This has to be the greatest performance ever recorded by anyone. The shirt, Hanley, Burns. Drum and Bass . MES at his peak. Relentless. Precise lyrics. Noone has ever come close. Relish this boys and girls, you will never see the like again. Solitaire! BEF!
Words of Expectation - The Fall 2.3.22 1712pm wow... i was envisioning some sap being busted by the police and not being able to come to the door cos they were suffering from the runs and then their door being beaten down by irate coppers out for some cuff action.. and... and.... wow. you couldnt make it up.... well, that's how she got off and got a lift home into the bargain by sorrowful rulers of law and order. as well as a 10 million quid pay out from are you disgruntled plc.
I'm addicted. Why didn't I get into this sooner? Morbid fascination has led to obsession with what is clearly genius at work. Mark E lives on forever 😃
serious contender for best use of grouse in a song and live version of a song by any band. live fall just makes you happy. classic lineup. winnie had a speech imp...pp... pediment. mes definitely missed and not forgotten.
When I first saw this, it did not take long at all to realize that this VERY PERFORMANCE is THE "Tempo House" track that is on their 1983 LP "Perverted By Language". It was a chilling thrill to actually have the visual half of what had for years and years, repeatedly, been one of my favorite aural stimulations by The Fall. Every nuance, every familiar lick of feedback and subtle vocal underpinning by Mark -- brought to life threefold... Thanks for posting this!
Um, live footage was edited to match the studio version of the song. They're clearly not actually playing the song live, you can see numerous instances where the image and the sound don't match.
I think there are likelier explanations for lack of video/audio synch and I'm pretty positive that this version is in fact the same one that's on the album.
@@danselzer it still stuns me that after leaving the Fall he never got invited to join other prominent post-punk bands when they needed a bass player, e.g. New Order, Killing Joke
@@callumclayI read somewhere not so long ago that Craig hadn't picked up the Guitar since he left The Fall, he's finished with Music, T/F IDK still a waste of a fantastic Guitarist
One of their best performances, man... the bass, the distorted WL/WH inspired organ lines, the guitar feedback, Smith's delivery, the stuttering before "speech impediment", MES' shirt, the vocal effects on the mic, the repetitive drumming, the lighting of the room, the silence of the audience.
i absolutely love the smatterings of guitar noise, howling microphone feedback, and keyboard mashing. as a plagiarist w a notebook i've taken so much production influence from them.
This is probably as close as 'rock' music will ever get to hitting the nail on the head. The tormented tots have had their day. It is relentless, it takes no prisoners. Can you imagine being there when they performed this in the sticky, poisonous pit of regret? That they insisted on the two drum arrangement casts it into a venemous pit of badness.
I remember taping this off the radio in the 80s and thinking it the most monolithically dumb track ever but I still found it compelling. It's a constant war of attrition with Smith.
I met the Hanleys at a Tom Hingley & The Lovers gig last Friday!!! Chatted to them both!!! I pointed out to Steve Hanley that they invented drum n bass on Tempo House which made him laugh! He said the best drummer he worked with (exc Paul of course) was Karl Burns and agreed that The Infotainment Scan is a belting album. Still chuffed about it!
a really monster Fall piece...like so many others they've done for sure...but one of those powerful grinding relentless ones that I keep coming back to...great video
This was a BEAST of a band - saw it in late 83, early 84. Seems sad it ended so quickly as he went off to Beggars in search of more sales and greater recognition. Much more of this was always what the good people wanted..
Fucking hell - that bass, those drums, that delivery. The Fall. Untouchable. Never forget hearing / seeing this for the first time and being utterly bewildering / entranced-uh.
RIP- White Columns "Speed Trials" album from the music festival at White Columns in 1983 had an amazing version of the song "Tempo House"... always remember the show and this song... hypnotic and angry... best for all worlds~
I adored this track on "Perverted...." because, to me, the drums sounded like *drums.* Real drums. It wasn't untill a couple years later & I got the video that accompanied the album (that includes this video) that I realized, "Oh - they included a live recording." This is the recording of "Tempo House" used on the album. D'uh, that's why the drums sound like "drums." Got it. Sometimes I'm a little slow.
I listened to Jesus Lizard and for years thought they were the most original thing I've ever heard. I see now they were NOT original, and they got most of their inspiration from The Fall.
@LiveAtReykjavik It may be tempting to think that, but the Fall dominate precisely because they had so many good stages. Last album YFOC is great...as well as TRNFFCOTC and The Light User Syndrome. Even "Code: Selfish" has at least two stone-cold classics on the first side alone: "The Birmingham School Of Business School" and "Free Range". Timeless classics. I have yet to hear a Fall record without at least two songs worth owning..check out some of that back catalog!
On the Austurbæjarbíó Live CD he adds the line "Winston Churchill had a speech impediment, and look what he did - erased half of London". One of the sharpest Fall lyrics, I wonder how many other people know what he meant by that one lol
Winnie got through the war pissed up on scotch and cigars, came out of his safe house now n again to inspect the bombsites, make V signs and bullshit the survivors. If the yanks hadn't piled in we'd all be speaking German or Russian 2day. Dreadful man and an even worse leader.
Lovely xxx fuck I miss you mark, I hope you are fucking around in the temple house now man. I am not religious but hope you are doing a cab up town somehow xxx
Luke Heywood replied: "Yes it was silly mel recorde wellington and christchurch dead or alive tempo house is a great track" 30.5.23 1858pm Comments on ‘The Fall - Tempo House’ erm.... ummm. dead or alive appeared with the smiths didnt they at a live show or two.. and the tranny Al Pillay recited the awful(ly) good confidence of henry glasspanse???
