Now, I am aware that several Fall forum posters have done this before, but as someone trying to find a gateway into posting regularly on the forum, I think this would be effective.

I would like people to pick their three favourites from this list, wherever possible with insights explaining their reasons for choosing. All responses would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Joe.

Writing a book Joe? :rolleyes:
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Words of expectation---it teaches the importance of extending your atten--ten--ten--tion span.
New Puritan--Fall Sound isnt taking any prisoners.
Ibis hotel man--Humour.

Yeah!!!
Your first poll, Words.

:applaud:


New Puritan, Bug Day and Ladybird for me.
I'll let you know why presently, but I just need to finish reading something.

New Puritan - greatest Fall song EVER!
Neighbourhood of Infinity - ROCKS!
Ladybird - one of the first Fall songs I fell in love with...esp. on 27 Points.

They're all great, though. Difficult choice.

Neighbourhood and Vulture would be in my top ten also.

I'll go with Neighbourhood in this poll.

New Puritan (Still sounding unlike anything else, Fall or otherwise. Of course the Peel session nails it down ultimately. However I always had an extreme soft spot for the Totale's Turns original as well. For 23 years this was the only version I knew anyway.)

Words Of Expectation (Not just due to the poll's starter. ;) One of the prime long Fall songs. Onstage besides King Crimson the "if we carry on like this..." line also featured Genesis, Echo & The Bunnymen, Duran Duran, Joy Division and Wah! Heat among others.)

Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain (Steve Hanley's finest three minutes)

How can you possibly have only ten fave Fall songs?
How am i supposed to choose, since they are all top-drawer Fall?!? ;)

Anyway...

Words of Expectation, to ingratiate myself with you. :P
Neighbourhood of Infinity, 'cause it's such a sphinx of a song.
Ibis-Afro Man, for its racist undertones. :lol:

Welcome Joe! Nice list, nice username. :beer:

I'd go for:

Bug Day: Could have been any other of the 80ies tracks, but listened to Wonderful And Frightening again last week. Great album, great mixture of styles, great track.

Das Vulture: From one of the best albums of the 90ies. And what MP said.

50-Year-Old-Man: For placing this one as third track on the album. No one else would have done this and rather made 3 or 4 songs out of it. And for the amazing live versions, the most recent one from Porto.

Okay.

New Puritan - Ultimate early Fall song and MES vocal. A righteous maelstrom, one could say.
Bug Day - A pleasing quiet - and weird and trippy - interlude on a most rocking album.
Ladybird - A cracking start to a cracking album. Love the drums and guitars on this immensely.

Oh, thank God for that...we've all been waiting to go to bed!

Prrft!
:finger:

New Puritan (I'm assuming Peel Session)

Words Of Expectation (Obviously Peel Session)

Neighbourhood (either PBL or POSR) 'cos I recently found out you can dance to it! ^_^


{And I don't normally dance! :o }

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNlbabuYk8

Call that bloody dancing? PAH! <_<

Thats where I found out you could dance to it! :rolleyes: :lol:

If she started throwing my Fall records around like that, she'd be smiling on the other side of her face.

:grrr:

Absolutely! :rant: Creepshow and that American LATWT are worth silly money! :o

New Puritan, Neighbourhood Of Infinity and Abis-Afro Man...

Tis a good list, young Skywalker :beer: *

*Thats a pint for me - You're on lemonade.

New Puritan - as already mentioned. One the greatest...

Neighbourhood of Infinity - I know who stole cafe's collection box. In fact, I know the incident that line was based on... the cafe opposite Heaton Park train station...

Mollusc in Tyrol - an oft overlooked classic and the greatest ever gig intro tape...

There used to be a cafe there? There is a indian takeaway at the exit now..

New Puritan, Neighbourhood Of Infinity, 50 Year-Old Man.

Words of Expectation, Bug Day, Neighbourhood. WOE has always been a favourite always felt it was the Fall at their most repetitious. Bug Day is selected as I've been listening lots to WAFWO and it stands out in ways it didn't seem to at the time. NOI just because anything from PBL would be.

