Been out a week now.

Any takers for best performance award? :)


I'm still undecided between Blindness, Hungry Freaks and The Wright Stuff. :unsure:

Mine is on order from the UK - I will report me well and truly when and if...

The opener.

I can vaguely remember Blindness being amazing and Reformation too. Too pissed. Carried on after the gig and almost got turned over on the way home, too.

I haven't heard the recording yet................

Blindness is a sublime version on this set, Mark's on top form.

Hungry Freaks, Daddy. Superb. :applaud:

A fairly predictable Blindness vote. I can't help it, this just happens to be one of my favourite versions ever.

Almost picked Hungry Freaks, Daddy for the performance quality as well as its rareness factor.

In cases of doubt I tend to stick to the originals.

Gotta be Blindness, followed by My Door Is Never and Hungry Freaks Daddy.

Predictable, but I just can't help myself from getting totally gobsmacked when I hear Blindness. Goes for any incarnation really - but espescially one as powerful and intoxicating as this. The moment when Mark does that hand movement and the band explodes behind him is pure magic... :applaud:

I'll go with that. 'Blindness' it is. :thumbsup:

[ON EDIT] Voted 'Reformation'.

A worthy title track (to RPTLC, that is). And don't you know it's the new Blindness.

Great artwork BTW. Gotta love the 'centerfold'. Best ever, genius photographer!

:whistle: ;) ;) ;)

Yeah, predictably, Blindness, although I think its one of the few tracks on the disc that doesn't live up the amazing actual performance which woke me from me drunken stupor when I had my head lolled over the barrier - I thought I was going to pass out during the song, it was so fucking loud.

Although Reformation from the disc is brilliant in its urgency - the atmosphere had by that time turned quite dark, and the DVD captures that really well.

voted for Wrong Place, Right Time

The Zappa track is wonderful. Blindness!?!? :blink: How can you lemmings vote for Blindness? :cry: Not a patch on the Peel session or FHR either for my money. Is it the Fall version of Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven and it doesn't really matter how shoddy the latest live version is because it's Smoke..and their greatest track so we feel obliged to vote for it? OFFS :cry2:

Perhaps people here have gone for 'Blindness' simply because it's a cracking rendition. Maybe not on a par with a Peel session or even a studio recording, but that's the joy of a live take. How can you really compare the two? :unsure:

Moreover, if MES had performed 'Blindness' as drunkenly(?) and half-heartedly as he did 'White Lightning' (which, incidentally was performed very well by the dudes), then the votes would presumably be cast elsewhere. And to me, yes, that vote would have gone with 'Hungry Freaks'.

Damn I want to change my vote to Hungry Freaks, after a third listen.

It's Hungry Freaks for me.

I know Blindness is held aloft by so many FOF members, but honestly, it wouldn't be in my top 10, maybe not even my top 20. There, I've said it. (Crouches down behind desk waiting for missiles) : :unsure:

My Door. Tim Presley is the best guitarist The Fall have ever had, and this - on the studio album also - is his tour-de-force.

I don't like the mix of Blindness at all. I've listened to a bootleg for the last two years and the sound on that was much harsher, sharper... this is too muddy sounding. Like sludge.

Dunno what my fave is yet. I love Fall Sound.

I don't know if Tim Presley is the best guitarist The Fall have ever had but he's about the first that Mr Smith let play so that we could find out whether he could deliver or not, and he did.

I think he 'let' Brix play.... perhaps he had no choice! B) On Cruiser's Creek, I think her playing compares favorably to Keith Richards'....

if Brix is Keith Richards then Presley is Mick Taylor :lol:

Ooh, I like that! :applaud: