Inspired by a comment of Stephen's in another thread.

Not as easy as it sounds. I should also mention that I would rather listen to I Am Kurious Oranj rather than most other music in the world, just to keep this in perspective. I've included EPs/singles as well.

1 Dragnet
2 Grotesque (after the gramme)
3 Hex Enduction Hour
4 Live at the Witch Trials (Deluxe Edition)
5 Perverted By Language
6 The Real New Fall LP Formerly 'Country On The Click'
7 Slates!/A Part of America Therein
8 Bend Sinister
9 in: Palace of Swords Reversed
10 Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never)
11 the legendary chaos tape
12 77 - Early Years - 79
13 Cerebral Caustic
14 The Infotainment Scan
15 the light user syndrome
16 masquerage cd two
17 Levitate
18 The Unutterable
19 Middle Class Revolt (aka The Vapourisation of Reality)
20 The Chiselers (CD Single)
21 458489 B Sides
22 Why Are People Grudgeful? EP
23 Wonderful and Frightening World of...
24 Hip Priest and Kamerads
25 Extricate
26 The 27 Points
27 The Frenz Experiment
28 The Marshall Suite
29 This Nat-ion's Saving Grace
30 Kimble EP
31 Seminal Live
32 Live 77
33 Austurbaejarbio
34 Are You Are Missing Winner
35 Touch Sensitive (CD Single)
36 The Collection
37 Shift-Work
38 masquerage cd one
39 BBC Radio 1 'Live In Concert'
40 2G+2
41 458489 A Sides
42 Code: Selfish
43 I Am Kurious Oranj

I pretty much had everything on vinyl up to Extricate. Then I lost them all about 10 years ago. :(

I'm now rebuilding my collection, but this time as CD's. So, it's currently meagre but here t'is:

'RNFLP (US Version)'
'50,000 Fall Fans'
'This Nations Saving Grace'
'The Unutterable'


Actually, I just scored 'The Unutterable' while perusing a local used record store on my lunch break today. Got it for $10 CDN. Now *THAT* made my day!! :applaud:

My local HMV has an imported CD of 'Grotesque', but they want $37 for it!!!! I think I'll look for it cheaper elsewhere. I also desperately want to get my hands on a CD copy of 'Hex'.

I tried, but I don't think I can do this. I have 30 Fall CDs exactly. Too many of them are equally classic and I can't put them in descending order. Also, a few are kinda spotty to me and I can't really rank those either.

What a lameass I am...

Can't even pick one single "fave" or "least fave"...depends on what I'm listening to at the moment.

Ooooh, I'm supposed to rank them, aren't I? I guess the order I have them in will do. :)

Told you it wasn't easy! I kept making changes right up until I posted my list. I could probably go back and change it again. The top three are pretty much set, but after that anything could happen. I might even switch the order of Oranj and Code: Selfish. :lol:

Here is my list. Like Stuie I have included live albums and compilations as well as studio albums:

Hex Enduction Hour.
Grotesque (after the Gramme).
Slates/A Part Of America Therein.
This Nat-ion's Saving Grace.
Perverted By Language (with singles).
Dragnet.
LIve at the Witch Trials.
Room To Live (Undilutablle Slang Truth).
The Real New Fall LP Formerly Country on the Click.
The Unutterable.
Totale's Turns (it's now or never).
The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall.
Light User Syndrome.
I am Kurious Oranj.
50, 000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong.
Oswald Defence Laywer.
Are You Are Missing WInner.
In a Hole+.
Live to air in Melbourne.
Levitate.
Live In Nottingham '92.
Code:Selfish.
Middle Class Revolt.
Bend Sinister.
Extricate.

Maybe when enough people have voted someone can find the average position of each album and we can know for sure which Fall albums are the best?

Added on Edit: Forgot to mention the Protein Christmas and Sparta 2# singles. But I can't be arsed to alter the numbers now, so I'll leave this for a future date.

