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And I've got... legal stuff to pay. Let's leave it at that.

me too...but let's leave it at that...

:girly:

It is a lot better than ppp as a record.....i wish there wasnt so much on pnm that is repeated on ppp....and having heard ppp first ...it felt like that pnm was just a repeat of ppp...derek and clive albums r maybe still £3.99 at hmv [well over here they r...although it is a few days since i have been in.....my fave spoken wordish thing [cos he talks thru the songs as well] is 'ted chippington : man in a suitcase'....which i sold ages ago for beer money....and now only have it on tape :( .....i will track it down again one day...

:girly:

The only time I've heard this album was in an Oxford Borders on headphones (they have this excellent thing where you swipe the CD barcode through a scanner and you can listen to a minute of each track). I got up to the bit where Mark rambles something about "What I want to know is why don't real bands with real singers that don't go round explaining themselves", and got a bit scared. And bought Slates instead.

I've heard The Caterer, though. And CD In Your Hand.

:girly:

I'll see. I've think I've just lost 15 pounds buying Fall albums off Voiceprint and letting my idiot brother enter the details so he got my address wrong. Probably serves me right because one of them was Shiftwork. And I've got... legal stuff to pay. Let's leave it at that.

Still, PPP was my Favourite Chillout Album (the only remotely relaxing thing in my collection apart from that last Pulp album, which was great), so who knows?

:girly:

Post Nearly Man is a classic- it's got it all..

1) Passing Aeroplane sounds slowed down
2) The unbeatable "Horror in Clay"
3) The eerie piano loop in American Poet
4)Dissolute Singer!
5)Camp voices on "I'm bobby"
6)The whistling odd-ness that is "shad segment"
7) Sci-Fi on Typewriter
8)Kwik save gets a mention
9) A "silent section" (cock up or deliberate-you decide!)
10)Reoccuring clicking sounds.

I genuinely think there is WAY more ideas and invention on this release than AYAMW/M.S/2G+2

If this had been released as "The Fall" and not as a "Spoken Word" release it would have been the ultimate "fuck you"/hardcore statement a la Metal Machine Music- and be hailed as a masterpiece in 2010.
It also would have been an accurate statement of the Fall's chaos at that time.

Ok there is no "riffs" as such but who wants to be in a hovis (Vauxhall) advert anyway?

Plink Plink Fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Is anyone else of the opinion that The Post-Nearly Man is a towering masterpiece that easily dwarfs most of The Falls 1990s output?

i like it

No.

Then you haven't listened to it enough...

It's fantastic!

I have, it's not, the self-interview on the Grotesque re-ish is 50 times more compelling. Not to knock PNM, mind.

I'm not quite sure about that statement, but I do absolutely love the record. I would include "Dissolute singer" in a list fo greatest Fall tracks, though.

I also really like Enigrammatic & Horror. However, I think that Bobby & Poet are a little too confused/ unfinished: I'd like to know "What really went on there" :huh:

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (not that I expect such things to happen on such a level headed forum such as this where free speech is defended with zeal) & bearing in mind that I only heard the abridged eMusic version (about 15 mins) but I thought that on the whole it was self indulgent claptrap that a band wouldn't permit. A sort of "black draught" (laxative) to purge the system & possibly as a consequense bring about the stunning return to form of Click...

oh no, I feel a purge coming on now....

The spoken word releases are at the end of my list of things to buy, so any opinions are welcome.

What about Panda Panza Panzer?

Is it a step onwards and upwards from PNM or more of the same?

Are they like the gig intro tapes (just MES)

Or are there tapes and soundeffects accompanying MES?

PPP is weaker, because the new material is mixed with live readings of tracks from TPNMan and Fall lyrics.

I would say you should buy TPN Man before the following:-

Cerebral Caustic
Shift-work
The Unutterable

It is a masterpiece, really!

