I love this album, not because it is the Falls best , but knowing where is was all going to end. The playfulness, the imagination on this record so outstrips their piers. Some of it does not make easy listening, but they know how to dig out a top tune, and great beat when it counts. So much of what is here runs violents against what is now assocaited with punk and new wave. It is a reminder that there was so much more to the scheme than just 3 minute 2 chord songs about smashing the state. There were 3 minute 2 chord songs about ....er nothing

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Album, 8 Oct 2003

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This was a hugely important album, defining a whole genre of punk and post-punk music, and setting the tone for the next 30+ years of Fall music. Looking at the track listing all these songs are classics, and I think Mark E Smith rarely went better than this album. Certainly of the very early Fall this is the best - I don't think it was bettered until Perverted by Language.

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