of invention and under-employment. They've closed my radio show, closed my elected Press n Media Officer position in Mcr's 'Unite community Branch'. and follow me around to display my Crown Jewels on prime time tv. A very influential spirit lives and thrives with the inclusion of a skinny kid/man sacked from Salford Docks, whose 'Dock Gate 6' was where I had my first confrontation with two coppers in a white Jag Mk 2. Have seen the Fall 4-5 times and spent 3 Xmas evenings with him and his Xtremely patient X wife. There's no 'magic' in my report here, and I've yet to find a day without finding something new in the endless results of much HARD (but surely enjoyed) WORK--full time in claustraphobic ???? studio's. I'm going to spend my afternoon looking for a cheap guitar and amp with the £125 quid left out of my Gov't pocket money. My Mum, like many of the psychiatric nursing community left over from Prestwich--the biggest hospital of its 'type' in Europe didn't 'like' him, and gossiped in the pubs,---IT PAYS TO TALK TO KNOW ONE!!! Thankyou ever so much Marki---a bit of support for unemployed working class fighters for socialism goes a long way, and you don't seem to have 'gone' anywhere M8! Pity we can't have another drink/s in the George though--it went before you! PS--If I can't get through, I'll use the phone--lol---Chris.
entice the mothers into view yes boy wailing we don’t have the brochure yet but this one sings as it mows the lawn this one entice the mommies to take a look when the brochure gets here it will have the order form inside
This is what you get when you have Fall fans in the band. It's like a bad tribute band. They rocked this up way too much. I wonder what the current lineup would do to it.
You ave to remember that mark was very picky and subject to his own colouration,like lots of genius creatives ,he was a pain in the arse. Some folk i ve talked to intimated that being too clean with the intruments was nt too good sometimes. There was lots of musicians who played with mark et al ,over the many years. i think mark wanted the fall to be a constantly moving social/cultural industrial estate ,imho a sort of revealing the pre modern and present post industrial spiritual and cultural desert.....where we are more and more screaming...'Mr. Pharmacist'.
Mighty Magnificent Mark E. Smith*
april 2024 and still listening to THE Fall -- rip Mark 👏🏽
Hell yeah, bro 👊
👍😊
I miss him. There is an MES shaped hole in this world now.
I learned of them in 1989, when I was a kid. They only got better (48 now). This will happen again, but it will probably be different, maybe.
Nobody will fill that gap. There was only one Mark E Smith.
As we can see, there was often a MES shaped hole, when he was still there
For real, man. I still spin Fall vinyl after 15 odd years and often wonder wtf mark would say about the state of the world today? He was a singularity
Nasa will spend a trillion dollars investigating it.
Best band in the world! EVER!
No exagerration
@@gavaniacono No exaggeration indeed
I second this notion
Without doubt. Last saw The Fall at Keele Uni 2010. MES.RIP
One great riff after another. This is a killer. Endlessly great to hear anything by The Fall.
I always buy free range eggs because of this song.
That's how The Fall roll fella. They become an integral part of your life...❤
Thanks, that's hilarious
Still coming back to this class act in 2024. Miss the Fall. Always the same, always different, and always there. Except now. Assumed they would always be around in some form. Rip MES.
Pleased to say I was at this gig. Mental night.
I am feeling very jealous ! I know that’s selfish of me ….
Privileged to have seen these 4 times. Always different, Always the same. Awesome!!
Rest in eternal Power Al my Pal. Mark recognised your individuality and let it be seen on this night. I hope you are both partying in the after life. You both Rock! RIEP Mark E Smith and Al G AKA Mad Al!
Last saw The Fall at Keele University 2010. Most underrated band ever. First saw them Hacienda about 1984. Totally Wired MES.RIP..Genius
You lucky bloke. It sucked being a Fall fan in the States. Cheers from AZ 🍺
Rest in peace, hope there's a good pub or offie up there Mark. Goodbye
There's a Cellar 5 up there.
