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With "Part Of America Therein". Reissue of 1981 "pop" EP and live EP together!
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Originally released in 1981 on 10-inch vinyl and then notoriously unavailable for over ten years until a somewhat sloppy re-release in 1992, this mini album has continuously been the victim of its format and the greatness of its successor 'Hex Enduction Hour'. This is, however, grave injustice to what is one of the very best Fall albums that they ever received. Surpassed in complexity and craftmanship only by 'Hex' and unsurpassed in sheer energy and gall by no other Fall album, this is not just one of their very best, but it stands out among the quintessential albums of the early 1980s.
For a mere 6-track mini album, the songs are remarkably varied, from the slow 'Older Lover' to the killer attack of 'Prole Art Threat' to the hypnotic, driving riff of 'Slates, Slags Etc', all delivered with an intensity the band has rarely ever achieved since (except perhaps in recent live performances).
This newly remastered 2004 re-release presents the album for the first time in an appropriate context: in addition to the six original tracks there are seven bonus tracks - their 1981 Peel Session, the 'Lie Dream/Fantastic Life' single and a studio outtake - bringing this to a 50-minute document of the band driving towards their zenith.
This is absolutely essential and should be in everybody's record collection, regardless of whether you are a Fall fan or not.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Fall fans tend to differ from fans of other, lesser groups, in that they all tend to become a bit obsessed. I have six of their records (the most I have by any artist, matched only by Miles Davis) and I intend to go to Fopp today and buy Dragnet for a fiver. It isn't easy to say which of The Fall's records are the best, because they are all brilliant and they are all quite different. For me the best albums i've heard are probably Grotesque, which is the most left-field, the Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, which is the first I bought back in 2000 and is the most catchy and headbanging, and Hex Induction Hour, which is the most classicly Fallian. Perverted by Language is a bit murky and meandering and This Nations Saving Grace is a bit unsuccesfully poppy for me. But I think their greatest moment is the concentrated brilliance of Slates. Unlike their longer efforts, every song on this ep is a moment of shear genius, without a single dud song. It is the one I listen too most, and every time I start listening to it I have to turn it up and wait untill it's finished before I can do anything else. Every time I hear the song Slates it sends shivers up my spine. It is one of favourite songs of all time, although you would have a hard time convincing any Fall novices of it's brilliance. Incidentally, I think that Mark E Smith is one of the best British writers of our time in any medium. He runs rings around most contemporary poets or novelists with the originality and imagination of his writing.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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With the Fall it either connects or it's a tuneless racket. The Marmite band of culture. If they do, it becomes firmly fixed in the memory bank, if it doesn't it's a scram out the house screaming.
Mark attracts people from high and low "brow" cultures plus all the outsiders. People like Leigh Bowery, Michael Clarke, George Best, me and you.
Leeds Futurama festival 1979; same stage as Joy Division, the tinny production of Witch Trials and Dragnet was alchemised into a rockin' racket of dischord, complete with the leering deadpan intonation of a northern Perry Rotten.
Lost contact with the people I journeyed with to Leeds at Futurama. A missing two days for us all. We assembled on Monday morn, awestruck by all we witnessed, one commonality, the Fall had struck. Returning home down south, we put on the Fall's records, but how high we turned the volume, they never captivated the moment, all witnessed individually. That was until Slag Slates turned up. Imagine blasting this at Number 11, with Mark and the band cranked really high juggernauting through the back catalogue. It's not that I didn't appreciate Witch Trials or Bingo Master's Breakout, it's just live it turned into something visceral. Sounding utterly sane, they dragged you into the fold.
This album is up there with all the best, there was so much at the time there's not a league table, it all depends on the mood.
This is the sound of the late 70's/early 80's when anything was possible. "Punk" was a broad church, anyone influence by Iggy, Ramones, Pistols was a joiner. This was part of the last post before it all fragmented into wet journo/record company labels.
The Fall took elements of the zeitgeist and warped it into their harmonic sculptures. The lyrics are an attack on what was termed at the time, posers, those who effect a relationship but have no inner core, they simply move on with the essence of a blown dandelion seed to the next cause/band/art/political movement. The focus of his bucolic attack were students and proles, men and women who clung to causes or ways of being, obviously fake, but they kept on going anyway.
Mark the situationist!!!
Mark attracts people from high and low "brow" cultures plus all the outsiders. People like Leigh Bowery, Michael Clarke, George Best, me and you.
Leeds Futurama festival 1979; same stage as Joy Division, the tinny production of Witch Trials and Dragnet was alchemised into a rockin' racket of dischord, complete with the leering deadpan intonation of a northern Perry Rotten.
Lost contact with the people I journeyed with to Leeds at Futurama. A missing two days for us all. We assembled on Monday morn, awestruck by all we witnessed, one commonality, the Fall had struck. Returning home down south, we put on the Fall's records, but how high we turned the volume, they never captivated the moment, all witnessed individually. That was until Slag Slates turned up. Imagine blasting this at Number 11, with Mark and the band cranked really high juggernauting through the back catalogue. It's not that I didn't appreciate Witch Trials or Bingo Master's Breakout, it's just live it turned into something visceral. Sounding utterly sane, they dragged you into the fold.
This album is up there with all the best, there was so much at the time there's not a league table, it all depends on the mood.
This is the sound of the late 70's/early 80's when anything was possible. "Punk" was a broad church, anyone influence by Iggy, Ramones, Pistols was a joiner. This was part of the last post before it all fragmented into wet journo/record company labels.
The Fall took elements of the zeitgeist and warped it into their harmonic sculptures. The lyrics are an attack on what was termed at the time, posers, those who effect a relationship but have no inner core, they simply move on with the essence of a blown dandelion seed to the next cause/band/art/political movement. The focus of his bucolic attack were students and proles, men and women who clung to causes or ways of being, obviously fake, but they kept on going anyway.
Mark the situationist!!!
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the falls finest (half) hour?
For me this the fall at their most powerful. Crabby,barbed,vicious. Every target hit slap bang in the middle. Read more
Published 12 days ago by mark
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Published 1 month ago by Arroyoman
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As someone who has enjoyed The fall since their very first single "Bingo masters break out" the original album is one that passed me by. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mw Puleston
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I would quite sneakily say this is their best effort, however it would be careless to dismiss longer albums they have done. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. AJ Harrison
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Published 22 months ago by Sir Percy Blakeney
The Falls Broken Sound remains... THE CASE DOES NOT.
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And you aren't here to admire my continuous prose bolstering The Falls already-intangible BEAUTY... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by B. A. Magill
fall at their peak
I first came into contact with Slates after hearing An Older Lover on Radio 1 one evening. Having recently got into the Fall I soon bought it (I would call it an Ep)and in those... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2005
AN OLDER LOVER...
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Published on 24 Mar 2005 by Jeff Markham
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