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 enlarge | Artist: The Fall
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3538
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 47
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 602517657298
EAN: 0602517657298
ASIN: B0015I2OX2
Release Date: April 28, 2008
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| » | Alton Towers | | » | Wolf Kidult Man | | » | 50 Year Old Man | | » | I've Been Duped | | » | Strange Town | | » | Taurig | | » | Can Can Summer | | » | Tommy Shooter | | » | Latch Key Kid | | » | Is This New | | » | Senior Twilight Stock Replacer | | » | Exploding Chimney |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 the only band in the world July 13, 2008
Stop whining, snivelling, prevaricating. If you you want SMOOTH, SEAMLESS, CLEAN, go and listen to Boston. This is art. This is provocation. Its messy. Its difficult. I saw a bunch of these songs played live last night in Donegal, and it was extraordinary. Nobody else is doing this. Celebrate!
The Fall are back July 11, 2008
This is the Fall at their brilliant and uncompromising best - a magnificent return to form after the relative disappointments of the previous two recordings. IWS in my view is as good as anything they have ever done and will stand the test of time.
Two hairy men digging up Scotland... May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd be madder than Mr Mad from Madtown if I was to stoop over my stereo with a dour expression on my face waiting for Mr Mark E Smith to say or do anything to make me grumble.
This is pure vintage Fall. That is the sum of it. If you like The Fall then you'll like this one, in the same way you liked the last one.
When I play my collection of Fall CDs I shall place this amongst my favourites, though.
What is it with Mark E Smith? Is he some kind of genius? To look at him you wouldn't say it.
His voice always seems to fit in with the music. It's uncanny.
 Better than the last one but that's not saying much May 2, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
There are a few moments of brilliance here, and many reminders of past success: much of it has a similar sonic palette to Reformation Post-TLC but with added electronic interjections. While RPTLC started strongly but degenerated into inconsequential ditties and lengthy sound-experiments, at least this one stays solid to the end, the feeling of continuous energy aided by having the tracks tightly segued together. This time the 10-minute track doesn't feel like a bad joke at the listener's expense, but is a suite of distinct sections of music, with contrasting moods but also recurring themes. Lyrically MES is on pretty good form throughout - a mixture of bizarre stories, nonsensical slogans and personal pre-emptive strikes: "I'm a 50 year old man, what'cha gonna do about it?" He also speaks for many of us when he proclaims "My boss has the imagination of a gnat!"
Unfortunately the sound quality is definitely a step down from the usual standards. I realise The Fall are not the group to expect audiophile quality from, but someone has seriously buggered this one up - the majority of the album is in mono, and sounds like it's been ripped off a dirty or scratched CD-R (there are numerous glitches and drop-outs, especially on Strange Town), and converted to a low bit rate MP3 (there's a tell-tale squishiness to the top end). The mixing is OK, although the drums sometimes get squashed down in the mix due to the amount of compression being used - maybe it sounded good before it got accidentally converted to mono!
Contrary to what some of the other posters seem to think, The Fall have made quite a few duff albums over the years and can very wildly from one album to the next. Even the classic Hanley-Scanlon-Wolstencroft lineup were not immune to this: for every Shiftwork there's a Seminal:Live. Apart from the sound quality issues I'd say this was just on the good side of average: to put it in the context of more recent efforts, it's an improvement on Post-TLC but not as good as Fall Heads Roll.
On first listen... April 29, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a complete newcomer to The Fall I've been eagerly awaiting this as my first contemporary Fall purchase. It may be because I've been listening to nothing but The Fall for about two months now, but I have a qualm with this album...
Whether you're back in the glory days of The Fall (for me that means everything without exception up to - but excluding - This Nation's Saving Grace (I think the Brix era is vastly overrated)) or mooching around the glorious renaissance of The Unutterable, Extricate, Code:Selfish, Country on the Click etc, the one truism for me is that every Fall album is an immense grower. You may not like it on first listen, you might hate it on second listen, you might dread every track...but after a while you find that you can't live without it.
And that's my qualm. On first listen I love this album to bits. It worries me. Will it endure? Will it improve? Or will I get bored of it?
Alton Towers is a weak opener, but tracks like 50 Year Old Man (an awesome 11-minute anchor), Wolf Kidult Man, Can Can Summer, Strangetown, and Tommy Shooter strike me as instant bona fide Fall classics. Even Senior Twilight Stock Replacer, despite being a pale and anaemic version of the stormtrooping song they opened with at Hammersmith Palais, gets me in the head and the spine.
So, MES bounces back yet again with an instant classic. It's that word 'instant' that worries me though...
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