Hex Enduction Hour
Sparta 2 single
Touch Sensitive cd1
The Marshall Suite
Rough Trade Singles boxset
Listening In Singles
The Frenz Experiment
TheWonderful + Frightening World
Early Fall
Dragnet
A-Sides
Grotesque
Perverted By Language
Masquerade CD1
The Peel Session
Fall vs 2003
Back Drop
Room To Live
Code:Selfish
Slates/Apart of America Therein
Words Of Expectation BBC
Cerebal Caustic
Middle Class Revolt
Live To Air Melbourne
Levitate
Witch Trials
Austurbaejarbio
Shiftwork
Bend Sinister
F-oldin money cd1
Liverpool 78
This Nations Saving Grace
TRNFLPFKACOTC
The Unnutterable
The Light User Syndrome
27 points
Extricate
Touch Sensitive Bootleg box
In A Hole
Protein xmas EP
Totales Turns
Time Enough At Last box
I am As Pure as Oranj
The Infotainment Scan
Are You Are Missing Winner
2G+2
Kurious Oranj
Seminal Live
Fiend With A Violin
Live 77


I think thats everything...

too much work. here's top 5:

grotesque
slates
code:selfish
infotainment scan
perverted by language

aye........

Perverted by Language
Hex Enduction Hour
Slates
The Unutterable
Room to Live
The Marshall Suite
Extracate
Code:Selfish
Dragnet
Call for Escape Route
The Domesday Whatchamacallit
Country on the Click
A Day In The Life (one song only)
B-Sides
Fiend With Violin (5.1 mix)
The Frenz Experiment
A Part of America Therein
The Infotainment Scan
Live At the Witch Trials
Middle Class Revolt
Seminal Live
Palace of Swords Reversed
A-Sides
Levitate

Oh that's probably all wrong and I probably forgot a bunch of records but ordering Fall records is near impossible.

I can't even remember if I have Hip Priests or Palace.

It has Wings and CB on it, the one I have.

Well, Wings is great but I cannot listen to the Man Whose Head Expanded and How I Wrote Elastic Man too often. It's just me.

God only knows.

Oh that's Brian Wilson.

ciao

wow...i know i have A LOT of Fall, but i've never thought to add it up...
well, i refuse to put them in order of favorites (it changes y'know? :rolleyes: )
anyway...here goes:

1) Live At The Witch Trials (sanctuary dbl cd)
2) Live At The Witch Trials (cog sin cd)
3) Live At The Witch Trials (step forward/IRS LP)
4) Dragnet (cog sin cd)
5) Totale's Turns (dojo cd)
6) Grotesque (rough trade LP)
7) Grotesque (castle cd)
8) Slates (rough trade LP)
9) Slates/A Part Of America, Therein (castle cd)
10) Hex Enduction Hour (line LP)
11) Hex Enduction Hour (line cd)
12) Room To Live (cog sin dbl cd)
13) Perverted By Language (rough trade LP)
14) Perverted By Language (castle cd)
15) Perverted By Language (castle cd reissue)
15) The Wonderful And Frightening World of... (PVC/beggars LP)
16) The Wonderful And Frightening World of... (PVC/beggars cass)
17) The Wonderful And Frightening World of... (beggars cd)
18) This Nation's Saving Grace (PVC/beggars LP)
19) This Nation's Saving Grace (beggars cd)
20) Domeday Pay-Off Triad Plus! (beggars/big time LP)
21) Bend Sinister (beggars LP)
22) Bend Sinister (beggars cd)
23) The Frenz Experiment (RCA/beggars LP)
24) The Frenz Experiment (beggars cd)
25) I Am Kurious, Oranj (RCA/beggars LP)
26) I Am Kurious, Oranj (beggars cd)
27) Seminal Live (beggars cass)
28) Seminal Live (beggars cd)
29) Extricate (phonogram cass)
30) Extricate (phonogram cd)
31) Shift-work (phonogram cd)
32) Code:Selfish (phonogram cd)
33) The Infotainment Scan (matador/atl cd)
34) Middle Class Revolt (matador LP)
35) Cerebral Caustic (permanent LP)
36) The 27 Points (permanent LP)
37) The 27 Points (permanent cd)
38) The Light User Syndrome (jet cd)
39) Levitate (artful LP)
40) Levitate (artful dbl cd)
41) The Marshall Suite (artful cd)
42) Are You Are Missing Winner (cog sin cd)
43) The Real New Fall LP (narnack cd)

singles, eps, comps, collabs, etc...

