THE FALL: A PAST GONE MAD

The list author says:
	"1979. magnificent snarling debut album...."

The list author says:
	"1979. is anybody there?! by this time Mark E Smith is already the only remaining original member of the band...."

The list author says:
	"the first four Fall singles (each featuring a different line-up!)...."

The list author says:
	"1979-80. some raw studio outtakes and chaotic crowd-baiting live stuff - call yourselves bloody professionals?!"

The list author says:
	"1980. country 'n' northern music - the best lp from the pre-Brix era...."

The list author says:
	"1982. Karl Burns is back - some long moody tracks - made with the highest british attention to the wrong detail...."

The list author says:
	"superlative singles compilation from 1980-83 - kicker! kicker conspiracy!"

The list author says:
	"1983. Marc Riley leaves - Brix arrives - smile!"

The list author says:
	"wacky video adventures and a live performance by the Marc Riley line-up at the Riley-Smith Hall in Leeds...."

The list author says:
	"1984. it just keeps getting better - Gavin Friday makes a guest appearance...."

The list author says:
	"1985. another stunning high point - I am Damo Suzuki...."

The list author says:
	"1986. the Fall at the peak of their power - a truly awesome record...."

The list author says:
	"1988. that ballet thing - interesting-uh...."

The list author says:
	"1990. things get a bit patchy in the 90s but this is one of the peaks - Brix has gone, Martin Bramah's back, Bill is dead...."

The list author says:
	"1993. lost in music...."

The list author says:
	"1995. Brix returns! life just bounces...."

The list author says:
	"1996. the best of the 90s albums, despite the loss of Craig Scanlon - and for a while it looked like it was all downhill from here...."

The list author says:
	"1999. after appearing to lose his marbles and further brutal culls of band members, MES finishes off the 1990s with another (almost) completely new Fall...."

The list author says:
	"2000. some easy and uneasy listening to kick off the new century - and the end of Julia Nagle's time in the Fall...."

The list author says:
	"2002. curious live dvd recorded after another personnel cull - 'if it's me and your granny on bongos it's still the Fall' (MES)...."

The list author says:
	"2003. back from the dead (again) - we are Sparta FC!!!!!"

The list author says:
	"all 24 sessions that various incarnations of the Fall recorded for John Peel's radio show between May 1978 and August 2004...."

The list author says:
	"2005. blinding! and true to form, nearly everyone who played on this aptly named album was kicked out of the band a few months later...."

The list author says:
	"2008. after 50 years on planet earth and 30 years in the Fall, MES still manages to hit the target more often than not...."

The list author says:
	"a much needed attempt to track down everybody who has ever been in the Fall (and obviously it's already out of date)...."