Richard Vine proper bloke 😓rip....
Has to be the best intro to any song I've ever heard from any genre of music
The Fall were a notoriously mixed bag Live but on nights like this when they are all plugged in to the same current you can feel the surge and the static. So lucky to have caught more of these nights than the disappointing ones.
Atmosphere set , anticipation built , crowd into it ... and Mark deliberately fucks it all up at 2:47 !!
🎶🍺🚬🥴🍻🎶dedication💞not medication💀
You just described Mark's whole philosophy to music hahaha still, you gotta love 'em
Best Fall track in my opinion
You were one of a kind MES! Fucking awesome! RIP mate. Fall fan since 1979
Same, I'm running out of🎵windaaah✌🏻🥴💛
HEARD IN BELGIUM IN 2023
This takes some beating proper vibes going on here they know I tell ya✌️
Not my fave version of the Fall, but definitely the tightest. They brought a new dimension to the Fall sound.
R.I.P
"It pays to talk to know one" ✌
Neil Walker ...No one!
@@berthancock5633 ...uh...
@@aidannzchch476 Proliferating across the earth. Pressure guilt. Grudge match.
Another great line of he's.👍
Super line of he's.
Wonderful. We definitely need more Falls. RIP Mark E. Smith. Unique and sorely missed.
We Are The FALL from The LONG LONG DAYS R.I.P. Mr FALL MARK.E.SMITH.
How dangerous would it have been to break into a guitar solo when Mark was singing?
"Don't start improvising for Christ's sake!"
i mean serious. he'd beat the shit out of them.
He used to fine his drummers for doing fills ha!
Not Mark's style that you've utterly missed the point tbh.
@@Rosco1973 who are you responding to, not sure what your saying.
Simon Wolsencroft used to set up a fake bass drum mike on Mark Smith's side of the drum kit, and the actual microphone was hidden inside the bass drum, well away from Smith's drunken tinkering. Smart move considering!
Steve Hanley had a more direct approach....the first time Mark Smith fucked with his amp during the gig, Hanley threatened to rip Smith's lungs out if he ever touched it again. And he never did!
Whilst there was no such thing as a typical Fall gig. This really captures the energy, and anticipation of his presence
A superb band,no doubt!!!RIP Mark!!!
Live and explosive with a dash of Von Sudefed … fucking genius …
Can picture Mark backstage digging the plectrum slides
2:47 CALMLY unplugs guitar. Would have been unusual for him not to do so............ RIP.
That drunken crap only ever happened later on in The Fall. I saw them hundreds of times in the 70's, 80's and early 90's, and he never did that rubbish.
In fact, the last time I saw them live was on the Glasgow Renfrew Ferry, and it was the first time I'd seen them in years, and Smith was wasted, walking off stage for ages, and coming back on and fucking about with everyone's amps, totally destroying the sound.
He just looked and sounded like a drunken buffoon.
That's was the last time I saw them live, and it was embarrassing.
@@terrypussypower why were you embarrassed? I'm sure Mark didn't give 2 fuks ))
@@hectorhazard904 You’re right! He didn’t give 2 fuqs! That was the problem.
I figured he'd turn down the volume...ho ho, nope.
Doing the half time scores at main road. Taking the piss in the Salford boozers. Blowing smiths and new order away. Miles ahead. On form best band in the🎶world
fantastic ... RIP MES 😞
At some point he's going turn up. Good on you for keeping it going.FREE RANGE.
I recall him doin this in York. And then goin off & singing from backstage. LEGEND!!!
It pays to talk to no one just one line from the brilliant post punk poet Mark E Smith truly fantastic always was and will always be missed RIP hope your having a Pint and a cigarette see you on the other side one day
Thank you
Todo habla ahí!🖤
Wish I had been there!
