The Fall - BM's best of thread

mackenzie said:
Fontaines DC sound very like The Fall. Particularly on "Hurricaine Laughter" I think.
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I turned my brother and sister in law onto Fontaines a while back and they messaged me a few weeks ago saying check out this band, the fall. They are just like Fontaines D.C like I hadn't heard of the Fall. : )
Bloody Canadians. I also took them to see Weller and the Buzzcocks.
 
nickmcfc1 said:

And you're sleeping with some hippie half-wit
Who thinks, he's Mr. Mark Smith
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Have you ever been in a restaurant and had food that was under / over cooked or just tasteless / horrible in any way
Have you ever had a pint that was just gas / cloudy
Have you ever had a car that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding and belched smoke
Have you ever had a girlfriend / boyfriend that was a plank in bed
Have you ever had a job that pissed you off from 08:00 to 17:00
Have you ever paid a fortune for a diamond that turned out to be glass

Then why do you listen to shit like this? Is it another punishment?

Give yourselves a break and find singers who can sing and musicians who can play. Do people really pay money to buy this?

BTW other shit musicians are available
 
Barcon said:
I turned my brother and sister in law onto Fontaines a while back and they messaged me a few weeks ago saying check out this band, the fall. They are just like Fontaines D.C like I hadn't heard of the Fall. : )
Bloody Canadians. I also took them to see Weller and the Buzzcocks.
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A couple of years ago I went to see Idles. Support were Fontaines DC, who I was excited to see, because I’d read a lot of good things about them. I thought they were absolute dogshit. Idles were great though.
 
flyer said:
Have you ever been in a restaurant and had food that was under / over cooked or just tasteless / horrible in any way
Have you ever had a pint that was just gas / cloudy
Have you ever had a car that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding and belched smoke
Have you ever had a girlfriend / boyfriend that was a plank in bed
Have you ever had a job that pissed you off from 08:00 to 17:00
Have you ever paid a fortune for a diamond that turned out to be glass

Then why do you listen to shit like this? Is it another punishment?

Give yourselves a break and find singers who can sing and musicians who can play. Do people really pay money to buy this?

BTW other shit musicians are available
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I guess you enjoy watching the X Factor / Pop Idol manufactured shite to produce a new "star" with his / her / their 15 minutes of fame?
Some of us prefer something a little alternative, original and unique.
The Fall lasted 40 years. If they were that shite how did they last that long? How many X Factor / Pop Idol divvies will be able to say the same?
 
flyer said:
Have you ever been in a restaurant and had food that was under / over cooked or just tasteless / horrible in any way
Have you ever had a pint that was just gas / cloudy
Have you ever had a car that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding and belched smoke
Have you ever had a girlfriend / boyfriend that was a plank in bed
Have you ever had a job that pissed you off from 08:00 to 17:00
Have you ever paid a fortune for a diamond that turned out to be glass

Then why do you listen to shit like this? Is it another punishment?

Give yourselves a break and find singers who can sing and musicians who can play. Do people really pay money to buy this?

BTW other shit musicians are available
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Who do you recommend?
 
flyer said:
Have you ever been in a restaurant and had food that was under / over cooked or just tasteless / horrible in any way
Have you ever had a pint that was just gas / cloudy
Have you ever had a car that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding and belched smoke
Have you ever had a girlfriend / boyfriend that was a plank in bed
Have you ever had a job that pissed you off from 08:00 to 17:00
Have you ever paid a fortune for a diamond that turned out to be glass

Then why do you listen to shit like this? Is it another punishment?

Give yourselves a break and find singers who can sing and musicians who can play. Do people really pay money to buy this?

BTW other shit musicians are available
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Have you ever known anyone who just wasnt cool enough to "get" something?

;)
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I guess you enjoy watching the X Factor / Pop Idol manufactured shite to produce a new "star" with his / her / their 15 minutes of fame?
Some of us prefer something a little alternative, original and unique.
The Fall lasted 40 years. If they were that shite how did they last that long? How many X Factor / Pop Idol divvies will be able to say the same?
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MES you couldn't be more wrong if you tried!! (no offence)

You won't find anybody more against X Factor / Pop Idol than me, I wouldn't waste the electricity.

But I do ask the serious question. By any measure of musical ability, that track is absolute rubbish. A singer with no vocal colour or range and musicians that can't play. Why would anyone listen to that?

You wouldn't buy a car that doesn't run or a pen that doesn't write so why get music that isn't musical. Seriously, with a few weeks of study, you could write and perform something of the same standard yourself.

As for longevity, I think McDonalds have been trading for a few years, but are you telling me they produce great food?
 
flyer said:
MES you couldn't be more wrong if you tried!! (no offence)

You won't find anybody more against X Factor / Pop Idol than me, I wouldn't waste the electricity.

But I do ask the serious question. By any measure of musical ability, that track is absolute rubbish. A singer with no vocal colour or range and musicians that can't play. Why would anyone listen to that?

You wouldn't buy a car that doesn't run or a pen that doesn't write so why get music that isn't musical. Seriously, with a few weeks of study, you could write and perform something of the same standard yourself.

As for longevity, I think McDonalds have been trading for a few years, but are you telling me they produce great food?
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Have you ever looked at a painting in a museum or art gallery and thought to yourself "what a pile of shite" yet the person next to you sees quality and style?
 
flyer said:
Then why do you listen to shit like this?
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I can well imagine someone asking a similar question about why people find watching the movies of, say, Tarkovsky, Lynch, Hiroshi Teshigahara or Lars von Trier rewarding, or reading novelists like Ballard, Burroughs, or BS Johnson fulfilling.

The answer is possibly that we might prefer artists who wilfully flout the conventions upheld by undoubtedly accomplished but more mainstream directors and fiction writers and do so in ways that we find compelling.
 
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flyer said:
Have you ever been in a restaurant and had food that was under / over cooked or just tasteless / horrible in any way
Have you ever had a pint that was just gas / cloudy
Have you ever had a car that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding and belched smoke
Have you ever had a girlfriend / boyfriend that was a plank in bed
Have you ever had a job that pissed you off from 08:00 to 17:00
Have you ever paid a fortune for a diamond that turned out to be glass

Then why do you listen to shit like this? Is it another punishment?
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Iv had all of the above and much more and worse
thats why i love someone like Mark that took the piss and wouldn't conform to some of the crap I have to do through my life.
Each to their own
 
flyer said:
As for longevity, I think McDonalds have been trading for a few years, but are you telling me they produce great food?
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And the sun is the most read and bought news paper in the uk,so what.

Give me Mark and The Fall with their indiosyncratic take on this world any day of the week
 
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