it's sort of incredible how after spending most of the 90s wallowing in mediocrity, MES and co. were able to return in the new millennium with some of their greatest records ever. 'Blindness' might be the best Fall song ever
Powerstation? I was there, drinking pints at Galbraiths at a table next to MES and the band beforehand ... My mate chundered on Mt Eden rd (not from drinking) as we crossed to watch the band play ... Very rock and roll...
This song is a lot darker when you learn its about the serial killer Harold Shipman who killed over 200 people and is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in UK history
Shipman was my mum's doctor before she died of heart disease. Luckily she was poor. Before the daze of the internet The Fall were singing about satanism and masonry and everything else. A boddingtons philosophy....like Leave the Capital.
Not just in UK history, the most prolific ever, in the world! Unless you take the absolute lowest estimates and compare them to the absolute highest estimates of Luís Garavito.
I was going to Leamington in 2017 but a death in the family meant I could not go. Maybe for the best as from all acounts Mark struggled and was not a good night, but I would liked to see Mark one last time
#6000000 in the "why MES was god"...."I am a rabbit from East Germany...." take that Baudelaire! Bob Dylan! Nick Cave! *insert yr wanker lit fave here" and that RIFF....yummmy.
Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Well...leg-end...living! We are living leg-ends! The living leg-end! I am a rabbit from East Germany! I was very happy! And I could get anything I want! I was so oh, happy! Then I moved to North Britain... I became an immigrant... I could frolic around all night! In the green grass! I was sort of happy... Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! Ba! But then one night, by the green grass By a rubbish receptacle, I saw a newspaper I was not very happy... There was a man going round all the time He was dishing out drugs, he was a doctor Dishing out morphine, to old ladies! I said, what about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us, Shipman? What about us? (Shipman) What about us, Shipman? What about us? (Shipman) Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! I'm an immigrant from East Germany! I was sort of happy! I could frolic around a lot! In the train station... I could get anything I want! There was a doctor going around He was dishing out drugs He was dishing out left and right To old ladies! So don't get me wrong People in Great Britain Please, don't get me wrong! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Please don't get me wrong... Hop! Hop! Hop! What about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us, Shipman? What about us? (Shipman) What about us, Shipman? What about us? (Shipman) What about us? (Shipman) What about us, Shipman? What about us? (Shipman) What about us, Shipman?
I a;ways heard the lyric, after learning that the morphine is only for ladies as the dismayed yelp "What about us?! Shit, Man!" which is way better than a ref to harold Shipman. I run into alot of wrong lyrics that never get corrected online. Like the stones "live with me" official lyric is "she's fond of crazy horse" but its really 'Shes from the Crazy Horse" famous french strip/burlesque joint. Which also makes sense while "fond' is just gibberish. But a sexy french maid colud dig NeilYoung or a doomed noble warrior. Them dirty beatles think its funny to let it be wrong. Learning that shipman stuff nearly killed this song for me and it was the best in ages
