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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.

  • Dec 13, 2002
A Past Gone Mad: The Best of The Fall 1990-2000

A Past Gone Mad: The Best of The Fall 1990-2000

...this is a fine collection; brave, broad and admirably biased...

  • Apr 10, 2000
Fall  : The World Bewitched

Fall : The World Bewitched

This leaves the world bewildered.

  • Feb 9, 2001
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
The Fall: London Camden Dingwalls

The Fall: London Camden Dingwalls

Tonight it's difficult to tell just how badly Mark E Smith is taking the piss...

  • Nov 23, 2000
The Marshall Suite

The Marshall Suite

What kind of masochistic idiot would join [B]The Fall[/B] in '99?...

  • Mar 13, 1999
London WC2 LA2

London WC2 LA2

And so the saga continues. Just when you think [B]Mark E Smith[/B] has done the decent thing and disappeared to grow old gracefully, up he pops again to punch someone or mumble mindlessly before anoth

  • Jun 1, 2000
The Peel Sessions

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...

  • Jan 18, 1999
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