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Reply #30 posted 05/18/09 5:07am

damosuzuki

foal30 said:

well there output is prodigious

I really dig their cover of "Lost in Music"

the mid-period I like the most...pop songs
"Extricate" , "Shift Work" and "Code Selfish" may all be approachable albums, unlike some of the earlier efforts which can be a bit hard on the lugs.


I like those albums very much (Extricate in particular is a big favourite of mine), but I prefer & usually direct people to the early eighties classics: Grotesque, Hex Enduction Hour and Perverted By Language are my favourite Fall records. No question, these are dense, noisy, pissy & ugly records, & certainly not to everyone's taste, but to me they're about as powerful as rock music can get.

Totally Wired is a good summary of that era of the Fall if you're looking for a compilation. 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong is as good a career-spanning anthology as you can expect, but with a band with so many albums and (despite their reputation for always sounding the same) so many styles, it does feel a little scattershot.
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Reply #31 posted 05/18/09 3:31pm

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being on 8 different labels is no hope for a decent comp eh? biggrin

Hip Priests is possibly worth a gander too.
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Reply #32 posted 05/18/09 7:24pm

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Reply #33 posted 05/18/09 10:15pm

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Best 90's rock debut by Manchester's favorite sons, Oasis. You won't find a better tunesmith than Noel Gallagher.
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Reply #34 posted 05/18/09 11:10pm

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The Fall mate. Then New Order. Then The Buzzcocks (with Pete Shelley). Then Joy Division. Then The Happy Mondays. Then The Smiths.

Oasis ....? lol
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Reply #35 posted 05/18/09 11:13pm

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damosuzuki said:

foal30 said:

well there output is prodigious

I really dig their cover of "Lost in Music"

the mid-period I like the most...pop songs
"Extricate" , "Shift Work" and "Code Selfish" may all be approachable albums, unlike some of the earlier efforts which can be a bit hard on the lugs.


I like those albums very much (Extricate in particular is a big favourite of mine), but I prefer & usually direct people to the early eighties classics: Grotesque, Hex Enduction Hour and Perverted By Language are my favourite Fall records. No question, these are dense, noisy, pissy & ugly records, & certainly not to everyone's taste, but to me they're about as powerful as rock music can get.

Totally Wired is a good summary of that era of the Fall if you're looking for a compilation. 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong is as good a career-spanning anthology as you can expect, but with a band with so many albums and (despite their reputation for always sounding the same) so many styles, it does feel a little scattershot.



Room To Live is underrated. A mostly great album, I think. Kurious Oranj is similarly underrated - I think it's the best Beggars Banquet album (I'm in a tiny minority here).
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Reply #36 posted 05/18/09 11:14pm

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Reply #37 posted 05/19/09 6:33am

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TitWankSymphonyInGMINOR said:

It's tough - I love many, many bands from this city - but i'm gonna go with


tunes, fashion, spirituality, wit, arrogance, they had the lot
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Reply #38 posted 05/19/09 7:48am

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My vote goes to Joy Division
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Reply #39 posted 05/19/09 7:48am

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The Beatles
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Reply #40 posted 05/19/09 8:45am

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Best 90's rock debut by Manchester's favorite sons, Oasis. You won't find a better tunesmith than Noel Gallagher.


overrated album

noel is the biggest thief is music history but has written some great shit i must say.

I prefer heathen chemistry; i fucking love force of nature.

gas panic>>>>>anything on DM
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Reply #41 posted 05/19/09 10:14am

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goodlookingmofo said:

Copycat said:





Best 90's rock debut by Manchester's favorite sons, Oasis. You won't find a better tunesmith than Noel Gallagher.


overrated album

noel is the biggest thief is music history but has written some great shit i must say.

I prefer heathen chemistry; i fucking love force of nature.

gas panic>>>>>anything on DM


I don't think it is overrated. It's their best if anything. Sure, it isn't the most technical album in the world, to quote Liam Gallagher 'it's just rock n' roll'.
There's Joy In Expatriation.
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Reply #42 posted 05/19/09 10:21am

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Joy Division by a country fucking mile.
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Reply #43 posted 05/19/09 12:52pm

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goodlookingmofo said:

Copycat said:





Best 90's rock debut by Manchester's favorite sons, Oasis. You won't find a better tunesmith than Noel Gallagher.


overrated album

noel is the biggest thief is music history but has written some great shit i must say.

I prefer heathen chemistry; i fucking love force of nature.

gas panic>>>>>anything on DM


NOT overrated!!! I love Oasis but they have not come close to the energy and rawness they did on this album. Cigarettes and Alcohol was my anthem back in the day!
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Reply #44 posted 05/19/09 1:18pm

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Joy Division by a country fucking mile.



yup. By several country fucking miles, in fact. They were absolutely incredible.
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Reply #45 posted 05/19/09 4:02pm

damosuzuki

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Room To Live is underrated. A mostly great album, I think.


take papal visit off of there & you'd have a perfect fall record, i'd say.

Kurious Oranj is similarly underrated - I think it's the best Beggars Banquet album (I'm in a tiny minority here).


that one's never done much for me, but then i love the frenz experiment (should i be embarrassed to say that 'oswald defense lawyer' is one of my top five fall?), and that one's not a fan favourite either as far as i can tell.
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Reply #46 posted 05/20/09 3:05am

foal30

what's the covers album with "Victoria" on it called please.
that was around the Opera/Oranj time innit?
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Reply #47 posted 05/20/09 3:30am

damosuzuki

foal30 said:

what's the covers album with "Victoria" on it called please.
that was around the Opera/Oranj time innit?


Victoria appeared on The Frenz Experiment, & that was the album that preceded Kurius Oranj. It's not a covers album though: All of the the tracks besides Victoria were originals.
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Reply #48 posted 05/20/09 3:34am

foal30

thank you
who is your photo?

the weathermans on...he talks a lot of wind
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