Great band must have been a nightmare being in the band wondering when you were getting dropped with all changes in the line up RIP Mark E Smith I was a fan from day one and will be till I shuffle off this mortal coil...We are The Fall ahip, now Pay your Rates
"Grotesque..." is the L.P I recommend to anyone who asks: "where should I start?" with The Fall...I love the way it starts with what is ostensibly a "straight-up" "punk" song and then goes: "WA-HEY!", does an 180 degree turn and becomes, dare I say it, wonderfully melodic but still off-kilter enough to not alienate the "avant-garde" aspect of the band. And there is not ONE duff tune on it, it's just banger after banger: New Face In Hell, English Scheme, Container Drivers, Impression of J. Temperance, The N.W.R.A...in fact I think it's as "poppy" as the reductionists/pigeon-holers say about the Brix-era stuff (which I don't really accept, tbh--she wrote some great songs and made the band a bit more visually "stylish" and played some smashing guitar but that's it, and I'm not trying to denigrate her contributions AT ALL because SHE RULES!). "I Am Kurious Oranj" could easily be pre-Brix records, same as a lot of the Cog Sinister EP's like The Dredger or Plan For Escape Route.
@@epiphanyx3705 Amen. Up until his death it was only really Nick Cave who'd SUSTAINED an artistically viable career coming out of punk. Not sure if Cave released an album a year but in terms of sheer output and LONGEVITY I'd put him second behind the Great M.E.S. Not many bands can sustain a career for that long, AND make some of their best work in the final decade-and-a-half of it's existence, AND keep touring...it's remarkable, really. What was there, one, possibly two years when The Fall didn't release an L.P?! Other than that it was a new record every year, accompanying tour, then do it all over again. Not content to entertain the "look-back bores" he (and the band, of course) were doing gigs of brand new material, in many cases material that hadn't seen an official release, but we lapped it up! How many other bands could get away with doing that?! Nope, they're just content to play the hits and the crowd pleasers over and over again like fucking automatons. For good or ill The Fall always came with FRESH material on tour with one or two "crowd pleasers" (Mr. Pharmacist, Big New Prinz and latterly Blindness)...nah, we'll never see their like again. Even Nick Cave doesn't make an album a year. And in spite of all that, he STILL was not appreciated!
I too will be a fan til the end.First time I heard them(Peel session,1980 ish)it was instant love.
This song is just so relevant today 2022
Did Mark pull the guitarists cord when he came out on stage?
I would too…extra slide he adds to main riff sounds dumb.
Yes, there's a video of the antics
Yes.
Hilarious! Yes, he does! I figured he turned down the volume, but it was too quick - you were right - and (Pritchard?) takes it calmly, turns it back on. Mark just didn't know how to talk to people onstage - he talked to the amps and mikes more - jesus I have Never seen anyone fk with his mikestand so much! OCD...
Been on a Fall tear recently, bought a bunch of EP's, prromos, I bought this single and my two "Grails": Fall Heads Roll and the baby blue The Real New Fall LP on vinyl. Not to mention the excellent Cherry Red reissues (Hex sounds amazing across four sides of vinyl), Dragnet, Room To Live, about 30 LP's, EP's and singles. I ggggot the great I Am Kurious Oranj Beggars reissue on orange vinyl and the New Big Prinz promo 12". I was talkig to this lucky sonuvabitch who bought the UK pressing of The Real New Fall L.P for $17:99 from a bargain bin--AND he owns the original artwork to the "Grotesque"!
Worth every penny, one of the best lyricists of all time fronting one of the
most orginal bands of all time. M.E.S is dead, long live M.E.S!
That must've cost you a fortune? ✌️
@@thomasroberthillmclean4638 Fall Heads Roll and The Real New Fall L.P weren't exactly cheap! Since the last comment I managed to score a U.K pressing of "The Real New Fall L.P"--and guess what?! The fucking thing was SIGNED by M.E.S!!! And the seller didn't realise 'cause he sent it out with the inner sleeve behind the cover (I store all my L.P's that way now), here's the pictures on the Fall sub: www.reddit.com/r/thefall/comments/jjst8d/the_real_new_fall_lpaction_records_uk_pressing/
The seller is a huge fan too and met M.E.S a lot because he played his Scottish home city many times and he'd get at least a couple of things signed at every gig. He must have so much signed stuff he literally forgot!