44) Dresden Dolls/Psycho Mafia/Industrial Estate (boot 7")
45) Early Years 77-79 (step forward LP)
46) The Man Whose Head Expanded (rough trade 7")
47) Kicker Conspiracy/Wings (rough trade dbl 7")
48) Perverted By Language Bis (ikon video)
49) Hip Priest And Kamerads (beggars cd)
50) Hey! Luciani (beggars 12")
51) Hey! Luciani (beggars 7")
52) In:The Palace Of Swords Reversed (cog sin cd)
53) Paintwork (book)
54) Coldcut (i forget the name...on cass, feat.M.E.S. on one cut)
55) I'm Frank (phonogram 12")
56) 458489 B-Sides (beggars dbl cd)
57) Free Range (phonogram 7")
58) Backdrop (boot cd)
59) Kimble EP (strange fruit cd)
60) Long Fin Killie "Heads Of Dead Surfers" (too pure 7" feat. M.E.S.)
61) The Fall Collection (castle cd)
62) BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert (griffin cd)
63) The Chiselers (jet cd single)
64) Fiend With A Violin (reciever LP)
65) Sinister Waltz (reciever cd)
66) Oxymoron (receiver cd)
67) The Fall-Archive Series (rialto cd)
68) 15 Ways To Leave Your Man-Live (receiver cd)
69) In The City...(receiver cd)
70) The Legendary Chaos Tape (feel good all over cd)
71) Fall In A Hole (cog sin dbl cd)
72) M.E.S.-The Post Nearly Man (artful cd)
73) Levitate '98 Tour (t-shirt)
74) Live at Brownie's NYC 98 (audience rec. cass)
75) The Peel Sessions (strange fruit cd)
76) 2G+2 (action cd)
77) Listening In: Lost Singles 90-92 (cog sin cd)
78) Words Of Expectation-BBC Sessions (sanctuary dbl cd)
79) The Fall Vs. 2003 (action cd single)
80)Live at Echo Lounge Atlanta 7/03 (audience rec. cd)

sheesh:blink: !!!

and i'm obviously missing a few items :wacko: :sick: :whistle: ^_^ ;) !!!

P.S. this actually took 3 HRS to do.... :beer:

just too bloomin' hard.
Got them all bar one or 2 dodgy comps & on any given day chart will change.
Current top3 ...
Witch trials reissue
Fall in a hole
COTC

bottom 3

2g
Extricate (temp. placing due to overuse)
Winner (will always be here)

and in the middle I have the live ones, nice to have a different look.

Alright, this seems like too much fun. But I think the best I can muster is a TOP 3 and a BOTTOM 3.

As always, highly subject to change...

FAVE 3:

Wonderful and Frightening World
Hex Enduction Hour
Fall In a Hole

LEAST FAVE 3:

Light User Syndrome
Infotainment Scan
Middle Class Revolt

Bend Sinister, Frenz Experiment, Unutterable and TRNFLP would also be very near the top! Who'm I kidding.... Perverted, Grotesque and Dragnet are also way up there....see whut I mean? Arrrgghhh!

As I always harp, I must qualify this by saying there are 5 I have never owned or yet heard:

Shift Work
Code: Selfish
Cerebral Caustic (this one is on its way...)
27 Points

and the Receiver comps and "Live In..." series. I have heard none of those yet, but they aren't quite in the canon of "true" Fall releases, eh?

It's funny how even those at the bottom of the list bring me a great deal of pleasure and have more staying power than most music of that era.

Even the least satisfying Fall album does me better than the pinnacle achievement of 90%+ other bands...

Singles included here but.... I got despondent after 10 minutes. The decisions were just arbitrary; I mean how can you say whether Hex is better or worse than Country? I think the best way is to put them in 3 categories; "Can't live without", "Essential" and "Glad I Have It". That should cover them all.

So, after the 10 minutes of moving them about this is what I have. If I had continued I guess that most ofthe live stuff would be near the bottom barring the glorious "In A Hole". I do think that Nation is possibly the greatest music ever put to record.

