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The original 11-track album remains the joy it was the first time I heard it, from the opening Frightened, to classics such as Rubellious Jukebox, No Xmas for John Quays, Industrial Estate (found on Rough Trade's Post Punk compilation) & Two Steps Back (that has a lyric that refers to Julian Cope!). This is one of the four great albums that Martin Bramah has played on (the others are The Greatest Hit, Extricate & Shiftwork)- the sound here is dominated by Baines keyboard & Bramah's tight direction- with frequent member Karl Burns on drums and Marc'Lard'Riley on bass. One of the classic Fall-line-ups. Nothing much sounds like The Fall & Live at the Witch Trials sounds like nothing else- it even predicts Riley's work with The Shirehorses with the closing Music Scene, as it drifts into a wonderful repetition close to comic (but it meant it!), as a voice from the control room tells them that time's up! It easily stands against such great albums of the era as First Issue/Public Image, Chairs Missing, Cut, Y, & Real Life: this being the greatest era in British music that I can think of...
The bonus tracks are vast and wonderful- a few that made up the first side of compilation Early Fall- including the manic Psycho Mafia & debut single Bingo Master's Breakout (worth buying for that alone!). There are alternate versions of songs from Witch Trials and others found as bonus cuts (It's the New Thing, Various Times, BMB) & songs like Dresden Dolls and Mess of My , that I haven't come across before.
This reissue comes with a great sound & attention to detail & reminds you just how great The Fall not only are, but always were. Hail M.E.S. & co, even if the former does resemble Gollum from Lord of the Rings...
The music is leftfield punk rock, a cross between Public Image and the Velvet Underground and Nico album. MES has written some great lyrics here, and enunciates them in a frightening, sharp delivery. Choice cuts on the album are 'Frightened', 'Industrial Estate', 'Repetition', 'Rebellious Jukebox', and 'Two Steps Back'. The second disc of John Peel sessions and live recordings is suprisingly good too, with some versions of songs beating their studio counterparts, as well as a few choice moments of performance banter from MES.
I think getting the debut as my first foray into The Fall was better than picking up, say, their most recent or celebrated album. It's because I want to make the progression that every true Fall fan seems to have done over the band's existence, checking up on a friend that's "always different, always the same". I recommend that other listeners taking their first steps into The Fall should start here.
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