I also got the new Cherry Red Imperial Wax Solvent double (I also have the previous Cherry Red RSD edition on translucent yellow vinyl that came out in 2018, I think? ) but this new copy is on 180gm "bonkers" translucent green spattered vinyl--the other disc is an unused version of the LP with a couple of extra songs, a bargain for 25 quid and £4:50 postage and a brilliant slab of post-2000 Fall music.
Do you know Demon are re-issuing The Infotainment Scan, Middle Class Revolt and 24 Points on 140gm clear vinyl early next year? They've put out The Post-Nearly Man and a "bonkers spatter" RSD version of Cerebral Caustic, the latter of which was part of the first RSD drop this year along with a beautiful 180gm merged orange and yellow vinyl double of [Austerbaejarbio] Iceland, 1983, dunno if you've heard the CD version of that, it's been out a few years in that format I think? It's mostly stuff from Perverted By Language, with an incredible version of Eat Y'Self Fitter. Sorry for the blogpost! Keep rockin' records! :)
EDIT: However much they cost, it's WELL, WELL worth it to me, they're my pride and joy and I coveted those records since I started collecting again, I've got one module of my record shelves that's all Fall stuff. AND my local record shop has a seperate Fall section (there's LOADS of Fall fans taking into consideration the smallish size of my town), I've had some great stuff from there--Big New Prinz 12" promo, a sealed copy of Sub-Lingual Tablet (which seems to have shot up in value recently according to Discogs but more importantly is a smashing LP), couple of LP's and a good few E.P's. He had a first pressing of Hex for 30 quid last time I was in; if it's still there when I've got the money I might get it. But I'd really like the German Line Records re-press from 1986; they reissued a bunch of Fall stuff in that year on white vinyl. I have a lovely, near mint copy of Perverted By Language from them which plays beautifully. Discogs have got several copies of it (Hex, I mean) but only one that's NM/NM and it's not cheap. Not "Real New Fall L.P" money, I think it's around fifty pounds.
@@thomasroberthillmclean4638 Btw, I didn't buy 'em all at once, I started (re) collecting about three months before the first UK lockdown. I bought all those Stereolab 3-disc remasters first, got them all on the limited (1000) clear vinyl apart from Dots And Loops which I got on regular black vinyl, then I saw Cherry Red were doing these "Fall Sound Archive" remastered reissues --the black and white spattered "Dragnet" vinyl is lovely to look at, even better to listen to, and as for Hex, Andy Pearce, the engineer (is it an engineer who remasters records? Hhmmm, I need to know the answer to this one!) on all the releases has done a fantastic job on 'em all, but the stuff he's pulled out of Hex is incredible, there's stuff I haven't heard before on there.
I just sold the Live in London Chaos tape....yes the actual cassette....hard times... :(
@@steve-bk1qd Ouch! Didja get a good price for it? And was it the first, limited edition run? The prices for even relatively recent stuff, like a first pressing of The Infotainment Scan, are insane--thank god Demon are re-issuing it in the New Year (it was supposed to be released Jan 8th now it's been put back to early March--and the first release date my go-to E-Bay record vendor got was early October of this year but they kept being pushed back and back due to "licensing issues"...doesn't bode well, they're (Demon Records, I mean) are putting out Middle Class Revolt and Twenty-Four Points all on 140gm clear vinyl...still, they did a good job with the first RSD drop Cerebral Caustic reissue/remaster.