I much prefer PPP to TPNM. Strangely the latter made more sense to me when I played it on shuffle - possibly because it frees you from the pointless exercise of trying to treat any of it as a continuous narrative. Horror in Clay is excellent... Enigrammatic Dream seems to be everywhere, and why not.

re: PPP

Yes.

Also yes :unsure:

A nice mix of live spoken word and studio and/or home recordings.

Yes, lots of nice almost-ambient stuff.

I can't listen to these albums. I want the MUSIC. If more of them come out I will buy them with a sense of duty, play them once, and then they will sit on the shelf. & PPP is all in one track. All very baffling and difficult, if that's the point.

*sigh* Now I suppose I will have to play them again and find out I have changed my mind....

Pander Panda PanzerAction Records had it for sale on Saturday night, and I thought I'd put all misgivings aside and try it
So it's the same old story - two years of dithering and I finally get to hear something that I just want to play on +off all day. Far from being the random shuffle I'd been led to believe, it does actually go from A to B, though really A to A, in a full circle.
It says that part of it was recorded in 'cambs', and by the quality of laughter I think I can tell which bits. Can't say too much about it as it's still just seeping in, but I'm surprised how much I like it, and how listenable it is, after so much flak ..
.. .and I get to hear the Duck joke :D (though the laughter is mysteriously spliced).

OK, fair enough, you got me, you were taking the piss.

i've never heard PNM & would like to ( - tho i've got Pander -) & it doesn't seem to be available anywhere these days. even action have it deleted... any ideas where i can hear it? tried on limewire & poisoned & web places like that but no joy.... :confused:

Amazon have it for 6 quid if you are interested.

cheers for this - confess i never even looked there - durrrrr!!!!!! :banghead:

I wasn't joking.
It IS a masterpiece.

You need to listen a few times, then all the unrelated stuff starts linking up. The W.Burroughs-style tape cut-up, cross-referenced material seems somehow to fold in on itself - very clever - like a commentary on a commentary (or something). Plus, it's very funny.

Give it another play or 5.

the buyers review on amazon is very funny :lol:

i don't think they liked it v much.

wonder if it is anyone on here :confused:

Assume you mean this:

"Reviewer: mattmorgan6 from Birmingham, UK ------- First off this is NOT a Fall album. I bought this album as a fanatical Fall admirer and although I've tried many times I cannot listen to it all the way through. The album is a series of tracks, of words spoken by M.E.Smith and various others, often unaccompanied but sometimes with minimal musical backing. There is no meaning that I can discern to the ramblings and, after the first 10 minutes, no reason to continue listening. This is a disappointing product from M.E.Smith and I feel certain that anyone buying it expecting the kind of originality and entertainment associated with the Fall will feel let down."


Couldn't make it all the way through????
Doesn't the man have any stamina?

Oddly enough, Amazon list this as a 'soundtrack'.

Soundtrack to what, I'd like to know.

anyone know where i can get my grubby paws on this?

I was thinking the same. Not spyed it in my cd rack searching.

i know where. i would pm you a link but the private messenger on this site dont work

There's two on Amazon....erm, one is £90.98 and the other is £123.47 :blink:

its on Itunes for £7.99

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mark-E-Smith-The-Pos...1QQcmdZViewItem

Decimal point in the wrong place, I hope!?! :(

Decimal point in the wrong place, I hope!?! :(


I bet it's Divvey unloading some of his surplus copies. :lol:

I'm having great difficulty tracking down a copy of this.

I saw this recently sold for about £30 on eBay! :o

Any pointers as to purchasing a copy from UK/US would be greatfully received.

Cheers,
Martin

PM MES-he'll sort you out, he's good like that

We are all entitled to our own opinion, but that avatar and Stephen has been on this forum for a long time, how can you like The Fall and not The Post Nearly Man? The PNM is probably the most original work by any artist in the last 10 years.

Its strange to read that stephen cant listen to it all the way thru either.....thats simply retarded in my book.

PNM 9 out 10.