I Never Felt Better In My Life 1979-1982
Great American Music Co.
GAMC11422

Description

This concise collection features material from the first five years in the career of seminal British post-punks the Fall. Some hardcore fans will tell you that's the only period that matters, but whether that's true or not, the band's marriage of angular, spindly riffs and Mark E. Smith's vituperative stream of Allen Ginsberg-meets-Johnny Rotten punk poetry is certainly at its most striking on this brief-but-effective 12-track compilation.

1. Frightened
2. Rebellious Jukebox
3. Underground Medecin
4. Your Heart Out
5. Flat Of Angles
6. Totally Wired
7. Pay Your Rates
8. Older Lover Etc., An
9. Prole Art Threat
10. Classical, The
11. Hip Priest
12. Winter

i want this, cause this looks fantastic

Brilliantly concise; no dead-wood there is there—i'd probably look for something better for no.8. Naah, i'm quibbling now.



Great American Music Co. :confused:


Look here's the cover



flipping heck here's this one



:rolleyes:

Chiselling !

I'd imagine this would blow the socks off an unsuspecting but interested impulse buyer.

I wonder what version of Winter it is? Seeing as it is just one track I would think the live version off APOAT.

Listened to music clips - the last track is Winter (Hostel-Maxi) (part 1 from Hex).

The Great American Music Company

Christ i clicked on that, let it chug into the first sample clip and felt that same rush of excitement and fright i felt all those years ago.
Eat your heart out Marcel; and cheers to the Great American Music Company for doing that, all unexpected like. :wacko:

The 'Rebellious Jukebox' erm box is the worst piece of Fall packaging, bar none.
It sticks out above all my other Fall CDs and ruins the perfect line that all the others create (the Peel box and the red box do too, but only by 7mm exactly, which is negligable in my view)...
I should just place RJ at the end of my collection, you say; but then that would ruin the carefully maintained chronological order and only a fool would do such a thing.

I won't be buying this comp. No, sir!

Another new tax year, another pointless new Fall comp.
Cheers, Mark!

i dont think i own the rebellious jukebox comp.

Three of those tracks were recorded in 1978.

I don't know anyone who says they made all their best stuff between 1979 and 1982.

The photo of MES is at least 15 years after the tracks.

What bobbins.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Great track selection. Glad to see Underground Medecin get the nod over No Xmas for John Quays and Industrial Estate.

I have all the tracks but I still would have purchased it had the cover being any good :zzzz: . So I'll pass on this one. <_<

I'll be waiting until it's £4 on Ebay. Good tracks all but even I'm not daft enough to shell out top whack for stuff I already own.

hey unseen-ah-man-uh...
DO NOT BUY THIS ONE!

to understand why...
...meet the holunderman for a schorle or a schlafly pale ale...

great AMERICAN!!!

good nite


and, btw...
since when are you into this guy?

:confused:

What's the point of this? Where's the market for it? :grrr:

Go and buy Psykick Dance Hall instead if you really need an early years compilation.

why would anyone on this forum need to purchase this?

save your money and go buy a fucking cheeseburger instead

Well they wouldn't need to would they, on this forum i mean.
The selection i suppose is interesting insofar as what's in and what's out. Which in turn is about as interesting as The Fall Albums League, and that seems popular enough.:wacko:

There's endless shuffling and repackaging of material nowadays, from the Fathers Day Top Gear product to this narrow vein of one group's output during one short period. It's an earner for someone—well Smith primarily as has been said already.

Who's it for...? the Great American Music Co must have some idea. I don't.

Clearly the Great American Music Company has no clue whatsoever.

"Our mission - to rescue great archival music from obscurity and introduce the finest new artists to the world."

Apparently being currently in print on the largest label in the world constitutes "obscurity."

And a 2005 live album from Echo & The Bunnymen is "archival."

This compilation has a nice title. But judging by the track list not much else. All of the Fall catalogue from 79-82 has already been reissued by Sanctury in the UK at least. So what do we need this for ?

listening pleasure, nothing else. :rolleyes:

the classical makes me want to dance around my room naked

Brilliant music but entirely pointless.

I look forward to the "Fall 4 Fathers" compilation, due about 2026. On K-tel.

My kind of man.


:P

nothing quite like another fucking comp is there? at this rate there must be more of em than there are official albums. it's a shame cos anyone buying this as an introduction to the band is missing the point entirely. get stuck into the very reasonably priced beautifully packaged and highly informed sanctuary reissues if you want to find out about the fall for fucks sake. compos like this defeat the purpose. rehash rehash rehash

The way I see it, the more labels that seek out old Fall music to release the more advance money the band will be able to collect and then put the towards the release of new records. So I don't mind it, so much. I do think they could have put Print Head on it though so that Dragnet could be represented by three songs instead of two.

A cd like this isn't designed for people who are already harcore Fall fans. Unless these are interesting alternative versions of all these songs! ^_^

fully agreed

Yeah, "Printhead" rulez and it does help foster an appreciation for the ban'd shallower, funner side. Same with "In the Park" and "Prole Art Threat."

Oftimes The Oldstyle Fall was heavy, but they sounded great even when they weren't.

ON EDIT
I didn't check to see if new comp had "Dice man" on it. Probably better not too include both "Dice Man" and "Print Head." Enough other good stuff on Dragnet anyway.

:lol: Echo & the Bunnymen!

:sick:

I guess I don't really know how this works. Don't Sanctuary have the rights to all these songs now? I thought one of the bonuses about these deluxe re-issues was that it was going to put an end to the glut-the-market comps like this. Of course it doesn't effect me, and it'd be nice if someone buys this and lines The Fall's wallet a bit, but there's something about this particularly comp that strikes me as really bizarre...A comp like this is aimed at new fans obviously, and since I don't think there are that many 45 year old outs out there who have decided that today is the day to finally check out the Fall, it's mostly geared toward younger people who no doubt have grown up with the internet and who no doubt will read about 50 thousand other, better starting points to hear the Fall. Then again, surely there will be one 75 year old great Aunt who has a Xmas list with "nephew--(insert title) Fall album" and will think "ooo, yes, but I can just get him this little best of, won't he be happier with this than the obviously inferior one he has requested."

Or at least that consistently happened to me as a 14 year old.

No, no, no. Allow me...

1 Frightened
2 Crap Rap/Like To Blow
3 In My Area
4 Psykick Dancehall
5 Your Heart Out
6 Totally Wired
7 English Scheme
8 New Face In Hell
9 Fit And Working Again
10 Leave The Capital
11 Just Step S'Ways
12 The Classical

(Keep in mind I'm using the same chronological system, number of tracks and newbie-pleasing-yet-not-too-obvious philosophy).

Still, it's not too bad I guess.
Can't beat Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology for early fall though. I owe it a lot.

...and Psykick Dancehall for all the non - RT material, providing you can tolerate the skips in Frightened! :rolleyes:

Mind you, once you have these comps, your'e left wanting more, so end up buying the original albums anyway! :lol:

This is the only Fall album you can readily get in Ottawa!

Sadly I bought a copy in HMV, well it was fairly cheap :unsure:

an I the only saddo to buy it?