The Fall

Ally Dick

How can anyone consider The Fall to be in any way musical ? I don't understand it. Honestly. It must be something to do with bigging up all things Manchester, that became hip to do from the 80s to date

Android 666

Ally Dick wrote: »

How can anyone consider The Fall to be in any way musical ? I don't understand it. Honestly. It must be something to do with bigging up all things Manchester, that became hip to do from the 80s to date

It's beyond musical and it's nothing to do with bigging up manchester. Once the Fall click with you all the other manchester bands can go sh1te. It's about one expanding head mapping out an alternative to what is fed to you by the music press. Long live Mr Mark E Smith, the only thing hip about him is the replacement he is sure to have...

AnonoBoy

Ally Dick wrote: »

How can anyone consider The Fall to be in any way musical ? I don't understand it. Honestly. It must be something to do with bigging up all things Manchester, that became hip to do from the 80s to date

Brilliant.

Yeah that's why people like the Fall because of where they're from. Sure we all only say we like them because in the late 80's (over a decade after the Fall formed) the Manchester music scene became popular. Because you don't enjoy their music then there's no way that anyone else could like it. We must all just be jumping on some weird band-wagon that's been successfully riding along the hip trail for the past 20 years or more. This fleeting fad will be over soon and everyone will look back and realise how silly we were for these two decades listening to a band whose music and lyrics we enjoy.

Cheers for letting us know that mostly we like them just because of where they're from. I'm so sick of people going on about how great The Mock Turtles and Inspiral Carpets are to this day as well!

Oh wait.....


Nope. It's probably more to do with people liking their music because they believe it to be good music rather than some sort of ill-placed notion that you have that the only praise they've gotten is because they are from Manchester.

Ally Dick

The media were the ones who started the Manchester agenda. It's considered an act of heresy if you say that Ian Curtis, Ian Brown, Morrisey or Mark E Smith are bad singers. Well Smith is the worst of the bunch. Musically The Fall can play their instruments but Smith sounds like an extremely drunk uncle who grabbed the microphone at the karaoke. Or am I missing something?

mewso

Ally Dick wrote: »

It's considered an act of heresy if you say that Ian Curtis, Ian Brown, Morrisey or Mark E Smith are bad singers.

By who? Smith has already been described as a bad singer in this thread. Nothing worse than musical chips on shoulders. The Fall are an aquired taste. Nothing more. I'm probably the only Fall fan amongst my friends. It's no big deal. I'm not preaching a religion. It's always amusing how some people hate bands more than they love their favorites.

smokedeels

I don't generally like "singers".

Nolanger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utjyI3WpGNg

ValJester

Ally Dick wrote: »

The media were the ones who started the Manchester agenda. It's considered an act of heresy if you say that Ian Curtis, Ian Brown, Morrisey or Mark E Smith are bad singers. Well Smith is the worst of the bunch. Musically The Fall can play their instruments but Smith sounds like an extremely drunk uncle who grabbed the microphone at the karaoke. Or am I missing something?

"All my favourite singers can't sing"-David Berman(Silver Jews)

Nolanger

Brix is in this week's RTÉ Guide!

orourkeda

My own personal favourite track would have to be blindness from the album fall heads roll.

One of the better versions I've heard is one he recorded on the Peel Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOXOYTFC0g

The original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rU-1gFKPmo

Nolanger