Heck, even Sub-Lingual Tablet is climbing steadily upwards to the fifty quid mark for a NM copy and I bought a sealed copy from my local record store for £15! This was a couple of weeks before RSD drop #1....oh and if you're interested Demon HAVE released M.E.S's first solo LP, The Post Nearly Man, in the same clear 140gm format. Only heard a couple tracks off it but I actually don't mind spoken word stuff at all so I might take the plunge. I remember "The Horror In Clay"--that's off P-N.M, right? Or is it from Panda, Pander, Panzer? I can't fucking remember...just bought a dreaded Ozit LP of a 2013 live show in Clitheroe...I can't believe they've "resurrected" John Peel's Dandelion label, same label art, too, cheeky bastards, is NOTHING sacred to them?! They deserve to be consigned to Record Label Hell for their crimes against Beefheart alone!
THERE'S A GHOST IN MY HOUSE HAVING A PINT OR 5 AND CIGS AND A LAUGH WITH ME ITS MARK.E.SMITH OF COURSE a hip
Tight fantastic
Love how me makes everyone wait. And as well they should!
I originally thought he said, Free Rent.
This is the winter of your mind.
This is the winter of your malcontent.......yep 2020
How fucking magnificent is this....
my fave mark e smith quote is:
"hold on i gotta do
my pisswankspliff brakes "
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Ah-Free Range-ah...
... mercy, indeed. Blind man, of course. The flag? God help us.Mercy? Grace? Yes.
It pays to talk to no one
Remember The Falls song ' No Bulbs' ? well i recently created a video to go with that song, its in my recent uploads on my channel, or simply just type in The Fall No Bulbs and look for my username on the first page.
great tune!
Free Range is obviously the best The Fall track ever, and only a fool would say otherwise. This is NOT the best version of Free Range by a long shot, but it IS the most solid demonstration of the M.E.S. method at 2m48 - "your instrument doesn't work anymore, find a way back"
I dunno why, but I always thought this song was about, or obliquely referencing, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
You probably know by now but It's about the Civil War in Yugoslavia ✌️
@@68majortom I think it's certainly about that but the references to 2001 and Thus Spoke Zarathustra make me think it has multiple subtexts...unfortunately I can't access The annotated Fall site atm; is it down for you, too?! Doing my bloody 'ead in
@@68majortom ..also the wars in Yugoslavia hadn't started when this LP was being written...
@@68majortom Excuse my stupidity, I didn't realise it came out in 1992, I actually forgot I have the 12"! But not Code:Selfish. Yet! Someone should reissue that LP, until then I'll have to hold my breath before I go and check Discogs!
@@vollsticks ayyy yu wrre ona roll m8
mark is the best
The band look cool - ah, the contempt MES must have felt toward them - each and every one of them
Without Mark E Smith this is just good.The man just made everything brilliant
ROCKER
boy he keeps them waiting,,,,,,,MES. obviously smoking a suprerking out the back
And there I was, thinking he was just a touch sensitive.
More likely downing a few pints and having a piss.
I've still got the CODE:SELFISH t-shirt from that tour (early 80's I think, I'm an old man now so memory ain't too great)
Early 90’s
Oh man, there's a fall shaped hole in my life. The band I've seen more than any other, averaged once every 2 years or so from 86 to 2002. I've seen fights on stage, MES barely able to shamble up to the mic, canceled gigs - all those moments will be lost in time, like water in the shitty beer sold at the bar.
