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Having saw the Fall for the 6th time at the weekend & being absolutely spellbound them again, it just confirmed my thoughts that they are one of the greatest live bands around! Not only that, but are one of the all time greatest bands ever!

With the release of "Our Future - Your Clutter" on January on Domino Records, this will be the bands 29th Album, not including Live Albums and Compilations, which takes it up to 60 odd albums! The band have been going strong from 1976, with the one constant - Mark E. Smith! One of the greatest front men ever and one of the Greatest Lyricist's of all time along with Morrissey & Leonard Cohen!

Championed by John Peel and receiving enormous Critical Acclaim, with such albums as Hex Enduction Hour, Grotesque (After The Gramme), Extricate, The Infotainment Scan, The Nations Saving Grace, Shift Work, Country On The Click, The Wonderful And Frightening World Of...., Fall Heads Roll and Last Years Masterpiece Imperial Wax Solvent, the band have changed styles, pushed barriers and have created a wonderful back catalogue, as John Peel said "Always Different - Always The Same!"

The Band have also put on a play in 'Hey Luciani' a ballet with Michael Clarke 'I Am Kurious, Oranj' and Smith has co-written The Fall with Mick Middles and written his own book Renegade!

I've loved the band for years now & have mentioned them and Mark E. on a good few posts about music on the O/T over the years and never once had any response or feedback on them! Except one time from the Lovely 'Red' who is a Fall fan! Fantastic. Just wondering if there are any more Fall fans out there, or if anyone else has any other opinions!

" No Lap-top Talkin' To Your Mates - With Fall Sound"

I guess on here it's not a case of "50,000 Fall fans can't be wrong" but more like just the two of us Meatus!

Mark E Smith is a true national treasure!

Hear Hear Red!!

really is disgusting! i thought there would at least have been a few replies on here! Obviously the musical taste of the BGAFD leave's a lot to be desired!!!

Hi
In Mr Mark E. Smith's fantastic achievements it is also worth pointing out his song Theme for Sparta FC was used for the BBC Football Results service and the man himself was allowed to read the results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1P ... re=related

A total one-off. The man's a genius. X Factor it ain't.

Cheers
David

To true David, thanks for pointing that out,

the theme is still used for the football results, and if you read "Renegade" Mark E. tells a brilliant story about him getting to read the results and the 2 BBC Girls that the BEEB made work that weekend just to keep an eye on him! Really Funny!

How good is it when he tells Stubbsy,

he has "a haircut like a murderer from Strangeways!"

Priceless!!

Yeah. Mark E. Smith tells the story of John Walters seeing a gig of the Fall's somewhere South and writing him a letter saying that the Fall were the most useless, tuneless band he had ever heard, "even worse than Siouxsie and the Banshees" and then asked him if he wanted to do a recording for the John Peel show.

An interviewer's nightmare! Lauren Laverne interviewing Mark was like watching Bambi being put into a lion's cage.

Cheers
D

I always thought Edward from The League Of Gentleman owed a lot to Mark E Smith's vocal delivery.

I saw Mark E in a pub in Manchester last week. I was going to ask him what he thought about Brix appearing on the telly as a fashion slut with Gok Wan, but I decided not to as I didn't want to be glassed.

Smith's current wife is about half Brix's age. I think she will have helped him to 'move on' from Brix.