This Nation's Saving Grace
Country On the Click
Grotesque
Perverted By language
Hex Enduction Hour
Dragnet
Code:Selfish
Oxymoron
The Unutterable
The Wonderful And Frightening World Of
Totales Turns
Theme From Sparta FC # 2
Bend Sinister
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall vs 2003
Behind The Counter
Backdrop
Sinister Waltz
Fiend With A Violin
458489 B Sides
Words Of Expectation
Touch Sensitive
White Lightning
Telephone Thing
458489 A Sides
2G+2
Live In Zagreb
Totally Wired
Kimble
Perverted By Language
The Infotainment Scan
Slates/A Part Of America Therein 1981
The Collection
I Am Kurious Oranj
Cerebral Caustic
Live 15 Ways To Leave Your Man
Jerusalem
Live At The Phoenix Festival
Country On The Click
Austurbaejarbio Live
Behind The Counter
The Light User Syndrome
Levitate
High Tension Line
Oswald Defense Lawyer
Masquerade
In A Hole
Dragnet
Extricate
Live To Air In Melbourne '82
Why Are People Grudgeful
Ed's Babe
I Am As Pure As Oranj
Are You Are Missing Winner
The Marshall Suite
(We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Psykick Dance Hall
The Rough Trade Singles Box
Cheetham Hill
Masquerade
Shift-work
Free Range
The Frenz Experiment
A World Bewitched
The Chisellers
Live In Cambridge 1988
Live in Nottingham
Live Various Years
The Twenty Seven Points
Seminal Live
Live 1977
Liverpool 78

I am going to go allong with the lazy ones on this thread and just do the top and bottom three:

Top
Grotesque
Slates
I Am Kurious Oranj

Bottom
Cerebral Caustic
Extricate
Code Selfish

I like the premise of this thread
All Fall CDs from best to worst
Though I do fear that I'll be dead
Before I choose which should be first.

r u gonna keep up the poetry all day? :o r there no limits to yr abilities???? :P

I'll try my best to keep it up
As long as I am here
But fear that soon I'll have to go
And have meself a beer.

Eat y'self fitter! Eat y'self fitter!
Chicken and chips and ten pints of bitter!

:lol: :applaud:

see, now I just put PBL in the top 3 & kicked out COTC.
Winner is still bottom.
And I know that next time I play TNSG it will be number one with a bullet.

When you're done, you should go back and listen to your entire list in order. I'm sure that would reveal something.... just not sure what.

A hidden star chart to the planet of our origin?

I just noticed that I have Fiend With a Violin and Sinister Waltz! Where did they come from!? So the end of my list should be...

40 2G+2
41 458489 A Sides
42 Code: Selfish
43 I Am Kurious Oranj
44 Fiend With a Violin
45 Sinister Waltz

Too ridiculous so I'll just list the (sorta) proper ones:

1. Perverted By Language
2. Hex Enduction Hour
3. The Three Real New Fall LPs
4. Slates
5. The Unutterable
6. Grotesque
7. Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
8. Bend Sinister
9. This Nation's Saving Grace
10. The Frenz Experiment
11. The Infotainment Scan
12. Middle Class Revolt
13. The Marshall Suite
14. The Light User Syndrome
15. Dragnet
16. Early Fall
17. Live at the Witch Trials
18. Room To Live
19. Is Your Ass Missing Winner
20. I am Kurious Oranj
21. Levitate
22. Seminal - Live
23. Extricate
24. Code: Selfish
25. Cerebral Caustic
26. Shift-Work




So I say at least

wow. i love this record.

am i the only one?

I think it depends on when you got into The Fall /how old you are. I was 20 when Extricate came out...that was the first album / gig...will always be my favourite. I suppose it fitted with my Lou Reed- type colllection at the time. 'Bill is Dead' was the English 'Walk on the Wild Side' to me. I also thought it was Scanlon at his best. 'I'm Frank', 'Arms Control' etc. Mark wanted to be heard too...which at times he doesn't. The vocal was up front in the mix.

...sentimental old fool I am

Kurious Oranj was my very first Fall purchase (got it out of curiosity when it was released in '88) and is still one of my favorites. I too am surprised when I see the many derogatory remarks made about it... but two of my least favorites are Shift-Work and Infotainment Scan, and they often get high marks, so go figure.

bloody hell I'd never finish my list as I change my mind according to my mood

Levitate is of course the worst album
Are you ....is close enough (except from Crop-dust of course which is an awesome track)
2G+G is embarrassing.

Yep.. much more doable..

Top 3
Hex Enduction Hour

Slates

The Unutterable


Bottom 3

Seminal Live

Cerebral Caustic

Shiftwork

...I'll follow the lazies here and just do a top/bottom 3ish.....

bottom 2..... Shiftwork
Seminal

top 4......... Witch Trials
Grotesque
Perverted
Hex


Someone mentioned that it depends on which albums you heard first. Guess my selection reflects that...... started from the beginning...etc... maybe the 90s etc albums will sound better in a decade or so.... or before the moon falls......

I actually don't mind, in fact rather like, 2G+2, which probably makes me unique on this forum.