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Track Listings
| 1. Psykick Dancehall | |||
| 2. A Figure Walks | |||
| 3. Printhead | |||
| 4. Dice Man | |||
| 5. Before The Moon Falls | |||
| 6. Muzorewi's Daughter | |||
| 7. Flat Of Angels | |||
| 8. Choc Stock | |||
| 9. Spectre Vs Rector | |||
| 10. Put Away | |||
| 11. Rowche Rumble (Bonus Track) | |||
| 12. In My Area (Bonus Track) | |||
| 13. Fiery Fack (Bonus Track) | |||
| 14. 2nd Dark Age (Bonus Track) | |||
| 15. Psykick Dancehall 2 (Bonus Track) | |||
| 16. Rowche Rumble Take 2 (Bonus Track) | |||
| 17. Rowche Rumble Take 3 (Bonus Track) | |||
| 18. Rowche Rumble Take 4 (Bonus Track) | |||
| 19. Rowche Rumble Take 5 (Bonus Track) | |||
| 20. In My Area Take 1 (Bonus Track) | |||
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By Jason Parkes
#1 HALL OF FAME
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Dragnet, the second Fall album from 1979, is the second release of the current Fall-reissue programme that will see the great back catalogue reissued in a remastered form, with sleevenotes & a wealth of bonus tracks. This version of Dragnet comes with almost an album's worth of bonus tracks, songs that made up the second side of 1981-compilation 'Early Fall 77-79' (In My Area, Rowche Rumble, Psykick Dancehall II, Fiery Jack)- though the many alternate takes of several of these tracks will be of more academic interest to the hardcore Fall-head. Of the two albums reissued, Live at the Witch Trials is a sounder purchase, as the album proper is more upbeat and it's been expanded to a two-disc, 41-track version.
Dragnet is bleaker stuff, moving towards that lo-fi claustrophobia apparent on later releases like Grotesque(After the Gramme) & Slates. Perhaps this is due to the fact Martin Bramah & Una Baines left to form The Blue Orchids (whose classic, 1980's The Greatest Hit, has recently been reissued)- the album is keyboard-based & has a different kind of tension. MES is joined by long-serving members Craig Scanlan & Steve Hanley and one-time drummer Mike Leigh- the only other member from the Witch Trials- line up being Marc'Lard'Riley, who had shifted instruments in an attempt to replace Bramah. Dragnet is minimal stuff, definitely predicting such lo-fi releases as Confusion is Sex (Sonic Youth), Dial M for...(Pussy Galore) & much of the career of Royal Trux. Recorded over just a few days, it creates a new internal world- MES's paranoia moving into darker climes with such songs as Before the Moon Falls, A Figure Walks & the M.R.James-referencing Spectre Vs. Rector (which predicted a ghost-element in Smith's lyrics, see Jawbone & The Air Rifle & Wings).
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By James Godden
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I have all the Falls albums and this has always been my favourite. Takes a bit of getting used to. Side 2 was unlistenable for several months, but then suddenly it all made sense and i have actually preferred it ever since. One of my top 10 albums of all time. Awesome.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Dragnet is quite possibly the best Fall album, certainly from the early period. It boasts a lo-fi sound that was really quite radical when first heard in '78 and it still sounds absolutely great today. You just couldn't imagine it being done on a big studio budget and the improvised feel makes it light years ahead of the previous album, their debut Live at the Witch Trials. Dragnet sounds like it was made by a different band, and it's the sound and the personnel here that produced the following run of brilliant albums from Grotesque to Hex Enduction Hour (the other candidate for best album). From the first shout of 'Is there anybody there' on Psykick Dancehall we're lead through track after track of witty, demented garage pop as well as some really quite stunning atmospherics - just turn out the lights and put Spectre vs Rector on loud for an unsettling experience. All in all a masterpiece from a unique and prolific band just discovering their own sound - and boy did it stand head and shoulders over anything else at the time.
By j joseph
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To many Fall fans Dragnet is the bands White Light White Heat(and Totales Turns is the greatest live recording ever pressed to vinyl).I have heard stories where so called engineers claim bands paid 200 grand just to get close to the Dragnet sound! Its hilarious.
Dragnet is not a bad record and it has its place in every Fall fans collection but how anyone can seriously claim that it is some kind of masterpiece is just
ridiculous. Listen to,say, Put Away from The Peel Sessions to get an idea what this record could have sounded like if MES hadnt applied the hatchet.
