Browse by Artist: FALL, THE

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Live In Zagreb
Label:	COG SINISTER (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	COG 109 CD

"A top quality live recording of the Fall at their stunning, swaggering best. The band, had been given the chance to perform material that's related to the rest of the rock music family that is where tune, instruments and musicians melt into one. Mark E Smith of course, has no time for such frippery and exhibits his traditional disregard for the 'right' note from start to finish. Formed mainly from the Extricate and Frenz Experiment sets, this recording boasts an overwhelming reading from the 'MES Mad Epic' school. 'Hit The North' and an equally inspired take on The Monks' lost classic 'Black Monk Theme' which is a song so out there that it could have dropped from the claws of the same disturbing muse that grips Smith's shoulder. They top these off with the thoughtful traditional music arrangement that characterises 'And Therein', the traditionally deranged 'Carry Bag Man', the funky electronic paranoia of 'Telephone Thing' and the drugged-up squalor of 'Hillary'. The result is a hot and steaming slice from the only band in the world that's provided solid nourishment for the last two decades. Top Gig, Top Class."

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Live 1977
Label:	COG SINISTER (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	COG 114 CD

"This is the earliest known recording of John Peel's all-time favorite band. Hidden at the back of Mark E. Smith's bedroom cupboard for the last twenty odd years, this was never a high-fidelity recording, even after the tape has been cleaned up it still sounds like a bootleg made on a first generation cassette recorder. Having said that, it's priceless, awe inspiring, raw, grinding punk-rock stuff, full of bile and humor in roughly equal amounts. This is vintage Mancunian crap- rapping, live and dangerous. Nothing from this early gig has ever been released elsewhere: 'Dresden Dolls', 'Hey Fascist', 'Cop It', and the Fall's masterful take on 'Louie Louie' have never been available anywhere until now."

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Backdrop
Label:	COG SINISTER (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	COG 127 CD

"Backdrop is a unique collection of studio out-takes and different versions of classic Fall tracks. It was originally released as a bootleg in 1994 and contains virtually all the impossible-to-find tracks spanning the first 12 years of The Fall. 'Dresden Dolls' is a gloomy but insistent recording of a rehearsal and is the oldest track on the album, dating back to 1977. After powering through 'Plaster On The Hands' from 1983, the bulk of the remaining tracks cluster around the end of the 1980s which was one of the band's most fertile and inventive periods."

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Code:Selfish
Label:	COG SINISTER (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	COG 133CD

"Originally released on Fontana in 1992 and unavailable for a number of years, Code:Selfish saw David Bush (keyboards and machines) joining Mark E Smith, guitarist Craig Scanlon, Steve Hanley on bass and Simon Wolstoncroft on drums. The album received great reviews and was treated with respect by the press of the time, and again was a UK chart album for the band. Included on the album is the single 'Free Range/Everything Hurtz' as well as two bonus tracks from the Ed's Babe EP released in the same year."

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Shift-Work
Label:	COG SINISTER (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	COG 134CD

"Long unavailable and originally released on Fontana in 1991, Shift Work was the Fall's highest UK chart placing to date (No. 17) and captured the line-up of leader Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon on guitar, bassist Steve Hanley, Simon Woolstoncroft on drums and fiddle player, Kenny Brady, this fantastic album included the classic White Lightning, the channel hopping A Lot of Wind and the single High Tension Line. This reissue now includes 2 bonus tracks: Xmas With Simon, the b-side of 'High Tension Line' and 'Blood Outta Stone', the b-side of 'White Lightning."

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Idiot Joy Show
Label:	DYNAMIC (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	DYNA 011CD

"After a couple of albums on Matador (the interesting and positively reviewed The Infotainment Scam and Middle Class Revolt, for which Karl Burns rejoined the band), sales began to dwindle in the U.S. prompting a switch to Permanent in 1995 with the return of Smith's ex-wife Brix on Cerebral Caustic. This live album, recorded at The Junction, in Cambridge on Oct. 24th, 1995, finds a completely revitalized new band which after more than 20 years is still capable of putting out amazing new studio albums as well as strong live performances."

Artist:	FALL, THE
Title:	Live At The Witch Trials
Label:	TURNING POINT MUSIC (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TPM 02208LP

2009 repress. "Legendary debut album by the band who redefined British punk rock with their own style of cacophonic minimalism punctuated by the scathingly cynical vocals of the king of sarcasm Mark E. Smith. Originally released in January 1979 on Step Forward with Martin Bramah on guitar. It includes 'Rebellious Jukebox', 'Two Steps Back', and 'No Christmas For John Quays'. Original artwork. 180 gram HQ vinyl." Artwork by the master illustrator John Godbert (aka Herb Diamant�).

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