So, I didn't know Mogwai did a Fall cover until just recently when I found one. It does seem to be unofficial and more of a demo version or just jerking around but it's sort of fun to listen to Mogwai play a Fall song, so there you go. Download Mogwai - Bill is Dead (128 kbps, 3,34 mb) Download The Fall - Bill is Dead (192 kbps, 6,42 mb) Buy The Fall - Extricate from CDUniverse (or even better from [...]
Mark, we need to talk. It's not that I don't like you anymore. I've been in love with you for 20 years now. I loved you in the scrappy days of your youth, I love you now in your old age. Heck, I was one of the few who stood by you after you had that fling with Brix , during which she softened your sound a bit. But it feels like this relationship isn't going anywhere. Oh sure, I was happy to see you make some money off that Mitsubishi [...]
Mark, we need to talk. It's not that I don't like you anymore. I've been in love with you for 20 years now. I loved you in the scrappy days of your youth, I love you now in your old age. Heck, I was one of the few who stood by you after you had that fling with Brix , during which she softened your sound a bit. But it feels like this relationship isn't going anywhere. Oh sure, I was happy to see you make some money off that Mitsubishi [...]
Two noise merchants of a different sort - one feeds the linguistic turmoil in your brain, the other feeding the sonic turmoil in your heart. The Fall were more post-punk than new wave, but then labels weren;t what they were about and really they weren't anything else at all. Of the post-punk era, only Joy Division could really cmopete with them. The Fall were basically just themselves - or the
The Fall "Coach and Horses" - This year's Fall album Reformation Post TLC is an odd, misshapen thing, full of thick, bass-heavy compositions that mostly set into musical holding patterns in order to accommodate Mark E Smith's vocals, but never accentuate his words, much less gel into memorable songs. There's an intentional rawness to the album -- most of the second half seems to have been recorded in concert -- but that tossed-off aesthetic carries over into the majority of the songs, which come across as severely under-written and barely arranged, as though Smith [...]
When the word "prolific" is aplied to a musical artist, many unknowingly assume that the adjective is always complementary. While quality is certainly an admirable trait, it does not always necessarily equate to consistent quality. The Fall have been active for over thirty years, reaching a status of both legendary and influential thanks in part to their eighty-nine releases. Yes, this includes their twenty-six studio albums, five part studio/part live albums, twenty-four live albums, thirty-two compilation albums, and two solo albums by Smith. Does that hold enouh quantity for you? It should. For a band, they have one [...]
Something of a mixed bag this time out, as I've been busy with other things. I largely avoided listening to music while I was ill, well aware of how sickbed associations can linger. Twenty five years ago, a similar bout of the flu made it impossible to this day for me to even think of crème-filled éclairs or roasted peanuts without getting a case of the dry heaves, and any love I had for The Primitives' debut LP was permanently soured by another bug suffered through in the early 1990's. There was the Camera Obscura album [...]
One of the best birthday presents I got yesterday was the new album from arguably my favorite band of all time, The Fall. Reformation Post-TLC is their 26th album, with yet another almost-all-new lineup. This time Mark E. Smith has...
What is causing birds to die suddenly across the world? So far it doesn't look like any type of influenza. Australia baffled and Austin, Texas officials are confused as well. from worldnetdaily.com : " Thousands of birds inexplicably dropped like rocks from the sky over Australia." " So far, authorities are clueless as to the cause. Autopsies on the birds have shed no light. The main casualties, according to Australian news sources, are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland [...]
As if the promise of a Fall album early next year isn't enough to get you salivating, NME.com has got hold of the tracklist , which is as full of apparently meaningless noises and the sort of startled shouts you'd get if you woke an old man mid-afternoon-nap as you might expect: 'Over! Over!' 'Reformation' 'Fall Sound' 'White Line Fever' 'Insult Song' 'My Door Is Always Open' 'Coach And Horses' 'The Wright Stuff' 'Scenario' 'Das Bootuboat' 'Tim Song' 'Systematic Abuse' The whole thing will carry itself under the proud title of Reformation Post TLC. Of [...]
Starts off with a weird chant of 'Lay Lay Lay' which, for all you 'Space bores' is also the Planet People's chant from the Quatermass TV series. When the music comes in, it's almost Egyptian like, but then settles on a cracking train rhythm and super-tight drumming accompanied by a fabulous bass melody. There's more TV, as 'On The Buses' shows up and some children either cycle in circles or circle in cycles, depending on which version you listen to. Archaic language fans, note the use of 'eldritch' (spooky). And only MES can invest a seemingly innocuous word like 'realms' [...]
