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- - The Fall (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=299)

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Originally Posted by auto-aim

Can someone help me with the Fall? I've never been quite that sure of them. I started off with Perverted by Language which i never got into right at the time because of the terrible opening track. Later then I bought Hex enduction Hour on the whim seeing it in a record shop and knowing that a lot of people say it's their best. I love Hex Enduction Hour totally and got me back into perverted and all the really great stuff like Deer Park, Wings, Hip Priest and Smile. Then recently I bought Fall Heads Roll and I really don't like it that much at all beyond the Aspen song - it doesn't really sound like the same band (though im aware it isnt) and really simplfied down... So it's hard for me to tell if I like them - There's some stuff that I absolutely love by them and some stuff I can't stand or just annoys the fuck out of me.

Getting to the point what Fall album should I go for next? I hear the Peel Sessions is an essential I should save up for but aside from that what album should I go for?

get "458489 a sides"

Get the Peel box first though.

I probably should have looked at the page before this... but basically I'm looking for the things that are more noisy and interesting lyrically and well, not dull or annoying like Heads Roll or stuff like Victoria I've seen. Is like the earlier stuff more like that and I should hunt those down? Or like what's the cut off point when they get bad. I just don't know. I'm not normally a fan of compilations at all though.

i have never heard a bad fall album. the stuff with brix is their best if you ask me though.

Brix? who or what was brix? What albums or years would that be?

how the fuck do you people not know who brix smith is?

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

brix smith
mark's ex wife, former guitarist for the fall and the best addition to that band they could have asked for

1983-1989, 94-96

How'd you get into them then? what's you favourite album?

when i learned about post punk

my favourite is the wonderful and frightening world of the fall

I'll probably go for all of the earlier albums - nothing outside of the 80s

the fall started to turn shit when brix smith joined, however everything they did prior to her arrival and marc riley's departure is pure gold

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Originally Posted by auto-aim

nothing outside of the 80s

Except the 70's stuff, of course.

I like everything they've done, with the exception of Cerebral Caustic, Are You Are Missing Winner, and Fall Reformation TLC.

I really hope they announce a US tour soon. I absolutely have to see them before I die.

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Originally Posted by radarmaker

Except the 70's stuff, of course.

Of course. :)

I like everything that they haven't done.

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I like everything that they haven't done.

Damn, I wish I'd written that.

I've never heard a bad Fall album either.

GROTESQUE is the best.

FALL HEADS ROLL is probably their worst.

favorite band, again

I like them. That's all.