I've just joined Twitter. You can find me here.
I was prompted by a friend who suggested I follow Mark E Smith. 'Well fuck,' thought I, 'that could be a laugh.' He said it was just like reading Fall lyrics, and it is! Complete with '-uh's! Brilliant!
After listening to "The More You Look The Less You Find" last night I think I have to stretch back the last interesting Fall material to "Bend Sinister"
ReplyDeleteI like the video footage of "Blindness" where a poor Robert Plant is pushed off-stage-too easy a target really- but the music turned to poo and I can make out less and less of the ideas-uh.Unless being a dull,embittered northern monkey sans tracksuit is it. I'm unconvinced the crap keyboarding is a joke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_mND4HpTg
Brix made The Fall coherent.I am the first person in the world to say this. Jesus fuck-singing the praises of a hat seller.
They could happily dispose of Marc Riley in a Kiwi discotech, retain some coherence with Craig Scanlon who fucking underpinned them, but The Fall have been largely crap for 2o years.
We are The Fall!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqf_EXBZxK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwrBE2n5xGA
Garrh, meant Steve Hanley, not Scanlon. The bassist at any rate.
ReplyDeleteThe Fall are the best band in the world.
ReplyDeletebet mark e smith's twitter is written by someone else. surely he wouldn't be so pretentious to add the "-uh" in there.
ReplyDeletenot saying it's not worth subscribing to on twitter though. the sentiment and style still good to have feeding into your influences.
however. best band in the world? i think rothkowitz has some valid points... if you could mix iggy, mark e smith, pixies, velvets, lydon into a new formula you might have the best band in the world. hey... isn't someone doing that?