An infectious riff and very poppy 'la la's make this a highly catchy affair. On 'Wonderful' it is prefaced by a charming little story where an electric dog-like person/thing called Hitler is kicked around like homogenised milk. Could also be taken as being pronounced 'See Our E E.P' and therefore a swipe at the then current brood of arty electronic poseurs. The 'scum-egg' in question, though, could be anyone and, in one of those delightfully prescient Fall moments, one verse could have been written about Tony Blair -'From the bright sun, he came one fine morn/"Populist" - ah well in [...]
AKA 'Fiend With a Violin' which puts me in mind of Rabbie Burns' Tam O'Shanter. Scottish literature aside, the dominant bass line kicks this into action and keeps it powering along on a very satisfyingly rhythmical vocal course. I love the archaic 'He was agin the rich/He was agin the poor' lines. The Peel version has some added false pigeons on roofs while the Munich version has MES coming in at the wrong place resulting in what sounds like a hit on the mic in frustration. Meanwhile, the jolly singalong chorus of 'Hit him on the head with a 2 [...]
O.J. Simpson is a sick twisted mother fucker. The "hell bound/bent" motherfucker who lives in Florida in a nice house supplemented by his untouched Football pension, has now decided to write a book titled "If I Did It". What the fuck over? The book is "a purely hypothetical exercise in which he will describe how he would have killed Nicole and Ron". This is by far the most sick, twisted thing I have heard in the news in a long, long time. Burn in hell O.J..................... Read Chicago Sun-Times article here [...]
The truth is, I have not been feeling well for quite awhile now. Things just don't seem to get better and all my strength goes to just wake up and make it thru a day. I have been very negligent with my posts and I apologize to all of you who visit this blog. I don't want to give up this blog, I don't want to quit it and I won't. Please bear with me until I can get myself into a better place, hopefully that is in the future for me. It is something I have been striving towards [...]
Mark E Smith is about to release his autobiography , Renegade: The Gospel According To Mark E Smith, next April, followed by a series of short stories. It's no mean feat for Mark E Smith to complete his own life story - to be honest, it'd be a surprise to discover he can remember where he lives, let alone what he was doing fifteen years ago. Reformation, the new Fall album, will turn up in the first few weeks of 2007. It's curious that the NME headlines all this activity as John [...]
To mark John Peel Day--which honors the British DJ, musical omnivore, and rock hero who passed away two years ago this month--we'd like to present a few songs by The Fall. The Mark E. Smith-led outfit was a favorite of Peel's, and in the above clip, you can get a glimpse of him introducing the band on the BBC; two tracks from The Fall's endless trove of Peel Sessions are linked below. The Fall - Rebellious Jukebox (Peel Session 15.6.78) [MP3] The Fall - Hip Priest (Peel Session, 31.3.81) [MP3] [...]
Philabuster has joined SkinnySlim in the land of the very busy these past few days. So, in lieu of my usual quips, here's a fascinating excerpt ripped from the pages of today's news: "A Croatian woman was left with a severely burned anus after a lightning strike which entered through her mouth left her body through her bottom. The lightning reportedly struck Natasha Timarovic's building as she was cleaning her teeth – with her mouth to the tap, sending the current through her body...
Back when she was sitting on a giant beefburger in the interests of The Fall's I Am Kurious Oranj album, what odds would you have got on Brix Smith ever inviting the Daily Mail into her beautiful Shoreditch appartment? Now married to Philip Start (he runs some clothes shops, apparently) and rebadged as Brix Smith Start, she's delighted to show the paper around her converted garment factory home. It's a bizarre distance from The Fall days - Jamie Oliver's apparently been shot in the kitchen (sadly, only in the TV [...]
(Photo by Mark Pilkington ) This has been a weekend of live music on the telly for me, at least from last night. Some of it has been good ( Pearl Jam nailing Alive at the Reading Festival). Some of it has been curious ( Sway redefining the concept of an acoustic set; Tom Araya sporting literally a full head and face full of hair in front of Dave Lombardo's awesome drumming with Slayer ). Some of it has been downright awful (whoever thought the Kooks were a good idea in the [...]
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