http://www.rockyear.com/bands/cover_list.asp?k=3027
I am absolutely shocked at how good this album is. Now, by the 90's I'd pretty much quit paying attention to the Fall. I mean I kept in touch with them sortof every now and then, but mostly I'd quit buying their albums and wasn't usually very happy at all with what I heard. So here's this one they did in 1996 that absolutely blows my mind. Better than even 1991's "Shift-Work" I think, and that's saying something. Just can't believe they could have sounded this good in the 90's at all. It defies logic. Brix was in the band, and Steve Hanley on bass and Simon Wollstonecroft on drums. They'd just lost Craig Scanlon then, another very very key member of the Fall, but somehow they made it count, they made it not matter. Just some stroke of creative luck this one, I think. Like a total accident that worked.
Staggering brilliance.
The Fall - The Light User Sydrome
Also I've got this really weird habit of leaving the "n" out of "Syndrome" it's like some part of my brain doesn't want to type it that way. I keep doing that over and over, not meaning to.
Sigh. Someday I will have to fork over the dough for the big ass BBC sessions Fall box set. It's got like every single Peel Session they ever did, god only knows how many discs it takes up, the thing is fucking huge.
I found it, it's 6 discs. It's called "The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004". God one day I'll have to get it. I've always known this. It can't be avoided.
Sigh. Someday I will have to fork over the dough for the big ass BBC sessions Fall box set. It's got like every single Peel Session they ever did, god only knows how many discs it takes up, the thing is fucking huge.
I found it, it's 6 discs. It's called "The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004". God one day I'll have to get it. I've always known this. It can't be avoided.
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90's Fall. I love Curious Orange. Is that what it is called. Like a rock opera of Who proportions but, ya know, with Mark E. Smith.
Well, for a minute there you had me thinking Kurious Oranj was from the 90's but after a moment or two my intuition rebelled...Kurious Oranj wasn't from the 90's at all, it was 1988. I remember listening to it in the early 90's though, the first time I tripped on acid.
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Yeah you know it was music they did for a ballet? The Fall documentary I downloaded showed scenes of them standing behind the dancers and playing it. Brix was sitting on a giant fake hamburger - remember that photo of her in the inside sleeve of the LP/CD? Yeah that really was absolutely one of the best Fall albums ever, no doubt. I actually played it in its entirety only a few months ago for the first time in ages and it still holds up.
Right now I'm listening to a band that really rips off the Fall but does it very well. They're called Male Nurse. I think their records are impossible to find now, I was lucky enough to find their Peel Sessions online. They were from the late 90's. Another band that really rip off the Fall a lot were called I, Ludicrous. They were pretty good, but I like Male Nurse more. One of MN's songs is called "Too Sexy (In A Bad Way)" which is a brilliant name for a song, I think. They have another one called "My Own Private Patrick Swayze". I love the way they always have this slow, lazy, sleazy Fall tempo. I, Ludicrous come off a bit too mid-80's indie for me now. I tried listening to a whole album of them some months back.
Right now I'm listening to a band that really rips off the Fall but does it very well. They're called Male Nurse. I think their records are impossible to find now, I was lucky enough to find their Peel Sessions online. They were from the late 90's. Another band that really rip off the Fall a lot were called I, Ludicrous. They were pretty good, but I like Male Nurse more. One of MN's songs is called "Too Sexy (In A Bad Way)" which is a brilliant name for a song, I think. They have another one called "My Own Private Patrick Swayze". I love the way they always have this slow, lazy, sleazy Fall tempo. I, Ludicrous come off a bit too mid-80's indie for me now. I tried listening to a whole album of them some months back.
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Also Male Nurse is a great name for a band. I think it's horrible that men get shit for being nurses.
Here's someone's blog who wrote about them:
http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/2 ... -1998.html
Okay I'm too curious. Let's see if you can actually get any of their records on gemm...Yeah you can. But it's only a couple of 7"es. Well shit that's probably all they released.
Here's someone's blog who wrote about them:
http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/2 ... -1998.html
Okay I'm too curious. Let's see if you can actually get any of their records on gemm...Yeah you can. But it's only a couple of 7"es. Well shit that's probably all they released.
Perfumed Garden was the name of John Peel's radio show in the 60's when he was a young hippie.
I just wanted to say that as far as bands sounding like the Fall, another band that made me think of the Fall was actually when the first Happy Mondays LP came out. They did remind me of the Fall in those days, but it was not an outright copy like Male Nurse or I, Ludicrous.
I just wanted to say that as far as bands sounding like the Fall, another band that made me think of the Fall was actually when the first Happy Mondays LP came out. They did remind me of the Fall in those days, but it was not an outright copy like Male Nurse or I, Ludicrous.