Don't get me wrong I love The Fall but for me personally I think the best performance on The Tube has to be The Cramps. In fact , I think I'll go watch it again once this video ends
Great as they're did since .no basic to us to know,much to hear up audio configuration ,oi.i like to hear so much a music to an ear... VICTORIA..makestical.royal highness Good morning.thanks.love it. The fall.
Not a single line on that angelic face! Middle-of-the-road haircut, conservatively dressed, innocent smile ... in the brief pause before he stars singing, we think, "What a sweet boy! This is going to a lovely ballad with singalong chorus." Thank God we are RAPIDLY DISABUSED as the propulsive rhythm, lacerating lyrics and dissonant, angry voice rip our throats out! Undoubtedly THE GREATEST TV debut since Rod Hull's Emu tore Princess Margaret's beating heart from her chest on Blue Peter in 1952!!!
The Fall are like marmite, you either get them or you don't and I most certainly do. I was a latecomer, Hex Enduction Hour was my introduction at the age of 18, but it was like when I heard the Pistols at 13, it was an epiphany. I remember watching this and it just confirmed how there was nobody else like them. Truly one of the best moments of my life and one I never tire of watching, and what truly tops it off is that Peel was instrumental in bringing it the masses. Not that they cared!
I read about them first - in Slash magazine ( LA) and then heard them on Rodney Bingenheimer's radio show, 78-79. I instantly thought they were special. First saw them live in the mid 80's, and many times after. I join Henry Rollins and many others in being a superfan.
It was not a form of music designed for easy listening pleasure or fashion stylists. You went there, took the punishment and then tried to figure out what it was all about. And then went back for more. Very difficult to explain.
I can't verify this, but I heard that when The Fall did Later with Jools Holland, they specified in their contract that Jools Holland was not to play boogie-woogie over any of the songs.
The Fall was incredibly good at this time. Will be one of the most famous bands in history in 500 years. Aliens will buy their surviving records for incredibly large sums, pass them down to your grandkids.
The 80's indie scene produced some of the best bass lines in modern music! And Steve Hanley was right up there with the best of them! Remember seeing The Fall when they supported The Cramps, up in Glasgow Tech, and grabbing Bryan Gregory's guitar pick! Aye, those were the days!
This song (Smile) has such a power to it. Brilliant choice for TV. "Well Fed, In a Welfare way"-one of many amazing lines. Like a militant march straight through your mind
John Peel, a legendary broadcaster and a wonderful man, that I was fortunate enough to meet and spend time with introducing the extraordinary and utterly unique genius of The Fall! What a treat, thank you so much for posting.
I am a bit of a Beatles pussy but you may be right. I find myself getting teary eyed with The Fall too. And he is so crabby and drunk and unpleasant and shit but wow he could write.
This is incredible! They are so tight and so perfectly entwined musically. Such great riffs and bass lines. Lyrics and vocals are god like. And the whole thing comes together like something that god put together on his four track and asked what people thought?
Jeez The Group sound so incredibly powerful here and M.E.S is on top form I'm still a huge fan of the early 2000's-2017 LP's, though. That last line-up of The Fall was brilliant.
I wish MES could have stayed this age forever. Can't believe he's gone. Never thought he'd die. Met him at this age. Knocked on his door in prestwich and he said, deadpan "I'm in the middle of me tea" I couldn't speak. I was such a knob 😂
"When I'm dead and gone My vibrations will live on In vibes on vinyl through the years People will dance to my waves Rock it! Rock it! It's quester psykick dance-hall..."
I agree with what you say up to a point, there was some really good stuff on it, I particularly remember The Smiths appearance on the day they released The Queen is Dead...Brilliant. I probably hated this when I was a 13 year old heavy metal kid, but I love it now.
thanks for putting these up ,been after seeing this properly for years-saw it when it was on,a mate video'd it-& watched it every tues af'noon when we skived school!-always thought k.burns had a donkey jacket on! -this is by far the best version of SMILE in my opinion-incredible,can remember smith's big pink collared shirt..great bass 'man-handling' by mr handley-& two drummers for christ sake!!- ABSOLUTE MAGIC:-SMITH/BURNS/SCANLAN/& THE HANLEYS (& brix if i have to..) I SALUTE CHEW!