Fooking majestic
When will he appear? Will he appear at all?! XD
YES!!--He was a neighbour but my first proper bird in Brixton took me to a Fall gig on a wet Monday night in shitty Croydon. My second bird reminded me about the fall yrs later after prison in US. 20 yrs later, I returned three Xmass's on the Trot and he and tet missus happened to be in The George every time to help get my tail from under my legs, fill me with booze and a tenner each time, fix my black eyes and were consistant all three times in their advice for me to return to Mcr, and fight the assumed and unquestioned enemy from my own turf, working class turf of invention and under-employment. They've closed my radio show, closed my elected Press n Media Officer position in Mcr's 'Unite community Branch'. and follow me around to display my Crown Jewels on prime time tv. A very influential spirit lives and thrives with the inclusion of a skinny kid/man sacked from Salford Docks, whose 'Dock Gate 6' was where I had my first confrontation with two coppers in a white Jag Mk 2. Have seen the Fall 4-5 times and spent 3 Xmas evenings with him and his Xtremely patient X wife. There's no 'magic' in my report here, and I've yet to find a day without finding something new in the endless results of much HARD (but surely enjoyed) WORK--full time in claustraphobic ???? studio's. I'm going to spend my afternoon looking for a cheap guitar and amp with the £125 quid left out of my Gov't pocket money. My Mum, like many of the psychiatric nursing community left over from Prestwich--the biggest hospital of its 'type' in Europe didn't 'like' him, and gossiped in the pubs,---IT PAYS TO TALK TO KNOW ONE!!! Thankyou ever so much Marki---a bit of support for unemployed working class fighters for socialism goes a long way, and you don't seem to have 'gone' anywhere M8! Pity we can't have another drink/s in the George though--it went before you! PS--If I can't get through, I'll use the phone--lol---Chris.
At the end John Cooper Clarke?
Great Stuff! R.I.P.
Brave bass player, rocking THAT look around MES.... Who's that on keyboards? and did he turn off the guitar amp as he walked on?
👍👏😊
R.I.P .... grandioso!
Manc Rock❤
woW FKN BOW WOW WOW
I don't play the bass with a pick but must admit it sounds way damn cool ! ! !
Check the last Fall bass player, no pick up just fingers and he is superb fantastic... I won't compare them, but you'll see
T Lysergicaciddiethylamide zzz No pick up on his electric bass guitar?
You must be Steve Harris, or a man who prefers alternative lifestyles.
@@tlysergicaciddiethylamide5792 Ah yes - Dave Spurr? Great player.
Title taken from a poetry book someone sent him. Telephone Thing drum riff & lyrcs alo nicked from a musician fan's sent in mix tape.
London Dada Where did you get this information?
I think you'll find the concept of 'free range' has quite a wide usage outside of that poetry book.
If it's that simple/easy have a go Dada
As soon as Mark appears he turns down the guitar. Rightfully so
I was a big fan of The Fall from day one nuff said R.I.P Mark E Smith
Ja Gut!
A real artist
What would Mark E smith have thought about Conjob???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
majestic-uh.
I didn't see his Granny on Bongo's ???
MODERNITY what is it to you, you tube?
entice the mothers into view
yes boy
wailing
we don’t have the brochure yet but this one sings as it mows the lawn
this one entice the mommies to take a look
when the brochure gets here it will have the order form inside
super incredible
LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE R.I.P.....
Prog rock lives!!!!
Mint chuuuune.......... carl in scarborough
tight as you like
This is the summer of your malcontent
Could be talking about now, circulating across the earth, this is the winter without end. Will there be a summer of malcontent,
Words fail 🖤
☝🏻😏🤍
I can take you to visit coastal pill boxes
Blinding performance. Easily the best version of FREE RANGE
Snazzy jeans
Without EEND
Liffffeee coodddeee
This is what you get when you have Fall fans in the band. It's like a bad tribute band. They rocked this up way too much. I wonder what the current lineup would do to it.
agree, watching the guitarist, sliding the pick up the string, The Fall are raw.
xyloplax 😂. shut the fuck up
You ave to remember that mark was very picky and subject to his own colouration,like lots of genius creatives ,he was a pain in the arse. Some folk i ve talked to intimated that being too clean with the intruments was nt too good sometimes.
There was lots of musicians who played with mark et al ,over the many years.
i think mark wanted the fall to be a constantly moving social/cultural industrial estate ,imho a sort of revealing the pre modern and present post industrial spiritual and cultural desert.....where we are more and more screaming...'Mr. Pharmacist'.
Wow..
What kind of industry is that then?
Oh did not know mark e passed
Sve brojevi
WILL CREWDSONESQUE
🤷🏻what can you say x