Puritan, Neighborhood, 50 year old.

Damn good choices from you WOE.

Can't really say why I've chosen them. Puritan and 50 had an immediate effect on me on first hearing them. I must have heard Neighborhood of Infinity about 50 times before it dawned on me that it was a masterpiece. I remember the penny dropping very clearly. Perverted version I'm talking of here, btw. POSR version always held a weird fascination for me.

Numbers 2, 3 and 4
From this Look Back Bore....

And This Day, for it's relentless fairground in a steelworks sound
Das Vulture - for the bass
50 Year Old Man - love the first part, and the banjo's, and the rest is good too

it's more of a music thing than a lyrics thing with these

I was listening to Kylie MInogue when I was 14. :ohdear:

I was probably about 14 when I heard Cruisers Creek on the Peel show, and I was scared shitless, so you're off to a fine start there.

Welcome, W-O-E!!

And This Day, my only complaint being it is too short ( and that includes the Hammersmith version)

We all await Words reply to us with much anticipation.
Looks at watch, looks away again, looks at watch, tuts, etc

Anyway...
I've just been playing your top ten.
That's some pretty hardcore Fall stuff you're into there.
And all good stuff.
ROCKING!
So, can you tell us how you first found this awful band from Salford?
Everyone else here met up in AA meetings.
Share.

Agree with Elvis.

I got into the Fall just over five years back (I think), so would have been going on for 21.

I was into some pretty wacky shit but even I was more drawn to stuff like "Totally Wired", "New Face In Hell", "Lost In Music" etc then some the stuff here.

You're a deadly hip 14 year old.

I thought I was the coolest cat in the world listening to Bowie, Beatles and The Velvet Underground at that age, even if the other kids thought I was a tit.
You've put an end to such nonsense.

Do not know if I should love or hate you :D

:applaud: :applaud:

Good on ya Joe! :)


My 14 year old listens to "euphoric trance" whatever that is! :( Basshunter and all that cobblers... :huh:

He's probably doing his homework, Elvis, not wasting his time with us saddo's... :lol:

He likes The Fall - so he's almost certainly not doing his homework.
An anarchist at heart.
Give him ten years or so and he'll be bitter and twisted like the rest of us.
Keep on rocking WOE.
Oh, by the way, WOE, a big welcome to our new face in hell - we accept you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

Stick around for joy, you got good taste.
Hope you can put up with the rest of us...

x

As does the Wife and she is nearly 26 :lol:

You have my sympathies, Gaz. :o

And you can have my Wife, buddy :D

Already have, mate - then I found out about her taste in music... :whistle:

You can have mine, hope you like Manilow, Carpenters et al... :lol:

Already have, to the sound of "Close To You" :P

:lol: :applaud:

:lol:

See you later RM :)

Thankyou to the members (esp. Elvis Chomsky, Buy Kurious! and Gaz) for their kind words and interesting opinions on the songs I happen to have chosen. Great to see "Neighbourhood of Infinity" flying high at the top of the list- for me, the highest of high points on an album that's full of them (Perverted By Language is my favourite Fall album, by the way).

With regards to my discovery of The Fall, it is entirely down to my parents, both of whom are major fans. As a result I had heard a small amount of Fall before I decided to start investigating the back catalogue (it was around the time Imperial Wax Solvent was released). I guess after hearing "Frightened" (which narrowly missed out on the Top 10) I was a confirmed fan. By the way I should like to point out that I know of absolutely no-one at my school, pupils or teachers, that have ever even heard of The Fall, let alone like them (including my Manchester-born English teacher) so at my school at least I am something of a one-off I am afraid (suits me perfectly fine, mind!)

P.S. Rainmaster have you made any attempt to wean your son off this so-called euphoric trance (which I happen to loathe as well) and convert him into a Fall Fan. You could always tell him that Mark E Smith invented rap, or something! javascript:emoticon(':P')

Regards,
Joe.