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Album Review

Release date: 12 August 1997

The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall

The Peel Sessions

[B]The Fall[/B] were better when [B]Mark E Smith[/B] was more mad/less pickled and wrote longer lyric sheet...

Wot, no 'Who makes the Nazis?' ? It was an impossible task that Steve Hanley set himself in compiling these Peel sessions: how do you, as the bassist, look back on the career of a band whose mission statement has always been to never look back? How do you appease the obsessive Fall fans (is there another breed?) who've already bought full, crappy-quality tapes of all...

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  • Jan 18, 1999

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Fall  : Fall vs 2003

Fall : Fall vs 2003

A bit like the crocodile. Only nastier. And without quite so many teeth.

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Fall  : Touch sensitive

Fall : Touch sensitive

A jubilant [I]"Heyheyheyhey!"[/I] chorus, a bassline you'd swap your soul for - there's a wildly spirally sense of free-booting lunacy here.

  • Aug 14, 1999
Fall  : The World Bewitched

Fall : The World Bewitched

This leaves the world bewildered.

  • Feb 9, 2001

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May 24, 2013 00:00 The Fall Princess Pavilion Falmouth, Cornwall

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The Fall News

The Fall announce new album and tour plans - ticket details

The Fall announce new album and tour plans - ticket details

'Your Future Is Our Clutter' is out in the spring

The Fall to play Camp Bestival 2010

The Fall to play Camp Bestival 2010

The Wurzels also join next year's three day summer bash

The Fall's back catalogue set for reissue

The Fall's back catalogue set for reissue

'This Nation's Saving Grace' is the first to be re-released

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