Slates/Part of America Therein [Import]

Editorial Reviews
New Musical Express
Slates, originally a six-track ten-inch mini-LP, is coupled here with a rare U.S. live album, A Part of America Therein, 1981 which is spasmodically vital but patchy. Slates, though, is fabulous, the Fall at their finest and most diligently tuneful, [Mark E.] Smith seeing ghosts in Leicester Square, sensing paranoid conspiracies in supermarkets and churches and getting all smoochy on "An Older Lover..."

Album Description
Mid-priced two-on-one coupling their six track 1981 Rough Trade EP 'Slates' with their rare 1981 album 'A Part Of America Therein, 1981'. 14 tracks total, including 'Middle Mass', 'Prole Art Threat', 'Hip Priest' and 'Cash N' Carry'. 1998. Trojan Recordings.

Tracks:

MIDDLE MASS
AN OLDER LOVER ETC.
PROLE ART THREAT
FIT AND WORKING AGAIN
SLATES, SLAGS, ETC.
LEAVE THE CAPITOL
THE N.W.R.A.
HIP PRIEST
TOTALLY WIRED
LIE DREAM OF A CASINO SOUL
CASH 'N' CARRY
AN OLDER LOVER
DEER PARK
WINTER

Customer Reviews:

Oldest Living Blakean Tells All.......2003-12-07

If you have to own one Fall record, this is the record to have; *Hex Enduction Hour* has its moments, but that's the point, and "Brixish" has her moments, but that's another point. Do you have to own a Fall record? Well, do you have to own this for *Slates* alone? Are you under 40? Do you think you're both cool and kinda literary? Do you not have very much money? I'm not kidding; Mark E. Smith is good for you and not the other way around, and you can be lots and lots of people because he's really not paying attention; I suppose we are to work on our relation to self, which need not be very good but have its moments.

"Leave the Capitol" is one of its moments, the other "relations" are waystations of a none-too-unbearable suffering (the exertions and perplexions of real life), and the live set is a nice way to relax (Mark's kazoo sounds great). Has there ever been another record like *Slates*? There have been a lot of records like *Slates*, but if almost tens of thousands of people have been able to work up an enthusiasm for this maybe that's not such a big problem -- i.e., perhaps the palpably great literary conscience of Britain's last twenty years should be divested of ticks and "allowed" into the "passing shows" he in fact partially owns. A story about stories, specifically stories not told about English literature, from a don of the streetcorner and associates on "permanent holiday" -- and no, that one was not so shaggy.

Slates/A Part of America Therein, 1981
Average customer rating:
Slates/A Part of America Therein, 1981
The Fall
Manufacturer: Castle Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007SL3QU
Release Date: 2005-02-15