Live archive release. When Mark E Smith died in January 2018, an era ended with him. The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line up changes, with vocalist and founder Smith as the only constant member. First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the Fall's music underwent numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's lineup. Nonetheless, their music has generally been characterised by an abrasive, repetitive guitar-driven sound, tense bass and drum rhythms, and Smith's caustic lyrics, described by critic Simon Reynolds as "a kind of Northern English magic realism that mixed industrial grime with the unearthly and uncanny, voiced through a unique, one-note delivery somewhere between amphetamine-spiked rant and alcohol-addled yarn." They were always at their best on stage, and this collection captures them in full flow.

Tracklist:

Intro Track
M5
Ladybird (green grass)
High Tension Line
Glam Racket
Why Are People Grudgeful?
I'm Going to Spain
Free Range
Behind the Counter 1
Strychnine 1
Big New Prinz 1
A Past Gone Mad 1
Lost in Music 1
Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room 1
Idiot Joy Showroom 1
Instrumental Interlude 1
The Mixer 1
Dead Beat Descendant

UPC: 5056083203291
Label: Cog Sinister
Release Date: 11.16.18
Format: CD

The Fall - Live At Batschkapp Frankfurt 1993 (CD)