Early Fall, 1977-1979 [Extra tracks]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Every track from their superb 'Step Forward' singles (none of which were on the albums) plus 2 bonus cuts from the rare LP 'Live At The Electric Circus', 'Srepping Out' and 'Last Orders'. The Fall might have got louder but they never got any stranger than this. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

Repetition
Bingo Masters Breakout
Psycho Mafia
Various Times
It's The New Thing
Rowche Rumble
In My Area
Dice Man
Psykick Dancehall
Second Dark Age
Fiery Jack
Stepping Out
Last Orders

Album Description

Every track from their superb 'Step Forward' singles (none of which were on the albums) plus 2 bonus cuts from the rare LP 'Live At The Electric Circus', 'Srepping Out' and 'Last Orders'. The Fall might have got louder but they never got any stranger than this. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

This a Reissue of the Album Originally Issued on the Rough Trade Label! this Album is a Compilation of Singles and B-Sides.

Customer Reviews:

Tremendous But Available Elsewhere.......2004-05-27

The music here is stupendous. But it's all available now on the 2004 "expanded reissues" of "Live at the Witch Trials" and "Dragnet", in superior fidelity.

lunatics with keyboards and guitars.......2003-04-28

A Terrific album containing some of Mark E Smiths best songs. Best to get it know before it goes out of print again. Brilliant, unheard music indeed.

When we were kids..........2001-05-12

Much of this album sounds like the work of kids. Especially the two [out-of-date] keyboards on Madness in my Area. The sound here brilliantly recalls pre-60s, nay pre-analogue, recording--the songs are jumpy(Psycho Mafia) or edgy (cf. "Various Times"--a chilling tune about the dangers of apathy). Elsewhere, Rowche Rumble sounds like a giant sized carnival ride-like music making machine--with very relevant lyrics about pharmaceutical companies medicating the bored. And of course, there's Repetition, the band's blueprint for it's early sound. The great thing about the Fall is they're funny and angry at the same time.

Great Music.......2000-10-17

Energy and ideas to burn. Those who have enjoyed the brilliant debut "Live at the Witch Trials" also need to hear this material. It's darned well about time this was in print again. Underheard, brilliant music.

FANTASTIC FALL!.......2000-05-04

This LP was one of my favourites when I was 17 and a college student. Nowadays, I have to say that THE FALL still hold their appeal to me and always will! This excellent and essential(to any Fall fan young or old) compendium features their first four single releases and their b-sides. Also you get LAST ORDERS and STEPPING OUT which featured on a rare ten-inch live compilation called SHORT CIRCUIT LINE AT THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS(this also featured The Drones, Joy Division and John Cooper Clarke amongst others, as well as yours truly). Two little-heard, bouncy, catchy punky numbers with Mark E. Smith's unmistakable vocals, where every stanza seems to be punctuated with -ah! The opening track, REPETITION is a spoof of the chart music of 1978, including punk acts in particular!('You don't dig repetition-ah!'), illustrating it sounded the same!(in retrospect, it's better than the rap rubbish that's about today in my opinion) BINGO MASTER'S BREAKOUT is a mentally amusing tale of a seaside bingo caller who loses it, a song Mark E. Smith wrote while on holiday with his parents in Scarborough, apparently! PSYCHO MAFIA is one to play loud, VARIOUS TIMES is an HG Wells time machine-style tale with a grim vision of the future(yes, he was right, the beer does taste weak in the UK!). IT'S THE NEW THING is a parody of fellow Manchester rivals The Buzzcocks and their commercialised fashion fad-conscious hits. And there's a whole lot more besides...ENJOY! The Fall will continue to rock in their own weird way!

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