Which, is me, for I am he. Including review of 'The Real New Fall LP : Formerley Country On The Click!'

Adrian's Site!

i dont think too many will disagree with those scores ...cos they nice and high for most... :applaud: which is as it should be....[now stand back and wait for loads of disagreements :rolleyes: ]

whaaaat you dont like tempo house (iceland live album)
call yerself a fall fan :D

I suppose we'll be having that Prindle bloke on here next. :)

Prindle is great. He sent me a couple of comments, as you may have noticed. He has such a huge love of The Fall and his site is great, too!

Yeah, I like Mark Prindle, his reviews have too many "poop jokes" in them though, and he seems to randomely hate a lot of albums...but early on he got me into a lot of good music. I like how he's never panned a Fall album.

why do box and past have #2 after em?

why not do this to everything?

anyway .....i think mike's love xexagon sounds the most changed from the early versions of the album.....so that need a #2 after it for sure!

i like the past #2 now....which means i now just about like every bit of this album....even jjj n recovery kit.....

i like the new keyboards on the past....which remind me of very early, 70s, fall....so very appropriate of the past....

me fave thing on the album is the crunchy effect on contraflow that sounds like when u walk on frosty grass.... :D

From what I gather, the songs labelled #2 have been re-recorded from scratch, whereas the others have only been remixed &/or over-dubbed. JJ+J is obviously a new recording too.

Mike's Love Xexagon has a new vocal take, but the underlying music sounds the same to me.

Just folk at the busstop.
<_<

There's no review for 2G + 2...

:applaud: Hooray! :applaud:
'Ze Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall' is given deserved praise.
Shame about the confused floundering over 'Perverted By Language'; get it together man!

Great reviews!

But...

'Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers' is seven minutes long but unlike lengthier Fall song experiments in the past doesn't really warrant such length. This isn't the inspired hypnotic repetition of something like 'And This Day' or the hugely entertaining 'The N.W.R.A.'. This is just a song that hardly even sounds as though it exists at all.

:blink:

It's a huge, menacing, hungover thunderstorm of a song! One of my fave ever! And far more inventive than mere repetition. Oh well, each to their own.

Was introduced... by a woman... loose-limbed... slim...

Dktr Skagra

you need to get out more.

Apologies if its been on before but check out

http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/albums.html

for reviews of 37 Fall albums.

I dont know adrian denning so its not a plug by the way.

Aye, but he's not a patch on Mark Prindle. (Again, I don't know Prindle) That Denning chap's reviews of Will Young and Britney Spears are about as offensively patronising as it gets. And he's totally wrong about Interim. He wants to hear whole album that sounds like that? The guy badly (baldly?) needs to get out more.

Good reviews of some early stuff but:
He notes Extricate as his fave and scores Kurious Oranj way above Frenz....:angry:

I'll have his copy of Back In Denim, mind.

Ah, but with 37 Fall albums, & very kindly reviewed mind, Mr. Denning's probably around somewhere on this very board, no? :rolleyes:

In my eyes, no one who owns and loves 37 Fall albums can be bad in my book.


Prindle's Fall reviews are nice, but he desperately needs to re-write a lot of the older ones. Many were written when he was 17, 18 and are only one or two sentences. I'd like to get his more mature perspective on them now (not that his writing has matured, 1/2 his album reviews are still tangental poop jokes and out of place political ranting).

What's amazing to me is that thousands of people review their record collections online, and yet Prindle is fairly notorious. He has a leg up on everybody else just because he's been around so damn long.

Yeah, and Prindle was the first to do it as far as I know, at least on a grand scale. He predated most internet zines as well, in terms of reviewing stuff like The Fall. I must confess when I first got the internet at an impressionable age, stumbling across Prindle was pretty instrumental in turning me on to a fair share of new music. Even though he tears the shit out of a lot of good albums, I like that his site is basically out of a love of music, which you can tell, as opposed to more antisceptic music sites like Pitchfork which focus so hard on being ahead of the game/up to date with the latest music that often times they seem pretty joyless. I always prefer personal review sites, but comprehensive ones are few and far between. Ever visit George Stratosin's site? Jesus.

How the Adrian's Reviews site rates 40 Fall LPs:

50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 10
In: Palace Of Swords Reversed: 10

Extricate: 9.5
Code: Selfish: 9
The Real New Fall LP Formerly 'Country On The Click': 9
Dragnet: 9
Hex Enduction Hour: 9
Hip Priest And Kamerads: 9
The Complete Peel Sessions box-set: 9
The Unutterable: 9
The Wonderful & Frightening World Of…: 9

Grotesque (After The Gramme): 8.5
Levitate: 8.5
Live In Air In Melbourne 82: 8.5
This Nation's Saving Grace: 8.5
Are You Are Missing Winner: 8
Bend Sinister: 8
Fall Heads Roll: 8
I Am Kurious Oranj: 8
Live At The Witch Trials: 8
Reformation Post TLC: 8
Room To Live: 8
Shift-Work: 8
Slates: 8
Totale’s Turns: 8

