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2G+2 / Are You Are Missing Winner / Bend Sinister / Cerebral Caustic / Code: Selfish / Dragnet / Extricate / Fall Heads Roll / The Frenz Experiment / Grotesque (After The Gramme) / Hex Enduction Hour / I Am Kurious Oranj / Imperial Wax Solvent / The Infotainment Scan / Interim / Levitate / The Light User Syndrome / Live At The Witch Trials / The Marshall Suite / Middle Class Revolt / Perverted By Language / The Post Nearly Man / The Real New Fall LP (Formerly ‘Country On The Click’) / Reformation Post-TLC / Room To Live / Seminal Live / Shift-Work / Slates / This Nation’s Saving Grace / Totale’s Turns / The Twenty-Seven Points / The Unutterable / The Wonderful & Frightening World Of The Fall / Von Südenfed's Tromatic Reflexxions

i voted for "shad segment" as its fucking funny! but i also think "enigramattic dream" is brill! Not sure about some of the other voices on the album though :huh:

enigrammatic enigmatic/american poet x3 is funny

After 4 votes, Shad Segment is winning!

i a b p 1


seemed to be a good one i think....not played this in ages

I don't think many people have got this, Stephen. Perhaps they think it's just obscure doodlings.

I really, really love it and prefer it to many 1990s Fall albums.

Now that I've been convinced to buy this album I can't find it anywhere

having the same problem...

amazon seem to have it.

And they advertise it as a soundtrack!

this gets better every time I hear it

current favourite: There's a Lot in a Name. Also like Enigrammatic Dream and Dissolute Singer

This album is even better on headphones with Mark zinging across the left and right channels, bombarding your ears with contradictory information.

Borders Sale £6.99! My local Borders only had 1 copy which I snaffled super-fast but maybe if you ask the staff they'll transfer a copy over from one of their other stores.
I know we used to transfer sale stock in for customers when I worked in a High-Street record shop who I don't want to mention in a good light due to current loathing and hatred issues. :gun: :gun: :grrr: :gun: :grrr: :finger:

On Post Nearly Man I become mesmerised by the four "notes" on American Poet part 1 that goes on for ages with nothing else really happening so AP pt1 got my vote.

Yes!!!!! i love that bit too! quite hypnotyic!

Sometimes it sounds like a tap dripping.

Dissolute is one of the greatest few minutes in the last 15 years of The Fall.

I await your disgust & disagreement...

Agree totally.

OK, but I'd probably disgust you anyway, Stephen

I noticed there's some good clicks in that bit too if you listen carefully. Almost a drum beat after a while. And when Smith comes in with the louder, almost singing bit - wow! I think this might be his finest moment.
Some of PNM reminds me very much of Beefheart. Particularly the one with gaps between speaking and the word "arrogant" cut off. Sounds like the Beefheart poems of TroutMaskReplica, which I also love
You know, "Me and my girl named Bimbo... Blimbo...Spam"
The Post Nearly Man is new to me and like my experience with TroutMask I initally thought "Oh that's a load of cobbled together unlistenable rubbish" but now... wow.
Better than Panda. :applaud:

No votes for Enigrammatic Dream!

"Modernity. Moderninity, water lane 01715599 dream sat may tents and tomatoes at Blackpool where Jimmy Bloomfield has been brought back to host jousts in moderninity."

I also love the way the album comments on itself.

I'm Bobby, part 1 has references to

1. the LP title ("your post nearly half realised birdlike thoughts clogging the solo seventies or new intellectual skinhead morass")

2. Shad Segment ("a shad mock whistle")

3. The Horror In Clay ("honestly professor competing with it observing scientifically brains are in that need maths to understand chords missing slide back to bottom of ravine")

I don't like W. Burroughs, but I believe this was composed using W.B.-style cut-up techniques. The way the album seems to fold in and yet expand upon itself is its finest achievement.

