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Fall leader Mark E. Smith had never been satisfied with the sound of 1983's PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE, so this CD release has been completely remixed. This is not only The Fall's best-sounding album-it may well be the group's best album, period. PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE is an important record in The Fall's long and prolific career, as it begins a six-year stretch during which the band released one excellent album after another--each filled with such intelligent, knotty, and increasingly pop-oriented songs as LANGUAGE's "Eat Y'self Fitter," "Smile," and "I Feel Voxish." LANGUAGE is also the first album to feature Smith's then-wife Brix on guitar. The CD includes five tracks previously available only on singles, including 1982's amazing "Kicker Conspiracy," a funny and appealing song about football.
1982's ROOM TO LIVE is a transitional album in The Fall's long and amazingly prolific career. The band's two-drummer lineup--excellently showcased on the live FALL IN A HOLE AND LIVE ON AIR IN MELBOURNE--was at its peak on ROOM TO LIVE. The album's seven tracks match singer/provocateur Mark E. Smith's increasingly bitter and politicized rants such as the raging, sarcastic Falklands War parable "Marquis Cha Cha" with extended, intense, rhythmic, and dark songs.
Unfortunately, the group was falling apart. Guitarist Marc Riley left the band shortly after the release of ROOM, forming the much more pop-oriented Creepers. Ironically, The Fall went on to create the poppiest music of its career after Riley was replaced by Smith's then-wife Brix. It is worth noting that the first 2000 copies of this CD include a bonus disc of four 1982 live recordings.
This 1998 reissue contains bonus tracks.
Recorded at Pluto, Manchester. Includes liner notes by Nick Church.
The Fall: Brixe Smith, Craig Sanlon (vocals, guitar); Mark E. Smith (vocals, violin, piano); Karl Burns (bass, drums); Steve Hanley (bass); Paul Hanley (drums).
The Fall: Mark E. Smith (vocals, violin); Marc Riley (guitar, keyboards); Karl Burns (guitar, bass guitar, drums); Steve Hanley (bass guitar); Paul Hanley (drums).
Additional personnel: Arthur Gadman (guitar); Adrian Niman (saxophone).Uncut (p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[I]t contains the band's superior sixth Peel Session..." Room To Live Music | List Price | $9.98 (You save $1.63) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Gospel, Alternative, Live Performances, Contemporary Christian Music | | Label | Sanctuary | | Orig Year | 1983 | | All Time Sales Rank |  91915  | | CD Universe Part number | 6900310 | | Catalog number | 236215 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 16, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Live | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Mark E. Smith - vocals, violin, piano
Craig Scanlon - vocals, guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Karl Burns - bass, drums
Brix Smith
Paul Hanley - drums
Marc Riley - guitar, keyboards
Also: Adrian Niman, Arthur Gadman | | Additional Info | Bonus Tracks |
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Purchase Room To Live CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Fall Bend Sinister CD (1986) Bonus Tracks
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| | Fall Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 CDs (2005) Limited Edition; Box Set
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Work was well underway on The Complete Peel Sessions when the legendary John Peel passed away, so there's some comfort in the thought that the Fall's greatest cheerleader probably got to see and hear some kind of prototype of this incredible box set. He often referred to the band as "the mighty Fall": this box set is the evidence. Collecting all 24 sessions that the edgy, unclassifiable group did for Peel's radio program, this six-CD set is overwhelming and probably too much to digest for newcomers. Listeners who have already absorbed the excellent overview 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong, picked up an album or two, and are up for a challenge should put this set near the top of their list because these sessions usually ran four songs long, forcing the often-wandering and sprawling Fall to cut to the chase if they wanted to make an impact. Despite Mark E. Smith's flippant attitude toward practically everything, the 24 sessions here all display a need to make that impact with an urgency and drive that's woefully ...
| | Fall Perverted By Language CDs (1983) Bonus Tracks; Expanded Edition
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Fall leader Mark E. Smith had never been satisfied with the sound of 1983's PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE, so this CD release has been completely remixed. This is not only The Fall's best-sounding album-it may well be the group's best album, period. PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE is an important record in The Fall's long and prolific career, as it begins a six-year stretch during which the band released one excellent album after another--each filled with such intelligent, knotty, and increasingly pop-oriented songs as LANGUAGE's "Eat Y'self Fitter," "Smile," and "I Feel Voxish." LANGUAGE is also the first album to feature Smith's then-wife Brix on guitar. The CD includes five tracks previously available only on singles, including 1982's amazing "Kicker Conspiracy," a funny and appealing song about football.
1982's ROOM TO LIVE is a transitional album in The Fall's long and amazingly ...
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1994's MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLT, the second and last album of The Fall's brief tenure with Matador records, is the long-running and amazingly prolific band's best album of the '90s. This is probably The Fall's strongest work since the mid-'80s era, when singer/provocateur Mark E. Smith's stridency was tempered by the smart pop tendencies of his guitar-playing then-wife Brix.
Like those albums, MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLT features somewhat off-kilter guitar pop, downplaying the electronic tendencies of the band's turn-of-the-decade work in favor of catchy riff-based songs.
The guitars are most prominent on "Hey! Student," a song that the band had included in its earliest live sets, back in 1977, as "Hey! Fascist," and the punkish roar of "M5#1" and "Behind the Counter." Elsewhere, The Fall displays excellent taste in outside material by covering '60s avant-gardists The Monks' excellent "Shut Up!" and "War," a song from the mid-'70s art-rock merger ...
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Susan Boyle's grand unveiling on Britain's Got Talent was with a song from Les Miserables - the very song that lends this album its title -- and if she could become an international sensation based on a show tune standard, there's no reason for her to change her approach on her debut, since that's the sound that made her a star. Plus, a large part of Boyle's appeal is that she's a middle-aged woman recalling a bygone era when there were singers that appealed to an adult audience by offering soft, stately versions of pop hits and standards. That time was the late `60s and early `70s, and apart from a rather faithful version of Madonna's "You'll See," I Dreamed a Dream could very well have been released all those years ago, as it mixes up the show tunes, gospel, and Christmas carols with covers of Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World," the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," and a version of "Daydream Believer" that is easily the slowest on record. Boyle sings beautifully throughout, delivering more of the same of what ...
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Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Rudy Van Gelder (1998, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey).
In 1969, Gene Ammons was released from prison, where he'd been incarcerated after a drug conviction, and threw himself into recording like a man possessed. He was undaunted by such changes in jazz as the New Thing/avant-garde, funk, or the rumblings of fusion, and in fact adapted to them effortlessly. (Avant-saxophonist Ellery Eskelin points to him as a major influence.)
This GREATEST HITS package presents a cross-section of his '70s material, during which time he recorded in many settings, from small groups with organ and electric wah-wah guitar, to bands with a string section, working out on searing originals ("Ger-Ru"), and pop standards such as Sinatra's "My Way." On the opener "The Jungle Boss," a cooking skillet of early-70s jazz-funk, Ammons adopts the emotional cries of the avant posse such as John Coltrane and Sam Rivers in his sound. On "Long Long Time," he remakes the song in his image, retaining the haunting melancholy of this Linda Rondstadt gem. In his twilight of his years, Ammons was still a vital, emotional saxophone master.
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between November 1969 and July 1971. Includes liner notes by Bob Porter.
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In a sense, it's unfair to rate Koobas entirely by this, their only LP, because they were already in the process of calling it quits as a group when they cut it late in 1968; indeed, it's likely that if they'd thought they would have a possible future, ...
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