I could listen to the guitar line for Bingomaster's Breakout all day long. It's utter nuts yet genius at the same time. Definitely a Marmite band but I love Marmite.
I think i've got about 25 Fall albums. Saw them live in the 80's around the Bend Sinister time. Some of their songs are awful but some are genius. One of my favourite bands of all time.
I still listen to and buy new stuff and there are loads of bands about, never tire of listening to music
Last time I saw them I thought that he didn't look well.
Whatever you think about them, I'm glad they existed.
I have met the fiddler from Shift Work, his job on tour was to keep watering down MES's whisky and keep him on the rails. He has some great stories.
I kicked around with folk from the band in the early 80’s. Mind you that’s not hard when mark rotated the line up every 3 weeks.
I remember being out with the lads at the Hacienda watching Jonny Thunders, what a night that was .....
especially as I also prefer….
songs about nonsense
Half Man Half Biscuit being a particularly fine example of that.
I love HMHB, a band with an unerring sense of humour around British pop-culture references - a song for pretty much any subject you care to name.
The Fall, though, is a band I so much want to really like, but MES’s delivery just gives me a sort of itch inside my head. That’s not to say there aren’t songs that I enjoy hearing, there’s just not very many.
Having said that, I’d rather listen to a Fall album than anything by the Manics or Oasis...
I do like what Brix is doing, though it’s not much like The Fall!