Having said that, I find the bit where the woman says:

"Another crooked smile. Is music a disease? Or is it just living in these soap opera times. They all end up depressives obsessive about their deluded goal. Is this me? Is this everyone in every crap commerce? Everyone without love brought up in violence and drunkeness? Why am I depressed? Work hard endless, endless no reward, 5,000 I'm owed. Music, music I belong to music. Why are there so many shit people in music?"

slightly annoying.

Isnt that julia who speaks this part??

Is it Julia speaking? Can anyone confirm this?

In the meantime, some other interesting(?) things about this album:

1. the recurrence of chips: The Caterer’s “Chicken and chips off the bone”, Enigrammatic Dream’s “chip greasy new decadence”.

2. Mark’s third Richard Madeley reference: The CD In Your Hand joins North West Fashion Show and live versions of A Past Gone Mad in the list of songs mapping out a continuing R.M. fixation.

3. These fine lyrics: “You and your father. Their respected faces appear gigantic left and right above the city skyline. Like Hawkman or Lex Luthor”.

4. Weird, stuttering rhythms of The Caterer.

5. Use of Sleep Debt Snatches as a backing track.

its the same voice on that american poet track too. the one that goes "the world dont need another mark e smith"....etc Am pretty sure its julia but ya never know :huh:

What's that bit about, anyway? Was anyone suggesting there might/could be another Mark E. Smith?

6. The way The Caterer effortlessly fashions a new track out of an old one (Free Range).

7. The elegant way the whole album is structured: it seems to flow perfectly.

8. Helicopter noises on The Horror In Clay: intentional sound effects or happy accident?

9. The way Mark deadpans re: Irvine Welsh’s Edinburgh childhood.

10. Brave mixture of minimalism and multi-layered bits.

11. Unexpected use of Fall tapes (and in surprising places).

12. The way the album seems to make perfect sense despite/because of all the fractured narratives.

13. The way the mistakes have been left in.

14. The way the other voices blend so well with Mark’s (especially that lovely Scottish accent).

15. The way different background ambiences affect how you listen to Mark’s voice: it’s as if you can hear the room he’s in.

16. The way you can sometimes hear Mark turning the pages of his script.

17. His compelling, hypnotic voice.

18. The way he says "right-" at the end of a line in Dissolute singer - as if he's turning to say to the band "right, let's do that again, but a little more staccato on the break, ya fuckers", then realising that they're not there.

19. "I assure you, I was not stoned. My grant's run out"

20. The fact that I still can't really fathom exactly what's happening on Bobby & Poet, after all this time.

Also love the way Mark says "Hmm!" at one point.

Voted for The Horror in Clay, nice modernisation of Lovecraft.

Funny, I only really appreciated the record after playing it on shuffle, which frees you from trying to put a narritive together from the multi-part pieces. Remember - this was supposed to be a double :o
Also, I prefer PPP, a lot more colourful soundwise.

Really?? Blimey! Where did you read that??

Yes, last line about Irvine Welsh is great.

It is a very hypnotic recording and I agree that there are similarities with William Burroughs.

Over

I love that bit in "a lot in a name" where mes keeps saying" whos that creepin round my hall?...cats! caaaaattts!" very strange! mes obviousley a cat lover...or not??? :huh: who knows?

I think he's gone on record as being a cat fan, yes. Lots of 1980s interview have cats plodding around Mark 'n' Brix's house.

i love cats! :D

I also like certain dogs too.........but thats another story! :wacko:

Other great bits on this album:

• The way Mark's voice is speeded up and slowed down on Enigrammatic Dream, ending with a beautifully decelerating "Sparta".

• The fact that The CD In Your Hand is a track about holding this very CD.

• How wise he sounds: "...the sciences one day, some say it is already upon us, will eventually open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we will either go mad from the revelation or flee into blissful sleep, peace and safety of another new dark age."

I NEED to know more about this! Was it really due to be a double or is this a joke?