Apparently a very unpopular album...

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2G+2 / Are You Are Missing Winner / Bend Sinister / Cerebral Caustic / Code: Selfish / Dragnet / Extricate / Fall Heads Roll / The Frenz Experiment / Grotesque (After The Gramme) / Hex Enduction Hour / I Am Kurious Oranj / Imperial Wax Solvent / The Infotainment Scan / Interim / Levitate / The Light User Syndrome / Live At The Witch Trials / The Marshall Suite / Middle Class Revolt / Perverted By Language / The Post Nearly Man / The Real New Fall LP (Formerly ‘Country On The Click’) / Reformation Post-TLC / Room To Live / Seminal Live / Shift-Work / Slates / This Nation’s Saving Grace / Totale’s Turns / The Twenty-Seven Points / The Unutterable / The Wonderful & Frightening World Of The Fall / Von Südenfed's Tromatic Reflexxions

not in my house, where pinball machine plays on an endless loop and the little piggies squeal.

oh! how they squeal! :devil: :devil: :wacko: :devil:

but :rollover: don't, 'cos they're dead already...

Conway – the popularity of Mollusc In Tyrol indicates it's high time to put those lyrics up on the site.
But until you get a spare minute, we'll have to make do with the words to Elf Prefix:

The chief elf Norman said
Gutter sweat
Splendid droplets on strings
His toes were cloven
His teeth were squirly and pointy
Knee cups curly
Ding click rings on ears
Norman jumped about
On all four corners
Norman twirled around his golden thrones
Whitewall tyres were a lifetime from his thoughts

Genius or buffoon? Poet or monkey with typewriter? Hard to tell really.

i do love H O W - who'd pass up being treated to visits to coastal pillboxes????? u'd have to be mad or summat.....

and the version of pay your rates gets me jumping about with excess energy.... ^_^

Quite partial to "hideous microscope thingies" myself...

yeah - me too... always makes me laugh!

I like "surfeit of lumber" too. Anyone else would have said something dull about "too much wood".

Any fans of Elf Prefix out there?

I may be alone, but I dig this album through and through. Pinball Machine is one of their top covers. Victoria comes across majestically. Dead Beat Descendant..Squid Law.. I really like this record though I grant it is a sloppy thrown together thing. Sorta adds to the charm for me.

Plus I have wonderful memories affixed to the record.

Of 29 votes so far, only 3 are for live tracks! Maybe they should have called this Seminal Studio.

This is surely the definitive version of Hit The North.

i love this album

pay your rates :applaud:

One of my least played regular Fall albums.

If I hadn't discovered the superior version on the Peel session box I would have gone for Squid Law. This circumstance provides H.O.W. with another vote.

the main reason to own this album is 'pinball machine'.

Bit of a complainer's choice it seems.
Well, we who don't write for NME, or don't want to sound that way (sorry, low blow) LIKE IT.

Here's a thought. IMAGINE it never got released. People whinged or were outraged, but the records distributors felt the same way as some of you guys and didn't think it good enough for the Fall canon.
You find it as a bootleg out shopping one overcast day.
Same price as it would have been otherwise. HURRAH.
Get it home, and want to tell the world about it. Original songs, highlights of live gigs, BUT NEVER RELEASED.
MOve over the BLACK ALBUM>
Get my drift?
Excited all of a sudden are ya?

I LOVE this album. I give it to people as gifts it's that good.

So, your lyric quote, Stevie:

The chief elf Norman said
Gutter sweat
Splendid droplets on strings
His toes were cloven
His teeth were squirly and pointy
Knee cups curly
Ding click rings on ears
Norman jumped about
On all four corners
Norman twirled around his golden thrones
Whitewall tyres were a lifetime from his thoughts

Genius or buffoon? Poet or monkey with typewriter? Hard to tell really

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Not it isn't. It's about the feeling you get when youy meet a high-flyer who seems alien and oppressive, and then you ironically alienate him, like a character from Alice in Wonderland. A fucking brilliant and insightful piece of writing, I think. Typicale of Mark, and not at all crap or random. I wish I had written that - would have taken me months.

Well, that's what I took from it.
Any other suggestions, anyone?

Deadbeat Descendant , this album was one of the first I ever bought. Love it.

Hilarious crap. And what about the Mollusc lyrics? I've tried...

Deadbeat would win many contests for best track, but alas is on the same recording as HOW.

Frenz-Oranj-Seminal. Disparaged here, but beloved in here.

AND Squid! I don't listen to the live tracks, it's the studio tracks that are without a dull moment or dud.

Prefer the Peel Squid. But this Squid is good.

Been listening to this a lot recently. HOW and Pay Your Rates are the exceptional tracks to me.

I can treat you to visits to coastal pill-boxes
I like to delve in destruction, lust and debauches
and I am the one who stamps on all ages...

Thanks for bumping this, BK... I hadn't voted! :o It's hard to choose, I really like everything on this. In the end, I had to choose the live "Cruiser's Creek' for Brix and the 'Yobbo' intro...

Seems I have already voted - would have been for either Deadbeat of HOW, but recent replays of this underrated album would have me go for the live L.A. now, Chief Elf Norman and all. I'm pretty sure it's the finest version of the song anywhere. :)