- Audio CD (26 Feb 2008)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Box set
- Label: Sanctuary
- ASIN: B0006OL5J0
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 76,451 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. The Classical | |||
| 2. Jawbone + The Air-Rifle | |||
| 3. Hip Priest | |||
| 4. Fortress / Deer Park | |||
| 5. Mere Pseud Mag. Ed | |||
| 6. Winter (Hostel-Maxi) | |||
| 7. Winter 2 | |||
| 8. Just Step S'ways | |||
| 9. Who Makes The Nazis? | |||
| 10. Iceland | |||
See all 11 tracks on this disc
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Deer Park | |||
| 2. Who Makes The Nazis? | |||
| 3. I'm Into C.B. | |||
| 4. Session Musician | |||
| 5. Jazzed Up Punk Shit | |||
| 6. I'm Into C.B. (Stars On 45 Version) | |||
| 7. And This Day | |||
| 8. Deer Park | |||
| 9. And This Day (Revisited) | |||
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is not a record for the faint hearted or not the place to start if you have the good fortune to be starting out with The Fall. What it is, is
a hardcore delight, a challenging one-off, and the early Fall masterpiece.
It's a better record than This Nation's Saving Grace, despite what a lot of critics think.
Opener, The Classical, is one of the all time best Fall songs, which is saying an awful lot-a belting hard rock tune, that somehow sounds unlike any other hard rock tune you've ever heard. Hip Priest, which of course turns up on the soundtrack to The Silence of the Lambs,is a demented and irresistible mission statement. Who makes the Nazis? is as unusual a piece of music as its title suggests.
Hex exhibits all the things that make The Fall great-repetition, forcefulness, melody(when they can be bothered) and strangeness-that gift they have of making music that sounds as if it shouldn't work, sounds somehow 'wrong', but which takes you to places no other band reach.And i do mean no other band. Which isn't to say they don't have influences-they do- but that what they do is unique.
A wonderful, disquieting and energising record. A classic.
a hardcore delight, a challenging one-off, and the early Fall masterpiece.
It's a better record than This Nation's Saving Grace, despite what a lot of critics think.
Opener, The Classical, is one of the all time best Fall songs, which is saying an awful lot-a belting hard rock tune, that somehow sounds unlike any other hard rock tune you've ever heard. Hip Priest, which of course turns up on the soundtrack to The Silence of the Lambs,is a demented and irresistible mission statement. Who makes the Nazis? is as unusual a piece of music as its title suggests.
Hex exhibits all the things that make The Fall great-repetition, forcefulness, melody(when they can be bothered) and strangeness-that gift they have of making music that sounds as if it shouldn't work, sounds somehow 'wrong', but which takes you to places no other band reach.And i do mean no other band. Which isn't to say they don't have influences-they do- but that what they do is unique.
A wonderful, disquieting and energising record. A classic.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If, like me, you are too young to remember The Fall in their hey-day but have since discovered the maniac Salfordite troll, MES, you will have picked up collections here and there. Amoungst you have found scrappy cuts and live takes of tracks like Fortress, Deer Park, Just Step Sideways, Jawbone, Winter and Mere Pseud Mag. Plus, if you've ever watched Silence of the Lambs, as Clarice enters the guy's house at the end and is trying to find him and the missing girl, you may have spotted Hip Priest playing in the background? Then you find out that all of these tracks are on the album "Hex Enduction Hour" and you can not get a copy, or a carrier bag, for love nor money.
Well here it is. With bonus bits. Looking around reviews of other albums many Fall fans put their best album as maybe Perverted By Language or This Nations Saving Grace - but not me. This is MES at his vitriolic and artistic best. For me, HEX is the The Fall.
Thanks to Castle and the Fall lovers who had a hand in getting this re-issued.
To all you Fall fans, you no longer have an excuse for not owning this album. Drink a long draught, Dan.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Although The Fall had made their mark with albums such as "Dragnet" and "Grotesque", it was with "Hex Enduction Hour" that they really produced their first monumental classic album. This was the start of a highly creative period for Mark E. Smith and cohorts which would peak with "This Nations Saving Grace".
"Hex Enduction Hour" has some truly classic Fall moments and shows a definite maturity in the writing. The album starts off with the storming "The Classical", the clattering of the dual drums of Paul Hanley and Karl Burns rattling along at a phenomenal pace. This is quintessential Fall with Smith ranting in his own highly inimitable style. The basswork by Steve Hanley is solid and propulsive with a brilliant intuitive solo at the end of the piece. "Hip Priest" is another classic track, a tight tension in its slow, methodical build up. This piece was unforgettably used to stunning effect at the climax of "The Silence of the Lambs". The huge workouts on tracks such as "Iceland" clearly demonstrate the influence of Can with the use of repetition to produce an ever evolving, hypnotic beat.
The thing about The Fall is that on the surface they sound almost amateurish in the way they play. But actually they are very sophisticated in what they do, in the way they use their instruments, tape samples, lyrical ideas right through to the sleeve art. They are always experimenting with new sounds and ideas. No one could sound like The Fall and no one does. As John Peel so accurately put it, "they're always different, but always the same". On "Hex Enduction Hour" the use of different types of percussion for instance is quite unusual and just adds the right kind of embellishments needed. Smith always surrounded himself with the "right" musicians, especially so here. There was a brilliant empathy going on which was almost telepathic in the way they would feed off each other musically. I have only heard this type of symbiosis in a few bands such as the aforementioned Can, who Mark E. Smith is a big fan of.
"Hex Enduction Hour" still sounds fresh, invigorating and inventive even today. The Fall could make a right royal racket and here is one of the best examples.
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