#461

Hmm, realised I mistyped there:

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#462

Not Violator related but Dave Gahan’s albums he did with Soulsavers are worth checking out.

Wrong thread

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#463

Walking back from night shift listen just now was the Slates EP, which I’ve never heard before in its entirety. It is an astonishing record, Leave The Capitol especially, the clatter of sound and the vocal emphasis. Quite brilliant.

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#464

Aye, it’s fuckin great innit! Grotesque, Slates, Hex is a run innit!

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#465

the double tracked vocals in the chorus are great

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#466

Reformation Post-TLC is the proper title but the album cover is confusing

unlucky as i think it’s a duffer but that the two albums before it and two albums after it are all excellent. some people seem to like Reformation though, i only really enjoy 3 or 4 tracks on it.

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#467

watched most of this last night. Great example of the two drummer era with Burns and Hanley. And a great version of Garden at the end for you @Icarus-Smicarus

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#468

Is that the one where he threatens to break the lighting engineer’s neck in the middle of it?

#469

Not sure, I skipped a few bits.

#470

Nice this thread is now delivering, all seemed to get a bit unnecessarily Lord of the Flies for a while (sure Mark would have approved). Anyway, I went 5.

First got into him in the late '90’s so I’ve a lot of affection for the run Marshall Suit, Unutterable, [not so much Missing Winner], County On the Click & went for County as my favourite album. Saw him a few times and was always disappointed, think I was unlucky with the nights I got. Had the opportunity to see him many more times and generally passed up the opportunity; tickets were generally £20 ish a pop for latter days tours which seemed like too big a gamble for what you might get.

Checklist! Never leave home without one!

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#471

I decided to have a lucky dip with The Fall catalogue the other day and bought a copy of ‘Extricate’.
What’s that one like?

#472

It’s a shame the record ain’t that great cos the band and production on it is :+1:

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#473

Never been one of my favourites tbh but it’s fairly popular so it must be a me problem. Telephone Thing and Chicago Now are great though

#474

yeah I feel similarly. The title track, Fall Sound (would be one of my all time top 10 fall tracks) and Systematic abuse are great. Over and Over is ok, the rest I can leave. I did see them at Electric picnic the year this came out and they were great.

#475

Never sure how well known it is that ‘over and over’ is a partial cover of this song…

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#476

Those are exactly the tracks I was thinking of. I once bought a Microkorg partly cos I was having so much fun playing the Systematic riff over and over in the shop.

Yeah as said above, good lineup despite the disappointing album, the Palais live album is much better. I read a Tim Presley interview once where he was very proud of the album but did say it was very rushed.

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#477

Oh I had no idea until I heard this playing in a shop once, drove me mad trying to work out why I recognised it

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#478

If anyone can be arsed to compile some great tracks outside of the Brix era as I know it reasonably well that would be awesome! I know there’s lots of YouTube links already but I want something on my music player

#479

the two Dublin ones i went to were in the €22 - €25 zone from checking the posters, and the Belfast one in between was £12 and probably the best one - certainly the longest set. Always loved how cheap the Cathedral Quarter Festival here used to be, until their arts funding was cut a few years ago

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#480

One of my least favorites. Production sounds early 90’s and I just don’t think the songs are that good. Albums notable as Martin Brumah returned to the band and wrote some of the songs. He was a founding member who was fired before the second album.

Bill is Dead is a notable song for how polarizing it is , some love it , some think it is one of the worse songs they have ever done.

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