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Shift Work [Box set, Original recording remastered]

The Fall | Format: Audio CD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (7 May 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B000NTPDXC
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 75,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. So What About It? 3:24£0.69
Listen  2. Idiot Joy Showland 3:43£0.69
Listen  3. Edinburgh Man 4:40£0.69
Listen  4. Pitsville Direkt 4:01£0.69
Listen  5. The Book Of Lies 2:57£0.69
Listen  6. The War Against Intelligence 3:16£0.69
Listen  7. Shiftwork 4:37£0.69
Listen  8. You Haven't Found It Yet 4:06£0.69
Listen  9. The Mixer 3:37£0.69
Listen10. A Lot Of Wind 3:45£0.69
Listen11. Rose 3:16£0.69
Listen12. Sinister Waltz 4:14£0.69


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Listen  2. Blood Outta Stone 3:34£0.69
Listen  3. Zargreb 5:54£0.69
Listen  4. Life Just Bounces 4:12£0.69
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Listen  7. Xmas With Simon 3:30£0.69
Listen  8. Don't Take The Pizza 2:38£0.69
Listen  9. So What About It? (Remix 1) 4:22£0.69
Listen10. So What About It? (Remix 2) 4:32£0.69
Listen11. So What About It? (Remix 3) 4:10£0.69
Listen12. The Re-Mixer 5:11£0.69
Listen13. Cloud Of Black 4:21£0.69
Listen14. Arid Al's Dream 4:45£0.69
Listen15. The War Against Intelligence (BBC Exclusive Recording) 3:02£0.69
Listen16. Idiot Joy Showland (BBC Exclusive Recordings) 3:43£0.69
Listen17. A Lot Of Wind (BBC Exclusive Recording) 5:26£0.69
Listen18. The Mixer (BBC Exclusive Recording) 4:33£0.69

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A gem of an album 4 Dec 2003
By Alan P
Format:Audio CD
This album is full of contrasts; you might expect the first since the departure of Brix Smith to lack her poppy input and go back to being a bit more raw and dark like some of the earlier Fall. The musical development of this album is a different evolution again, and shows that you can't put anything past the old dog Mark E Smith.

Released at the height of the "Madchester" rave explosion in 1991, it shows how the Fall have always remained effortlessly in tune with the prevalent tastes of the day, while also surpassing them. "So what about it" and "Shift-work" are driving, dance-inspired proto-pop songs, whilst "Book of Lies", "War against Intelligence" and "You haven't found it yet" use a harder, electronic sound later used to full effect in "The Infotainment Scan" album two years later.

The cranky old MES is there too - "Idiot Joy Showland" is a scathing rant on the commercial transparency of the Madchester scene; "A Lot of Wind" is another rant on the state of television (referring to it as "the tragic lantern").

If there is a romantic bone in your body you will also feel the emotion in two of the songs - "Edinburgh Man" is wistful and poetic on the eponymous city, while "Rose" is a sensitive but unsentimental ode to the departed Brix.

I think this is a special album as it is a great snapshot of a band, and a man, in a period of transition, but coming out most definitely on top.

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I like the Fall a lot but am not one of the diehard Fall "obsessives", so from my experience this is one of Mark E Smith's best and most accessible albums with outstanding tracks like "Idiot Joy Showland" and "Pittsville Direkt". The bonus CD, which makes it a good package, includes interesting material like "Life Just Bounces" and "Zagreb"
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I had bought two or three Fall albums with mixed results. Extricate was the best so far, then I saw a review of Shift Work that said it was equally accessible. They were right - it's an incredibly catchy record but also has great depth...which means I have played it incessantly since buying a few weeks ago. Only duff track is A lot of wind - which is, ironically, a lot of wind.
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