The Marshall Suite: 7.5
The 27 Points: 7
77-Early Years-79: 7
A World Bewitched: 7
Interim: 7
Middle Class Revolt: 7
Perverted By Language: 7
The Infotainment Scan: 7
The Light User Syndrome: 7

A Part Of America Therein: 6.5
Austurbaejarbio: 6.5
Cerebral Caustic: 6.5
Fall In A Hole: 6
The Frenz Experiment: 6

Backdrop: 5

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Thoughts?
Prindle's are here. He gives Cerebral Caustic 8 out of 10 and starts his Reformation Post TLC review: "STUDIO ALBUM #25 - That makes 25 full-length studio albums, NONE of which have earned less than a 7 out of 10 on the Mark Prindle Scale Of Grading Scale. Am I just an earless fanman or is The Fall truly the most consistent band in history? As an earless fanman, I vote the latter. Even The Ramones stunk up my dick with Subaverage Jungle and Ass Idears, but The Fall are still, to quote their 1989 hit single, "Hangin' Tough."

Although it is always a good thing for the Fall to be given publicity via reviews I find his gradings a bit weird- everyone has their own tastes, but putting mediocre compilations above genuine classic fall albums seems a bit bizarre and some of his high fliers are not really what most fall watchers would view as the best (9 for code selfish seems a bit over the top even though it is better than a lot of people think.

I'm afraid I havent too much of a clue what Prindle is waffling on about- he seems to use a different version of English to the rest of us..however, he likes the Fall so he must be sound :applaud:

A penchant for collections, but no The Fall:The Collection? A Castle Communication CD with, for example, Tracks 5,6,7,8,9: Cary Grant's Wedding;Middle Mass;Slates,Slags,e.t.c.;Leave The Capital and Container Drivers (if I remember correctly). Watching Glast. this year I wondered if I should be more investigative on these new bands, but then I put on Slates,Slags e.t.c., and that was the end of my curiosity/weakness.

Adrian's review of Tromatic Reflexxions.

A mention for Dearest Friends :) My personal favourite.

Prindle on late nite US teevee discussing gn'rn'Yankovic.

Can I ressucite this thread?
Mark Prindle is how I discovered The Fall in the first place, I'm in eternal debt with him.

Besides, he's a great fellow. Never been an arrogant asshole like most of these contemporary rock critics.

And even his poop jokes can be funny if you're in the mood. come on, he's got some really genious reviews(which I cant remember right now, but I did spend some entire nights reading and laughing out loud with his reviews).

excuse my poor english. cheers.

Your English is smashing.

thanks, worried man, nice Mutantes' avatar, by the way. I'm from their homeland, where they are probably even more forgotten than in the uk or wherever you live.

My local record store has an Os Mutantes section - and the records sell. One week, they'll be well stocked, and then you can go in the next week with the money to buy something this time and everything will be sold out. There's also a burgeoning Tropicalia section.

In the last few days, I've managed to get hold of a compilation of tracks some of which is from this time, and it's completely dominated whatever free time I've had since I've heard it. Perhaps in your country, it's sort of the equivalent of Elton John or somebody like that is in my country, but there's definitely an appreciative and growing audience in the UK for Os Mutantes in particular, but others as well.

Damn!
That surprises me.

Tropicalia and Elton John is a good comparision. I guess you could say tropicalia requires a more acquired taste.

Os Mutantes, though, fall out of this class, no way you can call their incredible and innovative career as tropicalia. probably, brazil's best band. possibly. yeah, maybe definitely.

I did a little dance around the record store when I found Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis on vinyl there. Os Mutantes are on that record, but they don't seem to fit in with the rest of the acts on it.

By the way, this shop is called Piccadilly Records and is in Manchester. I think it's safe to say that members of The Fall shop here. It's a very well known store amongst the independent music network in the UK.

There was a Tropicalia compilation released on Soul Jazz in 2007 and Piccadilly Records made it their Compilation of the Year for 2007 - they had it on one day and it was hearing it in the shop and thinking what is this and asking about it that got me started.

Last year there was a follow up compilation called Brazil 70: After Tropicalia. There's an act on there called Novos Baianos that I'm desperate to know more about. They are currently number 1 on my list of groups I want to get to know better.

Tis me.

Adrian's 'YFOC' review

I've been chatting to Prindle about the new album, initial thoughts were very confused which i've captured in the above...

Haha, great review.

I love how you didn't give the album a buck in the first listen but, then, some pararaphs above, you're completely in love with the thing.

oh dear-9/10. must get the cd for ripping to ipod
as for another 6/10 review on gthe clutter eview thread-i gots lots of fall 6/10 ones, Code: Selfish Im looking at you