- Audio CD (3 Oct 2005)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Commercial Marketing
- ASIN: B000A39FL2
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 66,187 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Ride Away |
| 2. Pacifying Joint |
| 3. What About Us |
| 4. Midnight Aspen |
| 5. Assume |
| 6. Aspen Reprise |
| 7. Blindness |
| 8. I Can Hear The Grass Grow |
| 9. Bo Dimmeck |
| 10. Ya Wanner |
| 11. Clasp Hands |
| 12. Early Days of Channel Fuehrer |
| 13. Breaking The Rules |
| 14. Trust In Me |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Forty-two line ups in some twenty eight years--but with gurning, prose-churning champion of invective jabberwocky Mark E Smith remaining constant at the helm--heads have indeed rolled within the ranks of interloping non-conformists The Fall. There has been, however, no loss of the band's conceptual objectivity. Heads Will Roll throws The Fall's idiot-savant oevre into sharper focus at a time when the band's profile--in the wake of the death of long term advocate John Peel--has never been higher. Cynics, therefore, may view the single release of a cover of Roy Woods' psych-pop classic "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" as commercial exploitation but Fall fans, as ever, will surely view any lofty chart placings as either entirely incidental or just another Mark E Smith double-bluff masterstroke. On the balance of probability The Fall fans are probably right; Smith's chatter of asbestos powered rifles, Bo Diddly, Heathrow airport, rubbish receptacles and Harold Shipman still marks The Fall out as rambling outsiders, although such is The Fall's extending influence that the band's organised garage-punk sound is now less of a shock than Smith's verbose spluttering. Brilliant but as cryptic as ever, Fall fans will chose their own favourite tracks. Will it be the rasping, solo JJ Burnel-style insistence of "Blindness", the nagging chant-along of "Pacifying Joint" or the punk police siren guitar of "Assume"? Or maybe the Gypsy Kings jam of "Early Days Of Channel Fuehrer"? Infuriatingly baffling. Who'd have it any other way? --Kevin Maidment
Review
Hearing Mark E. Smith shout over a rumbling beat is one of life's singular pleasures. He drawls like Johnny Cash after too many pints.
A new team of young whippersnappers have been chosen to form the latest incarnation of The Fall. Honed into a brutal, head banging rock beast they do a great Bo Diddley and thrash their way through an acid scrambled version of The Move's "I Can Hear The Grass Grow".
Smith filters dark thoughts through the broken prism of his brain. He chides those who spread "lies and discontent" on the lopsided "Ride Away" before singing "Hey, Hey". It's funny, but I'm not sure why. "What About Us" tells the story of an East German rabbit who moves to the North of England and gets annoyed about Harold Shipman.
By his own high standards Smith's performances here are erratic. Sometimes he's as sharp as a needle, sometimes he's incomprehensible.
But "Ya Wanner" and "Clasp Hands" are classic Fall: driving riffs with Smith's lyrical gems smeared on top. When they're this good, there's no one within shouting distance. --Nick Reynolds
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is premium Fall, it sounds really fresh and revitalised after the troubled times of a few years back. Smith sounds fired up, the band are tight, the whole thing sounds like they are having fun again. For a band who've made more classic albums than most bands have songs, it's great to have such a brilliant new album. Heavy, rolling, locked-groove bass-lines, catchy tunes (well I think so), Smith is almost even singing at some points. Ride Away has choppy guitar and almost an oompah feel, but of course sounds like The Fall. Blindness lurches with menace, a bit like Big New Prinz. I can Hear The Grass grow would be in the charts, if I was in charge; it's a bit like Infotainment Scan period stuff. There's hints of Free range in all this too, and Dr Buck's Letter.
Job's a good'un!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've followed The Fall for ages and this is one of their strongest albums. The opening track is unusual - they usually provide a very powerful and driving opening track so I guess this is something to stop them getting too predictable. The album as a whole is very good, every track is excellent and it is something you can listen to over and over again.
I find it difficult to decide if they have created a new Fall sound - as Smith has done in the past for example with Levitate - or if they have returned to the sound of a previous era. My conclusion is that this album takes all that was good about The Fall in the past and has bottled it, as if there was some essence of Fall that Smith just keeps making more and more pure.
I find it difficult to decide if they have created a new Fall sound - as Smith has done in the past for example with Levitate - or if they have returned to the sound of a previous era. My conclusion is that this album takes all that was good about The Fall in the past and has bottled it, as if there was some essence of Fall that Smith just keeps making more and more pure.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Most groups' best albums usually come early on in their careers. However, The Fall's are dotted about within their bulging corpus of work. But then The Fall have never been like most groups. There are four or five tracks on this album that compare well with anything Mark E Smith has written in the past 'Blindness', 'Pacifying Joint' and 'What About Us' in particular. The (now departed) band are excellent with thunderous rhythms to the fore and riffs driven into the ground like fence posts. If you haven't picked up a Fall album for years, I'd recommend this as a good place to get back on board!
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If you like the fall - then buy this cd!
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