I always had a soft spot for The Fall, but it's only in the last year or so that I've decided it's time to really investigate the HIP PRIEST and his merry clergy. Trawling through their catalogue is an intimidating prospect, what with 50+ albums to their credit; it's the main reason I didn't hit them up before - where to start and shit, where to stop??
My official Fall cherry-popper was "Palace Of Swords Reversed", an excellent example of early MES's bile and lyrical fuckkn genius. I play this record at least three or four times a week (much to the chagrin of my WERK collegues, fukkem) and I can't imagine ever getting bored of it. Next was "Extricate", "This Nation's Saving Grace", "Hex Induction Hour", "Grotesque", "I Am Kurious Oranj" and the latest find is their first: "Live At The Witch Trials". Crackers, every bloody one of them.
Which is why I wish I was Mark E Smith.
Sure, he was bashed profusely with the ugly stick at birth but this man's genius and his bottomless well of bile is just jaw dropping... He was John (RIP) Peel's DUDE, he's sacked more band members than I've had chicken schnitzels and he's married to one of the most beautiful women in rock (who plays keys in the latest line up). Fuck him, bastard.
He OWNS me now.
He will OWN you too, ladies and gents.
I think there should be a FALL tribute night thingy here in Adelaide, like one of those wack FOWLER's LIVE DAVID BOWIE nights or whatever. Imagine the fruits that would come out of the closet for that. It would be AWESOME.
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dude i'd be up for that. htj are thinking of doing a cover of 'wings'. most amazing song ever. i loooooove the fall. and same as you, only got into them recently
x jess
hey Jess!
wings is the song we cover in Terrance Dicks!
it's the best song ever by far!!! Sandy nails the -ah's!
we should totally arrange a fall night - there are lots of us HIP PRIEST clergy hiding in the woodworks...
it'd be the bomb!
what's yer fav album?
xx
damn you! you stole our cover! i'm sure you'd do the better version of it anyway. sandy's the M.E.S of adelaide, apart from the haggard ugliness.
fall tribute night would be fun. i'm sure lots of bands would be up for it.
as for fave albums, i got between hex inductiob hourm perverted by language and bend sinister. you?
jess
you can't go past Grotesque!
ok, prepare to lose your shit nerds
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/02/the_continuing_.html
unless you've already seen this of course
Hey Jimmy - thanks for the link.
What a spunk Mr Smith was in his younger years...
hahahah
i have a copy now of that BBC 4 doco made in 2004... it's very funny. lots of good footage and interviews. They really need subtitles for Mark though, he's unintelligable at best though funny as to watch.
If you freakn freaks wanna borrow it lemme know.
x
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