Since no-one else set up the poll, here it is. Not sure which one I'm going for though :unsure:

My personal opinion is that there's no such thing. Original songs including MES's state of mind at the time is the whole point of a Fall song, surely?

Feel free to disagree.

One thing I can confirm is that, faced with the list of cover versions, none of them are *really* classic Fall tracks, are they?

Although "I'm A Mummy" is quite good... :wacko:

they've done "strychnine" ? ive got a version of that by the sonics.

My votes go to I'm A Mummy & I'm Not Satisfied ("..cos I'm stuck in the house all day and never get to ...")
I've never heard the Zappa version of 'I'm Not Satisfied' but I think The Fall version is ace.

Mimi, you haven't read my covers webpage then, have you, you naughty naughty girl! :P

You didn't know that already anyway?

I went for foldin money....cos i think it is very good rollin dany i like too...the fall can do these type of numbers in their sleep...it is their home ground...

and! somebody else went for foldin money :)
it dont tell u the voting til after...i wasnt copying

It was your soul brother from down under! :)

i'm afraid i haven't :D sorry Conway.

i didnt know that... i have a tendency to not know very much about bands, even the fall :)

Somethimes that can be a good thing B)

ive read it now :D

very interesting..... alot of them i didnt know were covers.

That was such a difficult choice.

Kimble just edged out Im Going To Spain due to exciting broken glass effects and (though I hate the word) it's a very [Bproficient] recording from (cue Smashy Nicey) for me the definitive Fall line-up

The only cover of there's I'm not a fan of is Im Not Satisfied

foldin money is the popular choice....3 votes now!
a mystery voter along with meself n soul bro conway :)

btw conway did u get 'the light pours out of me'?...or r u still being flooded with viruses.

well, lost in music gets my vote (with f'oldin money n why are people grudgeful probably joint second)

I think the Falls covers are great. African Man and Boojwahwah town the music I had never heard when we did them. Mark did play a blast of white noise and said play that to me which became african man. I only found out later that it was iggy pop.
And beyond the 2 above there are quite a few covers i think are far superior to the originals.

Im going for african man anyway. I always thought it was great until it was massacred in the studio. My stupidest riff. But it was meant to be polyrythmic which it still retains on the album version i think.

sorry sdOK, but African Man is possibly the worst Fall track ever!

[music idiot]What does polyrythmic mean? More than 1 rhythm?[/music idiot]

I dont know the difference between chords and keys me.

Or syncopation whats that?

I know a good tune when I hear one though.

Todays random good tune - "Seventeen" by Ladytron.....

a girl here in the office loves Ladytron, and is always dying her hair.
It's kinda an offish blue at the moment. I preferred it when it was red.
And she always wears black like Ladytron

Ladytron are this : the goodness.

But anyway. My favourite Fall cover has to be I'm A Mummy. It was the third or fourth Fall song I ever heard and I just pissed myself laughing when I heard it. The timing is brill.

Thank you for reminding me of a Replacements song.

I hate music
It's got too many notes!

I picked "I'm A Mummy" but "Just Waiting" comes in a close second..

2 meny good choices to choose frum there frenz. me went with black monk theme just cuz it's got unbelievable bite to it. specially cranked out to a fooking 10 spot on the metre. f-folding iz a great track too. n how can you not like jus' waitin' by the legendary hank dubya???? n i gots to say that in order to truly "appreciate" the going to spain cover u gots to check out the original version cuz it's fooking horrendous rubbish. how mes eva took n did what he did with it is a testament to his brilliance. if you ain't heard it u won't believe it.

Rollin' Dany for me, played it at my wedding, always makes me smile, much like I'm a Mummy which was a close secoend.

Dany for moi, too. It's my favourite cover art, love the 12" detail of Smiffy the leather jacket clad Gene Vincentesque rocker...

Was Mark's Dad a rockabilly?

Ahhhhh ... the next one.

ah,,,, the next one.... -_- it will probably be called black monk theme 3....but turn out to be an obscure of a rare 'gene vincent cover' originally performed by the very cult famous 'unknown obscurities' who made their track called 'these teeth were made for talkin' an absolute classic..... :applaud: ....n i will buy it :)

As long as fallfandave mixes it!

And that MES delays its release for 3 1/2 years.

WHY'S THAT ? i dunno how to mix the fall :wacko:

they can do it themselves.... :P
i have enough to do

Mixing? That never stopped the mighty Fall.

Lost in music for me but needed more votes - ties with Kimble/strychnine/this perfect day/f-oldin money and I'm a mummy! (oh yeah and........) :blink:

The sonics!!! this song is a psycho theme only the fall can do justice. I read Peel asked for this cover. (I am writing from the Pacific NW, hometown boys you know). Underground rock at it's best. Poetic? Yes!

This perfect day was great when the change comes in with backup vocals. Epiphany, and mark E. right their with you! :rolleyes:

Time we brought this one back for another round. :)

Had no idea this had been polled before...

Had no idea this had been polled since... :lol:

But Stephen, isn't your index system supposed to ensure this repetition doesn't happen? Don't say you forgot to check before starting that other poll??? ^_^

In my defence:

– Your poll was from before I visited the board, so I had no awareness of it
– Being from early days, it was actually filed in 'general' even after polls split off to its own section, thus did not come up when I trawled 'polls' for links.

Won't happen again!

Alright, I'll let you off this time, but it better not happen again!

Or I'll send Brix around to give you a good spanking. :lol:

:devil:

this is the best poll i've seen...

i voted "i'm a mummy" because when i got levitate i would have never considered it to be a cover... it was just an odd/good song... after listening to the original version, i KNOW they made the song their own in a very good way.