Who else in 1992 music was writing about the geopolitical implications of capitalist resoration in Eastern Europe? No one, other than Mark E. Smith, and it still has resonance today 30 years later with the war in Ukraine.
We live in an absurd world, and it’s the artists who seem to border on the unhinged and deranged who respond to life with the greatest accuracy and authenticity. That’s how I’ve always felt about MES. That lad blazed his own trail.
There have been many talented people in pop music. Very special talents. But over time i am leaning towards Mark E. Smith as our one true genius. The belligerent drunken old phet head. I'm so sad he is not alive.
I remember getting the chance as a kid to see them in Dublin sfx. They were mind blowing. I was totally high on them. And I still connect. Yet others I obsessed over in those times don't have that connection thing.
i love how MES accentuates the last constant of each sentence. Like u never hear a singer accent the T sound. So cool and nobody will ever do that ever again now (sad face)
I went to see The Fall in Belfast. They didn't play. Apparently Mark squirted Ketchup at Terry Hooley, who took out his glass eye and threw at him. Just the usual.
Hanseatic teough of grim proportion ,I seem to remeber on the 12 " vinyl ,it sounded great on my systemdek through a humming A and R cambridge amp into some Heybrook Solo speakers ,What a Cad.
In every form they were the coolest uncool band that has ever been and ever will be. Like a quartz-locked machine with an MES shaped spanner bouncing around in the works ripping teeth off the sinister cogs. It's still tragic that we will never see the like again.
Браво! - тако сам и сам први пут чуо, само је био Единбург, а касније ова. У ствари био је L.A. у једној од шпица Индиректа (спортска емисија понедељком, мислим у 19, Марко Марковић :) )А онда сам набавио већину албума.