Dragnet was all about MES making a statement at the expense of a great record.
That said, you have to cut the old grump a bit of slack here for he nailed it on
most of the subsequent releases ( at least up until '83 ).Hexenduction Hour/Perverted by Language/Slates - most bands can only dream of making records as great.
Dragnet is not a bad record and it has its place in every Fall fans collection but how anyone can seriously claim that it is some kind of masterpiece is just
ridiculous. Listen to,say, Put Away from The Peel Sessions to get an idea what this record could have sounded like if MES hadnt applied the hatchet.
Dragnet was all about MES making a statement at the expense of a great record.
That said, you have to cut the old grump a bit of slack here for he nailed it on
most of the subsequent releases ( at least up until '83 ).Hexenduction Hour/Perverted by Language/Slates - most bands can only dream of making records as great.
By mark
Format:Audio CD
Ah, the falls" difficult" second album. At the time of release, punk was dead and new wave was mainstream and the fall were different, very different indeed! Their sound here is harder,claustrophobic even. The lyrics darker,abstract but intriguing, inviting you into a deep,dark place. But its not all doom and gloom. Imagine your eight and on the ghost ride. Its scary but enjoyable. Welcome to dragnet. Not the best fall album but vital in understanding their later works. Granted some of the filler bonus material is just filler, the package as a whole beats the other reissues. Here the falls ugly duckling doesn't become the swan. Just grows teeth.
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Jingle jangle crash bang..the wallop of angular Fall creating dischord with themes handpicked from the ooze of Mark E Smiths autodidactic brain. The notes are derived from surreal streams of semi consciousness embroiled in speed and bitter with some lightness. The anti rock mode of the late 70's becomes apparent in this seminal album. This was the reaction to the 4/4 middle eight monotone of non imaginary rockists, playing with the playlist of Pavlov's dogs producing salivation and air guitar strumming amongst young pubescent men.
Instead you get the Dice Man, flicking for sixes and fives to decide a musical fate, possibly who was going to turn up for rehearsals and those going home early for their bath. Cary Grants Wedding, Muzorewi's Daughter both nod to the wider world of 70's celebs although what happens within is anybody's guess because she ends in the pot and he invites Buster Keaton and Joe Strummer.
A figure walks behind you; is a song of poetic paranoia, not something easily explained, it does describe a feeling which sums up the album, a vast array of angular lo fo textures resenbling a rock format of Can or early garage but then travelling around the Wigan Pier or Salford Canal via Working Men's Clubs lysergia and art surrealism it pumps out the other end as The Fall.
The singles are more literal, Rowche Rumble is about the beloved makers of Valium, the well known makers of a highly addictive drug meant to calm people down, ensure tranquility. Allaying the side effects of coming off Barbiturates originally. By the time everyone, particulary housewives became addicted, everyone was too happy to care; the perfect con described in the song.... Read more ›
Instead you get the Dice Man, flicking for sixes and fives to decide a musical fate, possibly who was going to turn up for rehearsals and those going home early for their bath. Cary Grants Wedding, Muzorewi's Daughter both nod to the wider world of 70's celebs although what happens within is anybody's guess because she ends in the pot and he invites Buster Keaton and Joe Strummer.
A figure walks behind you; is a song of poetic paranoia, not something easily explained, it does describe a feeling which sums up the album, a vast array of angular lo fo textures resenbling a rock format of Can or early garage but then travelling around the Wigan Pier or Salford Canal via Working Men's Clubs lysergia and art surrealism it pumps out the other end as The Fall.
The singles are more literal, Rowche Rumble is about the beloved makers of Valium, the well known makers of a highly addictive drug meant to calm people down, ensure tranquility. Allaying the side effects of coming off Barbiturates originally. By the time everyone, particulary housewives became addicted, everyone was too happy to care; the perfect con described in the song.... Read more ›
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Caught in the Cobwebs of Dragnet
Stark, dark, Gripping and interesting. The second studio album by the fall is much more dark and disturbing than Live at The Witch Trials but Dragnet is probably a more... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2009 by Mr Meticulus
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One of the first of many from The Fall.
This followed a (fairly) polished debut 'Live At The Witch Trials' but was some departure from that album. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2001 by "mdenster"
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